Study in Belgium: A Comprehensive Guide for International Students

You step off the train at Leuven station and within a minute you understand why people say this city runs on students. On the Oude Markt, which the locals call the longest bar in Europe because the whole square is an unbroken row of pubs, a cluster of first-years in the traditional uniform of white shirt and peculiar cap are chanting through initiation week. A cyclist passes with a paper cone of fries from Frituur No. 1, and by the fountain three Erasmus students argue about a European Law seminar in English. A sign on the corner points to the Arenberg campus, the engineering faculty, eight minutes away by bike. Brussels is twenty-five minutes by train; the European Commission, forty minutes door to door. None of that is an accident. This is Belgium: a small country at the crossroads of the continent, where the universities are six hundred years old and the capital of the European Union is a short hop down the line.

Here is the bottom line. Belgium hides some of Europe’s best universities behind a quiet reputation. KU Leuven ranks #60 in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2026 and has been named the most innovative university in Europe by Reuters more than once; Ghent (#162), UCLouvain (#191) and ULB (#227) put four Belgian institutions in the QS world top 250. And the price of entry, for an EU citizen, is almost unbelievable: tuition runs from €835 a year at the French-speaking universities to about €1,157 at the Flemish ones (Study in Flanders; UCLouvain). That is a fraction of the Netherlands and a rounding error next to the UK. Across the College Council families we advise, Belgium is the destination that wins on value the moment someone actually does the maths.

In this guide I will walk you through the whole Belgian system: the split between Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia that shapes everything, the leading universities and what each is genuinely good at, the narrow-but-real English-taught offering, the true costs for EU and non-EU students, admissions and entrance exams, the Type D visa for those who need one, student life (yes, beer is part of the curriculum), and a career market that begins inside the EU institutions. If you are comparing whole countries, read our companion guides to studying in the Netherlands, France and Germany.

Study in Belgium, Key Data 2025/2026

Source: QS World University Rankings 2026, Study in Flanders, the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Belgian Immigration Office, official university fee pages.

Why Belgium? Quiet quality at an EU price

Belgium does not market itself the way the UK or the Netherlands do, and that is precisely the opportunity. Three things make it punch far above its profile, and they compound.

The first is research quality you would not expect from a country of eleven million. KU Leuven, founded in 1425, is one of the oldest universities in the world and one of the most research-intensive in Europe today; it is home to imec, the nanoelectronics institute that sits at the centre of the global semiconductor industry, and Reuters has repeatedly ranked it Europe’s most innovative university. Ghent is a top-tier life-sciences university with a veterinary school among the best in the world. This is not a country with one flagship and a long tail - it has a genuine cluster of serious institutions, four of them inside the QS world top 250.

The second is cost, and it is the headline. For an EU student, a full year of tuition is €835 at a French-speaking university or roughly €1,157 at a Flemish one. A three-year bachelor’s at KU Leuven therefore costs around €3,500 in total tuition - less than a single semester at many Dutch universities and a fraction of one term at Oxford. There is no debt machine here. For families weighing a top-250 university against the price of the Netherlands (around €2,600 a year) or the UK (tens of thousands), Belgium is the value play of Western Europe.

The third is location, and Brussels in particular. No other student city on the continent puts you inside walking distance of the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and NATO. If your ambition points toward European law, diplomacy, policy or the institutions themselves, studying in Brussels (or in Leuven, twenty-five minutes away) is a structural advantage you cannot buy anywhere else. Add a central position from which Paris, Amsterdam and London are all about two hours by train, and Belgium becomes a base for the whole of Western Europe.

Be honest about the trade-off, though. The English-taught choice at bachelor’s level is thin, far thinner than the Netherlands, and most undergraduate teaching is in Dutch or French. If an English-language bachelor’s is non-negotiable, read the Netherlands guide before you commit. Belgium rewards the master’s-level student, the French or Dutch speaker, and the candidate who wants the EU institutions on their doorstep.

Flanders and Wallonia - two systems, one country

Before any talk of universities, understand the thing that surprises almost every newcomer: Belgium runs two largely separate higher-education systems, divided by language, with different fees, deadlines and procedures.

