Catholic University of Brussels

The Katholieke Universiteit Brussel (Dutch pronunciation: [kɑtoːˈlikə ʔynivɛrsiˈtɛid ˈbrʏsəl], Catholic University of Brussels) was a Flemish university located in Brussels, founded in 1969 as University Faculties St Aloysius (UFSAL), in many ways the equivalent of a liberal arts college. It split up from the primarily French-speaking Saint-Louis University, Brussels to become an independent Dutch-speaking institution. It became recognised as a university by the Flemish Community of Belgium in the early 1990s. It only ever awarded basic undergraduate degrees, which in the older Belgian system of a four-year licenciate meant students had to go on to other universities to complete their courses of study.

In the late 1990s, as a result of politically fuelled doubts about the university's survival, student levels fell drastically, with a knock-on effect on government funding. In 2007 the university merged with a number of other tertiary institutions in Brussels (see Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUB, European University College Brussels)), and then had a separate existence only as a legal fiction for accreditation and funding purposes.

In 2013, the academic degrees of the KUB were integrated in the Catholic University of Leuven.

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Universities in Belgium

Dutch-speaking|

* Ghent University (UGent)
* Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven)
* University of Antwerp (UA)
* University of Hasselt (UHasselt)
* Free University of Brussels (VUB)

French-speaking|

* Saint-Louis University, Brussels
* Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
* University of Liège (ULiège)
* Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain)
* University of Mons (UMons)
* University of Namur (UNamur)

Others|

* Faculty for Protestant Theology
* Transnational University Limburg (tUL)
* Evangelical Theological Faculty

Postgraduate|

* Institute of Tropical Medicine
* College of Europe

Military|

* Royal Military Academy

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