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Updated Octobre 2025.
About UCLL University of Applied Sciences
UCLL University of Applied Sciences offers 20 associate degrees, 22 bachelor’s and 9 advanced bachelor’s programmes on 8 campuses in the Belgian provinces of Limburg and Flemish Brabant. With over 18,000 students UCLL is one of the largest institutions of higher education in Flanders. UCLL is active in the fields of teacher education, management, technology, health and social studies and combines its educational mission with practice-oriented research and services. The university of applied sciences puts maximum effort into the individual coaching of students. Its broad educational network guarantees a place for everyone's talent and its degrees hold a strong position on the labour market. Moving people and ideas by allowing room for innovative thinking and cooperation – that is the vision of UCLL, that is what we call ‘moving minds’. UCLL, in full University Colleges Leuven-Limburg, wants to offer solid, quality-based education, all the while exploring the Euregion and beyond. UCLL is a member of the KU Leuven Association and partner in the E³UDRES² alliance.
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About UCLL Research & Expertise
UCLL Research & Expertise, the research community of UCLL University of Applied Sciences, has 8 centers of expertise, each with its own focus, specializations and target groups. With more than 400 researchers, annually about 2,000 cooperating students, over 340 ongoing projects and a turnover of more than 16 million euros, UCLL can easily be called the Flemish university college of research. The expertise centers of UCLL R&E are locally, nationally and internationally active in innovative practical research and services: in welfare and health sectors, the world of education, business and in the field of sustainability and technology.
Moving people and ideas by giving space to innovative thinking and collaboration, that is the vision of UCLL, that is moving minds. UCLL R&E also carries that vision forward. The expertise centers give wings to ideas, amaze with innovation and thus support society in a sustainable way with immediately deployable solutions for concrete challenges of companies and organizations. In addition, UCLL R&E offers nearly 200 training topics as post-training for professionals. More than 300 of the more than 400 researchers also teach at UCLL, ensuring that students take full advantage of the rich research environment.
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