The University of Liège (French: Université de Liège), or ULiège, is a major public university of the French Community of Belgium based in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium. Its official language is French. As of 2020, ULiège is ranked in the 301–350 category worldwide according to Times Higher Education. More than 2000 people, academics, scientists and technicians, are involved in research of a wide variety of subjects from basic research to applied research.
Organisation
The University of Liège counts:
- 24,522 students
- 4,600 foreign students
- 4,300 employees
- 2,800 faculty members (both teaching and research)
- 1,300 administrative and technical support staff
ULiège comprises 11 faculties:
- Faculty of Philosophy and Letters
- Faculty of Law, Political Science and Criminology
- The Jean Constant Graduate School of Criminology
- Faculty of Social Science
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of Applied Science
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech – Faculty of Agronomical Science and Bioengineering
- Faculty of Psychology, Logopedics and Educational Sciences
- Faculty of Architecture
- HEC Liège Management School
Campus
Since the 1970s, ULiège’s main campus has been the Sart-Tilman [fr] hill, a vast planned community campus located about ten kilometers south from the center of Liège. However, the university has kept its headquarters and many administrative facilities in the city centre, as well as the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, the Institutes of Zoology, Anatomy, the HEC Liège Management School and the newly incorporated Faculty of Architecture.
The Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech campus and faculty are located in the city of Gembloux, Namur Province, and Faculty of Science Department of Environmental Science and Management is located in Arlon, Luxembourg Province.
The university also owns a scientific research station in the Belgian High Fens since 1924, the STARESO oceanography station in Calvi, Corsica, France, a meteorological station and the Sphinx Observatory on the Jungfraujoch, Switzerland, since 1950[12] and research stations and observatories in Chile (SPECULOOS and TRAPPIST-South), Morocco and Tenerife, Spain (TRAPPIST-North).