Université catholique de Louvain

 The Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) is internationally recognized for research and teaching quality in many different fields of expertise. With 30,000 students and over 5,800 employees, UCL is the largest university in the French speaking part of Belgium. UCL’s approach to education and student learning consists of scientific fundamentals and innovative and interactive teaching methods that aim to increase students’ knowledge, transferrable skills and autonomy.

The principal goal is to prepare students for their future working life, as well as to develop open-mindedness and inquisitive problem solving citizens. UCL is a research university that supports and commits itself to high-level research and innovation activity that interacts with the corporate world and with society overall. It is these qualities that we believe makes UCL a leading academic institution in Belgium, Europe and at the international level.