page_title: Royal Military Academy (Belgium)
section_title: Nationalities
hierarchical_section_title: Royal Military Academy (Belgium) / Nationalities
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Officier Koninklijke Militaire School
context_page_description: The Royal Military Academy is the military university of Belgium. The institution is responsible for the education of the officers of the four components of the Belgian defence and is located in Brussels in a building constructed by the architects Henri Maquet and Henri Van Dievoet. The courses are given in French, Dutch and English.
  The Academy comprises two faculties:
  The Faculty of Applied Sciences: Master of science in engineering sciences; comparable to the French École polytechnique
  The Faculty of Social and Military Sciences: Master in Social and Military Sciences
  The Royal Higher Institute for Defence, the highest military academic institute in Belgium is also located at the RMA campus.
context_section_description: The grand majority of the students have the Belgian nationality, but cooperation with other countries has opened up the University to other nationalities. 
  A lot of Luxemburgish officers receive their education in the University and have a long history in it.
  More recently the University received military students from Canada, Lebanon, United States, Niger, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Morocco, Tunisia and Rwanda, thanks to military cooperation, training and development programs. However, these student often belong to the social elite of their home country.
  The foreign students have, in contrast to the Belgian students, no obligation to follow the Flemish (or Dutch) language courses.
caption: The parade uniform
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