Flanders (the north, Dutch-speaking) is home to KU Leuven, Ghent University, the University of Antwerp, Hasselt University and the Flemish university in Brussels, VUB. EU tuition is about €1,157 a year. Most bachelor’s teaching is in Dutch, but the master’s level has a deep English-taught offering, and the system feels close to the Dutch one next door.

Wallonia and Brussels (the south plus the capital, French-speaking) is home to UCLouvain, ULB, the University of Liège, UMons and UNamur. EU tuition is lower, about €835 a year, but bachelor’s programmes are overwhelmingly in French, with English appearing mainly at master’s level. Wallonia also adds a bureaucratic step that Flanders largely skips: a formal diploma equivalence through the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, which you must start early.

Brussels is its own case: officially bilingual in French and Dutch, in practice running on French and English thanks to the EU presence. Both Flemish universities (VUB, KU Leuven’s Brussels campus) and French-speaking ones (ULB, UCLouvain Saint-Louis) operate there, alongside the Commission, the Parliament, the Council, NATO and hundreds of international organisations - the densest concentration of European-affairs employers on the continent.

For a school-leaver the first question is therefore not which university but which language. Choose English and your realistic targets are master’s programmes at KU Leuven, Ghent, VUB, UCLouvain or ULB. Choose French and dozens of bachelor’s programmes open up. Dutch is an asset few international students bring, but it unlocks the full Flemish system.

Top Universities - the names that matter

Belgium has roughly a dozen universities; a handful drive international demand. Below are the leading research universities with their QS World University Rankings 2026 positions, each linked to a College Council profile where one exists or to its entry in our Atlas. As always, the overall rank is a rough map of reputation - what a university is known for matters more than its number.

KU Leuven (QS #60) is the clear flagship: 600 years old, research-intensive, home to imec, and strong across engineering, biomedical sciences, law, economics and computer science, with 80-plus English-taught master’s programmes. Its French-speaking twin, UCLouvain (QS #191), split from it in 1968 over language and built a new campus from scratch at Louvain-la-Neuve; it leads in economics, philosophy, law and medicine. Ghent University (QS #162) is the second Flemish powerhouse, exceptional in biotechnology, veterinary medicine and the life sciences, set in one of Belgium’s most beautiful medieval cities where one resident in three is a student.

In Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB, QS #294) and Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB, QS #227) are the Dutch- and French-speaking siblings that share a common ancestor and a secular, free-thinking tradition; both trade hard on their proximity to the EU institutions, and ULB counts several Nobel laureates, including François Englert for the Higgs boson. The University of Antwerp (QS #280) is a younger, fast-rising research university in Belgium’s second city and the centre of its diamond and logistics economy. The University of Liège (QS #379) is Wallonia’s comprehensive flagship with deep strengths in engineering and the sciences, and Hasselt University (QS #597) is the small, innovation-focused Limburg university punching above its size in life sciences and mobility research.

Want to browse the full picture - campuses, programmes, fees and rankings side by side? Every Belgian institution above lives in our College Council Atlas, where you can filter by city, field and language of instruction.

How the Belgian system works - degrees, languages and fee tiers

A Belgian degree follows the Bologna model cleanly. A bachelor’s takes three years and 180 ECTS; a master’s is then one or two years on top, and many strong international students come to Belgium specifically for the master’s, where the English-taught choice is widest. Unlike the British system, you apply to a named programme at a single university - there is no central platform like UCAS or Parcoursup. Each university runs its own application portal, sets its own deadlines and assesses your file directly.

The defining feature is language, not faculty structure. Whether a programme is taught in Dutch, French or English determines almost everything about how you apply: which language certificate you need, which deadline applies, and in Wallonia whether you must obtain a diploma equivalence first. A motivated school-leaver with no Dutch or French is realistically looking at the English-taught master’s tier, or one of the few English-taught bachelor’s programmes; a French speaker has the run of Wallonia’s undergraduate offering.

Fees split by region and by nationality, and this is where you must read carefully. For EU and EEA students, the standard registration fee is set by the regional government: about €835 a year in the French Community and about €1,157 a year in Flanders (KU Leuven charges €1,181.40 for a full 60-credit year) for 2025/26. For non-EU students, the picture changes sharply. Flemish universities charge an unregulated international fee of roughly €2,300 to €9,500 a year depending on the programme; French-speaking universities add a fixed droit d’inscription spécifique of €4,175 on top of the standard fee, under ARES rules for the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. The gap between the EU and non-EU price is the single biggest financial fact for an international reader - confirm which tier applies to you before you budget.

