Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) is a small

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college part of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of

Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince o ...

. The institution's curriculums focus on tackling

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, such as peace and justice, sustainability, prosperity and diversity. The college is located in a single building besides the Den Haag Centraal Railway Station in

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. The college has a residential concept in which students typically live on campus for the first two years of the programme.

Programme

The first year of the study programme consists of foundational classes in global challenges and skills such as academic writing and statistics. After the first year, students specialise in one of six majors which will determine their degree: * Culture, History, Society ( BA) * International Justice (BA) * World Politics (BA) * Earth, Energy and Sustainability (

BSc A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University ...

) * Global Public Health (BSc) * Governance, Economics and Development (BSc) Afdeling Den Haag van de Universiteit Leiden

Accreditation and rankings

The programme is accredited by the

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(NVAO). As Leiden University College The Hague is part of Leiden University, it does not participate in international rankings on its own. The study programme has been awarded a "top rated programme" seal by Dutch education evaluator Keuzegids. In 2021, Keuzegids ranked LUC The Hague as the highest rated university college and the third highest rated bachelor's programme in the Netherlands.

Notable staff

Some faculty of LUC The Hague are notable for their achievements in academia, journalism, law or politics. *

Giles Scott-Smith Giles Scott-Smith (born 1968, in High Wycombe, United Kingdom) is Dutch-British academic. He is a professor of transnational relations and new diplomatic history at Leiden University and serves as the dean of Leiden University College The Hague ...

, Dean and Professor Transnational Relations and New Diplomatic History *

Aernout van Lynden Carel Diederic Aernout baron van Lynden (born 31 December 1954) is a Dutch-British journalist with over twenty years experience as a war correspondent in the Middle East, Northern Ireland and the Balkans. Career Lynden began his journalism car ...

, former war correspondent *

Jet Bussemaker Mariëtte "Jet" Bussemaker (born 15 January 1961) is a retired Dutch politician. A member of the Labour Party (PvdA), she served as Minister of Education, Culture and Science from 5 November 2012 to 26 October 2017 in the Second Rutte cabinet. ...

, former Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science and Professor Science, Policy and Societal Impact in Healthcare The college also has several Distinguished Fellows, who are not employed full-time at the institution but contribute to the programme via guest lectures, thesis supervision and advice. *

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer Jakob Gijsbert "Jaap" de Hoop Scheffer ; born 3 April 1948) is a Dutch politician and diplomat of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and jurist who served as Secretary General of NATO from January 2004 to August 2009. De Hoop Scheffer ...

, former Dutch politician, former Secretary-General of

NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two No ...

, and Professor Emeritus of International Relations and Diplomatic Practice * Dan Saxon, former prosecutor at the United Nations

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to try their perpetrators. The tribunal ...

(ICTY) in The Hague

References

External links

Official website
Leiden University Liberal arts colleges at universities in the Netherlands Educational institutions established in 2010 Organisations based in The Hague 2010 establishments in the Netherlands {{Netherlands-university-stub