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Facts and figures

Here's a short overview of facts and figures about KU Leuven. A more detailed presentation of the university can be found in the yearly brochure, KU Leuven Focus (pdf).

Students

  • • 41,255 students for the academic year 2012-2013
    • 22,364 female students
    • 18,891 male students
  • Distribution (figures 2011-2012):
    • 45% Bachelor
    • 31% Master
    • 5% Advanced Master
    • 11% Doctoral programme
    • 1% Academic Teacher Training
    • 7% Other
  • 6,724 international students for the academic year 2012-2013
    • 3,455 students from within the EU
    • 3,269 students from outside the EU
  • 5,784  'generation students'* 
* A 'generation student' is a person enrolling for the first time in the first year of higher education at an institution within the Flemish Community.
 
Additional statistics can be found on the student statistics website (in Dutch). 

Staff

  • In September 2012, KU Leuven employed 18,635 people.
    • 9,848 at the university
    • 8,775 at the University Hospitals (UZ Leuven)
Figures for the university: 
  People Full-time equivalents
Senior Academic Staff 1,477 998
Junior Academic Staff
and Scientific Staff
 5,304 4,703
Administrative and Technical Staff 3,219 2,964

Research (in the academic year of 2012-2013)

  • Researchers expressed in full-time equivalents:
    • Professors: 1,022 of which 9% are international
    • Post-docs: 1,067 of which 36% are international
    • Doctoral students: 4,590 of which 39% are international
  • Research spending: 365 million euro
  • 625 doctoral degrees
  • 98 spin-off companies
     

Education (in the academic year of 2012-2013)

  • Dutch-language course offerings
    • 55 Bachelor's degree programmes
    • 133 Master's degree programmes
    • 48 advanced Master's degree programmes
  • International course offerings:
    • 48 Master's degree programmes, 27 advanced Master's degree programmes and 2 Bachelor degree programmes taught entirely in English
    • More than 2,000 courses taught in English
    • 2 Master's degrees programme taught in French, 1 advanced Master's degree programme taught Spanish
    • 8 Erasmus Mundus programmes

 

IMEC & KU Leuven

One of the largest independent R&D organizations in the world with a mission to perform research and development, ahead of industrial needs by 3 to 10 years, in microelectronics, nanotechnology, design methods and technologies for ICT systems

  • Rev.: 271 million euro
  • Staff: approx. 1 750 worldwide (60 nationalities)
  • Close partnership with K.U.Leuven - numerous professors, doctoral students and postdocs on KU Leuven campus

International Cooperation

  • Erasmus contracts with 434 European universities.
  • 22 central bilateral agreements in 8 countries: U.S.A, China, South Africa, Japan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Vietnam, Poland and the Netherlands. 
  • The amount of international students more than doubled to about 7400 students in ten years time.
  • Most international EU students come from the Netherlands.
  • Most international non – EU students come from China.
  • Around 50 projects in development cooperation and interuniversity cooperation.