Tilburg University

Tilburg University is a research university with Catholic roots in Tilburg, the largest city of the southern Dutch province of North Brabant, founded in 1927 as the Roomsch Katholieke Handelshoogeschool (Roman Catholic University of Commerce) and today focused on the social and behavioural sciences, economics, business, law, theology and the humanities under the motto "Understanding Society".蒂尔堡大学（Tilburg University）是一所根植于天主教传统的研究型大学，位于荷兰南部北布拉班特省最大城市蒂尔堡，1927 年以「罗马天主教商学院」（Roomsch Katholieke Handelshoogeschool）之名创办，如今以社会与行为科学、经济学、商学、法学、神学与人文学科为重心，校训是「理解社会」（Understanding Society）。

In 2024 the university enrolled 19,168 students and offered 67 degree programmes, 45 of them at master's level, it counted more than 97,000 alumni since its foundation, its students and staff came from 115 nationalities, and at the end of 2025 it had 966 active PhD researchers.2024 年该校有 19,168 名学生，开设 67 个学位项目，其中 45 个为硕士项目；自建校以来毕业生已超过 97,000 人，师生来自 115 个民族，2025 年底在册博士研究员为 966 人。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Tilburg University is placed 429th, it lies in the 326-350 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, it is 651st in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities, and it falls in the 801-900 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中该校位列第 429，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 326 至 350 区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 651，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 801 至 900 区间。

History

• Tilburg University traces its origin to a deed of foundation signed on 29 August 1927, when five prominent citizens appeared before the Tilburg notary Goijaerts to constitute the first board of the Roomsch Katholieke Leergangen, the body behind the new school of commerce.蒂尔堡大学的源头是 1927 年 8 月 29 日签署的一份创办契约，当日五位知名人士在蒂尔堡公证人霍伊阿尔茨（Goijaerts）面前组成「罗马天主教进修学院」（Roomsch Katholieke Leergangen）首届董事会，这所商学院即由此而来。

• The deed was passed only a few days before the first academic year began, and it charged the new institution with giving students a thorough education in the spirit of the Roman Catholic Church.这份契约在首个学年开始前几天才签署，其中载明新机构须本着罗马天主教的精神为学生提供扎实的教育。

• From 1927 until the summer of 1962 the university was housed in the centre of Tilburg at what is now the Tivolistraat, sharing premises with the Katholieke Leergangen founded by the Amsterdam teacher and publicist Hendrik Moller.从 1927 年到 1962 年夏，该校一直设在蒂尔堡市中心如今的蒂沃利街（Tivolistraat），与阿姆斯特丹教师兼政论家亨德里克·莫勒（Hendrik Moller）创办的天主教进修学院共用场所。

• The institution was founded in the Catholic south of the Netherlands, and its religious identity shaped a curriculum built at first around commerce and economics rather than the classical faculties of older Dutch universities.该校创办于天主教占多数的荷兰南部，其宗教底色使其课程最初以商科与经济学为核心，而非沿用荷兰老牌大学的古典学科格局。

• In 1938 the school was renamed Katholieke Economische Hogeschool (Catholic Economic University), the second of four names it has carried.1938 年该校更名为「天主教经济学院」（Katholieke Economische Hogeschool），这是其历史上四个校名中的第二个。

• In the summer of 1962 the university left the city centre for a new green campus in the west of Tilburg, where the Cobbenhagen Building stood as the first and only structure.1962 年夏，该校从市中心迁往蒂尔堡西部的绿色新校区，当时科本哈根大楼（Cobbenhagen Building）是其中唯一一栋建筑。

• In 1963 the institution took the name Katholieke Hogeschool Tilburg, and in the same year its faculties of Law and of Social and Behavioural Sciences were founded.1963 年该校更名为「蒂尔堡天主教高等学院」（Katholieke Hogeschool Tilburg），同年其法学院与社会及行为科学学院成立。

• Its Faculty of Philosophy and Theology was established in 1967 and a Faculty of Arts followed in 1981, so that the former commercial college came to cover the humanities and theology as well as economics and law.其哲学与神学院于 1967 年成立，文学院随后于 1981 年设立，这所昔日的商学院由此把人文、神学与经济学、法学一并纳入。

