Tilburg University

Tilburg University

Motto	Understanding Society
Type	Public
Established	1927
Affiliation	Roman Catholic
Rector Magnificus	Prof. dr. (E.H.L.) Emile Aarts
Administrative staff	1.636 fte (2017)
Students	13.050 (2017)
Address	Warandelaan 2, Tilburg, Tilburg, Netherlands
Campus	Urban
School newspaper	Univers
Colours
Affiliations	EUA / AACSB / VSNU
Website	http://www.tilburguniversity.edu

Tilburg University is a public research university specializing in the social and behavioral sciences, economics, law, business sciences, theology and humanities, located in Tilburg in the southern part of the Netherlands.

Tilburg University has a student population of about 13,050 students, about 10 percent of whom are international students. This percentage has steadily increased over the past years. Tilburg University offers both Dutch-and English-taught programs. In 2014, 39 of the total 67 (19 bachelor and 48 master programs) were English-taught. Tilburg University awards approximately 70 PhDs per year.

The institution has gained a reputation in both research and education. In the field of economics, REPEC in October 2017 ranked the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration as the 25th most productive research department in the world, and the 7th in Europe.^[1] According to the 2017 Shanghai Ranking, Tilburg University is ranked 5th in the field of Business Administration and 8th in the field of Finance worldwide. In the field of law, Tilburg University was ranked #1 in the Netherlands for the last three years according to Elsevier Magazine.^[2] Furthermore, the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences offers a unique two-year master program in Medical Psychology (in Dutch), in which students are trained as scientist practitioners in the medical setting.

History

Tilburg University was founded in 1927, as the Roomsch Katholieke Handelshoogeschool (Roman Catholic University of Commerce), being located in the southern, Catholic part of The Netherlands, visible in its second change of name in 1938: Katholieke Economische Hogeschool (Catholic Economic University). In 1963 the university was once again renamed, as Katholieke Hogeschool Tilburg (Catholic University Tilburg), followed by a name change to Katholieke Universiteit Brabant (Catholic University Brabant). Although in its present name Tilburg University, the word Catholic was dropped, the university is still regarded as a Catholic university.

Rankings

Tilburg University is a specialized university and has a strong focus on social sciences. In 2017 Times Higher Education (THE) ranked it as 21st in Economics & Business and 36th in Law.^[7][8] Shanghai (ARWU) ranking lists it as 5th best university in business administration in the world, 8th in finance, 29th in management and 30th in economics.^{[9][10][11][12]}

Education

The Tilburg School of Economics and Management (founded in 1927) is the oldest and largest faculty of the university. The other four faculties—Law (1963), Social and Behavioural Sciences (1963), Philosophy and Theology (1967), Arts (1981)—were founded more recently. In addition to these faculties, Tilburg University has a number of research centers and graduate schools (see below).

Undergraduate programs

Tilburg University offers a wide range of undergraduate studies, some of which are English-taught.

Tilburg School of Economics and Management

• International Business Administration
• Business Economics
• Economics
• Econometrics and Operations Research
• Fiscal Economics

Tilburg University carrying the name it adopted in 2010

Tilburg Law School

• Administrative Law and Public Administration
• Dutch Law
• Tax law
• Global Law LLB

School of Social and Behavioral Sciences

• Human Resources Studies
• Organisation Studies
• Psychology (medical psychology, neuropsychology, pediatric psychology, clinical psychology, social psychology, cultural psychology)
• Global Management of Social Issues
• Sociology

School of Humanities

• Communication and Information Sciences
• Online Culture (General Culture Studies)
• Online Culture: Art, Media and Society
• Philosophy

School of Theology

• Catholic Theology (in cooperation with Utrecht University)

University College Tilburg

• Liberal Arts & Sciences

Joint Bachelor Data Science (in cooperation with Eindhoven University of Technology)

Graduate programs

Tilburg University offers a range of graduate and doctoral programs, most of these are English-taught.

TU Campus

TIAS School for Business and Society

University Library

Research

Research centres and institutes

• Babylon – Centre for Studies of the Multicultural Society
• CentER – Center for Economic Research
• CentER Applied Research
• CentERdata
• Center for Innovation Research
• Centre for Intercultural Ethics
• Centre for Religious Communication
• Center for Language Studies
• CoRPS – Center of Research on Psychology in Somatic diseases
• 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
• Center for Meta-Research
• Netspar – Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement
• Nexus Institute
• Oldendorff Research Institute and Graduate School – Social and Behavioural Sciences
• OSA – Institute for Labour Studies
• TCE – Tilburg Center of Entrepreneurship
• Tilburg Graduate Law school (formerly Schoordijk Institute) – Institute of Jurisprudence and Comparative Law
• Telos
• Brabant Institute for Sustainability Issues
• TIBER – Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research
• Ticer – Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources
• TiCC – Tilburg Centre for Cognition and Communication
• TICOM – Tilburg Institute of Comparative and Transnational Law
• Tilburg Center of Finance
• TISCO – Tilburg Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Civil Law and Conflict Resolution Systems
• TILT – Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society
• TILEC –Tilburg Law and Economics Centre
• TiLPS – Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science
• Tisser – Tilburg Institute for Social and Socio-Economic Research

Research and graduate schools

• CentER Graduate School (Economics and Business Administration)
• Research school for legislative studies (Law)

Notable alumni and faculty

• 
  Sacha Prechal
• 
  John A. List
• 
  Eric van Damme
• 
  Max Euwe
• 
  Willem van Genugten
• 
  Jolande Sap
• 
  Dirk Bernard Joseph Schouten
• 
  Stefan Stremersch
• 
  Ruud Lubbers
• 
  Theo van de Klundert
• 
  Fatma Koşer Kaya
• 
  Uri Gneezy
• 
  Ralph Hamers
• 
  Klaas Dijkhoff
• 
  Bart le Blanc

• Wim de Bie – writer, satirist, comedian
• Lans Bovenberg – economist
• Wim van de Donk – politician
• Afshin Ellian – professor of law, philosopher, poet, critic of Islam
• Max Euwe – chess Grandmaster, mathematician, former President of FIDE
• Ernst Hirsch Ballin – former Dutch Minister of Justice
• Geert Hofstede – social psychologist, anthropologist (see Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory)
• Servais Knaven – cyclist
• Ruud Lubbers – former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2001–2005)
• Paul Scheffer
• Norbert Schmelzer – former Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Diederik Stapel – founder of the Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research, later dismissed for fabricating data.
• Max van der Stoel – politician, first High Commissioner of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
• Cees Veerman – former Dutch Minister of Agriculture
• Herman Wijffels – economist and politician
• In 2002, Tilburg University awarded honorary doctorates to Kofi Annan and Prof. Ariel Rubinstein in the presence of Queen Beatrix and Crown Prince Willem-Alexander.
• Willem Witteveen – legal scholar, politician, and author
• Joseph A. McCahery – corporate lawyers, researcher and institutional adviser
• Ralph Hamers – Dutch businessman, the chief executive officer (CEO) of ING Group since October 2013

References

External links

• Tilburg University
• TIAS School for Business and Society
• Tilburg University Datasets

Coordinates: 51°33′46″N 5°2′31″E / 51.56278°N 5.04194°E / 51.56278; 5.04194