Académie Louvain ( French pronunciation: [akademi luvɛ̃] ) was a network of French-speaking catholic universities in Belgium active between 2004 and 2015. It was formed following the Bologna process to reform higher-level education, creating a larger university structure.
33-649: The network included: The first implementation of the Académie Louvain network was the creation of the Louvain School of Management , which could unite the faculties and departments of economics , management and business of all four universities, in 5 different cities. This specific choice was made because all four member universities offered degrees in this field. It also included the ICHEC Brussels Management School ,
66-660: A PhD degree), and around 150 visiting faculty members from corporate world or other universities. The school is also affiliated with two research and development institutes, the Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organizations and Louvain Institute for Data Analysis and Modelling with over 100 active PhD and Post-Doctoral researchers. The Louvain School of Management was founded in 1897 under
99-459: A college based in Brussels . After almost three years of active collaboration within the network, the rectors of the four catholic universities decided on 12 March 2007 to open negotiations with the aim of merging the four establishments into one single university. Each site was to become a site of "UC Louvain". The merger among the four was aborted on 17 December 2010 after the ultimate vote on
132-465: A one-semester academic exchange with a 6-months internship in a foreign company. Most LSM's Master students undertake at least one term abroad as part of their studies in one of the 150 different universities who have agreement with the school. As well, most of the students do an internship of 3 to 6 months. The Louvain School of Management's alumni are grouped in the Alumni LSM association. Amongst
165-525: Is also affiliated through the University to a large number of international corporate, research and education networks such as CLUSTER or COIMBRA. In 2005 it became an autonomous part of UCLouvain and started to brand itself internationally as the Louvain School of Management. In 2006 it launched its International executive MBA. It became an independent faculty in 2010. In 2011, LSM merged with
198-443: Is also offered for foreign students with already a four- or five-year degree in management. In addition, the school proposes elective modules in different fields: finance, marketing, European business, e-commerce, human resources, tax policy, accounting and control, supply chain management, logistics and transport, digital marketing , innovation management, technological project, business data analytics, ... Executive Masters such as
231-558: Is founded, with four institutes: in addition to IRES, we find the Institute of Economics, the Institute of Applied Economics (ISEA), and the Institute of Actuarial Sciences. In 1950, the School of Political and Social Sciences and the School of Economics split from the Faculty of Law to become a fully-fledged faculty: the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences. It becomes one of the largest faculties in terms of student numbers. In 1961,
264-587: Is further reorganized several times during the 1980s and 1990s, with notably the creation of a department of sociology. Within the framework of the Bologna Process , the French Community decree of 31 March 2004 leads to the creation of bachelor's degrees for the first cycle of higher education in 2004, and master's degrees for the second cycle in 2007. In 2008, the IAG becomes autonomous under
297-691: Is ranked as best university in the world for its programmes in actuarial science . In 2016, as part of the Eduniversal Worldwide Best Master Ranking , the Master of Economics was ranking 15th in Europe and the Master of Public Administration 13th. In the QS World University Rankings by subject, the faculty is in the world's best 100 for statistics , economics and econometrics , and 94th in
330-725: Is the founding member of the arppej network, the International Research Alliance for Journalism Education and Practice. All are organised in Louvain-la-Neuve , except stated otherwise. The faculty offers master's degrees in evening classes within the Open Faculty of Economic and Social Policy (FOPES), in Louvain-la-Neuve and on the UCLouvain Charleroi campus. The faculty also offers 21 university certificates. UCLouvain
363-1396: Is the international business school of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium, founded in 1897. The faculty offers courses on the campuses of Louvain-la-Neuve , UCLouvain FUCaM Mons and UCLouvain Charleroi . The school is accredited by the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) and is the Belgian member of the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS). LSM offers Bachelor's and Master's degrees (Master in Management Science and Master in Business Engineering), PhD programs and conducts research in Economics and Management Sciences and Executive Education Programs, including an Executive Master Program in Business Administration. The core faculty comprises 55 professors (all of them having
