Opportunities for ambitious students
Dear student,
Tilburg University is eager to offer challenges to students who want to get the most out of themselves and their student days. The regular study programs at of Tilburg University certainly offer ample opportunities to do this, but for those students, who feel ready to take on an extra challenge beyond their regular course of study, we would like to set out a number of summarizes various interesting possibilities.
First of all there is the Honours Programme: a supplementary program consisting of eight courses, four of which must be chosen by each participant to qualify for the Tilburg University Honours Certificate to be attached to the Bachelor's degree.
Secondly, Tilburg University participates in the Venice International University, a consortium of five European and five non-European universities, which together offer full semester programs in Humanities and Social Sciences on the island of San Servolo, which affords an excellent view of San Marco Square in Venice. Tilburg University is entitled to send each semester a selection of up to twenty of its best students to take part in this prestigious international program.
Although Tilburg University cherishes its most ambitious students, we realize that it is in their interest to seriously consider, after the successful completion of their bachelor's program in Tilburg, to continue their studies at another internationally-oriented university elsewhere in the world. To financially facilitate our best students in this process, each year Tilburg University awards a number of Excellence Scholarships.
For students to participate in one or more of these 'extras', the performance during the course of study in the bachelor's program is decisive. This brochure describes each of these three activities in more detail. These opportunities have been created because of our conviction that excellence is not the sole domain of 'nerds', but that striving for excellence is 
the very raison d'être of a university. Therefore, I call upon each of you to dare to excel. We are ready to reward your efforts.
Philip Eijlander
Rector Magnificus
Programs per school
Humanities
- KNAW assistants
- Intensive Programme Democracy and Religion
- CentER Honors Program
Next program starts at the end of the year.
Scholarships