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Université de Liège | |
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| Latin:Universitas Leodiensis[1] | |
Other name | ULiège |
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Former name | State University of Liège |
| Motto | Scientia Optimum |
Motto in English | Excellence through science |
| Type | Public university of theFrench Community of Belgium |
| Established | 1817 (208 years ago) (1817) |
| Rector | Prof. Anne-Sophie Nyssen |
| Administrator | Anne Girin |
Academic staff | 1,398(2021)[2] |
Administrative staff | 2,022(2018)[2] |
| Students | 26,863(2021)[2] |
| 2,260(2021)[2] | |
| Location | , 50°38′27″N05°34′29″E / 50.64083°N 5.57472°E /50.64083; 5.57472 |
| Campus | Multiples sites |
| Colors | Teal blue [3] |
| Affiliations | AUF EUA IAU T.I.M.E. SGroup EFMB EUR-ACE EQUIS CGE WHO COP(permanent observer) |
| Website | www.uliege.be |
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TheUniversity of Liège (French:Université de Liège), orULiège, is a majorpublicresearch university of theFrench Community of Belgium founded in 1817 and based inLiège, Belgium. Its official language isFrench.
Since the1970s, its main campus is located on the Sart-Tilman hill, about ten kilometers south of Liège, but the university retains its historic headquarters and numerous administrative offices in the city center, as well as four of its eleven faculties. It has secondary installments throughout theLiège Province; in addition toGembloux Agro-Bio Tech which is based inGembloux (Namur), and the Department of Environmental Sciences and Management inArlon (Luxembourg). As a research intensive university, it also operates multiple facilities abroad: the STARESO oceanography station inCorsica, theJungfraujoch weather station inSwitzerland, the KATABATA stations inGreenland, as well as scientific stations and observatories inChile (SPECULOOS andTRAPPIST-South), inMorocco (TRAPPIST-North), and inTenerife, Spain.
The university was founded in 1817 byWilliam I of the Netherlands, then King of theUnited Kingdom of the Netherlands, and by his Minister of Education,Anton Reinhard Falck. The foundation of the university was the result of a long intellectual tradition which dates back to the origins of thePrince-Bishopric of Liège. Beginning in the eleventh century, the influence of theprincipality attracted students and prominent scientists and philosophers, such asPetrarch, to study in its libraries. The reputation of its medieval schools gave the city the reputation asa new Athens.[4]
A 17 March 1808 decree byNapoleon I concerning the organization of an imperial university indicated Liège as the site of a new academy to be composed of a Faculty of Arts and a Faculty of Science—the first university charter for Liège. Ultimately, Liège owes its university toWilliam I of the Netherlands, who remembered the city's prestigious legacy of teaching and culture when he decided to establish a new university onWalloon soil.
Nearly 200 years later, settled to some extent in theSart-Tilman [fr] district of Liège, the University of Liège belongs to the French community of Belgium. The university is located at the edge of the riverMeuse, in the center ofthe Island, the Latin Quarter of Liège. In 2009, the Agronomical University of Gembloux (FUSAGx), based inGembloux, in theProvince of Namur, integrated ULiège. It has adopted a new name for academics as well as research, namelyGembloux Agro-Bio Tech.
| University rankings | |
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| Global – Overall | |
| ARWU World[6] | 301–400 (2023) |
| CWUR World[7] | 282 (2020-21) |
| CWTS World[8] | 395 (2020) |
| QS World[9] | =379 (2026) |
| THE World[10] | 301–350 (2024) |
| USNWR Global[11] | =370 (2021) |
| National – Overall | |
| ARWU National[12] | 6–7 (2023) |
| QS National[13] | 7 (2024) |
| THE National[14] | 7 (2024) |
The rector of ULiège is Professor Anne-Sophie Nyssen, who succeeded ProfessorPierre Wolper in 2022, becoming the first woman to hold this position.[15] Anne Girin has been the university's Administrator since September 1, 2020. She replaced Laurent Despy and became the first woman to hold the position.[16]
The University of Liège counts:
ULiège comprises 11 faculties:
Since the 1970s, ULiège's main campus has been theSart-Tilman [fr] hill, a vast planned community campus located about ten kilometers south from the center of Liège. However, the university has kept its headquarters and many administrative facilities in the city centre, as well as the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, the Institutes of Zoology, Anatomy, theHEC Liège Management School and the newly incorporated Faculty of Architecture.
TheGembloux Agro-Bio Tech campus and faculty are located in the city ofGembloux,Namur Province, and Faculty of Science Department of Environmental Science and Management is located inArlon,Luxembourg Province.
The university also owns a scientific research station in the BelgianHigh Fens since 1924, the STARESOoceanography station inCalvi,Corsica,France, a meteorological station and theSphinx Observatory on theJungfraujoch,Switzerland, since 1950[17] and research stations and observatories inChile (SPECULOOS andTRAPPIST-South),Morocco andTenerife,Spain (TRAPPIST-North).
For full list, seeUniversity of Liège alumni.
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