Former names | Facultés universitaires catholiques de Mons |
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Motto | Sedes Sapientiae (Latin) |
Motto in English | Seat of Wisdom, Seat of Knowledge |
Type | Free university (state funded) |
Established | 1896[1] |
Parent institution | Université catholique de Louvain |
Rector | Vincent Blondel |
Academic staff | 238 |
Students | 1,573 (2021) |
Location | , , |
Colors | Blue and white |
Nickname | Wolves |
Affiliations | The Guild CEMS CESAER CLUSTER Coimbra Group IMCC TIME |
Mascot | Woulfy |
Website | http://uclouvain.be/mons |
UCLouvain FUCaM Mons is a satellite campus of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Mons, Wallonia, Belgium founded in 1896. Until 2011, it was an independent institution known as the Catholic university of Mons (French name: Facultés universitaires catholique de Mons, abbreviation: FUCaM).[2] Its official language is French.[3][unreliable source?]
UCLouvain FUCaM Mons is one of the two universities in the city Mons, the other being the University of Mons, and the main implementation of the UCLouvain in the province of Hainaut, along with UCLouvain Charleroi and UCLouvain Tournai. Before the merger of 2011, the FUCaM were one of the 9 Belgian French-speaking universities[4],.[5]