http://www.hec.ulg.ac.be - Joining the HEC-Management School in Belgium means joining a large community of real people who share the same enthusiasm to work towards European excellence:

2,300 students making up one of the University of Liege's eleven faculties. 1,300 undergraduate students, more than 1,000 students studying for a Master or an Executive Degree outside working hours, and 70 doctoral students;

• 260 members of the academically, scientifically, and professionally qualified Faculty staff, and 50 administrative and School management personnel;
• 13,000 alumni working all over the world;
• On-going partnerships with the business world through the Governance Council, the Groupe des Entreprises pour HEC, numerous research and teaching Chairs and HEC Liege Executive School.
• At the crossroads of the European historical axis of Brussels, Luxemburg and Frankfurt and the economic and logistical axis of Antwerp and Paris, at the historical crossroads of German and Latin cultures, HEC-ULG Management School is developing a European identity and sending the region of Liege out into the world.

HEC-ULG Business School invites you to share its ambition founded on Peaks of Excellence, on Platforms of Transfer and Development and on its Training Programs:

Six Peaks of Excellence ensure the coherence of Academic Research, Teaching, and Socio-Economic Expertise: Asset & Risk Management; Social Enterprises and the Social Economy; Economic Analysis and Public Governance; Supply Chain Management and Quantitative Methods; Tax Institute; Human Resources Management and Organizational Change.

Transversal Platforms to embrace major societal challenges - Creativity (ID-Campus), Strategic Intelligence, Sustainable Strategy or Hospital Management - by crossing competencies transversally inside and outside the boundaries of the School and Educational Resources Platforms designed to foster pedagogical innovation.

Its trilingual training programs feature above all a project-based approach to learning and teaching centered on personal development and a broad selection of original specializations in Management and in Economics at the highest European level. 

Thomas FROEHLICHER

Director-General and Dean 

HEC-ULG Management School

The University of Liège may not have a long past, but it does have a long history and profound roots.  This may be its best possible guarantee of success as it resolutely turns to the future. The University of Liège has all the assets necessary to become a leading European and even world university : a pluralistic vocation; an openness to today's political, social, technological and industrial realities and those of tomorrow; active involvement in international and European research programmes as well as those facilitating the mobility of  students and researchers; and a commitment to the development of student-centred learning.

International university

Located in the heart of Europe, where the Euregio-Meuse-rhine axes converge, one of the University of Liège's main priorities is to open itself to the world.  This determination is manifest in a series of concrete initiatives which have brought together more than six hundred partners in Europe and throughout the World. Read more.

History

The reputation of the medieval schools of Liège was such that the city became known as the New Athens. The list is impressive indeed : the College of the Brethern of the Common Life, the College of Jesuits, the Schools of Higher Learning founded by Prince-Bishop Velbruck, the English Academy, and the Imperial Academy (under Napoleon).  The founding of the University of Liège in 1817 by Wilhem the First of Orange was the culmination of a long intellectual tradition going back to the inception of the Principality of Liège. Read more on the history