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Created on 24 March 2009
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Last Updated on 03 May 2012
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Published on 24 March 2009
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The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is the oldest university in the Low Countries (Belgium, HollandLuxembourg) and comprises 14 faculties, all of them involved in cutting edge research. The university is ranked in the top 15 of European universities in the Times Higher Education Supplement of 2007 and is founding member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) and the Coïmbra Group. Among others, it has been the base of 67 spin-off companies, and has about 500 PhDs and 4000 publications annually. The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is a multicultural university with almost 25 % of its graduate students coming from abroad. As such, it has a long-standing tradition of hospitality towards students and scholars from abroad. At present, over 35.000 students have found their home away from home in Leuven.