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When you apply for admission, you’ll be asked to submit several documents. Read more about the required documents

Alumna Esmée Winkel, scientific illustrator and botanical artist, has been awarded a gold medal by the British Royal Horticultural Society for a series of six watercolours.

Thanks to its early civilisation and continuous mix of influences, the Muslim world has a rich and varied culture. The study of material culture, books, stories, films and increasingly television series teaches us about the structure of modern-day Muslim societies.

Find out which documents you need to apply for the MSc in Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict and Development at Leiden University: transcripts, diplomas, CV, motivation letter, references, and additional supporting materials.

Knowledge and culture subproject 4:

The ‘Locke drawings’ collection and the representation of Brazilian native peoples in global perspective

In this unique master’s programme you will first deepen your knowledge on specific areas of the world and then learn to reflect upon this in a global context.

In the master’s programme in Archaeology, you can follow courses on the archaeology of Europe, deepening your understanding of the continent’s long history.

Find out which documents you need to apply for the MSc International Politics at Leiden University: diplomas, transcripts, CV, motivation letter, recommendation letters, and supporting materials.

This dissertation together with the artworks documented in it is the result of an investigation across multiple media over a seven-year period of the cultural, artistic and spiritual legacy of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Lebensreform (Life Reform) movement.

A retrospective impact assessment of human and environmental resource usage in Late Bronze Age Mycenaean Monumental Architecture, Greece

In December 2024, the book Redressing Fundamental Rights Violations by the EU: The Promise of the ‘Complete System of Remedies', edited by Melanie Fink, was published fully open access with Cambridge University Press. The EU prides itself on having created a legal system that puts the individual at…

The International Institute of Air and Space Law, founded in 1985, collaborates with many world-class academic institutions.

Ceramics and Society in the Aegean from the 7th to the 20th century A.C. A Case Study from Boeotia, Central Greece (2003)

Research report January 2020. Supported by the lectorate ‘Music, Education and Society’, research group ‘Making in Music’, Royal Conservatoire The Hague

Exploring the value of data-driven approaches in education: collecting, analysing, and interpreting data from educational environments to improve teaching and learning outcomes.

The debate about state behaviour in cyberspace may be set in the wrong legal key.

What would a university be without its students? In 2025, we will celebrate 450 years of studying with an exhibition showcasing our students from the past centuries. How did they study in the past? And how do they study now? This outdoor exhibition will be on display from 23 April at the Hortus bota…

This project, South American population history revisited: multidisciplinary perspectives on the Upper Amazon (SAPPHIRE), investigates population dynamics in western South America on the basis of traces in the geographical, genetic, archaeological, ethnological, and linguistic record.

Find out which documents you need to apply for the MSc Dutch Politics at Leiden University, including diplomas, transcripts, translations, CV, motivation letter, recommendation letters, and supporting materials.

'Trust in institutions' is one of Leiden Law School's four research focus areas.

The research programme Formal Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics brings together LUCL researchers who focus mainly on formal theoretical and experimental linguistics.

Find out which documents you need to apply for the MSc Democracy and Representation at Leiden University: transcripts, diplomas, CV, motivation letter, references, and supporting materials.

In this project, we aim to obtain a quantitative understanding of the role of the immune system in tumor regression, of the role of tumor cell heterogeneity in cancer growth and of tumor cell migration properties.

Find out which documents you need to apply for the MSc Political Theory: Legitimacy and Justice at Leiden University, including diplomas, transcripts, CV, motivation letter and references.

See which documents are required to apply for the MSc International Organisation at Leiden University: transcripts, diplomas, CV, motivation letter, recommendation letters and supporting materials.

This lecture will be hosted on Thursday, 9 April 2026 at 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm.

See which documents are required to apply for the MSc The Politics of Artificial Intelligence at Leiden University: transcripts, diplomas, CV, motivation letter, recommendation letters and supporting materials.

Investigating the intercultural connections that shaped practices of knowledge production in colonial Dutch Brazil.

An overview of our exhibition catalogues and research monographs on the Middle Eastern collections.

The general aim of the project is a description and analysis of the Leiden anatomical collections from a humanities perspective. The project investigates how historical and cultural practices and concerns have shaped anatomical preparations and how exhibitions of the anatomical body have informed cultural…

The Leiden Centre of Data Science and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science are part of a consortium that will carry out research on making illustrated and handwritten archives digitally accessible. The project is funded by NWO.

Nienke Beets of the Leiden Hortus botanicus has won the brand new Joke 't Hart Prize for connecting nature and art. For the botanical garden in Leiden, she developed a series of colourful plant icons and an educational board game. On 20 May, the Dutch Association of Botanical Gardens (NVBT) unanimously…

Charles Melville, Professor of Persian History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Pembroke College, will be the Central Asia Visiting Professor from 20 November until 28 November 2017. Charles Melville will deliver a guest lecture on Thursday, 23 November, co-organized with LUCIS, and a masterclass…

Honours education offers students an extra challenge. In our educational testing ground, they follow their curiosity, step outside the box and prepare themselves for the future.

The catalogue includes some of the most famous early medieval manuscripts, decorated with luxury materials and exceptionally beautiful script, ornament and illustrations.

A preliminary CEFR-companion has been published.