CentER

CentER is a world-class research institute that draws on the academic expertise of some of the most outstanding minds in the field of economics and business.

Center

Unique Features


Admission to the Program entitles the professional PhD student to the following:

  • Possibility to obtain a PhD at a European top 3 school in economics and management. See also our rankings page.
  • Supervision by excellent research faculty.
  • Ability to take exams in methodological and topical courses.
  • Participation in regular lecture series, research meetings, seminars and conferences, organized by CentER.
  • Presentation sessions of research with other PhD students.
  • Sharing your research findings by writing articles for leading international journals (fundamental or applied).
  • Access to the university's extensive library collection, including a large number of leading journals, discussion papers and books.
  • Access to research facilities, e.g. extensive databases*, our lab for experiments (CentERLab), and facilities for data collection (CentERdata).
  • Intranet and email account access within the Tilburg University web domain, as well as VPN making it possible to make use of facilities from other locations.
  • Coordination and advice by the CentER Graduate Office on immigration and accommodation issues and other administrative matters.

*)TiSEM currently facilitates free access for its researchers to a large number of research databases: