By giving their West-Flemish students the possibility to complete their first two to three years in Kortrijk, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) offers them a smaller, easier to manage environment, where teaching is done in smaller groups allowing closer interaction with academic staff. Leuven also benefits as more students in Kortrijk means lesser students in the chronically overcrowded first year lectures in Leuven. Students that have completed the first two to three bachelor years will still move to Leuven (or to any other university, for that matter) to specialize further in their master years but by then they will be more mature, confident and up to the challenge.