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

  • 38,640 students as of 1 February 2011
    • 20,877 female students
    • 17,763 male students
  • Distribution:
    • 49.8% Bachelor
    • 30.2% Master
    • 4.2% Advanced Master
    • 11.3% Doctoral programme
    • 1.7% Academic Teacher Training
    • 2,8% Other
  • 5,530 international students as of 1 February 2011
    • 2,748 students from within the EU
    • 2,782 students from outside the EU
  • 5,822 'generation students' as of 1 February 2011* 
* 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

  • As of 31 December 2010, KU Leuven employed 18,635 people.
    • 9,971 at the university
    • 8,664 at the University Hospitals (UZ Leuven)
Figures for the university: 
  People Full-time equivalents
Senior Academic Staff 1,473 1,004
Junior Academic Staff
and Scientific Staff
 5,344 4,770
Administrative and Technical Staff 3,154 2,910

Research

  • Researchers expressed in full-time equivalents:
    • Professors: 1,018 of which 12% are international
    • Post-docs: 1,052 of which 36% are international
    • Doctoral students: 4,381 of which 38% are international
  • Research spending: 347 million euro (2010)
  • 5199 doctoral degrees conferred in the 2010-2011 academic year
  • 626 doctoral degrees conferred in the 2010-2011 academic year
  • 98 spin-off companies (as of 31 December 2011)
     

Education

  • Dutch-language course offerings
    • 55 Bachelor's degree programmes
    • 132 Master's degree programmes
    • 53 advanced Master's degree programmes
  • International course offerings:
    • 47 Master's degree programmes, 31 advanced Master's degree programmes and 2 Bachelor degree programmes taught entirely in English
    • More than 2,000 courses taught in English
    • 1 Master's degree programme taught in French, 1 advanced Master's degree programme taught Spanish
    • 7 Erasmus Mundus programmes
    • 8968 Bachelor's and Master's degrees conferred in the 2010-2011 academic year 
       

 

IMEC & K.U.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 K.U.Leuven campus

International Cooperation

  • Participation in three Tempus-CARDS programmes, three Tempus-Tacis programmes, and five Alfa programmes
  • Partner in twenty bilateral interuniversity co-operation agreements
  • Seventeen selective bilateral interuniversity agreements for PhD students
  • Development co-operation: twenty-eight ongoing projects in Africa, ten in Central and South America and three in Asia (projects both established on the initiative of K.U.Leuven and in the context of University Institutional Co-operation)