History
- The University of Leuven is founded on 4 December 1425
- Taking the lead, the city offers buildings and pays professors. Classes begin in October 1426. Leuven is one of the few comprehensive universities, with five faculties: theology (established in 1432), civil law, canon law, medicine and the arts. Until 1816 it remains the only university on the territory that becomes present-day Belgium.
Education
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) offers 43 bachelor's programmes and 187 master's programmes
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) faculties:
- Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Communication
- Faculty of Law and Criminology
- Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
- Faculty of Motor Sciences
- Faculty of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
- Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Letters
- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
- Faculty of Public Health
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of Theology
- Faculty of bioscience engineering
- Faculté d'architecture, d'ingénierie architecturale, d'urbanisme
- Louvain School of Engineering
- Louvain School of Management
Research
- UCL is a comprehensive university, with a wide range of subjects taught at all levels, and has the largest number of students in the French-speaking Community of Belgium.
- The research carried out within its three sectors of activity cover various fields of humanities, medical science and science and technology. Both fundamental (or undirected) and applied (or directed) research is conducted at UCL with the same unwavering enthusiasm.
- The University follows an interdisciplinary approach through numerous joint activities involving different research teams, research institutes and sectors, and also works with several other universities and research centres in Belgium and abroad.
UCLouvain Scholarships
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Housing services
- Room in a shared flat
- Room in an project-based accomodation
- Bedsit
- Studio
- Family accomodation
Library services
Arts and Letters Library
- Health Sciences Library
- UCL Mons Library
- Law Library
- Psychology and Educational Sciences Library
- Louvain Learning Center Hippocrate
- Louvain Learning Center Montesquieu
- Louvain Learning Center Saint-Georges
- Philosophy Library
- Psychology, Education and Motor Sciences Library
- Political, Social and Economic Sciences and Communication Library
- Science and Technology Library
- Theology Library
ICT services
All students and staff are entitled to a UCLouvain email address and access to computer labs and libraries. Moreover, all UCLouvain accommodations are equipped with a cable television connection with internet access.
Uniform wireless network using the latest security and ID technology for universal use.
Medical services
- Students enrolled at UCLouvain benefit from accident cover while pursuing academic activities (including when travelling between accommodation and the university, during study trips and internships, etc.) and third-party liability cover while they are pursuing academic activities.
- This kind of insurance must be taken out privately.
Campus life
- Louvain-La-Neuveshow
- Bruxelles Woluweshow
- Mons
- Tournai
- Bruxelles Saint-Gilles
Sports facilities
The UCLouvain Sport and Fitness Service offers more than 100 sports and fitness activities as well as modern fitness facilities. Gifted athletes can join the university teams (the Wolves) and compete at inter-university level. Louvain-la-Neuve is home to French-speaking Belgium’s largest sport and fitness centre: 25 sports rooms, 1 indoor fitness room, 1 indoor athletics track, 2 pools and 3 hectares of outside pitches which include 1 outdoor fitness area.
Student clubs
Student associations have formed around four types of activities:
- Student representation is assured by the Louvain Student General Assembly (AGL) at the university level; student offices at the faculty level; and the General Coordination of International Students (CGEI).
- An original idea that involves students sharing a flat and working together on a social, cultural or sport-related project in which they have a special interest, the so-called ‘kots à projet’ are home to nearly a thousand students each year.
- Regional organisations (‘Les Régionales’) reunite students of the same geographical region and promote their local folklore on campus.
- Faculty groups (‘Les Cercles’) bring together students of the same faculty.
Louvain School of Management receives a five-year accreditation in EQUIS.