Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) is the international Honours College of Leiden University, offering an innovative and cutting edge Liberal Arts & Sciences programme to highly talented and motivated students from all over the world. LUC is located in The Hague.

Leiden University College The Hague's campus is right next to The Hague Central Station.

Find your home away from home at LUC! The LUC community consists of 600 students of whom 400 - those in their first and second years - live in the college building. Approximately 45 different nationalities are represented amongst students. By interacting with your peers, learning continues outside…

Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) is the international Honours College of Leiden University and offers an innovative Liberal Arts & Sciences undergraduate programme to highly talented and motivated students from all over the world.

Twenty-two year old student of Leiden University College The Hague, Sara Kemppainen on her role as European Union Delegate at the G(irls)20 Summit, founder of WIL, UWC Alumni, Summit Coordinator and Bachelor student committed to bringing human welfare to the center of tech policy.

Instead of feasting on one of the many Easter meals or enjoying the sun on Scheveningen Beach, a delegation of Leiden University College The Hague students spend last week on the preparations for hosting the UCSRN Sports Tournament. On a sunny Easter Monday, University College students from 8 different…

Leiden University College The Hague celebrates a milestone by seeing its 1000th graduate receive their diploma.

On 5 February 2020, Leiden University College celebrated the graduation of its Class of 2019 ½. Referencing Aladdin’s ‘A Whole New World’, Dean Judi Mesman praised the graduates’ achievement and encouraged them to pursue new horizons on their journey that has just took off.

Leiden University College The Hague is one of the best university colleges in the Netherlands

The Executive Board has appointed Professor Judi Mesman Dean of Leiden University College The Hague with effect from 1 July 2016. The Board of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences congratulates Judi Mesman with this appointment.

Video projections in contemporary art are convincing not because they depict reality, but because they show new possibilities within that reality. Artist Sophie Ernst demonstrates this in a thesis and an exhibition. She defends her PhD on 8 December.

Leiden University College is buzzing with life again. On 13 August, this year’s new crop of students moved into their rooms. For more than two hundred first-year students, LUC will be their home for the next three years. On the occasion of ‘moving day’, we spoke with three of them.

The girls and boys from the Schilderswijk in The Hague were very keen to learn. On 20 May, 25 pupils from the Saturday school, the Schilderswijk University, came to Leiden University College in The Hague.

Following the United Nations Day of peace the kick off of World Class The Hague 2019-2020 took place at Museon, The Hague. World Class is a forum for discussion where selected students from various institutions across The Hague are given the opportunity to visit international institutions, engage in…

The Faculty of Science grants two C.J. Kok awards each year: the C.J. Kok Public Award, also known as the award for the ‘Discoverer of the Year’, and the C.J. Kok Jury Award, the award for the best PhD thesis from the past year.

The Minister of Education, Culture, and Science Ingrid van Engelshoven revealed on Thursday 13 June 2019 which projects will receive funding from the Students-4-Students Campaign. She made the announcement at Pulchri Studio in The Hague. Leiden University College The Hague was one of the seven educational…

Leiden University College The Hague received the 'Top rated Programme' seal from the Keuzegids Universiteiten 2020 (Dutch University Guide). It is the seventh time in a row the Liberal Arts & Sciences programme focusing on Global Challenges is awarded the honorary seal.

Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) is celebrating its fifth anniversary. This English-language programme with on-campus teaching for excellent students has proved to be a great success. On Saturday 10 October, the LUC will be celebrating in Diligentia Theatre in The Hague with numerous speakers,…

With the end of the year coming to a close, it is time for a celebration. Twenty driven lecturers, among them 5 academic staff members of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs in The Hague, were awarded their Senior Teaching Qualification by Vice- Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl.

On 11-13 November, Dr. Joris Larik, Assistant Professor for Comparative, EU, and International Law at LUC The Hague, took part in the inaugural Paris Peace Forum. The Forum is a new annual gathering focused on tackling global challenges through international cooperation launched by French President…

Social entrepreneur, Co-Founder of 'Women in Innovation and Leadership' and LUC student. In a recent article published by German news outlet 'Bento' third year student in Governance, Economics and Development Jennifer Pfister spoke about her role as a social entrepreneur and student at LUC.

Last week, Dr. Joris Larik, Assistant Professor of Comparative, EU and International Law at Leiden University College and convener of the International Justice major, gave a presentation at the Second World Meeting of Societies for International Law at the Peace Palace in The Hague.

The Water Resources and River Management course (300-level) took a day long field trip to exotic… South Holland! Here students were able to examine a variety of ways in which densely populated deltas confront issues related to water management and flooding, from a Dutch perspective.

UNPLASTIC, a research project by Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) won the Dopper Changemaker Challenge 2019. LUC student Roos Kolkman represented UNPLASTIC during the semi-finals on Saturday.

