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The Corvinus University of Budapest invites you to join the community of international students visiting its programs in foreign languages to either get a degree or spend a semester or a year gathering credit for your studies. We hope that after studying the information and gaining a picture of the country, the city, the University, and its programs offered in foreign languages, you will realize that it is worth studying in Hungary at the Corvinus University of Budapest. Hungary has been a tiny but by no means the insignificant country in the heart of Europe for 1100 years. It has its language, which is an island in the sea of the Indo-European languages. It has its history, which was full of well-known and exciting events, ups and downs during the thousand-year history. It has its tradition, including the folk art different from the neighboring countries and the unforgettable flavors of the Hungarian cuisine. The never-fading inventions, the electric motor, the carburetor, the vitamin C, the computer, the hologram, etc. persuaded the world about the skills and innovative thinking of the Hungarian people who contributed remarkably the development of the world. Since Hungary joined the EU in 2004, the Central-Eastern European region becomes increasingly important. International companies are looking for graduates with experience in these countries. Besides, Budapest is not only the heart of Hungary, this impulsive and growing country but is also in the center of Central-Eastern Europe. A good starting point for traveling, trade, business, and a lot more. Budapest is a fun place to spend one or more semesters abroad, experience the lives of international students, and gain valuable knowledge to succeed in your future career. The Corvinus University of Budapest was and still is the best institution of its kind in Hungary and also in the region. It is today an internationally recognized institution in the areas of both education and research. It operates with three faculties in business, economics, public administration, social sciences, and international relations. The University is an excellent institution of higher learning, education, and research. Building on almost a hundred years of tradition and with one eye always on the opportunities for renewal, we are working hard to ensure that we provide our students with useful and essential knowledge and thereby prepare them to succeed in the labor market as well as in personal and community life. Our goal is to produce a body of exciting and essential research for Hungary, Europe, and the world, and contribute to the advancement of our common causes. The University is faithful to the original idea of the University: we aim to educate free human beings. We believe in the universality of knowledge, and that thinking is based on recognizing differences revealed by debate. The University is a community of professors, students, researchers, and administrative personnel. We are convinced that outstanding achievement may only come about in cooperation with others in a community. He names the Corvinus University of Budapest. It reflects an institution with a human-centered view based on the humanist ideology committed to the human, science, and culture-centered traditions and values appropriate to the Universitas while evoking a renaissance world, focusing on refinement, details, diversity and value creation. Commitment to the name of the Corvinus University of Budapest means identification with European values. The establishment of the institution within Hungarian higher education fits well into other economic and social changes that are concomitants of EU membership. The objective is that the connection to European higher education should be a positive and long-term growth process. The mission of the Corvinus University of Budapest is to maintain an international standard of creating and transmitting values in the form of teaching, research, and consulting activities, all in the context of academic freedom. The University strives to operate in a legally and morally distinct way. Therefore, the University requires its citizens to comply with the law, respect human dignity unconditionally, protect the natural environment and cultural heritage actively, and eventually combine high professional skills with responsible work. The Corvinus University of Budapest regards its teachers, students, and researchers as the most influential creators of value in the institution. The University pledges to promote their creative professional involvement in Hungarian and international scientific life in every possible way. The common goal of ongoing research and innovative development projects at academic workshops is to improve human life quality. Research conducted in fields including knowledge-based economy, economic policy, environmental management, modernization of public administration, social justice, equal opportunities and equal treatment, food security, garden product quality, organic agriculture, urban planning, landscape protection, as well as the image and safety of public spaces all target the creation of better living conditions, improved quality of life, and the development of social, economic and environmental conditions. The joint research and innovation objectives of the Corvinus University of Budapest serve to create a more viable world. Each faculty contributes to improving the quality of life with the research results of their respective disciplines. The Corvinus University of Budapest seeks to strengthen its international presence by utilizing all potential opportunities for cooperation in international education and research. The University's primary objective is to offer an increasing number of foreign language training and joint degree programs. A further goal is to increase student and staff mobility and take up a more active role in encouraging international research. The Corvinus University of Budapest intends to make the scientific community - both Hungarian and international - respect and appreciate the results achieved by our students and faculties. The Corvinus University of Budapest defines itself as a research university oriented towards education, where the scientific performance of the academic staff measures up to the international standard and the students can obtain a competitive degree having a standard and knowledge content identical to similar-profile universities and acknowledged on the European Union's labor market and a global scale. The University admitting more than 11,000 