Do you have a question about the Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges programme? Student life at Leiden University College in The Hague? Ask one of our students directly!

Ben jij een eerstejaars student, en wil jij meer naast je bachelorstudie doen? Het Honours College biedt kleinschalig onderwijs waarbij veel aandacht is voor persoonlijke ontwikkeling aan gemotiveerde bachelorstudenten. Zo kun je bijvoorbeeld je eigen onderzoek opzetten of werken aan maatschappelijke…

Associate Professor of Physical Geography Paul Hudson at Leiden University College was interviewed by TIME Magazine on the Mississippi floods that have been harassing the United States this year.

The programmes offered by the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs in The Hague are closely linked to the defining image of The Hague as a city of international justice, peace and security as well as the centre of Dutch public administration and international governance.

Research at LUC fits within the general frame of global challenges that is central to our teaching program, covering major societal issues including Peace & Justice, Diversity, Prosperity, and Sustainability.

A team led by Dr. Yannick Veilleux-Lepage (Institute of Security and Global Affairs) and Joris Larik (Leiden University College The Hague) have secured research funding from the Canadian Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces funded RWE-CAF Research Network.

Campus The Hague has forged its own identity: alongside interdisciplinarity, interaction with the city is its defining feature. ‘The campus is now a young adult. It is well beyond puberty,’ says campus chair Erwin Muller. An ambitious new strategy reveals this.

Governance and Global Affairs

In het Honours College hebben de studenten verschillende mogelijkheden. Zij kunnen kiezen voor een van de zeven facultaire trajecten, waar studenten zich kunnen verdiepen of verbreden, of in een individueel traject een eigen studieplan samenstellen. Studenten die twee bachelorstudies volgen, kunnen…

Lecture, Studium Generale

At Leiden University College The Hague you will study the global challenges of the 21st century by specializing in one of six interdisciplinary majors (BA/BSc). The flexibility of our programme allows combining academic disciplines with students from all over the world.

De vakken die het VVI aanbiedt zijn onderdeel van het bredere onderwijsprogramma van de Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid, dat programma’s aanbiedt op bachelor- (LLB) en masterniveau (LLM, Advanced Studies, PhD). Het instituut geeft een in Europa uniek MSc programma Law and Society: Governance and Global…

Eerstejaars studenten van het Leiden University College in Den Haag verzamelden 10200 stukken zwerfafval vanuit hun eigen lokale leefomgeving in het kader van het vak Global Challenge: Sustainability. Van het totaal was zo'n 52% plastic.

LUC Alumnus, Vera Kranenburg, from the Class of 2018 is admitted to the prestigious Yenching Academy. Vera has been selected as one of the Yenching Scholars in the fifth cohort at the Yenching Academy of Peking University.

The number of students at Leiden University in The Hague is growing every year. From 21 to 25 August more than a thousand new students were given an introduction to The Hague during the HOP week. From museums to embassies and from international organisations to a day at the beach: The Hague has it…

Governance and Global Affairs

Lecture, Studium Generale

Professor Simone Buitendijk, Vice-Rector Magnificus and member of the Executive Board of Leiden University, will be taking up a new position as Vice-Provost (Education) at Imperial College London on 1 August 2016.

International betrekkingen en organisaties bezien vanuit verschillende academische disciplines.

Eva is in her third year at Leiden University College The Hague, but she is also very active outside her studies. Besides Youth Ambassador of The Hague she worked for Plan Nederland and UNICEF, where she cooperated in exciting projects on a national as well as on an international level. In order to…

On 22 June 2018, Prime Minister Rutte announced that Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Professor of International Relations and Diplomatic Practices at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), together with former ministers Sybilla Dekker and Winnie Sorgdrager, will become Minister of State.

Over the summer, students – and a few members of staff – at Leiden University sent in their best photos to the University’s ‘Summer in Leiden and The Hague’ photo competition. All these summer-inspired photos are now on display in the Summer in the City photo exhibition in the University’s central administration…

Op 5 oktober aanstaande is de Kick-off van alweer het zesde PRE-jaar. 91 leerlingen van 33 scholen beginnen op die dag officieel aan hun tweejarige opleiding aan het Pre-University College.

Wijnhaven is the pride of our The Hague campus. For the first time, three faculties jointly presented their programmes in this modern building. We asked the school leavers and students why they had come to the Student for a Day experience.

On Monday 28 September, the University Council (UR) will discuss the Development Strategy and the Implementation Plan for Leiden University's Campus The Hague 2020-2030. The plan will then be put on the agenda of the meeting of the UR with the Executive Board on 12 October. After this, the plans for…

Leiden University’s Campus The Hague has published its new strategy for the next ten years. Martijn Ridderbos, Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board, and Erwin Muller, Director of Campus The Hague, presented this today to Jan van Zanen, Mayor of The Hague.

