908 search results for “international students” in the Student website
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Outgoing exchange coordinators
Outgoing exchange coordinators can provide you with information and advice if you are interested in going abroad as part of your Leiden University study programme.
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Career College: Challenges of an international career
Career and apply for jobs
- Take part in the National Student Survey 2026 and win great prizes!
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Take part in the National Student Survey 2025 and win great prizes!
Education
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Sustainability conference for students & PhD candidates in The Hague: apply by 1 March
Education, Research
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Sustainability Challenge: students trace plastic pellet pollution in the Port of Rotterdam
In the Port of Rotterdam, tiny industrial pellets leak into the environment, causing a form of pollution that’s hard to trace but highly persistent. Three students of the LDE Sustainability Honours Programme took on the challenge to identify sources of this pollution.
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University elections: ONS is again the biggest student party, FNV Government represents staff
Once again the ONS student party (Enterprising Leiden Students) is the biggest party in the university elections. This gives the party three seats in the University Council. The staff are represented in the UR by FNV Government, with 5 seats.
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Students: ‘We want to be the most sustainable university in the world’
The students from the Leiden University Green Office have big ambitions and have outlined their recommendations in a new Green Paper. Like being the most sustainable university in the world by 2030. Students Janey Franssen and Job Kemperman are two of the paper’s authors. How do they want to achieve…
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What we are doing to ensure our students and staff can work and study safely
In the last few days, reports have appeared in the media about security in our buildings. These have raised questions and caused concern. This is to inform you as best we can about the security of our students, staff and visitors, in response to this media coverage. We fully understand there is a need…
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Experiment: Leiden University student writes thesis with just AI tools for supervision
As an experiment, student Alicia Cai relied solely on AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude for supervision while writing her thesis. What lessons were learned?
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450 years of Leiden University: anniversary wishes from students, staff, and alumni
During the Opening of the Academic Year 2024-2025, we asked guests for their wishes and ideas for Leiden University's anniversary year in 2025.
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Join the concert of the Dutch national Student Orchestra on February 20th in the Stadsgehoorzaal Leiden
Education
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Extending your stay
Find out about the procedures for extending your stay as a student residence permit holder.
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Facilities
Leiden University encourages students to play an active role in student associations and organisations. To support student organisations in their goals and activities, the university offers a number of services and facilities via Plexus and Beehive student centres.
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NATO Chief Rutte in conversation with The Hague students: ‘I’m glad about Trump’
Wearing All Stars and ‘just’ a pair of jeans, with a backpack slung over his shoulder. It was an informal Friday afternoon with Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General, at Wijnhaven. Perched on a desk, he took questions from students in the audience.
- Join the IncLUsion board and make a difference for students with a refugee background
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The Leiden students who sailed to England during the Second World War
In a sailboat, a canoe or stowed away on a ship: during the Second World War, many Leiden students tried to cross the sea to join the Allies in Britain. ‘Soldier of Orange’ is the most famous, but who were the other ‘England voyagers’ or Engelandvaarders as they are known?
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Huge interest from prospective students (and their parents) on Bachelor’s Open Day
Presentations, city tours, themed cafés and information fairs − there was plenty to discover on the Bachelor’s Open Day last Saturday. Around 6,000 prospective students and 4,000 parents visited faculties in Leiden and The Hague to soak up the atmosphere and imagine how it would be to study at Leiden…
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The Nuance Project: Respectful dialogue about sensitive topics give students hope
Students from Leiden University have launched The Nuance Project, a platform for respectful, open-minded dialogue on divisive issues. The aim is to foster connection and understanding among people even if their viewpoints differ.
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After your studies
If you graduate or stop studying for other reasons, this will have consequences for your finances. Check which steps you need to take and what to take into account.
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Hosting Global Justice: The Netherlands and International Courts (ICJ & ICC)
Lecture, Studium Generale
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New perspective in quantum mechanics and better sleep for PhD students
Besides physics, the sleep of PhD students also benefits from Vitaly Fedoseev's PhD research. He will receive his doctorate on July 7 for his work on optomechanics within quantum mechanics. And also on a setup that eliminated the need for PhD students to push a button every hour for 72 hours.
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Students, staff and alumni to share the stage at Leiden Canal Concert
Music lovers are welcome at this free open-air concert celebrating 450 years of Leiden University, on Sunday 6 July. This special jubilee edition of the Rapenburg Canal Concert will feature a unique orchestra made up of our students, staff and alumni, performing on a floating stage.
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End of year message from the Executive Board for staff and students
With the holidays just around the corner in this dark month of December, when we light candles as a symbol of warmth and hope, we would like to take a moment to reflect on this past year. We have accomplished a great deal together but the year has been difficult at times.
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Miranda SentseFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Niek StrohmaierFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Anne PorFaculty of Humanities
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Jannemieke OuwerkerkFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Siuman Chung
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Tim SandersFaculty of Humanities
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Lysanne PostICLON
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Arjen de VettenICLON
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Carlotta RiebleFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Amer JaganjacICLON
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Eiko FriedFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Ricarda ProppertFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Laura PapeFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Dineke TigelaarICLON
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Jan AdriaanseFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Luyao HuangICLON
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Responsible alcohol consumption: 'It's good to pull together'
Anyone in Leiden wanting to join a student association has plenty to choose from. But the risk of alcohol abuse is a very real one. Leiden University, Leiden University of Applied Sciences and dozens of student associations have signed a new alcohol covenant that promises they will do their best to…
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Wanted: musical students, staff and alumni for the Leiden Canal Concert
Organisation, Social
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Community support officer bows out: ‘My face on a mug got me known’
He was a popular face in the Leiden student world and even developed his own merchandise, but all good things come to an end. After seven years, community support officer Dennis Perdok (49) is leaving this role. Last week he bid farewell to the police and to his job in Leiden’s city centre.
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Dreaming of a start-up? These students are taking the plunge: ‘Just do it and see where it goes’
Many students dream of running their own business. But where to start? The Master Honours Challenge ‘Entrepreneurship’ helps students figure things out. ‘Now I can actually go for it.’
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What do you do if your professor winks at you?
Sexual harassment was the theme of the recent annual symposium of student ambassadors to the Leiden-Bollenstreek police in collaboration with the police and the municipality. An extremely important issue to students − if the 100 places being claimed as soon as the symposium was announced was anything…
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Yenching Academy of Peking University
Bachelor, Master
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Una Europa Staff Week 2026: come together as staff and students to transform how we learn and work
Education, Research
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Tycho de GraafFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid