UCLouvain Saint-Louis – Bruxelles

Saint-Louis University, Brussels, also known as UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels, is an autonomous university campus specialized in social and human sciences part of UCLouvain and based in Brussels, Belgium.

Established in 1857, Saint-Louis University, Brussels (officially, in French Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles) used to be a public university belonging to the French Community of Belgium before a merger with the University of Louvain decided in 2017. Both universities have been using the new designation 'UCLouvain' since 2018 and legally merged in 2023.

History

When the Catholic University of Belgium moved from Mechelen to Leuven in 1835, the unused buildings were used to host the newly founded École de Commerce et d'Industrie (School of Trade and Industry), which was inaugurated in 1838.

The school moved to Brussels in 1858 and became the Institut Saint-Louis (a diocesan secondary school), where the Philosophy Department was founded, which eventually grew to become a university. This was the result of the Catholic clergy's and Pope Pius IX's wish to have a Catholic institution in Brussels teaching philosophy. The department prepared candidates for the higher liberal arts certification that would qualify them to enroll for a university law degree.

In 1891, with the recognition of non-state universities, the institution became recognized as an autonomous ('free') university, a status which was confirmed in 1929.

Over time, Faculties developed and expanded, and a Faculty of Law was added to the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters.

In 1925, the university founded HEC Saint-Louis (Hautes études commerciales), Belgium's first independent business school, together with its Dutch-speaking counterpart, EHSAL (St. Aloysius College of Economics). Also, the university established the world-renowned School of Philosophical and Religious Sciences, founded by Cardinal Mercier.

In 1948, the Philosophy and Arts section separated from the Institut Saint-Louis, and continued independently as a non-profit university under the name "Faculté universitaire Saint-Louis". It was not until 1960 that the administrative split was fully effective and the buildings separated.

In 1965, the Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences (ESPO) was established and the university's name was later changed to the plural Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis.

In 1969, Saint-Louis starts giving lectures to Dutch-speaking students, in addition to lessons at EHSAL/HEC, but the Dutch-speaking department would leave the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis in 1973, to create the independent Universitaire Faculteiten Sint-Aloysius (UFSAL). This later became the Catholic University of Brussels (K.U.Brussel). Both UFSAL and EHSAL merged to create the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUB), together with other Flemish institutions like Vlekho, which originated from the Saint-Louis-linked Institut libre Marie Haps. In 2013, HUB was reorganized and today comprises the KU Leuven campus Brussel, and the vocational college Odisee. Both are still located in the same street as Saint-Louis University, the rue du Marais or Broekstraat.

Location

Campus Saint-Louis

Saint-Louis University is located on two campuses in Brussels and Ixelles. The main campus, Saint-Louis, with 48 km² of university space, is located in the city centre, between the rue de l'Ommegang and du Marais, as well as the boulevards du Jardin botanique and Pachéco. This tight urban campus is split in two by the Institut secondaire Saint-Louis, forming to the north the "Botanique" and "Préfecture" buildings housing the Institute of European Studies (Marais 119), the university press (Botanique 42), the university's official main building (Botanique 43) and the historical building with the rectorate (Botanique 38) and the former library; and to the south the more recent Marais 109 and Ommegang buildings, where the faculty and student administrations are located, and several large auditoriums.

Campus Marie-Haps

The courses of the Marie Haps Faculty Translation & Interpreting are given on the Marie-Haps campus, shared with the Haute École Vinci, in Ixelles, in the European quarter, more precisely in front of the European Parliament. The buildings of the Marie-Haps campus are located on either side of rue d'Arlon and historically in the Hôtel Beernaert. The language courses (extra-curricular) are given in an office building further north, between rue d'Arlon and rue de Trèves, where Marie-Haps' Dutch-speaking departments (which have integrated the Erasmushogeschool Brussel and Vlekho) used to be located.

Tilleuls site

The Marie-Haps Faculty is also located on the Tilleuls site, former Œuvre du Calvaire hospital, which integrated the Saint-Luc University Hospital in UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe in 2003. The Tilleuls site includes a large country house, a caretaker's house, a chapel and the former hospital transformed into classrooms, located on the Chaussée de Wavre.

Organisation

Demographic evolution

Students enrolled at Saint-Louis University, Brussels on 1 December (excluding doctoral students). The university took the name Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles instead of FUSL during the 2013–2014 academic year.

Faculties

• Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Human Sciences
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Economics, Social, Political and Communication Sciences (ESPO)
• Marie Haps Faculty of Translation and Interpreting
• Institute for European Studies (IEE)

Saint-Louis University, Brussels is specialized in undergraduate programmes, for which it has developed unique degrees. For example, it is the only Belgian university organising bilingual or trilingual bachelor's (with its sister university, KU Leuven campus Brussels); Erasmus programmes in social and human sciences; evening schedules; and the possibility of completing double bachelor's degrees in the majority of majors. It is also the only university of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation offering a fully English bachelor's degree; in business engineering.

In total, the university organises 25 Bachelor programmes, two Master's degrees, an Executive master's degree, seven Masters of specialization (postgraduate master's degrees) and more than 20 university certificates of continuing education. Most Master's diplomas and university certificates are double degrees with one or more Belgian or foreign universities.

Research centers

Since its foundation, Saint-Louis has distinguished itself by its university character, which is to produce knowledge in addition to offering it. The first research centres were set up at the end of the 19th century. In 1995, the decree organizing higher education granted the University the right to organize doctoral theses, further contributing to the expansion of research.

The university organises research through three research institutes:

Interdisciplinarity and Society Network (RIS)

Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Brussels (IRIB), formed in 1980, fifteen years before the creation of the Brussels-Capital Region, as the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Brussels Region (CERB).

Institute of European Studies (IEE), founded in 2007 and also an independent faculty since 2012.

and various research centers:

• The Belgian Centre for Burgundian Studies 1400-1600
• Centre for Anthropology, Sociology and Psychology: Studies and Research (CASPER)
• Private Law Centre (CePri)
• Research Centre in Economics (CEREC)
• Centre for Research in Political Science (CReSPo)
• Centre for Research in the History of Law, Institutions and Society (CRHiDI)
• Centre for the Study of Environmental Law (CEDRE)

Notable alumni

Typh Barrow, Belgian singer, songwriter, composer and pianist

Henry Bauchau, Belgian psychoanalyst, lawyer, and author of French prose and poetry.

Henry Carton de Wiart, count, 23rd Prime Minister of Belgium.

Louise Cavenaile, Belgian field hockey player.

Bernard Coulie, Belgian academic and previous rector of the University of Louvain.

Benoît Cerexhe, Belgian politician, minister of the Brussels-Capital Region and Mayor of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre.

Étienne Davignon, businessman, Belgian Minister of State, statesman and former European Commissioner.

Pierre Daye, first rexist group leader at the Chamber of Representatives, journalist.

Sylvie Delacroix, British AI data and ethics professor

Francis Delpérée, Belgian senator and professor of constitutional law at the University of Louvain.

Henri De Page, Belgian jurist.

Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium, daughter of King Leopold III.

Pierre Harmel, count, lawyer and 40th Prime Minister of Belgium.

Jean-Baptiste Janssens (1889–1964), twenty-seventh Superior General of the Society of Jesus.

Bernard Le Grelle, count, investigative journalist, political adviser, writer, and public affairs executive, known for his long term investigation into the JFK assassination.

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