• On 28 April 1969 students barricaded campus buildings to demand educational and organisational change, part of a wave of protest that swept Dutch universities at the end of the 1960s.1969 年 4 月 28 日，学生封锁了校园建筑，要求教学与管理的改革，这是 1960 年代末席卷荷兰各大学的抗议浪潮的一部分。

• Months before those protests students had unofficially renamed their university Karl Marx University, painting the title across the campus to highlight Marxist ideas in what was then a mainly economics-oriented curriculum.在抗议发生前数月，学生曾非正式地把学校称作「卡尔·马克思大学」，并把这一名号涂遍校园，以突出当时以经济学为主的课程中的马克思主义思想。

• The 1969 protests fed into a nationwide reform of Dutch higher education that was formalised by the Educational Reform Act of 1971, which gave students a greater share in university decision-making.1969 年的抗议推动了荷兰全国性的高等教育改革，并以 1971 年《教育革新法》正式确立，该法赋予学生在大学决策中更大的发言权。

• In 1971 the campus gained two new buildings, Building B and Building C, which later became known as the Koopmans Building and the Goossens Building, alongside a new university library.1971 年校区新增两栋楼，B 楼与 C 楼，后来分别改称库普曼斯楼（Koopmans Building）与古森斯楼（Goossens Building），同期还建成一座新的大学图书馆。

• The library that opened on the new campus in that period was given the name University Library of the Future, a phrase that reflected the university's ambition for its new site.那一时期在新校区启用的图书馆被命名为「未来大学图书馆」，这一名称反映了该校对新校址的期许。

• In 1986 the university adopted the name Katholieke Universiteit Brabant, aligning its title with the province in which it stands.1986 年该校改用「布拉班特天主教大学」（Katholieke Universiteit Brabant）之名，使其校名与所在省份相呼应。

• In 2001 the institution took its present name, Tilburg University, dropping the word Catholic from the title while retaining its Catholic identity and character.2001 年该校定名为蒂尔堡大学，把「天主教」一词从校名中去掉，同时保留其天主教身份与气质。

• The Tilburg School of Economics and Management, founded together with the university in 1927, is the oldest and largest of its schools.与大学同于 1927 年创办的经济与管理学院（Tilburg School of Economics and Management）是该校历史最久、规模最大的学院。

• The Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences and the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology were formed in 2007 out of the former faculties of Arts and of Philosophy and Theology.人文与数字科学学院以及天主教神学院均于 2007 年由原文学院与哲学及神学院合并重组而成。

• Tilburg University runs University College Tilburg, a small-scale liberal arts and sciences college where students design their own interdisciplinary path across the humanities, social sciences and cognitive sciences.蒂尔堡大学设有蒂尔堡学院（University College Tilburg），这是一所小规模的文理学院，学生可在人文、社会科学与认知科学之间自行设计跨学科学习路径。

• Together with Eindhoven University of Technology the university operates TIAS, a business school offering MBA and executive programmes for working professionals.该校与埃因霍温理工大学合办提亚斯商学院（TIAS），为在职人士提供 MBA 与高管课程。

• Tilburg University belongs to the ENGAGE.EU alliance, a network of seven European universities that links more than 100,000 students and staff members across Europe.蒂尔堡大学是 ENGAGE.EU 联盟成员，该联盟汇集欧洲七所大学，串联起欧洲逾 10 万名学生与教职员。

• In 2025 the university counted 966 active PhD researchers and launched a PhD Education Platform that bundles all freely available training courses for doctoral candidates in one place.2025 年该校有 966 名在册博士研究员，并推出博士教育平台，把面向博士生的所有开放培训课程汇总于一处。

• The university is now working towards its first centenary in 2027, having grown from a small commercial college into a medium-sized multidisciplinary university oriented to the humanities and social sciences.该校正迈向 2027 年的百年校庆，其间已从一所小型商学院成长为以人文与社会科学为取向的中等规模综合性大学。

Academics

• Tilburg University is organised into five schools, namely the Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg Law School, the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences and the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology.蒂尔堡大学设五个学院，即经济与管理学院、法学院、社会与行为科学学院、人文与数字科学学院以及天主教神学院。

• The university offers 67 degree programmes, of which 45 are master's programmes, and more than 50 of its master's degrees are taught entirely in English.该校开设 67 个学位项目，其中 45 个为硕士项目，并有 50 多个硕士项目完全以英语授课。

