Graduate School
Prospective students
Eight good reasons to come to Tinbergen Institute
5. Excellent international travel opportunities
Tinbergen Institute and its fellows and students are very well connected internationally. Many of the
institute’s PhD students spend some time abroad in academic institutions (such as Harvard University,
University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, University College London,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh) and international organizations
(such as the World Bank) during their PhD. They often manage to get their research papers
accepted for presentation at key conferences, such as the Econometric Society meetings. They also
travel for research meetings and classes within formal European Union networks connecting the top
European graduate schools.
In support of international travel, TI allocates personal travel budgets to its PhD students.
[Reason 6: Good funding opportunities]
Maarten Janssen
Tinbergen Institute lecturer and research fellow
For many years now, I have been teaching the first course in the Microeconomics sequence. That means that I get to see all the eager faces of fresh students who have come from all over the world- students who for the most part have just arrived in the Netherlands, and who suddenly have to cope with a highly formalized body of economic ideas and methods.
What is nice, and indeed a very good, objective signal of the quality of Tinbergen Institute and its students, is that I see many of these students back at the EEA-ESEM conference. This is the conference where the best economics researchers in Europe present their recent work. And many of our students are there presenting their MPhil thesis, years before they graduate for their PhD diploma.