Tilburg University
Tilburg University (TiU) is an academic institution of higher education, specialising in the social sciences (especially economics) and law, located in Tilburg in the southern part of the Netherlands.
Tilburg University has a student population of about 13,000 students, about 8 per cent of whom are international students.[1] This percentage has steadily increased over the past years.[2] TU offers both Dutch-taught and English-taught programmes.
The institution has gained a reputation in both research and education. In the field of economics, the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration ranked #1 in Europe for the second consecutive time in 2007 according to the Journal of the European Economic Association with regard to publications in top journals.[3] In 2007 the Executive MBA programme at the university's TiasNimbas Business School ranked # 11 in the world according to the Financial Times.[4] In the field of law, Tilburg University was ranked #1 in the Netherlands for the last three years according to Elsevier Magazine. [5]
Education
The Tilburg School of Economics and Management (founded in 1927) is the oldest and largest faculty. 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, including TiasNimbas Business School.
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
School of Theology
Graduate programs
Tilburg University offers a range of graduate and doctoral programs, most of these are English-taught.
School of Economics and Management
Tilburg Law School
School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
- MA European Urban Cultures
- MSc Leisure Studies
- MSc Organisation Studies
- MSc Human Resource Studies
- MSc Medical Psychology
- MSc Psychology and Mental Health
- MSc Social Psychology (tracks: Economic Psychology, Social Psychology, Work and Organisational Psychology)
- MSc Sociology
- Research Master(RM, title: MA) Social and Behavioural Sciences
- PhD Social Sciences
School of Humanities
- MA Language and Communication
- MA Philosophy
- MA Communication and Information Sciences
School of Theology
- MA Theology
- MA Christianity and Society
- STB Sacred Theology
- STL Sacred Theology
- PhD Theology
- STD Sacred Theology
TiasNimbas Business School
Research
Research Centres and Institutes
- Babylon – Centre for Studies of the Multicultural Society
- CentER – Center for Economic Research
- CentER Applied Research
- CentERdata
- CIR – Center for Innovation Research
- Centre for Intercultural Ethics
- 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 – 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 and Graduate School – Social and Behavioural Sciences
- OSA – Institute for Labour Studies
- 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
Notable Alumni and Faculty
References
- ^ [1]
- ^ Annual report of Tilburg University of 2007, p. 51
- ^ http://www.core.ucl.ac.be/econometrics/Bauwens/Rankings/EuropeanRanking.pdf
- ^ FT.com / Business Education / EMBA rankings
- ^ Elsevier Magazine
External links