Master's Online Open Day

Are you looking for a suitable master's programme to further specialise and prepare for a successful career? Find out more at the Master's Online Open Day on Thursday 9 October and Friday 10 October 2025. 

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Master in African Studies

The master’s programme in African Studies, offered by the Faculty of Humanities and the African Studies Centre of Leiden University, is an advanced area studies qualification that combines leading Africanist scholarship with practice-based learning. The multidisciplinary master’s programme offers you an opportunity to learn about Africa from a wide range of angles, including historical, literary, cultural, socio-economic, and political. The programme offers a solid methodological and comprehensive programme with six cross-cutting themes:  ‘Framing Africa’, ‘Developing?’, ‘Decolonizing?’, ‘Dwelling and moving’, ‘Caring’ and ‘World-viewing’. At Leiden, relevance and real-world issues are at the fore, which means that you get to critically analyse current events as they unfold, from a broad, comparative, and global perspective.

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Research Master in African Studies

The Research Master in African Studies, offered by the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) and the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University, is unique in continental Europe for the interdisciplinary range of subjects offered and the variety of perspectives. It introduces you to a wide range of career options and a network of excellent researchers. An important aspect of the programme is developing your ability to conduct original and interdisciplinary research. You will have the opportunity to spend an entire year - of which six months consist of fieldwork in Africa or an Africa-related setting elsewhere - to execute your own research project. Funding from Leiden University (LUSTRA+) and the Humanities Faculty (Uhlenbeck scholarship) is available for the 6-months fieldwork. Having successfully completed the programme, you will be qualified to engage, among other things, in research in universities (PhD research), work in state institutions, or in the NGO sector.

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