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#1732790652745396-617: The Facultés universitaires catholiques de Mons (FUCaM) and UCLouvain , the ESPO faculty became a 'multi-site', established in Louvain-la-Neuve , Mons and Charleroi . Though strongly related, the Faculty of Economic, Social, Political and Communication Sciences (also abbreviated ESPO) of UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels , is a distinct and autonomous faculty founded in 1965, located on Saint-Louis University's main campus, in
429-717: The Financial Times in 2019 (1st position in Belgium among Masters in Management). The School is ranked #1 in Belgium by Eduniversal as the only Belgian management school with the highest rank (five palmes). In addition, the Master in Business Engineering at LSM is annually ranked in the Financial Times (70th position worldwide, three-year average 2018-2019-2020). The research activities in
462-574: The Fundação Getúlio Vargas . Other agreements, aimed at reducing the length of the studies for an MBA program at these universities for LSM graduates, have been signed with the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University . LSM also offers an International Business track allowing a full year abroad by combining
495-679: The IHECS Brussels School of Journalism in Brussels . The Louvain School of Journalism is associated with Media and Journalism Research Observatory (ORM), a research group within the UCLouvain School of Communication, and collaborates intensively with the Research Centre on Mediation ( University of Lorraine ) and the Academy of Journalism and Media ( University of Neuchâtel ). The Louvain School of Journalism
528-669: The International Executive MBA (IEMBA) are also offered. Louvain School of Management holds the international accreditation EQUIS since 2006, unconditional five-year since 2019. LSM as part of UCLouvain is a higher education institute, recognized and subsidized by decree, accredited by the Belgian agency AEQES. LSM the only Belgian school to offer the CEMS Master in International Management Program (MIM) ranked n°8 worldwide by
561-522: The Université catholique de Louvain (UCL, which has two campuses in Brussels ) decide to merge and form a new university called UCLouvain. This last merger is yet to be formally endorsed by the French Community of Belgium that organizes all state funded education, but will de facto take effect in September 2018. The Académie Louvain was formally dissolved on 26 February 2016 as a consequence of
594-473: The 20 biggest Belgian companies quoted in the BEL20 index, 7 have their CEO and/or at least one member of the board who are alumni of the Louvain School of Management. Famous alumni are: UCLouvain Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Communication The Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Communication ( ESPO ) is a faculty of the University of Louvain , located on
627-430: The Institute for Development Studies was created. In 1967, the faculty changed its name to the Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences. In 1975, when moving from Leuven to Louvain-la-Neuve , the faculty was reorganized into 9 departments. The ISEA became the Institute of Administration and Management (IAG), while communication, demography, European studies and labour sciences appear as departments. The faculty
660-697: The Institute of Economics, the future Institute of Economic and Social Research (IRES), in 1928. In 1908, the year of the transfer of Congo to the Belgian state , the School of Commercial and Consular Sciences started a degree in colonial sciences. After the First World War , it took on different names, including the École supérieure de commerce . In 1934, it was approved as a Higher Institute of Commerce ( École supérieure de commerce ) by royal decree . In 1941, Rector Van Waeyenbergh entrusted Jacques Leclercq with its reorganization. The School of Economics
693-814: The Louvain School of Management primarily active in LSM has a large network of academic partners in the world, it is notably part of the CEMS , Partnership in International Management (PIM) and the 'Consortium Linking Universities of Science and Technology for Education and Research' (CLUSTER) networks. LSM also has established double degrees agreement universities abroad, including: The University of Cologne , Aalto University School of Economics , EGADE , Norwegian School of Economics , Nova School of Business and Economics , Instituto Superior Técnico , University of Economics, Prague , Aix-Marseille University and
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#1732790652745726-576: The School of Commercial and Consular Sciences. These new schools attempt to meet the challenges of industrial, political and scientific revolutions and train those who will engage in the conduct of the economy and social life. It was for these same reasons that the École supérieure commerciale et consulaire was founded in 1896 in La Louvière . This independent institution moved to Mons in 1899, obtained university status and eventually merged with UCLouvain in 2011. Closely associated with each other,
