Catholic University of Brussels
- Catholic University of Brussels
The "Katholieke Universiteit Brussel" (English: Catholic University of Brussels) is 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. Teaching was primarily in Dutch. It became a university 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 90s, 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 European University College Brussels), and now has a separate existence only as a legal fiction for accreditation and funding purposes.
External links
* [http://www.kubrussel.ac.be/english/index.htm Official website] (in English)
* [http://www.highereducation.be More information about higher education in Flanders/Belgium (in English)]
* [http://www.highereducation.be/content.php?section=zoekmachine&subsection=eenvoudig&action=zoeken Find an officially recognised programme of this institution in the Higher Education Register]
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