Education
No bankruptcy in the past five years.
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 85 · financial year 2025 · 4,378 filed annual accountsStaff cost per FTE in NACE division 85
741 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €63,900 | €44,500 to €83,800 | 373 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €64,900 | €54,000 to €79,100 | 313 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €74,400 | €55,200 to €82,700 | 49 |
Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 85Measured nationally: Of 108,424 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).
This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 1 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.
Spread across the country
by region and province · 18 of 33 enterprises with a registered office on file- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Flanders
This sector's balance sheets on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE division 85 · staff from the latest accounts- 1 Université Catholique de LouvainOttignies-Louvain-la-Neuve 5,468 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 ArteveldehogeschoolGhent 1,153 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 Université de NamurNamur 1,044 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 Haute Ecole Léonard de VinciSint-Lambrechts-Woluwe 599 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 Les Ecoles de l' ACISNamur 430 FTEfinancial year 2025
8 of the 11,075 companies in NACE division 85 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Netherlands (3), France (2) and Spain (1). Together they employ 151 of the division's 31,420 FTE: 0.5%, against 15% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €2.54bn awarded
- Federal transfers 265.8m amount as published
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €4.86bn paid
- EU budget €1.21bn attributed share
- EU research €2.42bn eu contribution
Insights on Education
The number of starters per 100 companies in NACE division 85 is higher than that of 84% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure.
This sector's historical share is lower than that of 91% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure.
The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 85 is 0.0%, against 0.2% for Belgium as a whole. It is computed over 10,145 scored companies.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 01-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 85329 exists.
The historical share is the share of current registrations for which a bankruptcy opening was published in the past five years. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors. The historical share is not a future bankruptcy probability.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Their number is given with the figure.
The filed-accounts figures cover the whole NACE division 85, not only NACE 85329. There are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the division's annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait.