St John Berchmans University College, locally known as Jezuietenhuis or Lerkeveld, is an educational institution run by the European Low Countries Province of the Society of Jesus in Heverlee, outside Leuven.

[1] In 1953, a site was found for the construction of the college, and the architect Jos Ritzen was contracted to design it.

[1] In the 1960s, vocations to religious life fell dramatically in the Catholic church and they had to expand the building's usage.

[5] In 2004, the Flemish Jesuits moved 15,000 books of a collection called 'Jesuitica and Ignatiana' to the Maurits Sabbe Library of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

[6][7] The Jesuit community there also serve the local Catholic population by regularly celebrating Mass.