Facts and figures
The key facts and figures about Leiden University from its Annual Report for 2024.
- 2
- Cities: Leiden and The Hague
- 1575
- Foundation year
- 16
- Nobel Prizes
Teaching
- 33,839
- Students
- 48
- Bachelor's programmes
- 83
- Master's programmes
- 111
- Courses for professionals
- 3.9 (bachelor) | 3.8 (master)
- Student satisfaction (NSE, scale 0-5)
- 6,322
- Incoming bachelor's students, 23% foreign nationals
- 6,559
- Incoming master's students, 36% foreign nationals
- 120
- Nationalities
Student success
- 5,522
- Bachelor's degrees
- 5,150
- Master's degrees
- 15%
- Drop-out rate after first year of bachelor's degree
- 156,000
- Registered alumni
Research
- 2,875
- FTE researchers
- 6,245
- Academic publications
- 514
- PhDs awarded
Staff
Apart from the percentage of female professors, all figures in this section exclude Faculty of Medicine/LUMC
- 6,413
- Staff members
- 5,378
- FTE
- 2,043
- FTE academic staff members
- 963
- FTE PhD candidates
- 37%
- Women in higher academic roles
- 34%
- Female professors
- 11%
- Temporary academic staff with government funding
Income
- € 549 m
- Government funding
- € 102 m
- Tuition fees
- € 74 m
- NWO, Zon MW and KNAW
- € 50 m
- EU, including ERC
- € 200 m
- Other sources of income: contract research, etc.
- € 974 m
- Total budget