Ben jij een gemotiveerde 5 of 6 vwo’er en op zoek naar meer uitdaging naast je reguliere schoolprogramma? Nieuwsgierig naar de wereld van de wetenschap en de sfeer op een universiteit? Dan kom jij in aanmerking voor de Pre-University Classes van de Universiteit Leiden.

Leiden University College The Hague ontvangt wederom het predicaat 'Topopleiding' van de Keuzegids Universiteiten 2019.

From this autumn, students at Leiden University will be able to use the new student centre in The Hague. The building offers space for student organisations, sporting activities and support services.

The Department of Economics at Leiden Law School teaches courses in both Leiden and The Hague to more than 1700 students.

Joris Larik, Universitair docent in Comparative, EU and International Law aan het Leiden University College The Hague is door Minister Stef Blok van Buitenlandse Zaken benoemd als secretaris voor een nieuwe Commissie van Deskundigen die zich zal gaan buigen over het interstatelijk gebruik van geweld…

The Sustainable 100 is an initiative by Dutch newspaper Trouw, consisting of a list of the top 100 sustainable civil initiatives. In October of 2020, the Jonge Klimaatbeweging (Youth Climate Movement NL) became the first youth organization to win first prize. An interview with LUC Alumna and Board Member…

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The late Chuck Deely, street musician and icon of The Hague, was planned to perform during Stukafest The Hague on February 2nd. Due to his unexpected passing, the festival’s organisation has been looking for an act to bring him a tribute.

Research by Leiden University, LUMC and the Public Health Department (GGD Haaglanden) in The Hague has shown that over a quarter of the families in the city who took part in the survey experience some form of food insecurity. Some families have too little money to make a healthy meal or are worried…

During the HOP week, new students in The Hague get to know the city, their study programme and - most important of all - one another. In 2018, The HOP week looked like this!

In September 2017 the Institute of Political Science (Leiden University) will launch a new bachelor’s programme: International Relations and Organisations (IRO). It will taught in English and be based in the city of The Hague. The three-year IRO programme is aimed at international, as well as internationally-oriented…

The Municipality of The Hague called on researchers to come up with a proposal for an innovative research project on problems big cities face such as energy transition. Four of the five projects that have been granted funding come from researchers from Leiden University.

Leiden University offers a unique range of summer courses where you can broaden or deepen your knowledge or share your expertise with fellow students. The choice of academic courses is very diverse, ranging from Law, Big Data, Languages and Linguistics to Maths and Natural Sciences, Biology, Biomedical…

Thank you for your interest in doing PhD research at the Leiden Graduate School of Governance and Global Affairs.

The faculty studies current topics such as climate change, terrorism and economic crises. With her interdisciplinary approach, the faculty connects with the surrounding national and international organisations.

The Hague is the archetypal multicultural city. With a different language spoken on every street corner, this makes it a paradise for linguists such as Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade. Her book Languages of The Hague is a collection of fascinating conversations with the city’s non-native speakers.

Arun Sukumar zal in november een maand gastonderzoeker zijn bij het The Hague Program for Cyber Norms.

Leiden University and The Hague University of Applied Sciences are going to increase their teaching and research collaboration. They signed a collaboration agreement to this effect on 8 May.

This dissertation sheds light on politics, education and linguistic identity by studying the case of the College of Jerusalem, founded by the Brothers of the Christian Schools.

Leiden University, the Faculty of Humanities, the Leiden University Institute for History invites applications for a University Lectureship in Ancient History

The study association of honours education SLHC established an international commission concerned with the closer involvement of international students in the Honours Community. The language of communication will become English where possible, and more upcoming activities will be organised in The Hague…

Leiden is een echte studentenstad en heeft alles in huis om van jouw studententijd een onvergetelijke tijd te maken. En als groeiende en internationaal georiënteerde studentenstad biedt Den Haag jou een mooie mix voor een geweldige studententijd.

We zitten massaal thuis in de strijd tegen het coronavirus. Via deze pagina's proberen wij, Healthy University Leiden, de studenten en medewerkers van de Universiteit Leiden handvatten aan te reiken om in deze crisistijd op een gezonde en verantwoorde manier thuis te studeren en werken.

Pre-University Classes zijn bedoeld voor vwo-leerlingen uit de bovenbouw die meer willen en kunnen dan in het reguliere schoolprogramma wordt aangeboden. In de classes volgen de leerlingen speciale collegereeksen en maken op die manier kennis met de wereld van de wetenschap.