# Catholic University of Brussels

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University in Brussels, Belgium

The ***Katholieke Universiteit Brussel*** (Dutch pronunciation: [\[kɑtoːˈlikə ʔynivɛrsiˈtɛid ˈbrʏsəl\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Dutch), *Catholic University of Brussels*) was a [Flemish](/source/Flanders) university located in [Brussels](/source/Brussels), founded in 1969 as *University Faculties St Aloysius* (UFSAL), in many ways the equivalent of a [liberal arts college](/source/Liberal_arts_college). It split up from the primarily French-speaking [Saint-Louis University, Brussels](/source/Saint-Louis_University%2C_Brussels) to become an independent [Dutch-speaking](/source/Dutch_language) institution. It became recognised as a university by the [Flemish Community of Belgium](/source/Flemish_Community) in the early 1990s. It only ever awarded basic undergraduate degrees, which in the older Belgian system of a four-year [licenciate](/source/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 (HUB, European University College Brussels)](/source/Hogeschool-Universiteit_Brussel)), and then had a separate existence only as a [legal fiction](/source/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](/source/List_of_split_up_universities)

## External links

- [More information about higher education in Flanders/Belgium (in English)](http://www.highereducation.be)

- [Find an officially recognised programme of this institution in the Higher Education Register](http://www.highereducation.be/content.php?section=zoekmachine&subsection=eenvoudig&action=zoeken)

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