students offers educational programs in business administration, economics, and social sciences, and most of these disciplines assure it a leading position in Hungarian higher education. At the same time, its key ambition is to display the institution's uniqueness and exploit the synergies resulting from professional diversity and from studying multiple disciplines. Corvinus University, which functions as a real 'Universitas', accepts students at three faculties and offers courses leading to degrees at the bachelor, master, and doctoral level in countless specializations taught in Hungarian, English, French, or German, qualifying them in a wide variety of fields. Seven accredited doctoral schools are operating at the Corvinus University of Budapest, which have achieved high academic prestige. An essential element of the research strategy is to be connected with international scientific life intensively. The University's several organizational units participate in the large international interdisciplinary projects and networks that play a more prominent role in the European Research Space. By compounding life sciences and social sciences, Corvinus University of Budapest can become a determinant factor in both domestic and international scientific life. The parallel of competition and cooperation best characterizes Europe after the millennium from the higher education point of view. Therefore the Corvinus University of Budapest needs to appear prepared in the European Higher Education Area and focus on the aim to reach an international standard in education and to provide degrees that are competitive on the European and the global market. Due to the given geographic and economic conditions, the focus of international activity is in Europe. Nevertheless, in the past decade, the University has broadened is cooperation almost in every direction. The main aim is to maintain and strengthen existing international relations as well as to develop new ones, to take part in international networks and to establish joint programs that are generally designed to enhance student and teaching staff mobility, cooperation to establish joint degree programs and to carry out joint research activities. The international acknowledgment of the University is reflected in the number of outgoing and incoming students, which is around 550 annually. Corvinus University defines its main goals and objectives in light of quality improvement and mobility growth. This was recognized in Spring 2009 when the University was awarded the International Cooperation Prize for the high-quality institutional coordination of the Erasmus Project within the Life Long Learning Programme of the European Union. The University is among the top three institutions in Hungary, sending the most students abroad in respect of the Erasmus student mobility program. The University hosts the highest number of incoming Erasmus students in Hungary. View full university

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. View full university

Budapest Metropolitan University applies a quality-oriented management system. Metropolitan's guiding principles and the essential system elements considered indispensable for the effective operation of a quality management system are summarized in the Quality Management Handbook (Appendix 8 of the Organisational and Operational Statutes). Quality management processes are under continuous monitoring and control co-ordinated by the Accreditation and Quality Management Office. Since the constant improvement of the quality of education and the permanent tracking of our educational activities' quality standards are one of our priorities, Metropolitan regularly conducts surveys among students, lecturers, and colleagues. In addition to the management members, each respondent and participant of the surveys receive a report on the questionnaires' findings. Due to our feedback processes, the quality management system's improvement has become both a common interest and a joint activity pursued by all of our colleagues and partners. Unique career options: 87% of our Hungarian graduates find employment within three months of graduation, 51% already during university years. More than 400 internship opportunities at prominent companies and the possibility to join the professional community already while at University. During workshops and study groups at Metropolitan, you have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience, improve your skills, and enjoy team-work. The staff of reputed experts: In addition to renowned academics, top business professionals are also recruited to our lecturing team. Foreign exposure through extensive international exchange programs in Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United States, and an increasing number of other countries. Vibrant student life! Ski camps, excursions, trips, pub tours, parties organized by the Student Union, photo club, and loads of other unique programs… Modern buildings, pleasant atmosphere, up-to-the-minute technologies with more than 400 computer stations, a language laboratory, a sound studio, radio and television studio, smart boards, a multimedia library, and free WiFi access on the whole area of the campus. Green belt in the heart of the city: The park of the main building at the campus in Nagy Lajos Király Street and our Egressy Road campus's green suburban atmosphere provide a quiet and peaceful environment for both study and recreation purposes. Metropolitan's most crucial purpose is to provide its students with valuable competencies and make them successful in their jobs and professions with their capabilities and abilities. Inspire them to become creative, independent thinkers, exceptional experts committed to life-long learning, and sense responsibility for the community. Our Leadership is working actively towards achieving this goal in an open, innovative, and competitive atmosphere. The Senate is a decision-making and supervisory body with duties and scope of competence specified in the Deed of Foundation and the Organizational and Operational Statutes. The Senate is responsible for defining our Universityuniversity's activities, especially its training and research tasks, and its operations, and supervises their implementation. We are inspired by creativity. The art of creative education is the core value of our University. It is embodied in our teaching methods; it is a central concept in our approach and our students' attitude. Creativity is the force organizing everyday life at the University, paving the way to our students' future