Office for International Students and Scholars
Oude Markt 13,
B-3000 Leuven (Belgium)
Tel: +32-16 32 42 71
Fax :+32-16 32 37 73
Email: admission.office@dsa.kuleuven.ac.be
www.kuleuven.ac.be/studeng

UCL Université Catholique de Louvain
UCL is one of the oldest universities in Europe, founded in 1425. It combines the traditional with the modern, attracting some of the most qualified students, researchers and teachers from Belgium, Europe and beyond.

When, for political reasons, the UCL was forced to move to a French-speaking area of Belgium in 1970, it took up the challenge with enthusiasm: the Faculty of Medicine was set up in Brussels, in Woluwé-Saint-Lambert, where it works closely with the Cliniques Saint-Luc. Other faculties were established 20 minutes from the capital, in Louvain-la-Neuve, a new town created to meet the needs of the university.

A diploma in European Studies, a Master's Degree in Common European Management Studies (CEMS) awarded jointly by twelve European universities including UCL, and the European Master's Degree in the Science of Work are all offered.

Research is one of the pillars of the university with some 200 units devoted to it. Several centres of excellence have international reputations, such as the International Institute of Cellular and Molecular Pathology (ICP) founded by Professor Christian de Duve, winner of the Nobel prize for medicine, and the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) created by Professor Jacques Drèze. A large science park on the edge of the University is home to high technology companies wishing to take advantage of the University's infrastructure.

UCL Université Catholique de Louvain
Place de l'Université 1
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Tel: 010 47 89 35
Fax: 010 47 25 31
Information on UCL courses in Brussels
Tel: 02 764 50 94
Louvain-la-Neuve
Tel: 010 47 27 06
Information on admissions procedures for foreign students in Brussels
Tel 02 764 50 24
Louvain-la-Neuve
Tel: 010 47 40 09
www.ucl.ac.be

ULB Université Libre de Bruxelles
Founded in 1834, it is a university with seven faculties and institutes including several university hospitals. It also manages industrial zones devoted to research. With its 18,000 students, three Nobel Prizes (Jules Bordet for Medicine in 1919, Albert Claude for Medicine in 1974, and Ilya Prigogine for Chemistry in 1977), and its worldwide reputation, the ULB has an outstanding status in the academic world. The ULB is now the Belgian University with the highest rate of foreign students. They constitute one third of the student population.

Industrial research and development, as well as transfer of technology, represent an increasingly important part of the university's research activities. In the last few years the budget devoted to the cooperation between the university and various industries has tripled. In the heart of Europe, close to the European Community headquarters, the ULB occupies a strategic position in the close-knit network of research centers and top industries. Thirty percent of its research contracts are undertaken with international partners. To respond to the needs of the industry university collaboration, the ULB has created its own interfaces and manages scientific zones in Nivelles, Evere and Anderlecht.

The school also co-finances a continuing education program for adults, "EPFC." It has a reputation for its language courses for foreigners but also offers courses in commerce, business, public relations and accounting.

ULB Université Libre de Bruxelles
Av F Roosevelt 50
1050 Brussels
Tel: 02 650 21 11
Fax: 02 650 42 57
http://www.ulb.ac.be

Universities of Antwerp
Rijksuniversitair Centrum Antwerp
Studentensecretariaat
Groenenborgerlaan 171
2020 Antwerp
Tel: 03 218 02 11
Fax: 03 218 05 13
http://www.ua.ac.be
chro@ruca.ua.ac.be

Universitaire Faculteiten St. Ignatius
Prinstraat 13
2000 Antwerp
Tel: 03 220 41 11
Fax: 03 220 44 20

Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen
Universiteitsplein 1
2610 Wilrijk
Tel: 03 820 20 20
Fax: 03 820 22 49

University of Ghent
University of Ghent offers advanced degree programs, many of them in English. The programs are arts & philosophy, law, sciences, engineering, economics & business administration, agricultural and applied biological sciences, pharmaceutical sciences and veterinary medicine.

University of Ghent
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 25
9000 Ghent
Tel: 09 264 31 11
Info: helpdesk.studadmin@rug.ac.be
http://www.ugent.be/

University of Liège
The University of Liège, founded in 1817, is the public university of the Walloon Brussels Community. It offers a complete course of studies at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. There are 14,000 students. Its library is one of the richest in all of Europe. Its research potential is based on 2,500 teachers/ researchers in 8 faculties.

Resolutely international, 20 percent of the student body are foreign students, representing 78 different nationalities from five continents. The university maintains close ties with over 200 institutions in Europe. More than 20 percent of its research funding comes from international sources. The University is a dynamic actor in regional socio-economic life, and is in contact with over 600 enterprises, and is a centre for several technological poles devoted to space research, biotechnology, electricity and electronics, transport and the environment.

The science park located on the large, wooded campus (760 ha) houses many high-tech enterprises, including the 20 spin-offs that were created from university laboratory research. Based on pluralism and humanism, ULG offers an open environment in which all ranges of thought can be freely expressed and where human development is promoted. These values are illustrated by the personalities, on whom it has recently conferred the degree of Docteur Honoris Causa, including Nelson Mandela, Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Salman Rushdie.

University of Liège
Place du XX Août 7
4000 Liège
Tel: 04 366 21 11
Fax: 04 366 50 08
www.ulg.ac.be

Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
The Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School is positioned in various international rankings. The Economist ranks us number 12 in the world, number 4 in Europe and number 1 in the Benelux for our full-time MBA program. The Financial Times ranks us number 29 in the world for executive education programmes and number 56 in the world for executive MBA's.

Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School is the only Belgian school to hold triple accreditation: from Equis, AMBA and the American AACSB label. In Belgium, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School is the only school to have any of these labels and it is one of a select group of only 28 institutions throughout the world to hold the three most important international labels. The school has alliances with more than 40 international business schools.

Every year there are about 6,450 participants attending postgraduate management and executive development programmes, about 240 studying for MBA degrees and about 140 studying for other Masters degrees. We have welcomed participants to our school from over 50 different countries. The alumni are spread over 75 countries and include CEO's from several global companies such as Sara Lee, Telindus and Omega Pharma.

Some 53 years ago, Professor André Vlerick laid the foundations of what is now Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. The school now has two main sites: Leuven Campus and Ghent Campus and a campus in St Petersburg.

Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
Tel: 9 210 98 99  
Fax: +32 9 210 97 00
Email: info@vlerick.be
www.vlerick.be

VUB Vrije Universiteit Brussel
VUB is the Dutch Language University in Brussels. Much is available in English, including Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Management, International and Legal Cooperation, Industrial Location and Development, Medical and Pharmaceutical Research and Fundamental Applied Marine Ecology. The school also hosts Vesalius College, an undergraduate American-style liberal arts and Sciences College with all instruction in English.

VUB Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan 2
1050 Brussels
Tel: 02 629 21 11
http://www.vub.ac.be