Tessa van de Rozenberg and Daudi van Veen won the Synergy Award last month during a yearly conference of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The PhD - candidates from Leiden University College The Hague won the prize for their idea to develop a diagnostic tool for publishers to examine gender and ethnic…

Joris Larik Assistant Professor of Comparative, EU and International Law at Leiden University College The Hague was appointed as Secretary for a new Expert Commission on Interstate Use of Force and Humanitarian Intervention by the Dutch Foreign Minister.

Joris Larik, Assistant Professor of Comparative, EU and International Law at LUC The Hague and Convener of the International Justice major, presented his research at the Midyear Meeting of the American Society of International Law, which was hosted by Brooklyn Law School in New York City.

On 15 November 2019, Dr. Joris Larik, Assistant Professor at LUC and Convener of the International Justice major, convened a policy roundtable on “Brexit’s Next Chapter: The Revised Deal and Global Britain” .

On 6 and 7 December, the Centre for the Law of EU External Relations (CLEER), which is hosted by the T.M.C. Asser Institute, celebrated its 10th anniversary with a conference on "EU external relations: Tackling global challenges?".

Courses in English.

Studievoorlichting, Experience Evening

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.

On September 28th, LUC alumni and students gathered at the second annual edition of Inspire the Students. The event’s theme, ‘Crossing Borders’, consisted of a lecture from keynote speakers, a warm networking reception and break-out sessions. The discussion on life after LUC proved to be fruitful and…

Lezing, Studium Generale

On 5 December 2019, Judge Christine van den Wyngaert gave a guest lecture at LUC : ‘International criminal justice; A view from the Bench’.

Lezing, Studium Generale

Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) is het internationale honours college van de Universiteit Leiden. Het LUC The Hague biedt gemotiveerde en getalenteerde studenten van over de hele wereld een innovatieve Liberal Arts & Sciences bacheloropleiding.

Debat, Teach-In

Leiden University College The Hague is één van de beste university colleges van Nederland. Dat blijkt uit de jaarlijkse ranglijst in de Keuzegids Universiteiten 2016.

Het Leiden University College The Hague gaat in september 2010 van start. In de aanloop naar de opening houdt het LUCTH een open dag op maandag 7 december. Dean Chris Goto-Jones stelt het College aan u voor.

In de herfteditie van ‘@OCW’, het interne magazine van het Minsterie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap, staat "In het kader van het vak Global Citizenship geven studenten van het Leiden University College The Hague (LUCTH) les om het theoretische onderwijs met de praktijk te verbinden."

Leiden University College bruist weer van leven. Op 13 augustus trok een nieuwe lichting studenten in hun studentenkamers. Voor meer dan tweehonderd eerstejaars is LUC de komende drie jaar hun thuis. Tijdens moving day spraken we drie van hen.

Minister van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap, Ingrid Van Engelshoven maakte op donderdag 13 juni 2019 bij Pulchri Studio in Den Haag bekend welke projecten subsidie ontvangen van de Students-4-Students campagne. Het Leiden University College: The Hague was één van de zeven onderwijsinstituten die hun…

Het College van Bestuur heeft prof.dr. Judi Mesman met ingang van 1 juli 2016 benoemd tot Dean van het Leiden University College The Hague (LUC). Het bestuur van de Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen feliciteert Judi Mesman met deze benoeming.

Het Leiden University College The Hague heeft het zegel 'Topopleiding' ontvangen van de Keuzegids Universiteiten 2020. Het is de zevende keer op rij dat het Liberal Arts & Sciences-programma, dat zich richt op Global Challenges, het predicaat krijgt.

Op 5 december 2019 gaf Rechter Christine van den Wyngaert een gastcollege bij LUC getiteld: ‘International criminal justice; A view from the Bench’.

Het jaar loopt op zijn einde en het is tijd om te vieren. 20 gedreven docenten, waarvan 5 docenten van de Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs in Den Haag, kregen uit handen van vicerector Hester Bijl hun Senior Kwalificatie Onderwijs uitgereikt.

UNPLASTIC, een onderzoeksproject van het Leiden University College, heeft vorig weekend de Dopper Changemaker Challenge 2019 gewonnen. Afgelopen semester werkten LUC – studenten Roos Kolkman, Iris Iedema, Jiske van Oeffelt en Maria Clara samen met Thijs Bosker aan het initiatief over plasticvervuilling…

Op 15 November 2019 organiseerde Dr. Joris Larik, universitair docent en major convenor International Justice bij LUC een ronde tafel met als onderwerp: 'Brexit's Next Chapter: The Revised Deal and Global Britain'.

Leergierig waren ze zeker, de jongens en meisjes uit de Haagse Schilderswijk. Op 20 mei bezochten 25 leerlingen van de zaterdagschool Schilderswijk University het Leiden University College in Den Haag.