The Belgian System at a Glance

Source: Study in Flanders; Wallonia-Brussels Federation / ARES; KU Leuven and UCLouvain fee pages, 2025/26.

Admissions step by step - portals, the matura and entrance exams

Belgian admissions are decentralised and, on the whole, less theatrical than the UK or France. The work is in getting the documents right and hitting each programme’s own deadline. The broad shape is the same everywhere: you apply online through the university’s portal, submit your school-leaving diploma and transcripts, prove your language level, and add a short motivation letter and CV.

For Flemish universities (KU Leuven, Ghent, VUB, Antwerp, Hasselt), the matura is generally accepted directly as equivalent to the Belgian secondary diploma. Deadlines for English-taught programmes typically fall around early March, earlier than the Dutch-taught intake; always confirm on the specific programme page, because they vary. Some bachelor’s programmes, engineering above all, expect strong results in the relevant extended-level subjects (mathematics for engineering, for example), even where there is no formal entrance test.

For French-speaking universities (UCLouvain, ULB, Liège), there is one extra step that trips up more applicants than anything else: the diploma equivalence (équivalence) issued by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. It costs around €200, takes weeks to months, and without it your application stalls. The official advice, and ours, is blunt: apply for the equivalence as early as you possibly can, ideally the moment you decide Wallonia is on your list. French-taught programmes also require a DELF B2 or DALF C1 certificate, and most deadlines land in late April, sometimes March.

Then the Belgian speciality: entrance exams for a few capped fields. Medicine and dentistry require a competitive exam (the toelatingsexamen arts in Dutch in Flanders, the examen d’entrée en médecine in French in Wallonia) sat once a year, with pass rates around 20-30% and a numerus clausus limiting places. Veterinary science in Flanders has its own exam, and engineering at UCLouvain requires a special mathematics test (Flemish universities instead use a tough first year as the filter). These exams are in Dutch or French only; there is no English version. If medicine in Belgium is your goal, plan for it as the serious obstacle it is.

For the timing of all of this, follow our study-abroad application timeline, and if you are converting your school-leaving results, our grade conversion guide explains how the percentages translate. A clean motivation letter does a lot of work in a decentralised system like this one.

Application Timeline (2026 entry shown)

Dates vary by programme and university; always confirm on the official portal.

Source: typical KU Leuven, Ghent, UCLouvain, ULB and Liège admission calendars, 2026 entry.

Costs - a realistic budget for EU and non-EU students

This is where Belgium stops looking quiet and starts looking remarkable. Take tuition first. An EU student pays €835 a year in the French Community (UCLouvain, ULB, Liège) or about €1,157 in Flanders (KU Leuven €1,181.40, Ghent, VUB, Antwerp). Over a three-year bachelor’s that is roughly €2,500 - €3,500 in total tuition, the kind of number that makes families read it twice. A non-EU student pays substantially more: Flemish universities set an international fee of roughly €2,300 - €9,500 a year by programme, and French-speaking universities add the €4,175 supplement to the standard fee, pushing the Wallonia non-EU total to around €5,000. A few specialist programmes (Vesalius College’s English-taught bachelor’s in Brussels, or executive MBAs at Vlerick and Solvay) sit in their own higher band of €5,000 - €30,000.

Now living costs, which vary by city more than by region. Brussels is the dearest; the student towns are cheaper. A realistic monthly all-in budget covering rent, food, transport, phone and a social life runs roughly €900 - €1,200 in Brussels, €700 - €1,000 in Leuven, €680 - €950 in Ghent, and as little as €620 - €850 in Louvain-la-Neuve, the purpose-built university town where everything is within walking distance. Rent is the swing factor: a room (a kot in Flemish student parlance) is €450 - €800 in Brussels but €300 - €550 in the smaller cities, and a bike replaces most transport costs outside the capital.

Put the two together and the all-in annual number is the one that sells Belgium. For an EU student, tuition plus living lands at roughly €9,000 - €15,500 a year - and at the cheap end, in a town like Ghent or Louvain-la-Neuve, you can study at a top-250 university for under €10,000 all in. Over a three-year bachelor’s that is on the order of €27,000 - €47,000 total, less than a single year at most UK universities. For a like-for-like European comparison, see the Netherlands and France guides; Belgium consistently comes out as the value option with a genuine top-250 university attached.

