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All recognised Flemish university colleges (hogescholen) are associated with a Flemish university. The following university colleges, which issue professional bachelor, academic bachelor's and master's degrees, are recognised by the Flemish government: Antwerp University Association: university colleges associated with the University of Antwerp
The Flemish Region comprises five provinces, ... According to a 2016 survey by the Free University of Brussels, 68% of Flemish citizens are Roman Catholic, ...
There are five universities in the Flemish Community, each forming an "association" with one or more university colleges (hogescholen). The Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) is the largest university and the oldest in the Low Countries. As of 2014, it had 46,385 enrolled students, or 20% of all students in Flemish higher education. [6]
Leuven (UK: / ˈ l ɜː v ən /, US: / ˈ l ʌ v ən /, Flemish: [ˈløːvə(n)] ⓘ), also called Louvain (/ l uː ˈ v æ̃ /, US also / l uː ˈ v eɪ n /, French:), is the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels.
All recognised Flemish university colleges are associated with a Flemish university. The following colleges, which issue professional bachelor, academic bachelor's and master's degrees, are recognised by the Flemish government: Antwerp University Association: University Colleges associated with the University of Antwerp
Ghent University (Dutch: Universiteit Gent, abbreviated as UGent) is a public research university located in Ghent, Belgium.. Located in Flanders, Ghent University is the second largest Belgian university, consisting of 50,000 students and 9,000 staff members.
Today these are the Flemish provinces of Flemish Brabant and Antwerp to the west, and the Dutch province of North Brabant to the north. Historically Belgian Limburg is roughly equivalent to the Dutch-speaking part of the secular lordship of the medieval Prince-Bishopric of Liège , which was dominated by the County of Loon .
Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen, founder of the Free University of Brussels. The history of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel is closely linked with that of Belgium itself. When the Belgian State was formed in 1830 by nine breakaway provinces from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, three state universities existed in the cities of Ghent, Leuven and Liège, but none in the new capital, Brussels.