success. We offer a stimulating environment and a unique atmosphere that motivate our students to use a wide range of unparalleled opportunities and apply their knowledge in practice looking for new, innovative solutions. This inspiring world offers the key to creative thinking, which is the most immediate expectation in today's labor market and a crucial future issue. The other fundamental value at Metropolitan lies in our programs' practical nature, transmitting theoretical knowledge with a view to its potential ways of application and hands-on experience. With that objective in mind, our primary mission is to improve language skills, communication competencies and enhance creative thinking, supported by a unique system of intensive training programs offered every semester. We measure success and efficiency by the strict standards of the labor market. Our close cooperation with all stakeholders in our environment, at companies, community institutions, and professional organizations, guides us to train an endless flow of socially responsible, intellectual graduates who are ready to meet the labor market's challenges with a visible potential for an excellent performance. Budapest Metropolitan University, Budapest, has become part and parcel of the Hungarian higher education scene in the past 11 years. With a continually growing number of students, education venues and campuses, and a diverse range of programs, today Metropolitan is the most prominent private University in Hungary present in two cities, Budapest and Hódmezővásárhely, with a massive student community of 8,000 enthusiastic young people. Metropolitan offers a complex educational program at two vocational grammar schools, various higher-level vocational training, master degree programs, and post-graduate specialist training programs built on the bachelor programs in communication, business, tourism, and arts. Metropolitan is characterized by an open and pleasant atmosphere, a strong focus on performance and competition supported by cutting-edge infrastructure on solid foundations. Constant development and success are values that require determination and hard work. We are ready to face competition, and we expect our students to follow suit. If you wish to become a member of the team, you are welcome on board. You only need resolution and commitment. View full university

6The Budapest Business School, Hungary's market-leading and largest university, educating some 16 000 students, was established due to the Hungarian higher education integration, and on 1 January 2000, the three legal predecessors were merged. The predecessor of the FCCT was the Academy of Commerce, established in 1857. Expanded by the Eastern Academy of Commerce in 1899, this was the first college of commerce in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, in the Central European region. Experts for commerce and banking were trained at this School. After World War II till 1962, there was a secondary school of commerce operating in the impressive old building in Alkotmány street. By restructuring education, it became a Commercial School of Higher Education. Building upon traditions, it was given college status in 1969 by the College of Commerce and Catering name. The Institution finally adopted today's name, implying independent tourism training in 1992. The history of the FIMB dates back to 1957. At this time, the International Commercial Correspondence School was established to train highly qualified experts in commerce who speak foreign languages. In 1962 the School became an independent International Commercial School of Higher Education. In 1971 it was granted College status by the name of College of Foreign Trade. In 1992 two dual award programs were launched in English and French in cooperation with two international partner institutions of higher education. At present, some 4.000 students are studying the various programs offered by the FIMB. The history of the FFA can be traced back to the shared common origins of economic, vocational training of higher education, to the Pest Academy of Commerce established in 1857, then to the Eastern Academy of Commerce. In a strict sense, the College of Accountancy establishment in 1953 can be regarded as the date of foundation. The Institution took the name of the College of Finance and Accountancy in 1970-1971. A regional institute of the college was founded in Zalaegerszeg in 1971-1972, and another one was set up in Salgótarján the following year. Since then, FFA has become the flagship college of higher education in finance and accountancy. Graduates of the legal predecessor institutions and already of the BBS in the past years have become the most widely recognized and the most sought-after experts in the domestic labor market; several of them are prominent personalities of the Hungarian society and economy. In September 2006, eight undergraduate (BA) educational programs (Human Resources, Business Administration and Management, Commerce and Marketing, Communication and Media Science, International Business Economics, Finance and Accounting, Tourism and Catering, Business Teacher Training) were launched under the 'Bologna system.' In September 2008, the first independent post-graduate (MA) educational program (Teacher of Economics) was launched, which was followed by two new programs (Marketing, Tourism Management) in February 2009, and by three new ones (International Relations, Finance, Accounting) in September 2009. On 28 April 2010, the Budapest Business School received a Higher Education Quality Award to recognize its outstanding quality improvement achievement. In September 2010, the Business Administration doctoral (Ph.D.) program of Anglia Ruskin University was started due to the cooperation agreement between Anglia Ruskin University and the Budapest Business School (BBS). In 2016 BBS received the title of "University of Applied Sciences." In the academic year 2017-2018, Budapest Business School offers 12 undergraduate programs, six post-graduate programs, 21 short-cycle higher education programs, 48 post-graduate diploma courses, and a wide choice of adult educational programs. Ten programs, including three master programs, are launched in English, German or French as well. The Ministry of Education and Culture gave the Higher Education Quality Award in 2010 to recognize the quality management activity of the Budapest Business School. The quality policy of the university is formulated considering the following factors: The main requirement of the social and economic environment in the 21st