More than 1 in 2 first-time students pass in first session

- According to a pass rate analysis for the current academic year, 54.4% of all VUB "generation students" - students registered in higher education in Flanders for the first time - passed their exams in the first session. The figure for the previous year was 51.7%. According to the university, this progress is an encouraging sign that academic teaching is slowly recovering after the challenges brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Initially, the pass rate of generation students at VUB was relatively stable, at 63.4% in 2017-2018 and 62.3% in 2018-2019 and 2019-2020. In the following two years, the pandemic had a negative impact on pass rates, which fell to 61.2% in 2020-2021 and 51.7% in 2021-2022. ...