Annual Cost of Studying in Belgium

Tuition + living, 2025/26. The components in the last column build the all-in total.

Source: official Flemish and French-Community fee pages; typical city living-cost ranges, 2025/26. Non-EU figures add a one-off visa and immigration handling fee.

A typical month for an EU student outside Brussels looks roughly like this.

• Rent is the big line: €350 - €550 for a kot or room in shared housing.
• Food: €200 - €300 if you cook (Aldi, Lidl and Colruyt are the student’s allies).
• Transport: €0 - €30, because you ride a bike, and the SNCB under-26 Train+ card (around €4 a month) cuts national rail fares by 40%, with a per-trip cap of a few euros.
• Phone, books and personal: €100 - €200.
• Going out: €80 - €200, helped by Trappist beer at €2 - €5 a glass.

That sums to roughly €730 - €1,280 a month - which is why €700 - €1,000 is a fair figure for the student cities and €900 - €1,200 for Brussels. The one number families forget: non-EU students pay the visa and immigration handling fee on top, as a one-off before they arrive.

Scholarships and working while you study

Belgium does not run a universal grant system like the Dutch DUO or Danish SU, but between targeted scholarships and the right to work, the already-low cost gets lower. Start with need-based regional scholarships: the Flemish studietoelagen and the Walloon bourse d’études can be worth up to several thousand euros a year, but they are aimed at low-income families and usually require that you or your parents have worked in, or lived in, Belgium for a qualifying period - so for a brand-new arrival they are rarely the route in. Check the official portals (studietoelagen.be in Flanders, the cfwb.be allocations service in Wallonia) before assuming you qualify.

At university level the picture is better the higher you go. Erasmus Mundus joint master’s programmes, several of them run by KU Leuven, Ghent and partners, come with full scholarships covering tuition and a living stipend, and they are the single best-funded route into a Belgian master’s for an international student. KU Leuven, Ghent, UCLouvain and VUB each run their own merit and faculty scholarships, mostly partial fee reductions, listed on their international pages; apply to every one you are eligible for, but budget as if you will receive nothing and treat any award as a bonus. Many countries also run a national academic-exchange agency whose mobility programme can add a monthly grant to a stay abroad, and Erasmus+ funds exchanges within Europe. Our European scholarships guide maps the full set.

Then there is working while studying, where Belgium is genuinely useful. As an EU citizen you may work up to 20 hours a week during term and without limit in the holidays, no permit required, and Belgium’s studentenjob regime applies sharply reduced social-security contributions (around 2.7% instead of the usual 13%), so more of the wage reaches you. The minimum wage sits around €12 an hour gross, so 10-15 hours a week meaningfully offsets a €700 - €1,000 monthly budget. The classic jobs are hospitality, retail and tutoring; in Brussels, the European sector adds research-assistant and administrative work that doubles as a CV line. The realistic Belgian funding model is simple and it works: low tuition, a part-time job, maybe a scholarship, and modest family support.

Visa and formalities - EU free movement versus the Type D route

Here the international reader splits into two very different paths, and it is worth being precise about both.

If you are an EU or EEA citizen, there is no visa and no student permit. You have free movement: you arrive, you enrol, and within the first few months you register at the maison communale (town hall) of where you live to obtain a residence document. You will want comprehensive health insurance, usually by joining a Belgian mutualité (mutual health fund), which is cheap, plus a Belgian bank account for rent and the studentenjob. That is the whole of it. The administrative weight that dominates the UK experience simply does not exist for you here.

If you are a non-EU citizen, you need a Type D long-stay student visa, and the process has real steps with real deadlines. You first secure an admission letter from the university; then you apply for the visa at the Belgian consulate, and the document that decides most cases is proof of sufficient means, set at €1,062 per month for 2026/27 (Belgian Immigration Office), shown either through a scholarship, a Belgian guarantor, or funds in a blocked account released to you in monthly instalments. You also provide valid health insurance, a medical certificate and, in many cases, a police clearance, and you pay the visa fee plus a separate immigration handling contribution. Once in Belgium you register at the commune and collect a residence permit, which doubles as your Schengen travel document. None of it is exotic, but the proof-of-funds amount and the consular timing are where applications fail, so start in early summer, not late August.

