Over its short lifespan of 25 years, TiasNimbas Business School established itself firmly among the top league of European business schools.
- 1982 - Professor Harry Peeters founds the “Tilburgs Instituut voor Academische Studies”.
- 1986 - Tias changes its acronym to denote ‘Tilburg Institute for Advanced Studies’ and makes management education its core business.
- 1986 - The first two master programmes were created: ‘Banking and Finance’ and Managerial Information Science’ (which still exist today as ‘Master in Finance’ and ‘Master in Information Management’ respectively).
- 1986–1995 - On average one new Master programme is launched every year.
- 1996 - Tias focuses on post-experience management education only, and adds contract research and company specific programmes and executive education are added to the portfolio of activities.
- 1999 - Tias starts a dual-degree Executive MBA with Purdue University in the United States, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and GISMA in Hanover, Germany.
- 2001 - Tias becomes a private company, with Tilburg University as its sole shareholder.
- 2004 - Eindhoven University of Technology acquires 20% of Tias shares.
- 2004 - Tias integrates the management education activities of Eindhoven University of Technology.
- 2006 - Tias merges with Universiteit Nimbas in Utrecht by acquiring 100% of its shares.
- 2006 - TiasNimbas Fellowship Programme expands faculty base to 11.
- 2007 - Lifelong Learning Project with our alumni.
- 2008 - Competence Centre for CBMO is launched.
- 2008 - Globus Competence Centre broadens from Globalisation and Sustainable Development to Corporate Global Responsibility.
- 2009 - Prof. dr. ir. Ramon O’Callaghan takes over from Philippe Naert as Dean of TiasNimbas Business School.
- 2009 - Formal cooperation between TiasNimbas and the School of Economics and Management of Tilburg University to jointly design a new full-time MBA and a suite of Executive Programmes
- 2010 - TiasNimbas ranks in all categories of the Financial Times Ranking for the first time
- 2010 - Launch new full-time MBA
