Leiden Leadership Programme

Application and selection

Applications for 2024-2025 have closed. Below you find more information about next year's application procedure.

Selection criteria

For the LLP we are looking for a group of students from a variety of disciplines and different interests that recognise themselves in the following:

You are doing your master’s degree at Leiden University, Delft Technical University, or Erasmus University Rotterdam during the entire academic year;
Your schedule allows you to take part in an intense extra programme in addition to your regular master’s classes;
You have the ambition and the motivation to learn more about leadership (practice as well as theory);
Societal themes interest you. You are willing to look beyond your own discipline, and you want to work with students from different professional fields;
You are eager to make a concrete difference with other students within an organisation.
You are willing to critically reflect on your own development;
You have received good marks during your bachelor’s degree (>7,0 out of 10,0 or a comparable score when using a different grading system) or you have an explanation as to why you have not.

Application and deadlines

Applications for 2024-2025 have closed. In September 2025, the applications for the new cohort will open again.

Want to stay updated? Fill in our form of interest and get an announcement when the applications reopen.

To the form of interest

During the application process, we will ask you to state your preferred working language for the Leadership Lab. We will also ask you to list your top 4 Leadership Labs and the electives that seem most interesting to you. The programme team aims to assign first and second picks to as many students as is practically possible.

In the application form, we ask you to fill in the name(s) of your (main) master's degree(s). In case you are unsure about the name(s) of your main master's studies, please check out this document.

During the applicatoin period (September), you can apply via the Honours Academy registration system by answering some questions regarding your motivation and supplying a number of attachments. The attachments required are:

Your curriculum vitae, in which you state, on no more than 2 pages:
- Your extensive educational background (names, institutes, dates);
- Your extracurricular activities, with an emphasis on those with a societal impact. Think, for instance of summer jobs, committees, internships, volunteer work, any caretaking duties, having your own company, or living abroad.
A certified copy of your bachelor degree results (uSis printouts will not be accepted).

Selection

Selection takes place based on the written submissions and will start immediately after the application deadline. The programme has room for approximately 150 students. Each academic year, we are able to admit a select number of students from Delft Technical University and Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Admittance

You will be notified about whether or not you were admitted to the programme on 23rd October at the latest (two weeks before the start of the programme). Once you are accepted you will receive your class schedule as soon as possible.