Budapest

The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) is a prestigious higher education institution in Hungary and is also one of the oldest institutes of technology in the world, having been founded in 1782. The university has approximately 1,200 full-time lecturers and researchers. About 9 % of its 22,000 students are foreign students, from fifty countries.

The main mission of BME is to educate professionals for the industry in the disciplines of technology, informatics, natural sciences, economics, business and management. The university’s mission, inseparable from the education, is to cultivate the sciences, to make scientific research, which encompasses fundamental and applied research, technological product and service development, and exploitation of results making up the innovation chain.

In the Hungarian higher education rankings the university’s technology and informatics degree programmes take the first place, and the sciences and economics degree programmes are among the best ones. For BME, however, international rankings are the real measure. For instance, is being among the top 900 universities according to Center for World University Rankings (CWUR).

BME considers scientific research and development of equal importance not only to its educational activities, but also to economic and social development. The University plays an organic role in internationally appreciated activities. The International Education Center of BME, founded in 1984, offers BSc and MSc English degree programs of all its eight faculties. Since 1989 BME IEC has also provided engineering education in Russian, French and German. This multilingual environment has a strong contribution to student mobility programs as well, receiving international students and sending Hungarian ones from and to Europe in such schemes, like Socrates and Erasmus.

Nobel Laureates related to BME George Oláh (1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), Dénes Gábor (Dennis Gábor), inventor of holography (1971 Nobel Prize in Physics), Wigner Jenő, (Eugene Wigner), (1963 Nobel Prize in Physics)