Contact details for the Leiden University Graduate School of Humanities. The Humanities PhD Admissions Office is situated at the Student Information Desk in the Lipsius building.

Questions regarding your PhD trajectory

If you have any questions about the admission procedure for PhD candidates at the faculty of Humanities, please contact the PhD admissions office via phd-admissions@hum.leidenuniv.nl. 

Questions concerning the joint doctoral degree (JDD) or a cotutelle agreement can be addressed to graduateschool@hum.leidenuniv.nl.

For questions about current affairs of the PhD trajectory please contact your own institute. You can find an overview of the contact details of the institutes here.  

Visiting Address

The PhD Admissions Office for the faculty of Humanities is situated at the Student Information Desk in the Lipsius Building. Please send an email to phd-admissions@hum.leidenuniv.nl before visiting because we are not always in office. For directions, see the contact page of the Faculty of Humanities.

Postal address 

Leiden University
Graduate School of Humanities Admissions Office
Attn. Saskia van der Velde
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden
The Netherlands

Graduate School Office

The Graduate School Office of the Faculty of Humanities provides support to the Dean, the Director of PhD Programmes and the institutes, and is closely linked with the Personnel and Organisation department, Academic Affairs as well as other University Leiden Graduate Schools.