The history of TIAS goes back to 1982 and covers over three decades[2]
1982 - Professor Harry Peeters founds the “Tilburgs Instituut voor Academische Studies”.
1986 - Tias changes its acronym to denote Tilburg Institute for Advanced Studies and makes management education its core business.
1986 - The first two master programs were created: ‘Banking and Finance’ and 'Managerial Information Science’ (which still exist today as ‘Master in Finance’ and ‘Master in Information Management’ respectively).
1986 - 1995 - On average one new Master program is launched every year.
1996 - Tias focuses on post-experience management education only, and adds contract research and company specific programs and executive education are added to the portfolio of activities.
2009 - Formal cooperation between TiasNimbas and the School of Economics and Management of Tilburg University to jointly design a new full-time MBA and a suite of Executive Programs.
2010 - TiasNimbas ranks in all categories of the Financial Times Ranking for the first time.
2010 - Launch new full-time MBA
2012 - Prof.dr. Kees Koedijk takes over from Ramon O’Callaghan as Dean of TiasNimbas Business School.
2014 - TIAS School for Business and Society is the new name of TiasNimbas Business School
The business school offers MBA, Executive PhD, Masters (MSc), Executive Masters and shorter executive programs, in a number of locations and in various formats. In addition, TIAS designs and delivers tailor-made company specific programs for national and international organizations.
Executive education: TIAS is the only Dutch business school in the Financial Times Top 50 Executive Education. Worldwide TiasNimbas is ranked #46.[3]
Company Specific Programs: #1 in the Netherlands, #21 in Europe and #47 worldwide[4]
Open programs: #2 in the Netherlands, #25 in Europe and #57worldwide[5]
Full-Time MBA: Financial Times ranks TIAS #64 worldwide, #18 in Europe and #2 in the Benelux. The MBA scores especially on the criteria value-for-money (#10) and international mobility (#7).[6]