Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Kulak

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Campus Kortrijk
founding	1964
Sponsorship	ecclesiastical
place	Kortrijk , Belgium
Vice President of the KU Leuven and Campus President of the Kulak	Piet Desmet
Students	approx. 1500 (2017)
Website	kuleuven-kulak.be

The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Campus Kortrijk (KULCK) is a campus of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Kortrijk , Belgium . It is the only university in the province of West Vlaanderen .

The university was established under the name K atholieke U niversiteit L euven A fdeling K ortrijk (KULAK). The abbreviation is still used because it is easier to pronounce. About 1200 students and 150 academic staff work on the campus, which was built in 1965. Another 100 teachers share their working time between the campus and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in the city of Leuven in the province of Flemish Brabant .

Building a

Building B

history

The university was founded in 1964 .

Rectors

The following rectors headed the Catholic University Campus Kortrijk :

1971 - 1991: Mgr Guido Maertens

1991 - 1992: Frans Van Cauwelaert

1992 - 1996: Vic Nachtergaele

1996 - 2001: Marcel Joniau

2001 - 2009: Piet Vanden Abeele

2009 - 2013: Jan Beirlant

Faculties

The Kortrijk Campus organizes the first two years of the Bachelor program in the following directions:

• history
• Linguistics
• Law
• Economics
• mathematics
• Computer science
• physics
• chemistry
• biology
• Biomedic Sciences

There is a full, three-year bachelor's program for education and medicine.

Web links

• Website KULeuven Campus Kortrijk (KULAK)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ OVER KULAK. In: https://www.kuleuven-kulak.be/ . Retrieved August 4, 2019 .