University of Liège
Université de Liège | |
| Latin: Universitas Leodiensis | |
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 |
| Rector | Prof. Anne-Sophie Nyssen |
| Administrator | Anne Girin |
Academic staff | 1,398 (2021) |
Administrative staff | 2,022 (2018) |
| Students | 26,863 (2021) |
| 2,260 (2021) | |
| Location | , 50°38′27″N 05°34′29″E / 50.64083°N 5.57472°E |
| Campus | Multiples sites |
| Colors | Teal blue |
| Affiliations | AUF EUA IAU T.I.M.E. SGroup EFMB EUR-ACE EQUIS CGE WHO COP (permanent observer) |
| Website | www.uliege.be |
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.