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{{Short description|University in the Netherlands}}
{{Infobox university
 | name                   = Tilburg University
 | image_name             = Logo of Tilburg University.svg
 | image_size             = 275px
 | mottoeng               = Understanding Society
 | established            = 1927
 | type                   = [[Special_school_(Netherlands) |Special]]
 | religious_affiliation  = [[Roman Catholic]]
 | head_label             = Rector Magnificus
 | head                   = [[Wim van de Donk]]
 | total_staff            = 3,096 FTE (2024) <ref name="About Tilburg University">{{Cite web |url = https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about |title = About Tilburg University |website = Tilburg University |language = en |access-date = 13 May 2025 }}</ref>
 | students               = 19,168 (2024)<ref name="About Tilburg University">{{Cite web |url = https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about |title = About Tilburg University |website = Tilburg University |language = en |access-date = 13 May 2025 }}</ref>
 | city                   = [[Tilburg]]
 | country                = [[Netherlands]]
 | campus                 = Urban
 | free_label             = School newspaper
 | free                   = Univers
 | free_label1            = 
 | free1                  = 
 | colours                = [[Blue]] and [[Bronze (color)|Bronze]]<ref>[https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/sites/tiu/files/download/huisstijlhandboek(2)_2.pdf Tilburg University 2011: Richtlijnen visuele identiteit] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129232130/https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/sites/tiu/files/download/huisstijlhandboek(2)_2.pdf |date=2021-01-29 }} – website of Tilburg University</ref><br>{{color box|#003366}} {{color box|#CC9933}}
 | affiliations           = [[European University Association|EUA]] / [[AACSB]] / [[VSNU]] / [[Transatlantic Policy Consortium|TPC]]
 | website                = [https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/ www.tilburguniversity.edu]
 | address                = Warandelaan 2, Tilburg
}}
'''Tilburg University''' is a Catholic [[research university]] specializing in the [[social and behavioral sciences]], [[economics]], [[law]], business sciences, theology and humanities, located in [[Tilburg]], Netherlands.

Tilburg  has a student population of about 19,150 students.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=About Tilburg University |url=https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about |access-date=13 May 2025 |website=Tilburg University |language=EN}}</ref> Tilburg University has 67 Bachelors & Master's programs.<ref name=":1" /> Tilburg University has a PhD population of about 1,000 PhDs and awards approximately 99 PhDs per year.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Annual Report 2024 {{!}} Tilburg University |url=https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about/organization/annual-report |access-date=13 May 2025 |website=www.tilburguniversity.edu |language=en}}</ref> In 2024, the university had over 97,000 alumni.<ref name=":1" /> The university has over 3,000 FTE staff members, of which 57% are academic staff.<ref name=":0" />

==History==
Tilburg University was founded in 1927, as the Roomsch Katholieke Handelshoogeschool (Roman Catholic University of Commerce), 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2010-2022 {{!}} Tilburg University |url=https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/nl/over/historie-en-academisch-erfgoed/geschiedenis/periode-2010-2022 |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=www.tilburguniversity.edu |language=nl}}</ref>

===1969 protests===
[[File:Conflict hogeschool.ogv|left|thumb|1969 KHT protests]]
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 [[Marxism|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.
[[File:Karl-Marx-Universiteit_©1969_Hans_vande_Watering.png|thumb|right]]

==Rankings==
{{Infobox university rankings
| QS_W   = =347 | QS_W_year = 2026 | QS_W_ref = <ref name=":QSW2026">{{Cite web|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings|title=QS World University Rankings}}</ref>
| THE_W  = 251-300| THE_W_year = 2025 | THE_W_ref = <ref>{{cite news |title=World University Rankings 2025 |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2025/world-ranking |work=Times Higher Education (THE) |access-date=9 October 2024}}</ref>
| ARWU_W = 701-800 | ARWU_W_year = 2024 | ARWU_W_ref = <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2024 |title=2024 Academic Ranking of World Universities |access-date=8 October 2024 |publisher=Shanghai Ranking Consultancy}}</ref>
| USNWR_W = =631 | USNWR_W_year = 2024-25 | USNWR_W_ref = <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings |title=2024-2025 Best Global Universities Rankings |website=U.S. News Education (USNWR) |access-date=8 October 2024}}</ref>
| CWUR_W = 696 | CWUR_W_year = 2024 | CWUR_W_ref = <ref>{{cite web |url=https://cwur.org/2024.php |title=World University Rankings 2024 |access-date=6 June 2024 |work=Center for World University Rankings}}</ref>
| CWTS_W = 197 | CWTS_W_year = 2024 | CWTS_W_ref = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.leidenranking.com/ranking/2024/list|title=CWTS Leiden Ranking 2024 - PP top 10%|access-date=8 October 2024|work=CWTS Leiden Ranking}}</ref>
}}

