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Founded at St. Louis, Missouri in 1915, Webster University is an accredited, non-profit American university with over 100 locations in ten countries. Currently, there are 22,000 students studying at Webster campuses around the world. Webster University enjoys an international reputation for teaching and academic excellence. Renowned for its innovative, accredited educational programs, Webster meets the needs of students, businesses, and working adults around the globe.

Webster University in the Netherlands is one of four international campuses located in Europe. It is the only American-accredited university in the Netherlands offering both BA (undergraduate) and MA/MBA/DBA (graduate and post-graduate) education. Since Webster began offering American university degrees in the Netherlands in 1983, over 1600 students have graduated. Its alumni work for many of the most prestigious and interesting companies and organizations in the world.

Welcome from the DirectorWelcome to Webster University Leiden, where we combine the best of the American educational system with a truly international perspective to help you thrive and grow in our rapidly changing global society.

You have a difficult choice when selecting a university. Faced with a range of universities all offering interesting programs of good to excellent quality, how do you select the right fit with your individual goals and aspirations? At Webster University, making the learning process enjoyable to students is an important goal. We do this by first, creating an atmosphere in which you follow a flexible and practical curriculum, offering solid career skills; and second, focusing on teaching rather than academic research.

At the graduate level, it is our philosophy that adults returning to university as graduate students (whether part-time or full-time) should be approached with an understanding of their broader priorities in life.

For undergraduates, our curriculum, an authentic American liberal arts combination of a major area of study as well as a wide array of general education courses, is one in which many creative students thrive and find hidden talents or a passion for a subject they knew little about prior to exposure at university.

At Webster University we strive to achieve our mission of promoting individual excellence alongside global citizenship. For you, this means that you will encounter a culturally diverse group of motivated and ambitious students, enthusiastic instructors, and staff who will go out of their way to accommodate you. Whatever your goals, we are sure you will find your time at Webster both satisfying and personally enriching.

Prof. Dr. Jean Paul van Marissing, Director
Webster University Leiden