Saint-Louis University, Brussels or UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels (officially, in French Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles) is a public university in Brussels, belonging to the French Community of Belgium and specialized in social and human sciences.
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)
- Centre for Sociological Studies (CES)…..