The College of Europe (Collège d'Europe), established in 1949 following the historic Congress of The Hague of 1948 by European founding figures including Winston Churchill, Salvador de Madariaga, Paul-Henri Spaak, and Alcide De Gasperi, is globally recognized as the preeminent postgraduate institute of European affairs and diplomacy. Operating across three iconic campuses—the flagship Bruges campus in Belgium, the Natolin campus in Warsaw, Poland (established in 1992), and the Tirana campus in Albania (inaugurated in 2024)—the College provides an intensive bilingual (English and French) residential postgraduate immersion. Its specialized one-year master's programs in European Economic Studies, European Law (LL.M.), EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies, European Political and Governance Studies, European Interdisciplinary Studies, European Transformation and Integration, and a two-year Master of Arts in Transatlantic Affairs (joint with the Fletcher School at Tufts University) serve as the world's premier training ground for European commissioners, ambassadors, ministers, judges of the Court of Justice of the European Union, and international civil servants.

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