Jesuit monastery (Faculty of Business and Economics) This former Jesuit monastery will always evoke memories of the pioneering stage of State University Limburg, now called Maastricht University. In 1974, the first fifty students of the country’s 8th Faculty of Medicine began taking classes here, even two years before the university officially opened its doors on 9 January 1976. The history of the monastery building, however, dates back to 1852, when after an absence of two centuries the Jesuits returned to Maastricht to found a theological faculty, the Canisianum. The exterior of the current building mainly dates from 1939, when a major remodeling of the Jesuit monastery took place. The university first used this building to house its medical faculty, while the chapel served as its auditorium. As of 1985, the building houses the Faculty of Business and Economics. The well-known local architect Jo Coenen has added a lecture hall with 500 seats and a large student dining hall, while he also moved the main entrance to the basement. In 2002 the building was again remodeled: the colors of the interior were changed and more lecture halls were added.