The University of Luxembourg is still a relatively young university having been founded in 2003. The university is located on difference campuses around Luxembourg including Belval Campus, Kirchberg Campus and Limpertsburg Campus.

The university is well-known for providing multilingual programmes in French, German and English and several master's and doctoral programmes are taught entirely in English.

There are three faculties: Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication; Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance and Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education. There are also three interdisciplinary research centres.

It is regarded as one of the most international universities in Europe with students coming from about 120 countries from around the world. All undergraduate students are expected to spend a semester abroad and the university collaborates with nearly 90 universities around the world.

It is also a research-oriented institution currently focusing on research in computational sciences, biomedicine, European law and educational sciences among other areas.