With four faculties spanning the spectrum of the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and an Institute for European Studies, USBL offers a broad range of programmes to their 3600 students. The university is one of Belgium’s principal centres of excellence in SSH.
For UCL this merger means an increase of their multi-faculty strength in Brussels and an even larger and more specialised commitment to SSH. The merger will also strengthen the two institutions’ research capacity and their ability to obtain more funding.