University of Liège

Also known as Université de Liège, ULg, Universitas Leodiensis, University of Liege, Universite de Liege, Université de l'Etat à Liège, ULiège, Liège University

Belgian public university founded in 1817

Key facts

Other name: ULiège
Former name: State University of Liège
Motto: Scientia Optimum
Motto in english: Excellence through science
Type: Public university of the French Community of Belgium
Established: 1817 (209 years ago) ( 1817 )
Affiliations: AUF , EUA , IAU , T.I.M.E. , SGroup, EFMB , EUR-ACE , EQUIS , CGE , WHO , COP (permanent observer)
Rector: Prof. Anne-Sophie Nyssen
Administrator: Anne Girin
Academic staff: 1,398 (2021)
Administrative staff: 2,022 (2018)
Students: 26,863 (2021)

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The University of Liège (French: Université de Liège), or ULiège, is a major public research university of the French Community of Belgium founded in 1817 and based in Liège, Belgium. Its official language is French.

Since the 1970s 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 the Liège Province; in addition to Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech which is based in Gembloux (Namur), and the Department of Environmental Sciences and Management in Arlon (Luxembourg). As a research intensive university, it also operates multiple facilities abroad: the STARESO oceanography station in Corsica, the Jungfraujoch weather station in Switzerland, the KATABATA stations in Greenland, as well as scientific stations and observatories in Chile (SPECULOOS and TRAPPIST-South), in Morocco (TRAPPIST-North), and in Tenerife, Spain.