Tilburg University


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 15,700 students, about 15 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 2018, 45 of the total 70 were English-taught. Tilburg University awards approximately 130 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. Furthermore, the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences offers a unique two-year master program in Medical Psychology, in which students are trained as scientist practitioners in the medical setting.

History

Tilburg University was founded in 1927, as the Roomsch Katholieke Handelshoogeschool, being located in the southern, Catholic part of The Netherlands, visible in its second change of name in 1938: Katholieke Economische Hogeschool. In 1963 the university was once again renamed, as Katholieke Hogeschool Tilburg, followed by a name change to Katholieke Universiteit 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 April 28, 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 Marxist 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 specialized university and has a strong focus on Social Sciences and Economics. In 2020 three major university rankings - QS World University Ranking, 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. Times Higher Education in 2019 ranked it 28th in Economics & Business and 52nd in Law globally. 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 is the oldest and largest faculty of the university. The other four faculties—Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Philosophy and Theology, Arts —were founded more recently. In addition to these faculties, Tilburg University has a number of research centers and graduate schools.

Undergraduate programs

Tilburg University offers a wide range of undergraduate studies, some of which are English-taught.
Tilburg School of Economics and Management
Tilburg Law School
School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
School of Humanities and Digital Sciences
School of Theology
University College Tilburg
  • Liberal Arts & Sciences
Joint Bachelor Data Science '''

Graduate programs

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

Research

Research centres and institutes
Research and graduate schools