The ''Katholieke Universiteit Brussel'' (English: Catholic University of Brussels) was a

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university located in

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, founded in 1969 as ''University Faculties St Aloysius'' (UFSAL), in many ways the equivalent of a

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. It split up from the primarily French-speaking

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to become an independent

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institution. It became recognised as a university by the Flemish Community of Belgium in the early 1990s. It only ever awarded basic undergraduate degrees, which in the older Belgian system of a four-year

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meant students had to go on to other universities to complete their courses of study. In the late 1990s, as a result of politically fuelled doubts about the university's survival, student levels fell drastically, with a knock-on effect on government funding. In 2007 the university merged with a number of other tertiary institutions in Brussels (see Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUB, European University College Brussels)), and then had a separate existence only as a

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for accreditation and funding purposes. In 2013, the academic degrees of the KUB were integrated in the Catholic University of Leuven.

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