HEH in a few words

Our Institute of Higher Education of the French-speaking community (Haute École en Hainaut also known as HEH) is a university college located in Mons and in Tournai, Belgium.

Created in 1996, HEH gathers more than 3000 students following one of our thirty-one Bachelor and Master training courses divided into four education categories. HEH therefore consists of the following four departments:

• Department of Legal, Economic and Management Sciences (BA’s);
• Department of Social Sciences (BA’s and MA’s);
• Department of Learning Sciences and Teaching (BA’s);
• Department of Sciences and Technologies (BA’s and MA’s).

DEPARTMENT OF LEGAL, ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES:

This department offers three BA’s:

• BA in Management Assistant
• BA in Law 
• BA in Tourism and Leisure Management

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES:

This department offers two BA’s and one MA:

BA's in: 

• Social Worker
• Social Advisor

MA in:

• MA in Social Engineering and Action (MIAS)
• (Staggered hours training) MA in Social Transitions and Innovations (METIS) 

DEPARTMENT OF LEARNING SCIENCES AND TEACHING:

This department offers BA’s for students who would like to teach in both primary and secondary schools:

• BA in Early Childhood (Pre-primary School) Teacher
• BA in Primary School Teacher
• BA Certified Training Degree for Lower Secondary Education

- BA in Germanic Languages (English and Dutch)
- BA in French - French as a Foreign Language
- BA in French and Moral Education
- BA in French, Philosophy and Citizenship
​- BA in Human Sciences: History, Geography, Social Sciences
- BA in Mathematics
- BA in Plastic Arts 
- BA in Sciences: Biology, Chemistry, Physics

• ​BA in Youth Worker Specialised in Psycho-Educational Support

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES:

The Technical Engineering Department offers BA’s and MA’s in the following fields:

BA's in:

• Biotechnics 

Options: 
- Bioelectronics and Instrumentation
- Bioinformatics

• Computing and Systems: Networks and Telecommunications
• Electronics: Applied Electronics
• Graphic Techniques: Computer Graphics

MA's in:

• Industrial Engineering: Building

- Energy and Environment
- Civil Engineering and Buildings

• Industrial Engineering: Surveyor
• ​Industrial Engineering: Computer Science

- Networks and Security
- Automation and Embedded Systems

• Industrial Engineering: Life Data Technologies
• Parcours INGÉPlus+

Willing to opening up at an international level, HEH has signed the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE) and offers its students training and academic mobility opportunities via the Erasmus+ programme. Mobility grants are also available to students outside European borders thanks to the FAME programme (“Fonds d’Aide à la Mobilité Étudiante”, that is, aid funds for student mobility).