Budapest University of Technology and Economics

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The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) is a public higher education institute operating as a central budgetary institution. The Minister of Human Capacities has issued its founding regulation. Its organizational and operational conditions are summarized in its regulation under laws.
Education, research, innovation, and direct additional services are proceeded by the faculties. Work-sharing between the faculties are subject-oriented both in the fields of education and that of technology. The faculties consist of departments, institutes, and research centers supported by deans offices and other units.
To enhance the sustainability and the scope of cooperation, the focus of the Center for University-Industry Cooperation (FIEK) is to encourage synergies between different areas.
Governing is assisted by the Rectors Office and the Chancellors Office. There is a highly independent group of integrated internal control. Service units support faculties and student organizations.
Other organizations like companies established or owned by the University, welfare institutions, student or teacher activity groups, and other organizations associated with the University.
The Rector is the top manager and representative of the University. The Chancellor ensures the technical conditions, the administration, and the financial management to complete the University's functions. The Rector and the Chancellor regularly call Executive Board meetings to prepare strategic decisions. Employment relations are regulated in the Annex of the Human Resource Policy.
The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Hungary's leading higher education institution in engineering, is celebrating in 2017 the 235th anniversary of its predecessor's foundation.
Our Strategy is in line with the government's objectives, outlined in the publication entitled A Change of Pace in Higher Education:
Each University and college needs to focus on its own distinguishable and prioritized field of study, meaning that the institutions should have a clear program profile and provide world-class education in their field.
This publication is the summary of the Senate of the University's Strategy, supplemented with the latest statistical data of our institution.
Our institution, founded in 1782 under Institutum Geometrico-Hydrotechnicum, has been the top higher education institution in Hungary. It also has a well-established international reputation.
The foundation of the University's effectiveness is the devoted educational activities of our professors and our students' hard work and enthusiasm. These values ensure the stability and continuity of education, scientific research, and technological development.
Students who feel talented and skilled may join various development projects already during their university years. When they continue their studies from the necessary degree to the Masters's qualifications, we aim to fine-tune their knowledge and skills to become excellent development and research engineers. Those who wish to proceed with their scientific studies may join Ph.D. courses, which will provide a sound basis and guiding framework to reach their professional targets.
All these opportunities ensure that the University of Technology has become one of the leading research universities in Hungary and is well-known for its scientific results abroad. It is also vital that young people join our programs should become excellent professionals and educated persons in the broadest sense. There are various opportunities for intellectual activities at the University, and professors tend to convey professional skills and their attitudes, values, and viewpoints that may enrich students' perceptions.
The eight faculties of the University of Technology have their characteristics, but they all aim at outstanding educational results. The faculties cover such broad scientific areas that are well enough to understand and study within the courses' time frames.
Qualified professionals have strong technological and scientific base knowledge and economic skills and can also apply structural approaches to various processes.
Past years have proven that degrees from and the knowledge and skills obtained at the University of Technology are a valuable passport to the work market. Besides the Hungarian language, there are opportunities to study in foreign languages – mainly in English. Our students can join international exchange programs and spend some – longer or shorter - time abroad to obtain special skills and good command of foreign languages and make new friends.
In the University of Technology's unique atmosphere, our students follow the specific values of the University, and this is the best that can happen to them! When I was a student, the same thing happened to me, and it has worked out to start a very fruitful and meaningful professional career.
The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) is a prestigious higher education institution in Hungary. Its primary mission is to educate professionals in technology, informatics, natural sciences, economics, business, and management. The University's mission, inseparable from education, is to cultivate the sciences, to do scientific research, which encompasses fundamental and applied research, technological product and service development, and exploitation of results making up the innovation chain.
Thanks to the high-level undergraduate degree programs built on a general basis and the subsequent master's programs for the fine-tuning of their knowledge, students graduating from BME have a wide range of employment opportunities geographically and in terms of the field of employment as well. The institution's several doctoral schools qualify students for scientific researcher-developer careers.
In the Hungarian higher education rankings, the University's technology and informatics degree programs take the first place, and the sciences and economics degree programs are among the best ones. For BME, however, international rankings are the real measure.
Currently, BME's budget is made up of one-half state subsidy and own one-half revenues. The faculties, covering a wide range of activities, acquire funds through Hungarian and EU tenders, and they have access to market resources owing to their solid industry partnerships. In the past years, the University has established an operating model that ensures a continuously balanced budgetary management capable of creating its contribution necessary for development without an internal deficit.
'Facts and Figures' accounts for the University's quantifiable and measurable activities, primarily focusing on education and scientific research. We hope that this publication will reassure all our partners, including decision-makers, economic actors, scientific bodies, and competitors, that the Budapest University of Technology and Economics remains worthy of trust and cooperation.

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