Tilburg University
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| Universiteit van Tilburg | ||||||||||||
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| Motto: | Understanding Society | |||||||||||
| Established: | 1927 | |||||||||||
| Type: | Public | |||||||||||
| Rector Magnificus: | Prof. Dr. Philip Eijlander | |||||||||||
| Faculty: | 1,362 (2006-2007) | |||||||||||
| Students: | 11,584 (2006-2007) | |||||||||||
| Location: |  Tilburg, The Netherlands |
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| Campus: | Urban | |||||||||||
| School newspaper: | Univers | |||||||||||
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| Affiliations: | EUA / AACSB / VSNU | |||||||||||
| Website: | http://www.tilburguniversity.nl | |||||||||||
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Tilburg University 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]. It 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.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Undergraduate programs
Tilburg University offers a wide range of undergraduate studies, some of which are English-taught.
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
- Business Administration
- Business Studies
- Economics
- Econometrics and Operations Research
- Fiscal Economics
- International Business
- International Economics and Finance
- Information Management
Faculty of Law
- Administrative and Public Administration
- Dutch Law
- International and European law
- Law and Management
- Tax law
Faculty of Social and Behavioural studies
Faculty of Humanities
- Communication and Information Sciences
- General Culture Studies
- Text and Communication
- Religion and Culture
- Philosophy
- Liberal Arts
Faculty of Catholic Theology
- Catholic Theology (in cooperation with Utrecht University)
[edit] 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
- MPhil in Business
- MPhil in Economics
- PhD in Business
- PhD in Economics
Faculty of Law
- LLM International and European Public Law
- LLM International Business Law
- LLM International and European Labour Law
- LLM Law and Technology
- MPhil Research Master in Law
- MSc Research in Public Administration and Organizational Science
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
[edit] 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.
- 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
- TICOM - Tilburg Institute of Comparative and Transnational Law
- Tilburg Center of Finance
- 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)
[edit] References
- ^ Annual report of Tilburg University of 2007, p. 50
- ^ 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
[edit] External links
Coordinates: 51°33′46″N 5°2′31″E / 51.56278°N 5.04194°E