• Its teaching and research span business, entrepreneurship, economics, econometrics, data science, law, social and behavioural sciences, psychology, humanities, and communication and digital sciences.其教学与研究涵盖商学、创业、经济学、计量经济学、数据科学、法学、社会与行为科学、心理学、人文学科以及传播与数字科学。

• Tilburg Law School and the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences were both established in 1963, while the School of Economics and Management dates back to the university's foundation in 1927.法学院与社会及行为科学学院均创办于 1963 年，而经济与管理学院的历史则可追溯到 1927 年建校之时。

• The university reported more than 3,000 full-time-equivalent staff members, 57 per cent of whom are academic staff, supporting a student body of about 19,000.该校报告称全职等值教职员超过 3,000 人，其中 57% 为学术人员，支撑约 19,000 名在校学生。

• Tilburg awards roughly 99 doctoral degrees each year, and its PhD Education Platform provides a single point of access to training courses for all doctoral candidates.该校每年授予约 99 个博士学位，其博士教育平台为所有博士生提供统一的培训课程入口。

• International students make up about 27 per cent of the student body, and the university draws its students and staff from more than 115 nationalities.国际学生约占在校生的 27%，该校师生来自 115 个以上的民族。

• University College Tilburg offers a small-scale interdisciplinary bachelor's programme leading to a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science, depending on the chosen specialisation.蒂尔堡学院提供小规模跨学科本科项目，依所选专业方向授予文学学士或理学学士学位。

• TIAS, run jointly with Eindhoven University of Technology, offers master's and executive education in business and society for professionals and organisations.该校与埃因霍温理工大学合办的提亚斯商学院为专业人士与机构提供商业与社会领域的研究生及高管教育。

• The Tilburg Educational Profile puts knowledge, skills and character at the centre of every degree, and each programme includes a philosophy course that encourages critical reflection.蒂尔堡教育纲要（Tilburg Educational Profile）把知识、技能与品格置于每个学位的核心，且每个项目都包含一门鼓励批判性反思的哲学课程。

• Research is conducted in the five schools with the support of a network of research institutes and graduate schools that cut across disciplinary boundaries.研究在五个学院内展开，并得到一批跨学科的研究所与研究生院的支撑。

• Through the ENGAGE.EU alliance the university offers its students joint programmes, mobility and collaboration with partner universities in Mannheim, Bergen, Rome, Toulouse, Vienna and Sofia.借助 ENGAGE.EU 联盟，该校学生可与曼海姆、卑尔根、罗马、图卢兹、维也纳与索菲亚的伙伴大学开展联合项目、交流与协作。

• The School of Catholic Theology continues a tradition of theological study that reaches back to the university's Catholic foundation in 1927.天主教神学院延续着可追溯至 1927 年天主教建校背景的神学研习传统。

• The university offers honours, leadership and entrepreneurship tracks as well as Extended Master's programmes for students who wish to go beyond the standard curriculum.该校除常规课程外，还开设荣誉项目、领导力与创业方向以及「延长硕士」项目，供希望学得更深的学生选择。

• Tilburg's profile is deliberately specialised, concentrating on the social sciences, economics, business, law and the humanities rather than on engineering or the natural sciences.蒂尔堡的办学定位刻意聚焦，集中于社会科学、经济学、商学、法学与人文学科，而不设工程或自然科学方向。

• Together with its schools the university maintains graduate schools that structure doctoral training and support early-career researchers across the disciplines it teaches.该校与各学院共同设立研究生院，为其所授各学科的博士培养与青年研究者提供结构化支持。

Campus

• The university occupies a single green campus in the west of Tilburg, on Warandelaan, to which it moved from the city centre in the summer of 1962.该校在蒂尔堡西部的瓦兰德拉安（Warandelaan）拥有一座整体式的绿色校园，1962 年夏由市中心迁至此处。

• The Cobbenhagen Building, named after the university's first rector, was the first and only building on the new campus and still stands at its heart.以该校首任校长科本哈根（Cobbenhagen）命名的科本哈根大楼是新校区最初唯一的一栋建筑，至今仍居校园中心。

• In 1971 two further buildings were opened, later renamed the Koopmans Building and the Goossens Building, together with a university library described as the University Library of the Future.1971 年校区又启用两栋楼，后更名为库普曼斯楼与古森斯楼，同时落成的还有被称为「未来大学图书馆」的大学图书馆。