Non-EU Student Visa, Key Numbers

For non-EU/EEA students. EU/EEA students need no visa - free movement applies.

Source: Belgian Immigration Office (IBZ) and FPS Foreign Affairs visa guidance; Study in Flanders. Confirm exact figures with your consulate before applying.

Student life - beer, bikes and the praesidium

Belgian student life has a flavour you will not find anywhere else, and it starts with the beer. Belgium has arguably the richest beer culture on earth, with over 1,500 varieties, from Trappist ales brewed by monks (Chimay, Orval, Westvleteren, often called the best beer in the world) to spontaneously-fermented lambics, and it is UNESCO-listed intangible heritage. The student strips of Leuven’s Oude Markt, Ghent’s Overpoortstraat and Brussels’ Delirium serve hundreds of them at €2 - €5 a glass, and yes, professors do sometimes join their students for one after a seminar. Pair it with frieten (Belgian fries, double-fried in beef fat, served in a paper cone with mayonnaise, never ketchup) from the frituur on every corner, and you have the daily texture of the place.

The social backbone, especially in Flanders, is the student association. Every faculty and many year-groups run a praesidium or kring that organises parties, lectures, trips and the famously eccentric initiation rituals (doop in Flanders, baptême in Wallonia): voluntary, slightly absurd, and a fast track into a network that lasts for decades. KU Leuven alone has more than 200 of them. If the initiation is not your thing, no one forces it; if it is, it is the quickest way to belong.

Two practical truths complete the picture. First, Belgium’s central position is a genuine perk: the SNCB under-26 Train+ card costs around €4 a month and takes 40% off rail fares across the country, and from Brussels you reach Paris and Amsterdam in two hours, London and Cologne not much more. Second, the weather is grey and wet for a good part of the year, much like the rest of the Benelux - the students who thrive build routines, join a praesidium, and make the most of the long light summer term. There is also a large, well-settled international community and active student societies for many nationalities, so you will rarely be the only one far from home.

Careers - the EU institutions and a deep specialist economy

A Belgian degree opens onto a job market with one feature no other country can match: the European Union itself. Brussels hosts the European Commission (over 30,000 staff), the Parliament, the Council, the External Action Service, dozens of EU agencies, NATO and more than a thousand international organisations, NGOs, law firms and think tanks. The classic entry route is the Commission’s Blue Book traineeship, a five-month paid placement of around €1,500 a month, run twice a year and open to graduates, followed for permanent roles by the EPSO selection competition, where a Belgian degree, two EU languages and a traineeship make a strong profile. For anyone aiming at European law, policy or diplomacy, studying on the institutions’ doorstep is a structural head start.

Outside the EU bubble, Belgium runs a deep, specialist economy. It is a European pharma and biotech hub, where UCB, Janssen, Galapagos and the cluster around KU Leuven and imec recruit heavily from the Flemish universities, and a serious deep-tech centre, with imec at the heart of the global semiconductor supply chain and growing AI and cybersecurity scenes in Ghent and Brussels. The EU-affairs practices of the global law firms (Allen & Overy, Linklaters, Freshfields) and consultancies (McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte) all staff large Brussels offices, and Belgian banking (KBC, BNP Paribas Fortis, ING, Belfius) absorbs business and economics graduates.

The post-study advantage for an EU citizen is decisive: you can stay and work in Belgium with no permit and no time limit, so there is no Graduate-Route clock ticking as in the UK. Graduate salaries run roughly €35,000 - €48,000 gross a year to start, higher in the EU institutions, pharma and tech; Belgian taxes are among Europe’s heaviest, but the healthcare and social system you pay into is genuinely excellent. For students weighing a policy career, our Sciences Po guide makes a useful contrast - similar ambitions, higher cost, and further from Brussels.

How College Council helps

We built College Council to take the two things that most often derail an application off your plate: language preparation and a decentralised process that is easy to get wrong. Belgium does not ask for the SAT, but every English-taught programme demands a real language score, typically IELTS 6.5-7.0 or TOEFL iBT 88-100, and our TOEFL app runs full TOEFL iBT practice tests with AI-graded speaking and writing feedback, the closest thing to a real exam you can do from home. If your plan also spans the US or one of the European universities that accept it, our SAT app runs the full digital SAT with adaptive practice; see our list of European universities that accept the SAT.

