Tilburg University
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| 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 | 1.695 fte (2018) | |||||||||||
| Students | 14.269 (2018) | |||||||||||
| Address | Warandelaan 2, Tilburg , Tilburg , Netherlands | |||||||||||
| Campus | Urban | |||||||||||
| School newspaper | Univers | |||||||||||
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| Affiliations | EUA / AACSB / VSNU | |||||||||||
| Website | http://www.tilburguniversity.edu | |||||||||||
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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 14,300 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 (22 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.
Contents
1 History
1.1 1969 Protests
2 Rankings
3 Education
3.1 Undergraduate programs
3.2 Graduate programs
4 Research
5 Notable alumni and faculty
6 References
7 External links
History
Play media1969 KHT protests
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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ARWU World[3] | 501-600 (2018) |
THE World[5] | 201–250 (2019) |
USNWR World[6] | 468 (2019) |
QS World[4] | 319 (2019) |
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
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^ "ARWU World Top 500 Candidates 2018 - Academic Ranking of World Universities 2018". ShanghaiRanking. Retrieved 2019-01-03.
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External links
- Tilburg University
- TIAS School for Business and Society
- Tilburg University Datasets
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