Erasmus University Rotterdam is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century humanist and theologian.
Erasmus MC is the largest and one of the foremost academic medical centers and trauma centers in the Netherlands, whereas its economics and business school, Erasmus School of Economics and Rotterdam School of Management are well known in Europe and beyond. Currently, Erasmus University Rotterdam has been placed in the top 100 universities in the world by five major ranking tables. In 2017, the university was ranked by Times Higher Education as 69th in the world with its business & economics as 17th, and clinical health as 42nd in the world, and was ranked among top ten business schools in Europe by the Financial Times. In 2015, Erasmus University Rotterdam was ranked by Times Higher Education as 20th in Europe and 72nd in the world, with its social sciences as 40th, and clinical health as 35th in the world.
The university has seven faculties and focuses on the following four areas:
- Health – Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences/Erasmus MC and Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM)
- Wealth – Erasmus School of Economics and Rotterdam School of Management
- Governance – Erasmus School of Law and Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB)
- Culture – Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB) and Erasmus School of Philosophy (ESPhil)
Research Institutes/Schools
Wealth
- Erasmus Research Institute of Management
The Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management and the Erasmus School of Economics, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam. It aims to bring together top researchers in business and management.
- Econometric Institute
Erasmus University today is seen as the leading university in Econometrics and Operational Research. Jan Tinbergen, Nobel Prize winner for Economics (1969), and Henri Theil founded the Econometric Institute and influenced both Econometrics & Management Science. Tinbergen’s theories also had a political inclination, with multiple objectives of price stability and employment and policies to achieve the desired results and stabilizing the economy.
- Tinbergen Institute (TI)
The Tinbergen Institute is a joint institute for research and education in economics, econometrics and finance of the University of Amsterdam, the VU University Amsterdam and the Erasmus University Rotterdam. It is one of the top research institutes and graduate schools in economics and finance in the world.[20] It offers a research master program (MPhil) in economics and finance as well as PhD opportunities.
- Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics (TRAIL)
In association with TU Delft, the TRAIL Research School is the Dutch national research school active in the fields of Transport, Infrastructure, and Logistics.
- Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship (ECE)
Health
- Cardiovascular Research School Erasmus University Rotterdam (COEUR)
- Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (NIHES)
- Postgraduate School Molecular Medicine (MM)
- Medical Genetics Centre South-West Netherlands (MGC)
MGC participates in the top Research School Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics
- Helmholtz School for Autonomous Systems Research
Law, Culture and Society
- Institute for Sales and Account Management
- International Institute of Social Studies
- Research School Public Safety
- Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG)
- Huizinga Instituut
- N.W. Posthumus Instituut
- Amsterdam School of Social-Public Research (ASSR)
- Research School Rights of the human
- Experimental Psychologic Researchschool (EPOS)
- Kurt Lewin Institute
- Research School of Ethics