A Green and Inspiring City Campus in Hasselt

Discover how Hasselt is growing into a vibrant student city, where education, heritage, green space, and encounters reinforce each other. During this fascinating walk, we discover how Hasselt's city center and its surroundings are increasingly forming an attractive campus for university and college students. We start at the Refugehuis van Herkenrode and the Oude Gevangenis, where the Law and Sociale Wetenschappen study programs have found their home today. Next, we walk to the Beguinage, a unique historic site that provides an inspiring environment for the Architecture and Art study programs. Our route also takes us past the Hoebanxkazernesite, which will house the Faculty of Business Economics from 2027 onwards. In this way, a historic piece of Hasselt is given a new future as a vibrant educational environment. Via de Elfde-Liniecampus we head towards the green Kapermolen Park. Here, PXL students find not only space to study, but also to exercise, relax, and meet each other. The campus thus forms a wonderful connection between education and a pleasant, green living environment. At the head of Elfde-Liniestraat, along Boudewijnlaan, important connections also converge: on the one hand with the city center, and on the other hand with the Campus Diepenbeek. During the walk, we discover a Hasselt in full development. Not only are new student facilities and modern ‘student housing infrastructure’ springing up, but existing and sometimes vacant townhouses are also being given a new purpose as attractive learning and meeting places. A walk past historical places, green campus spaces, and new educational environments that together tell the story of Hasselt as a city of knowledge, encounters, and youthful dynamism.