05/11/2017

The Dutch Tales #2: Living the library life

As promised last time, the next article will be about universities. Let me start with a bit of a disclaimer by specifying that this article compares only the universities and programs that I personally studied, which is the Czech-taught version of the program International Trade at the University of Economics in Prague and the Msc program Marketing Management at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Yes it's a bit dumb to compare a bachelors to the masters but hey let's just deal with it, okay?

For those of you who haven't heard of Tilburg nor the university before (I feel you, I really do) it's located in a province called North Brabant, roughly 20 minutes away from Eindhoven (now that does ring a bell, doesn't it?!). According to Wikipedia Tilburg is the SIXTH biggest city in the Netherlands - shocking, I know. In case you're really into football (or for my beloved American friends: soccer) you might have heard of Willem II, Tilburg's very own football club that I'm yet to see play live. Everyone says that the city is not nice - for the Dutch matters - but don't believe them! I am deeply in love with Tilburg and I think it's the second most beautiful city in the world (after Prague obvi). But back to the university - personally I think it's simply awesome but to support my claim with some facts, it was recently ranked the 3rd best university in the Netherlands in the Elsevier Beste Studies ranking, woo! (I don't mean to brag, but my program was selected the best of its kind, yay!)