{{short description|University in Brussels, Belgium}} The '''''Katholieke Universiteit Brussel''''' ({{IPA|nl|kɑtoːˈlikə ʔynivɛrsiˈtɛid ˈbrʏsəl}}, ''Catholic University of Brussels'') was a [[Flanders|Flemish]] university located in [[Brussels]], founded in 1969 as ''University Faculties St Aloysius'' (UFSAL), in many ways the equivalent of a [[liberal arts college]]. It split up from the primarily French-speaking [[Saint-Louis University, Brussels]] to become an independent [[Dutch language|Dutch-speaking]] institution. It became recognised as a university by the [[Flemish Community|Flemish Community of Belgium]] 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 1990s, 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 [[Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel|Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUB, European University College Brussels)]]), and then had a separate existence only as a [[legal fiction]] for accreditation and funding purposes.

In 2013, the academic degrees of the KUB were integrated in the Catholic University of Leuven.

==See also== * [[List of split up universities]]

==External links== * [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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