Université catholique de Louvain | |
Former name | Louvain-en-Woluwe |
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Motto | Sedes Sapientiae (Latin) |
Motto in English | Seat of Wisdom, Seat of Knowledge |
Type | Free university (state funded) |
Established | 1974 (transfer from Leuven to Brussels) |
Parent institution | University of Louvain |
Rector | Vincent Blondel |
Vice-rector health sciences | Frédéric Houssiau |
Academic staff | 509 |
Administrative staff | 1,072[1] |
Students | 7,173[1] |
Location | , |
Campus | Planned community |
Colors | Louvain blue |
Nickname | Wolves |
Affiliations | The Guild CLUSTER Coimbra Group |
Mascot | Woulfy |
Website | uclouvain |
Data as of 2020[update] |
UCLouvain Bruxelles Woluwe, also known as Louvain-en-Woluwe[2] or Alma, is a campus of the University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium. The campus, built in the 1970s following the Leuven crisis, houses the Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry, Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences and of Public Health, the Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, the university's main academic hospital, as well as many other institutions of higher education and a vast sports complex.
It is one of the three UCLouvain sites in Brussels, with UCLouvain Bruxelles Saint-Gilles and Saint-Louis University, Brussels.