The study describes and analyses the history of mission studies and mission activities at Utrecht University UU from the establishment of UU in 1636 onwards. It also describes and examines the overseas ministries of Dutch German Hungarian South African and other alumni in the past 375 years. In each of the four periods of UUs history the years 1797 1876 and 196869 functioning as watersheds attention is paid to professors and lecturers honorary doctors doctors and students and student bodies connected with mission. In the period 196869 until today the Interuniversity Institute for Missiological and Ecumenical Research IIMO as well as missiological journals series and publications are dealt with. Special attention is paid to the AntiApartheid Fund to missiological projects such as the Religious Education project in cooperation with the University of Zimbabwe and to the nonWestern students who since the 17th century have studied theology in Utrecht.