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Tilburg University
Universiteit van Tilburg
File:Uvt tree logo.png
MottoUnderstanding Society
TypePublic
Established1927
Rector MagnificusProf. Dr. Philip Eijlander
Academic staff
1,362 (2006-2007)
Students11,584 (2006-2007)
Address
Warandelaan 2, Tilburg
,
Netherlands Tilburg
,
Netherlands
CampusUrban
School newspaperUnivers
Colours
AffiliationsEUA / AACSB / VSNU
Websitehttp://www.tilburguniversity.nl

Tilburg University (Dutch: Universiteit van Tilburg) is an academic institution of higher education, specialising in economics and law, located in Tilburg in the southern part of the Netherlands.

Tilburg University has a student population of about 12,000 students, of which about 7 per cent 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], and came in second to Cambridge University in a ranking of European law schools.

In 2002, Tilburg University awarded honorary doctorates to Kofi Annan, Prof. dr. Hans-Dieter Klingemann, and Prof. Ariel Rubinstein in the presence of Queen Beatrix, and Crown Prince Willem-Alexander.

Education

The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (1927) is the oldest and largest faculty. The other five faculties - Law (1963), Social and Behavioural Sciences (1963), Philosophy and Theology (1967), Arts (1981) - are of a more recent date. In addition to these faculties, Tilburg University has a number of research centres and graduate schools.

Undergraduate programs

Tilburg University offers a wide range of undergraduate studies, some of which are English-taught.

Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Faculty of Law

Faculty of Social and Behavioural studies

Faculty of Humanities

Faculty of Catholic Theology

Graduate programs

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

Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

  • MSc Accounting
  • MSc Economics
  • MSc Economics and Finance of Aging
  • MSc Financial Management
  • MSc Information Management
  • MSc International Business
  • MSc International Economics and Finance
  • MSc Investment Analysis
  • MSc Logistics and Operations Management
  • MSc Marketing Management
  • MSc Marketing Research
  • MSc Mathematical Economics and Econometric Methods
  • MSc Operations Research and Management Science
  • MSc Quantitative Finance and Actuarial Sciences
  • MSc Strategic Management
  • RM in Business (research master formerly known as MPhil, MSc degree)
  • RM in Economics (research master formerly known as MPhil, MSc degree)
  • PhD in Business
  • PhD in Economics
  • PhD in Information Management

Faculty of Law

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  • MA European Urban Cultures
  • MSc Leisure Studies
  • MSc Organisation Studies
  • MSc Human Resource Studies
  • MPhil Social and Behavioural Sciences

Faculty of Humanities

  • Mphil Language and Communication
  • Mphil Philosophy

TiasNimbas Business School

  • International Executive MBA (part-time)
  • Part-time MBA
  • Full-time MBA
  • Specialized Masters (MA Marketing/MSc Finance)
  • Executive Master in Finance
  • Executive Master in Information Management

Research

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Sign over the Koopmans Building.

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
  • 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

References

  1. ^ Annual report of Tilburg University of 2007, p. 50
  2. ^ Annual report of Tilburg University of 2007, p. 51
  3. ^ http://www.core.ucl.ac.be/econometrics/Bauwens/Rankings/EuropeanRanking.pdf
  4. ^ FT.com / Business Education / EMBA rankings
  5. ^ Elsevier Magazine

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