Leiden University is a well-respected school with 23,000 students from 110 nations, as well as and 5,500 staff.
The university, which offers 46 bachelor’s and 73 master’s programs, focuses on 11 broad disciplines: Asia; bioscience, neuroscience, and fundamentals of science; global community, historical culture, and power; health; the human life cycle; legal systems; language; political legitimacy; institutions and identities; drug development; and vascular and regenerative medicine.
Leiden University has gained inclusion in the prestigious League of European Research Universities. It also collaborates with Leiden’s Bio Science Park, which includes more than 70 specialized life science businesses.
Leiden University has produced a long list of famous scholars and statesmen, including Hugo Grotius, Christiaan Huygens, Herman Boerhaave, John Quincy Adams, Enrico Fermi, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Sixteen individuals affiliated with Leiden University have won the Nobel Prize, four have won Spinoza prizes, and a dozen have become Vici Laureates.
