Mercator is an autonomous institute of higher education of the Province of East Flanders. It came into being in 1995
as a merger of three institutes run by the Province of East Flanders. It was named after the famous Flemish
cartographer Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594). The first principal of Mercator Hogeschool is Dr. Paul Van
Hauwermeiren. The total number of students is about 3 500, of which 900 are currently studying in the Department
of Translation Studies, 2 400 in the Department of Business Studies and the Department of Business Administration
& Languages, and 200 in the Department of Nursing.
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Other names: Mercator College
Phone: +32 9 224 94 12 (Int'l Office)
Address: Mercator, Hogeschool Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen, Abdisstraat 1, 9000 Gent, Ghent, Belgium
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