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Université de Liège
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1816 - present
Notable Alumni:
Henri Pirenne
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University of Liège, state-financed, partially autonomous, coeducational, French-language institution of higher learning in Liège, Belg., founded in 1817 under King William I of the Netherlands. Following Belgian independence (1831), the university was designated a state university in 1835. It has faculties of philosophy and letters, sciences, law (including economics and political and social sciences), medicine, veterinary medicine, and applied sciences (engineering and architecture). There are institutes of psychology and education and of physical education, and a school of business administration.

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