Tilburg University
Motto | Understanding Society | |||||||||||
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Type | Public | |||||||||||
Established | 1927 | |||||||||||
Affiliation | Roman Catholic | |||||||||||
Rector Magnificus | Prof. dr. (E.H.L.) Emile Aarts | |||||||||||
Administrative staff | 1.636 fte (2014) | |||||||||||
Students | 12.113 (2014) | |||||||||||
Address | Warandelaan 2, Tilburg, Tilburg, Netherlands | |||||||||||
Campus | Urban | |||||||||||
School newspaper | Univers | |||||||||||
Colours |
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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 12,000 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, 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.[1] In 2007, the Executive MBA program at the university's TIAS School for Business and Society ranked #11 in the world according to the Financial Times.[2] In the field of law, Tilburg University was ranked #1 in the Netherlands for the last three years according to Elsevier Magazine.[3] 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.
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
University rankings | |
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Global | |
Times[4] | =198 |
QS[5] | =330 |
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 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 (expected, 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.
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
- 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
References
- ↑ http://www.core.ucl.ac.be/econometrics/Bauwens/Rankings/EuropeanRanking.pdf
- ↑ "Business school rankings from the Financial Times - FT.com". Retrieved 31 May 2015.
- ↑ "Tilburg University – Searchresults". Retrieved 31 May 2015.
- ↑ "World University Rankings 2016-2017". Times Higher Education. 2016. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
- ↑ "QS World University Rankings 2018". Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. 2017. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
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