Tilburg School of Economics and Management

Tilburg School of Economics and Management operates within Tilburg University in the Netherlands and focuses on graduate education in economics, business, management, marketing, and transportation and logistics. Its international orientation is explicit in both its classroom model and its student recruitment priorities. The school states that it aims to attract the world’s brightest students to its international classrooms, and its merit-based funding structure shows a targeted effort to bring high-achieving students from outside the European Union into its master’s programs.

A clear example is the Excellence scholarship non-EEA, a program tied to the School’s MSc offerings for the 2017/2018 academic year. That award carried a value of 10,000 euro, offered 3 awards, and was intended for prospective students from Turkey, Colombia, and China entering one-year MSc programs at the School of Economics and Management. The scholarship’s eligibility standards were academically exacting: applicants needed a non-EU passport, an academic average equivalent to a Dutch grade of 8.0 on a 1-10 scale, placement in the top 5% of graduates in their class, and strong testing credentials such as a GMAT score of at least 670 for Business Master applicants or a GRE quantitative percentile above 85 for Economics or Econometrics applicants. The school also required proof of English proficiency and two academic recommendation letters.