century is the assurance of continuous improvement of Quality of Life through the complex quality management system of educational level, institutional infrastructure, institutional environment, our external partners, levels of knowledge, existential safety of our internal partners. Meeting the Bologna Declaration's requirements concerning the single quality management activity assuring transferability of credits, matching criteria, and methods in higher education institutions in the EU. Quality management work is co-ordinated by the Quality Assurance and Assessment Committee under the Senate; operative tasks are performed by the Quality Management Office in collaboration with quality management representatives of individual faculties. The BBS, quality management system, was implemented step by step, and even today, it is under continuous development. On the accreditation in 2005, the Quality Management Manual (at present its third version is in force) was drawn up by the already appropriate quality management organizational unit, and Quality Management policy was formulated. The BBS's quality management system is fundamentally based on higher education quality management standards (ENQA/2005), and it considers the professional recommendations of the consortium of four higher education institutions formed within the framework of HEFOP/2004. From 2006 we have further developed our quality management activity based on the Excellence Model following EFQM Common Assessment Framework that conforms with the EU and is based on self-assessment. Even today, this is one of the directions of our development. As a result of self-assessment, we have mainly processed the strengths and weaknesses of conditions applying the PDCA model's logic in the interest of sustainable growth. Our quality management development is closely connected with the BBS Institutional Development Plan modified in 2007; it can be regarded as its integral part and its means. The long-term competitiveness of our Institution can be assured by sustainable quality management development based on excellence criteria. In addition to the present Excellence Model in our quality development strategy, we aim at introducing the quality standard MSZ EN ISO 9001/2009. In September 2010, we started it at all the three faculties of the college interested in more straightforward international comparability and more exact regulations. Our further aim is to make the MSZ EN ISO 9001/2009 standard higher education-specific by integrating higher education institutional standards into quality standards and to enhance the continuous development of the Excellence Model based on TQM. As a result of the successful implementation of its quality development goals, the Institution acquired an ISO Certification in April 2012. The BBS received the title of the University of Applied Sciences in 2016. View full university

Andrássy University Budapest (AUB) was founded in 2001 and is the only wholly German-language university outside the German-speaking countries. As a European university in Hungary, it is supported by five partner states (Austria, Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Germany, Hungary) and also by Switzerland and the autonomous region of Trentino-South Tirol. About 250 students and numerous scholars from more than twenty countries study, teach, and research at AUB. AUB puts the focus on European integration with the main topic of Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Danube region. The university's goals are the development and advancement of experts on Europe and interdisciplinarity in instruction and research. In addition to the advancement of German as the language of science, the university relies significantly on strengthening cooperation among the countries along the Danube. Scholars research projects in European integration processes, transformation processes, the quality of democracies and economic systems, and the identity formation of nationalities, cultures, and minorities. AUB was the first university outside of Germany to be accredited according to German rules and criteria. With its quality assurance system certified by the evalag evaluation agency from Baden-Württemberg, the university guarantees the best study and teaching conditions. It was the fifth in Hungary to be accepted into Hungarian colleges' excellence program, thus earning the title "University of National Excellence." Numerous scholarship opportunities and the excellent staff-student ratio (1:7) allow for a goal-oriented and efficient program in small learning groups. In addition to interactive lectures and seminars, simulations, excursions, case studies, and experiments create an essential connection between scientific theory and professionally related practice. A well-equipped library offers comprehensive literature for study and research in the German language. This asset is supplemented by the Austrian György Sebestyén library, located at AUB. AUB students and professors come from over 20 countries across the world. This diverse student body and faculty create unique and rich study conditions for all. AUB admits excellent, newly graduated German-speaking students from all over the world, but mainly from Europe. AUB offers Masters courses and a Ph.D. program with a 7:1 student-faculty ratio. In these programs, education is closely connected to research by involving students in research projects, field studies, and numerous internships. At AUB, interdisciplinarity is incorporated structurally in the faculty layout ensured in the curriculum by the interdisciplinary study programs implemented methodically into the joint transdisciplinary courses and embedded academically in overlapping research topics. European topics, including those regarding European integration, lie at the forefront of research and instruction of all disciplines at AUB. More specifically, the Central and Eastern European countries and the Danube region are taken into particular consideration. Students at the AUB gain proficiency in analyzing various aspects of European integration, but they also experience European diversity in their small international study teams. These subject areas and methodological approaches help AUB reach their ultimate goal of fostering cooperation between macro-region countries. Thanks to the unity of well-instructed research, competitive and innovative study programs, and excellent student mentoring, AUB can ensure very high job market qualities. Moreover, AUB-alumni is seen as outstanding potential employees in the job market. View full university