Beyond the apps, the hard part of a Belgian application is judgement under a system with no central platform: which language to study in, which of two regions to apply through, how to time the Wallonia equivalence, and how to read each university’s own deadlines. Register on College Council and you get the whole map in one place - we hold every university, the admission requirements and how to get in, the same dataset that powers this guide. Create your account or check your chances and start from a realistic, sourced shortlist rather than a browser full of tabs.

Frequently Asked Questions

Summary - is Belgium right for you?

Belgium is the value choice of Western Europe with a genuine top-250 university attached. Few countries put this much research quality at this little cost: KU Leuven at QS #60 for about €1,181 a year, four universities in the QS top 250, EU tuition of €835 - €1,157, and an all-in EU budget that can dip below €10,000 in a town like Ghent. Layer on Brussels, the only student city on the continent inside walking distance of the EU institutions and NATO, plus a central position from which the whole of Western Europe is two hours away, and the case writes itself for the right candidate.

Be clear-eyed about the limits, though. The English-taught bachelor’s choice is narrow, the country is split into two systems you have to navigate by language, the Wallonia equivalence is a bureaucratic trap if you start it late, and medicine is gated by a brutal entrance exam. But if you want a serious European degree at a reasonable price, the EU institutions on your doorstep, and a master’s-level menu taught in English, Belgium belongs high on your list. The work starts with one decision, which language, and everything else follows from it.

Next Steps

1. Decide your language of study - English (mostly master’s), Dutch (Flanders) or French (Wallonia). This single choice determines your universities, deadlines and certificates.
2. Start the Wallonia equivalence early if you are applying in French - it is the most common cause of delay; read our matura conversion guide first.
3. Book your language test - most English-taught programmes want IELTS 6.5-7.0 or TOEFL iBT 88-100; prepare in our TOEFL app.
4. Map the money - EU tuition plus living, or for non-EU students the international fee, the €4,175 supplement and the visa proof-of-funds; budget for the cheapest city you would be happy in.
5. Register on College Council - we hold every university, the admission requirements and how to get in. Create your account or check your chances and build a realistic shortlist.

Read Also

• Study in the Netherlands: complete guide for international students - far more English-taught bachelor’s programmes
• Study in France: complete guide for international students - the lowest public tuition in Western Europe
• Study in Germany: complete guide for international students - tuition-free public universities
• KU Leuven: detailed guide for international applicants - Belgium’s flagship in depth
• Scholarships for European universities - Erasmus Mundus, national grants and more

Sources and Methodology

University rankings are drawn from the QS World University Rankings 2026 and cross-checked against College Council’s Atlas dataset of Belgian higher-education institutions. High-stakes current-cycle figures (tuition, visa rules, proof of funds, deadlines) were verified against official Flemish, Wallonia-Brussels Federation and Belgian government sources in June 2026. EU and non-EU fees differ sharply and are indexed yearly, so always confirm the exact figure on the relevant university and consulate pages for your intake year.

1. QS / TopUniversities - QS World University Rankings 2026 (KU Leuven #60, Ghent #162, UCLouvain #191, ULB #227, Antwerp #280, VUB #294, Liège #379, Hasselt #597)
2. Study in Flanders - Tuition fees (EU/EEA ~€1,157; non-EEA €2,300 - €9,500)
3. KU Leuven - Tuition fees (€1,181.40 for a 60-credit year, EEA citizens, 2025/26)
4. UCLouvain - Registration-fee amount (French-Community standard fee ~€835)
5. ULB - Tuition fees (standard fee plus the €4,175 non-EU supplement under ARES rules)
6. Belgian Immigration Office (IBZ) - National entries (Visa D) (Type D student visa; proof of means €1,062/month for 2026/27)
7. European Commission - Blue Book Traineeship programme (paid five-month traineeship, monthly grant indexed yearly, around €1,500/month)
8. Reuters / Clarivate - Europe’s Most Innovative Universities (KU Leuven, repeat leader)
9. College Council - Atlas higher-education dataset (Belgian HEI rankings, location and programme data) and internal advising experience with international applicant families