Education
No bankruptcy in the past five years.
Filed accounts
NACE 85402 · financial year 2025 · 36 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 63.8% | 65.5% | 63.8% | 63.9% | 61.5% | 62.9% |
| Median net result | €1.5m | €444,807 | €267,239 | €255,803 | €325,870 | €960,155 |
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Spread across the country
by region and province · 60 of 68 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Brussels
- Wallonia
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 85 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 85402 as first main activity · 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 VinciWoluwe-Saint-Lambert 599 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 Thomas More Mechelen-AntwerpenMechelen 259 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 18 companies- 152 Subsidised private schools 7
- 225 White-collar workers in subsidised private schools 7
- 152.01 Subsidised private schools 5
- 225.01 White-collar workers in subsidised private schools 5
- 152.02 Subsidised private schools 2
- 225.02 White-collar workers in subsidised private schools 2
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 1
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 1
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- 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 1
- 332 French- and German-speaking welfare and health sector 1
- 335 Services and support for business and the self-employed 1
- 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 85: Education
Related activities
2 other activitiesBankruptcies per year in division 85
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 27 | 36 | 33 | 49 | 48 | 50 | 29 | 47 | 59 | 62 | 62 | 63 |
| Jobs lost | 35 | 50 | 61 | 102 | 81 | 122 | 55 | 150 | 119 | 107 | 111 | 108 |
2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.
Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 85
741 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €63,500 | €44,500 to €83,400 | 375 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €64,800 | €54,000 to €78,300 | 311 |
| 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 108,642 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 8 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.
8 of the 11,081 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 27,952 FTE: 0.5%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €2.52bn awarded
- Federal transfers 257.0m amount as published
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €4.68bn paid
- EU budget €1.21bn attributed share
- EU research €2.43bn EU contribution
Insights on Education
Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €960,155 is above Belgium's €16,500. Liquidity of 4.67 is above Belgium's 1.66. Return on equity of 4.5% is below Belgium's 15.9%.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.0% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 31.7 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. Brussels holds 36.4% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. 11.8% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.
Staff and filing. 15.0% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 8,522 of the 9,095 FTE: 93.7%.
Direction. The median net result fell from €1.5m in financial year 2020 to €960,155 in financial year 2025.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 08-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 85402 exists.
The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.
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 "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,474 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,509 registrations publish no activity.
Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the 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. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.