| University College Brussels | |
| Native Name: | Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel |
| Established: | 1925 (HUBrussel since 2007) |
| Closed: | 2014 (Odisee from 2014 on) |
| Type: | Public Catholic |
| Administrative Staff: | 1,100 |
| Director: | Dirk De Ceulaer |
| City: | Brussels |
| Country: | Belgium[1] |
| Campus: | Brussels and Dilbeek |
| Students: | 9,000 (degree programmes); 9,500 (postgraduate programmes) |
| Affiliations: | KU Leuven Association |
| Website: | http://www.odisee.be/en |
Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUBrussel or HUB) was a Dutch language university founded in 2007. HUBrussel was the result of a merger between Brussels-based colleges European University College Brussels, Vlekho, HONIM and Catholic University of Brussels (KUBrussel).[2] [3]
HUBrussel offered degrees both at university and college level for the Flemish Community of Belgium. Degrees were offered both in Dutch and in English.
From 2013 on, university level degrees were organised by KU Leuven. Professional bachelor's degrees remained at HUB till HUB itself merged with the Katholieke Hogeschool Sint-Lieven in 2014 and became Odisee.
European University College Brussels was founded in 1925 as St. Aloysius University College of Economics (EHSAL), as a Dutch-speaking department of the Faculté universitaire Saint-Louis, nowadays Saint-Louis University, Brussels.
At the merger with VLEKHO, HONIM and KUBrussel in 2008, more than 9,000 students were attending classes in undergraduate, graduate and academic advanced programmes at seven faculties. HUBrussel had five faculties in the Brussels-Capital Region and one in the nearby town of Dilbeek, Flanders. There used to be one in Dubai, called European University College Brussels Dubai, but this has been closed.[4]
HUBrussel is associated with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.[5]
HUBrussel programmes are organised by two educational divisions
The academic bachelors and masters were taken over by the Catholic University of Leuven[6] and are based around three faculties that together offer 13 undergraduate and graduate programmes:
Commercial sciences
Environment, health and safety management
Literature
Applied linguistics
Interpretation, translation
Multilingual communication
Journalism
The professional bachelors include four fields of study that offer 13 undergraduate programmes:
Nursery teaching
Primary education
Secondary education
Occupational therapy
Medical imaging
Nursing
Optics and optometry
Social work
Socio-educational care work
Family sciences
Operations management
Office management
Applied informatics