Universiteit van Tilburg
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| Established | 1927 |
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| Type | Public, general |
| Rector | Prof. dr. Frank van der Duyn Schouten |
| Faculty | 1,700 |
| Students | 11,000 |
| Location | Tilburg, The Netherlands |
| Affiliations | EUA |
| Website | http://www.tilburguniversity.nl |
Located in Tilburg, the Netherlands, Tilburg University is a compact institution for higher education, specialised in the humanities and social sciences and is located in the southern part of the Netherlands.
Tilburg University is well known for its excellent standards in education and scientific research as well as its good support facilities. In nationwide, European and international rankings Tilburg University has taken top-positions for many years, especially in the fields of Economics, Law and Business. Within the Netherlands, Tilburg University is regularly ranked number one in all three of these fields. In 2002 and 2003 the Economics department was ranked number one in Europe according to the European Economic Association and was thus considered to be the best Economics department outside of the United States. In 2005 Tilburg University was ranked third by the School of Management of the University of Texas, Dallas, with regard to Business Research. The Faculty of Law has been ranked fourth in Europe by the Social Science Research Network. Both the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Social Sciences have also received high marks in nation-wide rankings. TIAS Business School, founded in 1986 by Tilburg University and the Technical University of Eindhoven, has recently also made a mark in international rankings by being placed at number 11 in the worldwide ranking of Executive MBA Programs by the Financial Times.
The compact campus, located in the west of Tilburg, offers ample opportunity for students to meet faculty and socialise. Out of a student population of over 11,000, 7% are international students. This percentage has steadily increased over the past years as Tilburg University has pursued a strategy of internationalisation. It offers numerous English-taught programs and has gone through great pains to attract talented teaching and research staff. According to two independent studies by the university newspapers of the University of Amsterdam and the University of Delft, Tilburg University offers the most appealing and competitive support packages when it comes to the recruitment of international staff.
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Teaching
Tilburg University offers a wide range of different undergrad and graduate courses, many of which are taught in English.
Undergraduate Programs
Administrative and Public AdministrationBusiness StudiesEconomicsEconometrics and Operations ResearchFiscal EconomicsHuman Resource StudiesInternational BusinessInternational Economics and FinanceInternational and European LawInformation ManagementLaw and ManagementLeisure StudiesOrganisation StudiesPsychologySociologyTax Law
Graduate Studies
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration:Accounting Economics Economics and Finance of AgeingFinancial ManagementInformation ManagementInternational BusinessInternational Economics and FinanceInvestment AnalysisLogistics and Operations ResearchMarketing ResearchMathematical Economics and Econometric MethodsOperations Research and Management ScienceQuantitative Finance and Actuarial SciencesStrategic ManagementMphil BusinessMphil Economics PhD BusinessPhD Economics
Faculty of LawInternational and European Public LawInternational and European Business LawInternational and European Labour LawLaw and TechnologyMphil LawResearch in Public Administration and Organizational Science
Faculty of Social and Behavioural SciencesEuropean Urban CulturesLeisure StudiesOrganisation StudiesMphil Social and Behavioural Sciences
Faculty of ArtsMphil Language and Communication
Faculty of Philosophy Mphil Philosophy
TIAS Business School
- International Executive MBA (part-time)
- MBA for Young Professionals
- Executive Master in Finance
- Executive Master in Information Management
Faculties and Research Institutes
The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (1927) is the oldest and largest faculty. The other five faculties - Law (1963), Social and Behavioural Sciences (1963), Arts (1981), Philosophy and Theology (1967) - are of more a recent date.
In addition to these faculties, Tilburg University has in cooperation with Technical University Eindhoven, a post-graduate business school called TIAS and a number of well-established research centres and graduate schools.
The research centres and institutes include:
- Babylon - Centre for Studies of the Multicultural Society
- CentER - Center for Economic Research
- CentER for Applied Research
- CentERdata
- Centre for Intercultural Ethics
- Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science
- Centre for Religious Communication
- Center for Language Studies
- Centrum voor Maatschappelijk Ondernemen
- FIT - Tilburg Institute of Fiscal Law
- Globus - Institute for Globalization and Sustainable Development
- Infolab - Research group on Information and Communication Technology
- INTERVICT - International Victimology Institute Tilburg.
- IVA - Tilburg Institute for Social Policy Research and Consultancy
- IVO - Development Research Institute
- Liturgical Institute
- Netspar
- Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement
- Nexus Institute
- Oldendorff Research Institute
- OSA - Institute for Labour Studies
- Schoordijk Institute - Institute of Jurisprudence and Comparative Law
- Telos
- Brabant Institute for Sustainability Issues
- Ticer
- Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources
- Tilburg Center of Finance
- TILEC - Tilburg Law and Economics Centre
- Tisser - Tilburg Institute for Social and Socio-Economic Research
The research school and graduate schools include:
- CentER Graduate School (Economics and Business Administration)
- Research school for legislative studies (Law)
Categories
Universities in the Netherlands