• The campus has been described by the university as a green site with a strong campus feeling, and it is compact enough for everything to be within a short walk.校方将该校区形容为绿意盎然、校园氛围浓厚之地，其格局紧凑，各设施步行可达。

• University College Tilburg, the liberal arts and sciences college, is housed on the main campus, so that its students live and study within the same small community.文理学院蒂尔堡学院设在主校区内，学生因而在同一小型社区中生活与学习。

• Student and study associations, sports associations and the university sports centre are based on the campus, giving the site an active social life alongside its academic buildings.学生社团、学习社团、体育社团与大学体育中心都设在校园内，使校区在学术建筑之外还有活跃的社交生活。

• Tilburg stands in North Brabant, and the university links itself to the Brainport Eindhoven region, the high-technology area of the southern Netherlands that has been described as Europe's smartest region.蒂尔堡位于北布拉班特省，该校与「布拉恩波特－埃因霍温」地区建立联系，这一荷兰南部的高科技区域曾被称为欧洲最智慧的地区。

• The campus grew from a single building in the 1960s into a compact site whose buildings and library have been added and renewed over six decades of expansion.校区从 1960 年代的一栋建筑发展为紧凑的整体，其建筑与图书馆在六十余年的扩张中不断增建与翻新。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Tilburg University is placed 429th, an outcome that reflects its specialised profile rather than a broad engineering and science base.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，蒂尔堡大学位列第 429，这一结果反映的是其专业化定位，而非广泛的工程与理科基础。

• In the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings the university stands in the 326-350 band, its strongest showing among the four major global tables.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 326 至 350 区间，这是它在四大全球榜单中表现最好的一项。

• It is 651st in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities and falls in the 801-900 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.在 2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名中它位列第 651，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 801 至 900 区间。

• In the Times Higher Education subject tables for 2025 the university ranked among the world's top 50 for both Business and Economics and Law.在 2025 年泰晤士高等教育学科排名中，该校的商业与经济学以及法学都进入全球前 50。

• In 2020 three major ranking systems, QS, Times Higher Education and U.S. News, all listed Tilburg among the world's top 40 and Europe's top 10 for economics.2020 年，QS、泰晤士高等教育与 U.S. News 三大排名都将其列为经济学领域全球前 40、欧洲前 10。

• The Shanghai Ranking has placed Tilburg among the world's leading institutions in business administration, finance and management, fields in which its research is concentrated.软科排名曾把蒂尔堡列入工商管理、金融与管理领域的全球领先院校之列，而这些正是其研究集中的方向。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 47,988 research works attracting 2,253,880 citations, a measure that is modest in absolute terms because Tilburg does not maintain medical or engineering faculties.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 47,988 项研究成果、累计被引 2,253,880 次；由于蒂尔堡不设医学与工程学院，这一绝对量并不算大。

• Tilburg has not been associated with a Nobel laureate, and its best-known single academic distinction is the world chess championship held by Max Euwe, who taught at the university.蒂尔堡大学并无诺贝尔奖得主与之相关，其最著名的一项学术荣誉是曾在蒂尔堡任教的马克斯·尤伟所获得的世界国际象棋冠军。

• Its reputation rests chiefly on economics, econometrics, law and the social and behavioural sciences, where its small, research-intensive schools compete with much larger universities.该校的声誉主要建立在经济学、计量经济学、法学以及社会与行为科学之上，其小而研究密集的学院在这些领域可与规模大得多的大学竞争。

• Tilburg University is a member of the ENGAGE.EU European university alliance, a mark of its standing in European collaborative teaching and research.蒂尔堡大学是欧洲大学联盟 ENGAGE.EU 的成员，这标志着它在欧洲协作式教学与研究中的地位。

Student life

• The university's motto is "Understanding Society", a phrase that reflects its ambition to help solve complex social problems through research and teaching.该校校训为「理解社会」（Understanding Society），这一表述反映了它希望以研究与教学帮助解决复杂社会问题的志向。

• Student life is organised around a large number of study associations and student and sports associations, each attached to a field of study or a shared interest.学生生活围绕大量学习社团以及学生与体育社团展开，这些社团分别对应某一学科领域或某项共同兴趣。

