Tilburg University has a student population of about 19,500 students.[3] Tilburg University has 66 Bachelors & Master's programs, of which 43 are offered in English.[3] Tilburg University awards approximately 120 PhDs per year.[4] In 2023, the university had over 92,000 alumni.[3] The university has over 2,900 FTE staff members, of which 56% are academic staff.[5]
The institution has gained a reputation in both research and education. See for the latest rankings the overview on the Tilburg University website.
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.[citation needed]
On 28 April 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.
In 2020, Tilburg University was ranked 17th worldwide and 4th in Europe in Economics & Business field, by the US News 2020 ranking.[9]Times Higher Education in 2019 ranked it 28th in Economics & Business and 28th in Law globally in the 2021 ranking.[10][11] The Shanghai Ranking lists Tilburg as the 5th best university in Business Administration in the world, 12th in Finance and 27th in Management.[12][13][14]
The Boards of the university include a Board of Governors that monitors the objectives of the university and functions as a Supervisory Board, as well as an Executive Board, appointed by the Board of Governors. The Board of Governors consists of Mr. H. Reumkens, LLM (chairman), Mrs. M.R. Leijten, Professor W.M.P. van der Aalst, Mr. J.H.P.M. van Lange and Mrs. Prof. E. Demerouti.[15]
Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TiSEM)
Tilburg Law School (TLS)
Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (TSB)
Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD)
Tilburg School of Catholic Theology (TST)
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 Behavioral 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).
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