Facts and Figures

UCL is a large, international community:

• 27 261 students of 122 different nationalities,
• a 5 623-member teaching, research, administrative and technical staff,
• 150 000 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:

• 42 Bachelor’s programmes,
• 35 60 credit Master’s programmes (one year)
• 89 120 credit Master’s programmes (two years) offer some 203 study possibilities according to focus: teaching, research, or professional
• 66 advanced Master’s programmes,
• 74 minors and additional modules,
• 220 continuing education programmes.

Research, performed in close collaboration with the private and public sector and international institutions, is one of UCL’s main activities:

• 2 971 researchers
• 1 982 PhD students, half of which are foreign visitors
• 1100 research agreements signed in 2011, worth an over-all amount of around 150 million euro
• 1 Noble Prize winner: Prof Christian de Duve (medicine, 1974)
• 20 Prix Francqui winners
• No. 1 French-speaking Belgian university (Times Higher Education Supplement international ranking 2009)
• No. 2 French-speaking comprehensive university internationally (THES 09)

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
• 2.8 million books in the library