MBA Section of the Vlerick Alumni organization. Vlerick Business School is a top European Management School, with campuses in Ghent and Leuven, Belgium, and St-Petersburg, Russia. Being the autonomous Management School of Ghent University and KULeuven, the School also has important international alliances with universities and business schools all over the world, such as Peking University in China and Amsterdam Business School in the Netherlands. Vlerick was founded in 1953 by the Professor and entrepreneur André Vlerick, and has been Belgium’s leading management school for over half a century. In recent years, the School has been steadily climbing the international rankings in the Financial Times and the Economist, up to reaching the top 10 in the FT European Business School rankings.