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.

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• Official website (in English)
• More information about higher education in Flanders/Belgium (in English)
• Find an officially recognised programme of this institution in the Higher Education Register

v • d • e Universities in Belgium Dutch-speaking: Universiteit Antwerpen • Katholieke Universiteit Brussel • Vrije Universiteit Brussel • Universiteit Gent • Universiteit Hasselt • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven + Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Campus Kortrijk French-speaking: Faculté polytechnique de Mons • Facultés universitaires catholiques de Mons • Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix • Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis • Faculté universitaire des sciences agronomiques de Gembloux • Université catholique de Louvain • Université Libre de Bruxelles • University of Liège • University of Mons-Hainaut Other recognised academic establishments: Brussels Faculty for Protestant Theology • Evangelical Theological Faculty Postgraduate: College of Europe (Bruges) • Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine • Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School Military: Royal Military Academy Transgressing universities: transnational University Limburg

Coordinates: 50°51′45″N 04°19′39″E / 50.8625°N 4.3275°E / 50.8625; 4.3275

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