Graduate School
Prospective students
Eight good reasons to come to Tinbergen Institute
2. Good job placement prospects
Tinbergen Institute has over 400 PhD alumni. Roughly half of them work in research universities in the Netherlands and abroad - many as full and tenured professors (including some at CalTech and Brown). A quarter of the remaining TI alumni work for national and international government organizations such as central banks, government ministries, the World Bank and the IMF. The rest are employed in private-sector firms - usually large banks, insurance and consultancy firms.
Our recent placement record is excellent. Graduates who received their PhD between the years 2006 and 208 have ended up in tenure-track positions in New York University (Stern School of Business), Indiana University (Kelley School of Business), University of Cambridge and University of Toulouse and as postdoc researcher at Northwestern University (Kellogg School of Management) and the University of Chicago.
TI's Job Placement Committee, consisting of both senior professors from the three departments and associate fellows who are professors abroad, will further streamline TI’s job placement process and provide support for students entering the international job market.
Finally, TI's Students' Council regularly organizes job market events for PhD students that allow private-sector firms and government organizations, in particular, to present themselves.
[Reason 3: Extensive program of field courses]
Ronald Wolthoff (The Netherlands)
Tinbergen Institute alumnus 2008
Current position: postdoctoral researcher in the Economics Department of the University of Chicago.
Most research fellows of the Tinbergen Institute have a large network and they do not hesitate to use these contacts to help their students. For example, my supervisor arranged for me a five-month visit to the University of Pennsylvania. This visit was obviously useful for improving my research and for getting to know personally some of the experts in my field.
Last year, during the job market process, my supervisors and the director of graduate studies guided me really well, from the very first application all the way until the last job offer. They contacted the people they knew at the universities to which I had applied— and this contributed immensely to getting the position that I currently have: a postdoc in the Economics Department of the University of Chicago.