The
Catholic University of Leuven (in Dutch,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven or
KULeuven), the largest
Flemish university, is located in the historic town of
Leuven in
Flanders, the
Dutch-speaking (northern) part of
Belgium. It was founded in
1425 and is now the oldest
Catholic university in the world still in existence.
With the steady rise to renewed prominence of the Dutch language, the then-bilingual University was eventually split in 1968 into two new universities. The French-speaking Université Catholique de Louvain[?] moved to a newly built campus in Louvain-la-Neuve[?] in Wallonia, Belgium. The Dutch-speaking Katholieke Universiteit Leuven remained in Leuven.
One European survey ranks K.U.Leuven among the top ten European universities in terms of its scientific output.
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