Corvinus University of Budapest

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 labour market and on a global scale.

The University admitting more than 11,000 students offers educational programmes in business administration, economics, and social sciences, and most 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 to exploit the synergies resulting form professional diversity and from studying multiple disciplines.

Corvinus University, which functions as a real ‘universitas’, accepts students at three faculties and offer courses leading to degrees at the bachelor, master and doctoral level in countless specialisations taught in Hungarian, English, French or German, qualifying them in a wide variety of fields.

The international acknowledgement 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 the light of quality improvement and mobility growth. This was recognised 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 programme. The University hosts the highest number of incoming Erasmus students in Hungary.

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