About us

The KU Leuven Association is an ambitious network of higher education institutions in Flanders and Brussels.

A Strong partnership

The KU Leuven Association is an ambitious and dynamic network of higher education institutions in Flanders and Brussels. The network consists of 4 University Colleges, 1 School of Arts and 1 university.

students per partner

KU Leuven: 49.293
LUCA School of Arts: 3.337
Odisee: 10.866
Thomas More: 19.007
UC Leuven-Limburg: 14.823
VIVES: 14.993

by the Numbers

6 partners
23 campuses
22.000 staff members
+110.000 students

_{These graphs are based on internal numbers (23 November 2020). It counts unique students in graduate, bachelor and master programmes, including those in preparatory or bridging programmes.}

International students

Top 5 EU students

Top 5 Non-EU students

Finances

The partners pool resources to provide better and higher quality services to students and staff. The annual budget is about 6 million Euro and goes towards joint (technical) services, projects and innovative education research.

The KU Leuven Association receives approximately 26 million Euro a year from the Flemish Government for:

Industrial Research Fund
Interface-activities
Science communication
Student sport activities
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