Tilburg University is a

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, economics, law, business sciences, theology and humanities, located in

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. Tilburg University has a student population of about 20,284 students, about 18 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 2019, 48 of the total 71 (21 bachelor and 50 master programs) were English-taught. Tilburg University awards approximately 120 PhDs per year. The institution has gained a reputation in both research and education. In the field of economics, RePEc in March 2020 ranked the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration as the 23rd most productive research department in the world, and the 6th in Europe. According to the 2019 Shanghai Ranking, Tilburg University is ranked 5th in the field of Business Administration and 12th 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.

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.

1969 protests

On 28 April 1969, students barricaded the campus buildings, demanding educational and organizational changes. Months before students had unofficially renamed the university ''Karl Marx University'', painting this title across campus to accentuate the importance of

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ideas in the then primarily economics-oriented curriculum. These protests led to a widespread change in higher education across the Netherlands that was made official by the 1971 bill of Educational Reform, granting more joint decision making to students of Dutch universities.

Rankings

Tilburg University is a specialised university and has a strong focus on Social Sciences and Economics. In 2020 three major university rankings (

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, THE World University Rankings and US News Best Global Universities) listed Tilburg among the top 40 in the world and top 10 in Europe for Economics. In 2020, Tilburg University was ranked 17th worldwide and 4th in Europe in Economics & Business field, by the US News 2020 ranking.

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in 2019 ranked it 28th in Economics & Business and 28th in Law globally in the 2021 ranking. The Shanghai Ranking lists Tilburg as the 5th best university in Business Administration in the world, 12th in Finance and 27th in Management.

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

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s (see below).

Undergraduate programs

Tilburg University offers a wide range of

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studies, some of which are English-taught. Tilburg School of Economics and Management *International Business Administration *

Business Economics Business economics is a field in applied economics which uses economic theory and quantitative methods to analyze business enterprises and the factors contributing to the diversity of organizational structures and the relationships of firms with ...

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics anal ...

* Econometrics and Operations Research *

Finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of f ...

(including CFA track) * International Management * Fiscal Economics *Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation Tilburg Law School *Administrative Law and

Public Administration Public Administration (a form of governance) or Public Policy and Administration (an academic discipline) is the implementation of public policy, administration of government establishment ( public governance), management of non-profit es ...

* Dutch Law *

Tax law Tax law or revenue law is an area of legal study in which public or sanctioned authorities, such as federal, state and municipal governments (as in the case of the US) use a body of rules and procedures (laws) to assess and collect taxes in a ...

*Global Law LLB *Public Governance School of Social and Behavioral Sciences *

Human Resources Human resources (HR) is the set of people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, industry, or economy. A narrower concept is human capital, the knowledge and skills which the individuals command. Similar terms includ ...

Studies * Organisation Studies *

Psychology Psychology is the science, scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immens ...

(medical psychology, neuropsychology, pediatric psychology, clinical psychology, social psychology, cultural psychology) * Global Management of Social Issues *

Sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...

School of Humanities and Digital Sciences *

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and Information Sciences *Online Culture (General Culture Studies) *Online Culture: Art, Media and Society *

Philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. ...

* Cognitive Science and

Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech ...

School of Theology *

Catholic Theology Catholic theology is the understanding of Catholic doctrine or teachings, and results from the studies of theologians. It is based on Biblical canon, canonical Catholic Bible, scripture, and sacred tradition, as interpreted authoritatively by ...

''(in cooperation with

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)'' 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

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programs, most of these are English-taught. TilburgUniversityCampus 2

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 * 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 members

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Jolande Sap Johanna Catharina Maria "Jolande" Sap (born 22 May 1963) is a former Dutch politician and former educator and civil servant. A member of GroenLinks (GL), she replaced Wijnand Duyvendak as a member of the House of Representatives on 3 September 2 ...

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Fatma Koşer Kaya Fatma Koşer Kaya (born February 20, 1968 in Çarşamba, Turkey) is a Dutch lawyer and politician of Turkish origin. As a member of Democrats 66 (D66) she was an MP from September 8, 2004 to September 19, 2012. She focused on social affairs. Fr ...

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Ralph Hamers Ralph Adrianus Joseph Gerardus Hamers (born 25 May 1966) is a Dutch businessman who is the UBS Group CEO. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Dutch bank ING Group from October 2013 until June 2020. Early life Ralph Hamers was born on 25 ...

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Wim van de Donk Wilhelmus Bernhard Henricus Josephus "Wim" van de Donk (born 17 May 1962) is a Dutch former politician and former academic, who served as the King's Commissioner of North Brabant from 1 October 2009 to 1 October 2020. He is a member of the Chr ...

– politician * Afshin Ellian – professor of law, philosopher, poet, critic of Islam * Max Euwe – chess Grandmaster, mathematician, former President of

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* Jackie Groenen - Dutch footballer * Ernst Hirsch Ballin – former Dutch Minister of Justice * Geert Hofstede – social psychologist, anthropologist (see Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory) *

Servais Knaven Henricus Theodorus Josephus (Servais) Knaven (born 6 March 1971) is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer, currently a directeur sportif for Team Ineos. He rode at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics. As a rider, Knaven won ...

– cyclist * Ruud Lubbers – former Prime Minister of the Netherlands,

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(2001–2005) *

Paul Scheffer Paul Scheffer (Nijmegen, 3 September 1954) is a the Netherlands, Dutch author, he was professor at the Universiteit van Amsterdam between 2003 and 2011, currently he is professor of European studies at Tilburg University. Paul Scheffer is also a p ...

* 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

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* Cees Veerman – former Dutch Minister of Agriculture * Jan Vranken - Professor of law * Herman Wijffels – economist and politician * In 2002, Tilburg University awarded honorary doctorates to

Kofi Annan Kofi Atta Annan (; 8 April 193818 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founde ...

and Prof. Ariel Rubinstein in the presence of Queen Beatrix and Crown Prince

Willem-Alexander Willem-Alexander (; Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand; born ) is King of the Netherlands, having acceded to the throne following his mother's abdication in 2013. Willem-Alexander was born in Utrecht as the oldest child of Princess Bea ...

. *

Willem Witteveen Willem Johannes Witteveen (; 5 May 195217 July 2014) was a Dutch legal scholar, politician, and author. He was a law professor at Tilburg University (1990–2014) and a Member of the Senate for the Labour Party (1999–2007; 2013–2014). He ...

– legal scholar, politician, and author * Joseph A. McCahery – corporate lawyers, researcher and institutional adviser *

– Dutch businessman, the chief executive officer (CEO) of ING Group since October 2013 * Jacques van den Broek - CEO of Randstad Holding since March 2014

References

External links

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