The Pre-master’s programme is a programme designed to help students achieve the requirements by removing deficiencies for admission in the Master’s programmes offered by the Institute of Public Administration.

The pre-master’s programme helps students remove deficiencies to meet the admission requirements to the History master’s programme.

Choosing a master’s programme can be quite a challenge. A master offers academic expansion of knowledge and will allow you to develop the skills you need to be successful on the labour market or in scientific research. Are you struggling to choose a master’s programme? The information on these pages…

Looking for a master's degree to follow up your bachelor's degree? With a choice of over 80 master's programmes and 200 specialisations, you will always find a master's degree that suits your area of ​​interest at Leiden University. During your master's porgramme, you will be educated to become a committed…

Looking for a master's degree to follow up your bachelor's degree? With a choice of over 80 master's programmes and 200 specialisations, you will always find a master's degree that suits your area of ​​interest at Leiden University. During your master's porgramme, you will be educated to become a committed…

On 1 June 2022, Bruno Braak defended his thesis entitled 'Overcoming ruptures: Zande identity, governance, and tradition during cycles of war and displacement in South Sudan and Uganda (2014-2019).' The doctoral research was supervised by Prof.dr. J.M. Otto, Dr.ir. C.I.M. Jacobs, and Dr. C. Leonardi…

Are you planning to take a master’s degree programme in Psychology? And have you completed a Dutch HBO (University of Applied Sciences) or WO (academic) bachelor’s degree in a related field? Then the one-year pre-master’s programme in Psychology could be the right option for you.

Find out how to apply for Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences and Science Communication and Society at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.

Find out how to apply for Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences and Education at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.

Find out how to apply for Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences and Business Studies at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.

Find out how to apply for BioTherapeutics at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide. NOTE: This specialisation will be integrated into the new specialisation ‘’Research in Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences’’ as of September 2025.

Find out how to apply for ICT in Business at Leiden University by following our step-by-step-guide. NOTE: in September 2025 this master programme will become _Computer Science and Business Studies_, i.e., a new Business Studies specialisation of the existing master Computer Science programme. The curriculum…

Find out how to apply for ICT in Business and the Public Sector at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide. Note: in September 2025 this master programme will become _Computer Science and Business Studies_, i.e., a new Business Studies specialisation of the existing master Computer Science…

Find out how to apply for ICT in the Public Sector at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide. Note: in September 2025 this master programme will become _Computer Science and Business Studies_, i.e., a new Business Studies specialisation of the existing master Computer Science programme.…

Find out how to apply for Bio-Pharmaceuticalr Sciences at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.

Find out how to apply for System Biomedicine and Pharmacology at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide. NOTE: This specialisation will be integrated into the new specialisation ‘’Research in Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences’’ as of September 2025.

Find out how to apply for Drug Discovery and Safety at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide. NOTE: This specialisation will be integrated into the new specialisation ‘’Research in Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences’’ as of September 2025.

In the Governance of Sustainability programme students will learn to become a future ‘change agents’ who can develop and inform governance solutions to complex environmental sustainability challenges.

The remains of Dutch East India Company forts are scattered throughout littoral Asia and Africa. But how important were the specific characteristics of European bastion-trace fortifications to early modern European expansion?

This page provides information to support your application for the Master's programme of Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Advanced Master study programmes at Leiden Law School. Intensive one year education programmes that provides many opportunities for our talented students.

The Master History (study load 60 EC) offers you the chance to determine a study based on your own particular interests and ambitions.

Find out how to apply for one of Leiden University’s master's programmes by following our step-by step guide in the application and admission section. We look forward to receiving your application!

The aim of the project is to unravel the genetic and contact relations between the indigenous languages of Mesoamerica (Mexico and western Central America) and the Middle Andes region (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia), as part of a larger endeavor to understand the historical process of the peopling of the Americas…

What are the conditions under which coercive diplomacy can compel a State to abandon its controversial nuclear (weapons) program? Based on the experience of the US coercive diplomacy against the nuclear programs of three countries, namely Iran, Libya and South Africa, Jean Yves Ndzana’s PhD research…

How can historical archive sources by non-elite groups help us understand modern-day politics in South Asia? This is one of the main themes of Prof. Nira Wickramasinghe’s inaugural lecture on 14 March.

Find out how to apply for Physics and Education at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.

Find out how to apply for Physics at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.

Find out how to apply for Foundations of Computing at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.

Find out how to apply for Chemistry at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.

Find out how to apply for Computer Science at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.

Find out how to apply for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.

Find out how to apply for Evolutionary Biology at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.

Find out how to apply for Mathematics and Education at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.

Find out how to apply for Bioinformatics at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.

Find out how to apply for Biology at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.

Find out how to apply for Mathematics at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.

Find out how to apply for Astronomy at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.

Find out how to apply for Life Science & Technology at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.

Find out how to apply for Applied Mathematics at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.