Monday, March 17, 2014

KU Leuven

Apart from the primary campus located in Leuven, this university also has a satellite campus in several other cities. KU Leuven extends to cities like Antwerp, Brussels, Ostend, Geel, Aalst, Ghent, Bruges, Diepenbeek, and Sint-Katelijne-Waver. The university recently began several English programs on the campus and is ranked 58 amongst the best universities worldwide. Primarily a research based university; KU Leuven has successfully ranked high in Europe and across the world. Being ranked the 13th best university in Europe, KU Leuven Law School also ranked 25th in the world. Most programs and faculties in the university are taught in Dutch except a select few in English. About 6,700 students in the KU Leuven are foreign nationals.

Karolinska Institutet

A majority of the accredited medical courses conducted at Karolinska are done in Swedish. Doctorate level projects however are mostly conferred in English. Solna campuses (Karolinska Hospital and Karolinska Institute) together host 15 departments of research, in the fields of Neuroscience, Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Oncology-Pathology, Public Health Sciences, Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics and Environmental Medicine to name a few. The Huddinge campus offers 6 departments of research. Ph.D. students can seek accreditations from the departmental director of doctoral education

King’s College London


The college is organized into 9 distinct academic schools scattered across campuses in central London and south London. Considered one of the biggest research centers for medical teaching and biomedicine for both graduate and postgraduate study, King’s College London is accredited with 6 MRC (Medical Research Council) centers, the highest for all British universities. It rakes in an annual income of £554 million, a significant section from contracts and research grants. The college is amongst the best universities in the world and is the leading choice for Marshall Scholars. It currently ranks sixth in the UK and 38th worldwide.