• University College Tilburg is deliberately small-scale, so that its students form a close-knit community inside the wider university.蒂尔堡学院刻意保持小规模，其学生因而在更大的大学之内形成一个紧密的小社区。

• The green campus is described by the university as having a strong campus feeling, with teaching, housing and social facilities within walking distance of one another.校方称这座绿色校园具有浓厚的校园氛围，教学、住宿与社交设施都在步行可达的范围内。

• International students form about 27 per cent of the student body and students and staff come from more than 115 nationalities, giving campus life an international character.国际学生约占在校生的 27%，师生来自 115 个以上的民族，使校园生活带有鲜明的国际化色彩。

• The university runs the Program for Academic Study Success, known as PASS, through which students receive academic and personal guidance from an academic mentor and from one another.该校设有「学业成功计划」（PASS），学生可从学业导师与同伴那里获得学术与个人层面的指导。

• Tilburg lies in the Brainport Eindhoven region, an area the university presents as one of Europe's smartest, and its students are connected to that high-technology network.蒂尔堡位于布拉恩波特－埃因霍温地区，校方将其称为欧洲最智慧的区域之一，学生因此与该高科技网络相连。

• Beyond the standard curriculum the university offers honours, leadership, entrepreneurship and Extended Master's tracks, encouraging students to shape their own development.在常规课程之外，该校还提供荣誉、领导力、创业与「延长硕士」等项目，鼓励学生自主规划自身发展。

Notable people

• Martinus Cobbenhagen, the economist who led the university in its earliest years, is commemorated in the name of the Cobbenhagen Building on the Tilburg campus.在经济学家科本哈根（Martinus Cobbenhagen）的带领下，该校度过创办初期；蒂尔堡校园中的科本哈根大楼即以他命名。

• Hendrik Moller, the Amsterdam teacher and publicist who founded the Katholieke Leergangen, was a formative influence on the institution that became Tilburg University.阿姆斯特丹教师兼政论家亨德里克·莫勒创办了天主教进修学院，对日后成为蒂尔堡大学的这所机构具有奠基性影响。

• Max Euwe, the Dutch chess Grandmaster who was world champion from 1935 to 1937 and later president of FIDE, taught at the university.荷兰国际象棋特级大师马克斯·尤伟曾于 1935 至 1937 年担任世界冠军，后任国际棋联主席，他曾在蒂尔堡大学任教。

• Ruud Lubbers, who studied at Tilburg, served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994 and later as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 2001 to 2005.曾在蒂尔堡求学的吕德·吕贝尔斯于 1982 至 1994 年任荷兰首相，其后于 2001 至 2005 年任联合国难民事务高级专员。

• Geert Hofstede, the social psychologist known for Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory, was a professor at the university.以「霍夫斯泰德文化维度理论」闻名的社会心理学家海尔特·霍夫斯泰德曾是该校教授。

• Ernst Hirsch Ballin, a professor of law at Tilburg, served as Dutch Minister of Justice and later as Minister of the Interior.蒂尔堡大学法学教授恩斯特·希尔施·巴林曾任荷兰司法部长，后任内政部长。

• Norbert Schmelzer, a graduate of the university, was Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs.该校毕业生诺贝特·施梅尔策曾任荷兰外交部长。

• Max van der Stoel, another alumnus, was the first High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.另一位校友马克斯·范德尔斯图尔曾担任欧洲安全与合作组织首任少数民族事务高级专员。

• Cees Veerman, who studied and later taught at the university, served as Dutch Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality.曾在蒂尔堡求学并后来任教的塞斯·维尔曼曾任荷兰农业、自然与食品质量部长。

• Ralph Hamers, a graduate of the university, was chief executive officer of ING Group from 2013 and later became chief executive of UBS.该校毕业生拉尔夫·哈默斯自 2013 年起任荷兰国际集团（ING）首席执行官，后出任瑞银集团首席执行官。

• Jacques van den Broek, another alumnus, has been chief executive officer of the Dutch staffing company Randstad since 2014.另一位校友雅克·范登布鲁克自 2014 年起任荷兰人力资源公司任仕达的首席执行官。

• Diederik Stapel, founder of the Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research, was dismissed after an investigation found that he had fabricated research data.行为经济学研究所的创办人迪德里克·斯塔佩尔因调查认定其伪造研究数据而被解职。