With over 6000 students and about 1000 employees, it is the largest humanities faculty in the Netherlands.
The Faculty of Humanities has already introduced the credit system.
In 1956, he was named the department chair of general history and later, dean of humanities faculty at the university.
In 1964 the social sciences were split from the Faculty of Humanities.
Most of its subject matter would come under the much larger humanities faculty in the typical English-speaking university, but it does not contain the arts.
The building is used mostly by the University's Faculty of Humanities.
However, the Faculty of Humanities in its present form was established in 1992.
The humanities faculty is made up of eminent scholars, helpful both as teachers and advisors.
From 1968 to 1972 he was dean of the Faculty of Humanities.
From 1977 to 1980 he was the dean of the Faculty of Humanities.