Tilburg University is a specialised university and has a focus on Social Sciences and Economics. In 2020 three major university rankings ([[QS World University Ranking]], [[THE World University Rankings]] and [[U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking|US News Best Global Universities]]) listed Tilburg among the top 40 in the world and top 10 in Europe for Economics.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/search?region=europe&subject=economics-business|title=The US News 2020 ranking in Economics & Business|access-date=12 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2020/economics-econometrics|title=QS World Economics & Econometrics Subject Ranking}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2019/subject-ranking/business-and-economics#!/page/0/length/50/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/statss|title=World University Rankings 2019 by subject: business and economics|date=8 October 2018 |access-date=12 April 2020}}</ref>

In 2020, Tilburg University was ranked 17th worldwide and 4th in Europe in Economics & Business field, by [[U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking|the US News 2020 ranking.]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/search?region=europe&subject=economics-business|title=The US News 2020 ranking in Economics & Business}}</ref> [[Times Higher Education]] in 2019 ranked it 28th in Economics & Business and 28th in Law globally in the 2021 ranking.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2019/subject-ranking/business-and-economics#!/page/0/length/50/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/statss|title=World University Rankings 2019 by subject: business and economics|date=8 October 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2021/subject-ranking/law#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats|title=World University Rankings 2021 by subject: law|date=12 December 2020|work=Times Higher Education}}</ref> The [[Shanghai Ranking]] lists Tilburg as the 5th best university in Business Administration in the world, 12th in Finance and 27th in Management.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/Shanghairanking-Subject-Rankings/business-administration.html|title=Shanghai Ranking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2019 - Business Administration - Shanghai Ranking - 2019|work=Shanghai Ranking|access-date=2017-10-30|archive-date=2017-07-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702203804/http://www.shanghairanking.com/shanghairanking-subject-rankings/business-administration.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/Shanghairanking-Subject-Rankings/finance.html|title=Shanghai Ranking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2019 - Finance - Shanghai Ranking - 2019|work=Shanghai Ranking|access-date=13 April 2020|archive-date=2 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702090429/http://www.shanghairanking.com/Shanghairanking-Subject-Rankings/finance.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/Shanghairanking-Subject-Rankings/management.html|title=ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2019 - Management - Shanghai Ranking - 2019|work=Shanghai Ranking|access-date=13 April 2020|archive-date=9 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909232647/http://www/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Education and research==
Tilburg University has 73 Bachelors<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bachelor's programs Tilburg University {{!}} Tilburg University |url=https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/education/bachelors-programs |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=www.tilburguniversity.edu |language=en}}</ref> & Masters programs,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Master's programs Tilburg University {{!}} Tilburg University |url=https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/education/masters-programs |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=www.tilburguniversity.edu |language=en}}</ref> of which 43 in English.<ref name=":1" />

=== Schools ===
Tilburg University has five Schools:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Schools and Institutes Tilburg University |url=https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about/schools |access-date=2023-07-11 |language=EN}}</ref>

* 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|research centers]] and [[graduate school]]s (see below).

Student life takes place at several study and student (sports) associations.

==Notable alumni and faculty members==
* [[Wim de Bie]] – writer, satirist, comedian
* [[Lans Bovenberg]] – economist
* [[Wim van de Donk]] – politician
* [[Afshin Ellian]] – professor of law, philosopher, poet, critic of Islam
* [[Max Euwe]] – chess Grandmaster, mathematician, former President of [[FIDE]]
* [[Jackie Groenen]] - footballer
* [[Ernst Hirsch Ballin]] – former Dutch Minister of Justice
* [[Geert Hofstede]] – social psychologist, anthropologist (see [[Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory]])
* [[Servais Knaven]] – cyclist
* [[Ruud Lubbers]] – former [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]], [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees]] (2001–2005)
* [[Paul Scheffer]]
* [[Norbert Schmelzer]] – former Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs
* [[Diederik Stapel]] – founder of the Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research, later dismissed for fabricating data.
* [[Max van der Stoel]] – politician, first High Commissioner of [[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe]]
* [[Cees Veerman]] – former Dutch Minister of Agriculture
* [[Jan Vranken]] - Professor of law
* [[Herman Wijffels]] – economist and politician
* [[Willem Witteveen]] – legal scholar, politician, and author
* [[Joseph A. McCahery]] – corporate lawyers, researcher and institutional adviser
* [[Ralph Hamers]] – businessman, the chief executive officer (CEO) of ING Group since October 2013
* [[Jacques van den Broek]] - CEO of [[Randstad NV]] since March 2014

==References==
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== Further reading ==
* {{Cite Q|Q131860456}}

==External links==
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*{{official|http://www.tilburguniversity.nl }}
*[http://www.tias.edu TIAS School for Business and Society]
*[https://dataverse.nl/dataverse/tilburg Tilburg University Datasets]

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