This is a list of the constituent colleges of the

Old University of Leuven The Old University of Leuven (or of Louvain) is the name historians give to the university, or ''studium generale'', founded in Leuven, Brabant (then part of the Burgundian Netherlands, now part of Belgium), in 1425. The university was closed in ...

(founded 1425; suppressed 1797). Many of them are listed heritage sites and some are in use by the current

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven KU Leuven (or Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. It conducts teaching, research, and services in computer science, engineering, natural sciences, theology, humanities, medicine, l ...

Pedagogies

Four of the colleges were specifically teaching colleges for undergraduates in the Liberal Arts, and these were called Pedagogies.Supplement aux trophees tant sacres que profanes du Duche de Brabant (etc.): 3-4

Colleges

The others provided residential facilities for students studying at the advanced faculties (law, medicine, theology).

References

Historische universiteitscolleges in Leuven definitief beschermd
Archeonet.be, 13 Nov 2009. Accessed 15 Feb. 2015. * Cornelius Van Gestel, ''Historia sacra et profana Archiepiscopatus Mechliniensis'' (The Hague, 1725), 182-186. *

Valerius Andreas Wouter Dries or Walter Driessens (1588–1655), Latinized Valerius Andreas, was an academic jurist, Hebraist, and historian from the Duchy of Brabant in the Habsburg Netherlands. Life Valerius was born in Dessel on 27 November 1588, the eldest so ...

, ''Fasti academici studii generalis Lovaniensis'' (Leuven, 1650), 252-330.
Inventaris Onroerend Erfgoed
(Flemish heritage inventory). Accessed 15 Feb. 2015. {{Universities of Louvain Catholic University of Leuven Lists of university and college buildings Lists of protected heritage sites in Belgium