• TRULY INTERNATIONAL
  You study at two to three destinations out of nine countries. Immersing yourself into different European cultures, you will develop transversal skills that are high in demand both in domestic and international work environments.
  
• TRULY MULTIDISCIPLINARY
  After a joint multidisciplinary curriculum, you follow a major and a minor out of seven fields of study, benefiting from the in-house expertise of all partner universities. At some universities, you can also take up an internship in order to enrich your professional experience.
  
• TRULY MULTILINGUAL
  In addition to English, you learn a second European language, gaining a clear added value on the European labour market.
  
• TRULY YOU
  Thanks to the many options, you can tailor the programme to fit your needs, interests and aspirations.

The programme (180 ECTS) spans over three years, divided in six semesters.

• In semesters 1, 2 and 3 (92 ECTS), you follow the truncus communis, including introductory courses to various disciplines, multidisciplinary courses on Europe, a methodology track and language courses.
• In semesters 4, 5 and 6, you follow a major and a minor module (78 ECTS) and you develop a bachelor's thesis (10 ECTS).

You follow one major module for up to 60 ECTS and one minor module for at least 18 ECTS in two different fields of study:

• Law and Criminology
• Politics and International Relations
• Communication, Education, Gender and Sociology
• Business and Economics
• Philosophy
• History
• Languages and Culture

Each university offers different modules, so your university choice and specialisation choice are linked.

Mobility is central to the BAES programme, and it is at the heart of the joint offer that institutions have in this programme.

In the first year, all BAES students will start their studies at one of the 4 so-called 'start universities':

• KU Leuven (Belgium)
• Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna (Italy)
• Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
• Uniwersytet Jagiellonski w Krakowie (Poland)

In the second and third year of the programme, students will have to go on mobility - to one or even two different universities - depending on the choice of their specializations. Students can then also select one of the mobility partners to go to:

• Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
• Helsingin Yliopisto/Helsingfors universitet (Finland)
• The University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
• Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France)
• Universität Zürich (Switzerland)

Want to know more? Further information and application procedure is available on lead university KU Leuven's website.