Company Profile

Tilburg University
Company Overview
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. It 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. 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. 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.
Company History
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.