UCL is a large, international
community:
• 21 000 students of 122 different nationalities,
• a 5 000-member teaching, research, administrative and technical staff,
• 140 000 alumni world wide.
UCL is responsible for the education of nearly one out of two French-speaking academics in Belgium and proposes courses in all possible disciplines:
• 35 Bachelor’s programmes,
• 29 60 credit Master’s programmes (one year)
• 74 120 credit Master’s programmes (two years) offer some 203 study possibilities according to focus: teaching, research, or professional
• 63 advanced Master’s programmes,
• 76 minors and additional modules,
• 138 continuing education programmes.
Research, performed in close collaboration with the private and public sector and international institutions, is one of UCL’s main activities:
• 2 000 researchers
• 1 500 PhD students, half of which are foreign visitors
• 924 research agreements signed in 2007, worth an over-all amount of around 80 million euro
• 1 Noble Prize winner: Prof Christian de Duve (medicine, 1974)
• 18 Prix Francqui winners
• No. 1 French-speaking Belgian university (Times Higher Education Supplement international ranking 2008)
• No. 2 French-speaking comprehensive university internationally (THES 08)
• 42nd university in Europe (THES 08) 116th university in the world (THES 08)
The UCL proposes a variety of services to society and the academic community:
• 3 science parks (Louvain-la-Neuve, Brussels, Seneffe)
• 2 university hospitals (Saint-Luc Brussels and Mont-Godinne)
• 1 museum
• 2.7 million books in the library
