Facts and figures
The key facts and figures about Leiden University from its Annual Report for 2018.
- 2
- Cities: Leiden and The Hague
- 1575
- Foundation year
- 16
- Nobel Prizes
- Top 100 university
- Ranking
Teaching
- 29,542
- Students
- 47
- Bachelor's programmes
- 79
- Master's programmes
- 4.0 (bachelor); 3.9 (master)
- Student satisfaction (NSE, scale 0-5)
- 6,169
- Incoming bachelor's students
- 5,304
- Incoming master's students, 29% foreign nationals
- 129
- Nationalities
Student success
- 3,845
- Bachelor's degrees
- 4,181
- Master's degrees
- 15%
- Drop-out rate after first year of bachelor's degree
- 109,000
- Registered alumni
Research
- 2,510
- FTE researchers
- 6,413
- Academic publications
- 447
- PhDs awarded
Staff
- 6,700
- Staff members
- 4,274
- FTE
- 1,638
- FTE academic staff members
- 774
- FTE PhD candidates
- 32%
- Women in higher academic roles
- 29%
- Female professors
- 32%
- Temporary academic staff with government funding
Income
- € 385 m
- Government funding
- € 68 m
- Tuition fees
- € 51 m
- NWO, Zon MW and KNAW
- € 40 m
- EU, including ERC
- € 97 m
- Other sources of income: contract research, etc.
- € 652 m
- Total budget