Academic years at the College are known as promotions. Each promotion is named after outstanding Europeans.
| Year | Patron | Students |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-2025 | Jacques DELORS | |
| 2023-2024 | Madeleine ALBRIGHT | 460 |
| 2022-2023 | David SASSOLI | 472 |
| 2021-2022 | Eliane VOGEL-POLSKY | 472 |
| 2020-2021 | Mário SOARES | 479 |
| 2019-2020 | Hannah ARENDT | 471 |
| 2018-2019 | Manuel MARÍN GONZÁLEZ | 468 |
| 2017-2018 | Simone VEIL | 460 |
| 2016-2017 | John Maynard KEYNES | 467 |
| 2015-2016 | Frédéric CHOPIN | 469 |
| 2014-2015 | Giovanni FALCONE and Paolo BORSELLINO | 438 |
| 2013-2014 | VOLTAIRE | 445 |
| 2012-2013 | Václav HAVEL | 441 |
| 2011-2012 | Marie SKLODOWSKA-CURIE | 435 |
| 2010-2011 | Albert EINSTEIN | 424 |
| 2009-2010 | Charles DARWIN | 402 |
| 2008-2009 | Marcus AURELIUS | 376 |
| 2007-2008 | Anna POLITKOVSKAYA & Hrant DINK | 415 |
| 2006-2007 | Nicolaus COPERNICUS | 418 |
| 2005-2006 | Ludwig VAN BEETHOVEN | 385 |
| 2004-2005 | MONTESQUIEU | 404 |
| 2003-2004 | John LOCKE | 391 |
| 2002-2003 | Bertha VON SUTTNER | 370 |
| 2001-2002 | Simon STEVIN | 365 |
| 2000-2001 | ARISTOTLE | 375 |
| 1999-2000 | Wilhelm & Alexander VON HUMBOLDT | 374 |
| 1998-1999 | Leonardo DA VINCI | 337 |
| 1997-1998 | Hendrik BRUGMANS | 326 |
| 1996-1997 | Alexis DE TOCQUEVILLE | 319 |
| 1995-1996 | Walter HALLSTEIN | 306 |
| 1994-1995 | Ramon LLULL | 296 |
| 1993-1994 | Stefan ZWEIG | 263 |
| 1992-1993 | Charles IV | 264 |
| 1991-1992 | Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART | 212 |
| 1990-1991 | Hans & Sophie SCHOLL | 145 |
| 1989-1990 | Denis DE ROUGEMONT | 200 |
| 1988-1989 | Christopher DAWSON | 204 |
| 1987-1988 | Altiero SPINELLI | 178 |
| 1986-1987 | William PENN | 177 |
| 1985-1986 | Christopher COLOMBUS | 158 |
| 1984-1985 | Madame DE STAËL | 123 |
| 1983-1984 | Jean REY | 133 |
| 1982-1983 | Joseph BECH | 122 |
| 1981-1982 | Johan Willem BEYEN | 123 |
| 1980-1981 | Jean MONNET | 131 |
| 1979-1980 | Salvador DE MADARIAGA | 140 |
| 1978-1979 | Paul-Henri SPAAK | 130 |
| 1977-1978 | Karl RENNER | 128 |
| 1976-1977 | Peter Paul RUBENS | 120 |
| 1975-1976 | Adam Jerzy CZARTORYSKI | 101 |
| 1974-1975 | Aristide BRIAND | 111 |
| 1973-1974 | Giuseppe MAZZINI | 92 |
| 1972-1973 | Richard N. COUDENHOVE-KALERGI | 59 |
| 1971-1972 | Dante ALIGHIERI | 58 |
| 1970-1971 | Winston CHURCHILL | 57 |
| 1969-1970 | William II of Orange | 49 |
| 1968-1969 | Konrad ADENAUER | 47 |
| 1967-1968 | COMENIUS | 54 |
| 1966-1967 | George C. MARSHALL | 56 |
| 1965-1966 | Thomas MORE | 52 |
| 1964-1965 | Robert SCHUMAN | 45 |
| 1963-1964 | Thomas PAINE | 48 |
| 1962-1963 | August VERMEYLEN | 46 |
| 1961-1962 | Gottfried Wilhelm LEIBNIZ | 37 |
| 1960-1961 | Saint-Simon | 38 |
| 1959-1960 | SULLY | 43 |
| 1958-1959 | Fridtjof NANSEN | 40 |
| 1957-1958 | Henry the Navigator | 40 |
| 1956-1957 | Raoul DAUTRY | 36 |
| 1955-1956 | VIRGIL | 33 |
| 1954-1955 | Alcide DE GASPERI | 36 |
| 1953-1954 | ERASMUS | 39 |
| 1952-1953 | Tomas Garrigue MASARYK | 40 |
| 1951-1952 | Juan VIVES | 30 |
| 1950-1951 | Antoine DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY | 35 |
| 1949 | Preparatory | 22 |
