University College Brussels

Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel
Type	Public Catholic
Active	1925 (HUBrussel since 2007)–2014 (Odisee from 2014 on)
Director	Dirk De Ceulaer
Administrative staff	1,100
Students	9,000 (degree programmes); 9,500 (postgraduate programmes)
Location	Brussels , Belgium[1]
Campus	Brussels and Dilbeek
Affiliations	KU Leuven Association
Website	[1]

Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel or HUB) was a Dutch language university founded in 2007. HUBrussel was the result of a merger between Brussels-based colleges European University College Brussels, Vlekho, HONIM and Catholic University of Brussels (KUBrussel).^[2][3]

HUBrussel offered degrees both at university and college level for the Flemish Community of Belgium. Degrees were offered both in Dutch and in English.

From 2013 on, university level degrees were organised by KU Leuven. Professional bachelor's degrees remained at HUB till HUB itself merged with the Katholieke Hogeschool Sint-Lieven in 2014 and became Odisee.

History

European University College Brussels was founded in 1925 as St. Aloysius University College of Economics (EHSAL), as a Dutch-speaking department of the Faculté universitaire Saint-Louis, nowadays Saint-Louis University, Brussels.

At the merger with VLEKHO, HONIM and KUBrussel in 2008, more than 9,000 students were attending classes in undergraduate, graduate and academic advanced programmes at seven faculties. HUBrussel had five faculties in the Brussels-Capital Region and one in the nearby town of Dilbeek, Flanders. There used to be one in Dubai, called European University College Brussels Dubai, but this has been closed.^[4]

HUBrussel is associated with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.^[5]

Programs

HUBrussel programmes are organised by two educational divisions

Academic bachelors and masters

The academic bachelors and masters were taken over by the Catholic University of Leuven^[6] and are based around three faculties that together offer 13 undergraduate and graduate programmes:

• Economics and management:

Commercial sciences

Business engineering

Environment, health and safety management

• Linguistics and literature:

Literature

Applied linguistics

Interpretation, translation

Multilingual communication

Journalism

• Law

Professional bachelors

The professional bachelors include four fields of study that offer 13 undergraduate programmes:

• Education:

Nursery teaching

Primary education

Secondary education

• Health care:

Occupational therapy

Medical imaging

Nursing

Optics and optometry

• Social and community work:

Social work

Socio-educational care work

Family sciences

• Commercial sciences and management

Operations management

Office management

Applied informatics

Figures

• The number of participants in postgraduate programmes and seminars amounts to 9500
• Over 500 regular non-EU students in degree programmes in Brussels
• Over 100 regular (non-Belgian) EU students in degree programmes in Brussels
• Appr. 170 inbound exchange students and 110 outbound exchange students
• Number of staff: 1100