759-625: The board of UNamur failed to attain the required 80% (30 in favour and 14 against). FUCaM merges with the Université catholique de Louvain separately on 15 September 2011 becoming the UCL Mons . In 2013, the merger process being cancelled, the FUNDP in Namur and FUSL in Brussels decide to change their names and respectively become the University of Namur and Saint-Louis University, Brussels . In 2017, Saint-Louis University, Brussels and
792-538: The campuses of Louvain-la-Neuve , FUCaM Mons and UCLouvain Charleroi . It originates in the School of Political and Social Sciences founded by Jules Van den Heuvel in Louvain in 1892. With over 6000 students, it is UCLouvain's largest faculty. In 1892 and 1897, two schools were founded within the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Louvain : the School of Political and Social Sciences and
825-459: The center of Brussels . The faculty hosts six schools, in addition to a structure of management for undergraduate programmes (SESP), and the FOPES open faculty: The UCLouvain School of Communication (COMU) organises the different degrees in information and communication studies, including two different master's degrees in journalism; the first one ('advanced studies') being focused on research, and
858-499: The department of management of the Facultés universitaires catholiques de Mons (now UCLouvain FUCaM Mons ). So far, LSM is operating on three campuses: Louvain-la-Neuve , Mons and Charleroi . Negotiations for a full merger with two other universities, the Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (FUNDP) located in Namur and the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis (FUSL) located in Brussels , were halted in 2012, however
891-550: The latter ( UCLouvain Saint-Louis - Bruxelles ) has de facto integrated UCLouvain in 2018, fully merged by September 2023. The Louvain School of Management offers the following main graduate programs in French or English: The Master in Business Engineering and the Master in Management Science include the following specialised tracks: A one-year, 75 ECTS version of the Master in Business Engineering and Master in Management
924-667: The management faculty are carried out mainly in three research institutes of UCLouvain . The Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organizations is organized in four research groups: The Louvain Institute for Data Analysis and Modelling is producing management research within The Institute for the Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies is a larger institute with faculty from
957-502: The name "école des sciences commerciales et consulaires" as a department of UCLouvain. In 1972 it became the "Institut d'Administration et de Gestion" (lAG), under the Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Communication . In 1989 the School started to offer a systematic exchange program. It is a member since 1989 of the CEMS network and since 1990 of the PIM network. It
990-474: The name of Louvain School of Management , which two years later become a fully separate faculty. In 2010, on the occasion of the internal reform of the UCLouvain, which separates teaching and research activities, the faculty became the Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Communication. The faculty's researchers integrate different research institutes. In 2011, following the merger between
1023-755: The new legislation for the higher education in French-speaking Belgium, the Décret Paysage (also known as the Décret Marcourt ). The merger plan partially succeeded as the original UCL, FUSL and FUCaM still merged in a single institution called UCLouvain. Practical collaborations of the Académie Louvain are still in place, as for example all 20 libraries work in a single network called BORéAL (Bibliothèque On-Line du Réseau de l'Académie Louvain). Louvain School of Management The Louvain School of Management (LSM, formerly IAG)
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1056-629: The second one being the Louvain School of Journalism ( École de journalisme de Louvain , abbreviated EjL) degree, which is part academic and part practical. The Louvain School of Journalism also includes classes at the IAD film school in Louvain-la-Neuve ( Institut des arts de diffusion ). In addition to this, the Louvain School of Journalism offers a double master's degree in Press and Information and another double master's degree in Media Literacy with
1089-401: The two schools of UCLouvain will not stop reinventing and reorganizing themselves over time to keep pace with the changes in society and the development of the human and social sciences. They will be reorganized into different institutes, schools, faculties, departments (among others), focused on both practical teaching and advanced research. The latter was notably materialized by the creation of
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