Tilburg University is a public research university specializing in the social and behavioral sciences, economics, law, business sciences, theology and humanities, located in Tilburg in the southern part of the Netherlands.

Tilburg University has a student population of about 17,400 students, about 18 percent of whom are international students. This percentage has steadily increased over the past years. Tilburg University offers both Dutch-and English-taught programs. In 2019, 48 of the total 71 (21 bachelor and 50 master programs) were English-taught. Tilburg University awards approximately 120 PhDs per year.

The institution has gained a reputation in both research and education. In the field of economics, RePEc in March 2020 ranked the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration as the 23rd most productive research department in the world, and the 6th in Europe. According to the 2019 Shanghai Ranking, Tilburg University is ranked 5th in the field of Business Administration and 12th in the field of Finance worldwide. In the field of Law, Tilburg University was ranked #1 in the Netherlands for the last three years according to Elsevier Magazine.

Undergraduate programs

Tilburg University offers a wide range of undergraduate studies, some of which are English-taught.

Tilburg School of Economics and Management

• International Business Administration
• Business Economics
• Economics
• Econometrics and Operations Research
• Finance (including CFA track)
• International Management
• Fiscal Economics

Tilburg Law School

• Administrative Law and Public Administration
• Dutch Law
• Tax law
• Global Law LLB
• Public Governance

School of Social and Behavioral Sciences

• Human Resources Studies
• Organisation Studies
• Psychology (medical psychology, neuropsychology, pediatric psychology, clinical psychology, social psychology, cultural psychology)
• Global Management of Social Issues
• Sociology

School of Humanities and Digital Sciences

• Communication and Information Sciences
• Online Culture (General Culture Studies)
• Online Culture: Art, Media and Society
• Philosophy
• Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence

School of Theology

• Catholic Theology (in cooperation with Utrecht University)

University College Tilburg

• Liberal Arts & Sciences

Joint Bachelor Data Science (in cooperation with Eindhoven University of Technology)

Graduate programs

Tilburg University offers a range of graduate and doctoral programs, most of these are English-taught.