Understanding Society

Tilburg University has been a reliable provider of high-quality education and research for more than eighty years. We specialize in the social sciences and humanities and we seek to make a structural contribution to society.

Outstanding education

Students at Tilburg University attain an education on par with the world's best. At Tilburg University, our students are introduced to the latest scientific insights. Internationally-reputed faculty members facilitate them in reaching their full potential by closely attending to their individual development. This personal aspect is an essential part of our approach to learning at Tilburg University – and ensures that our students are better prepared for high levels of responsibility in all areas of society. We believe in the quality of our programmes – and so does the wider community. In 2010, readers of the prestigious Elsevier magazine voted Tilburg the best specialist university in the Netherlands for the fourth consecutive year.

Today, 12.500 students from 85 different countries around the world coalesce at Tilburg University to prepare for their future careers.

Anyone whose interests extend beyond one subject field will find a wide choice of multidisciplinary programmes at Tilburg University, in which the expertise from the various faculties are brought together. There are both Dutch and English-language Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes available.

Unique is the TiasNimbas Business School New window, the leading international institute for post-doctoral management programmes, with centres in Berlin, Bonn, Taipei, Eindhoven, Tilburg and Utrecht. If offers a unique portfolio of internationally renowned management programmes, and also devises tailor-made programmes for leading organizations and companies.

Lecturers and student supervisors at Tilburg University appreciate the talents of individual students. They go to a great deal of effort to ensure that each student’s choice of program is tailored as closely as possible to their personal abilities, motivation and ambitions. Students on all our programmes receive binding recommendations on whether or not they should continue with their studies. Those who perform well are eligible for the Honours Programme, Outreaching Programme, Topclasses and Excellence Scholarships, each of which offers unique opportunities for in-depth study of substantial and social relevance for students seeking to stretch their abilities to the full. We encourage our students to spend part of their study time abroad, in the interests of their own personal and academic development. They have a choice of more than two hundred partner universities all over the world.