Budapest University of Technology and Economics

The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) is a public higher education institute operating as a central budgetary institution. Its founding regulation has been issued by the Minister of Human Capacities. Its organizational and operational conditions are summarized in its own regulation in accordance with 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, research centres that are supported by deans offices and other units.

In order 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. Faculties and students organizations are supported by service units.

There are other organizations like companies established or owned by the University, welfare institutions, student or teacher activity groups and other organizations associated to the University.

The Rector is the top manager and representative of the University. The Chancellor ensures the technical conditions, the administration, the financial management in order to complete the functions of the University. The Rector and the Chancellor regularly calls Executive Board meetings to prepare strategic decisions. Employment relations between 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 prioritised field of study, meaning that the institutions should have a clear programme profile and provide world-class education in their own field.

This publication is the summary of the Strategy adopted by the Senate of the University, supplemented with the latest statistical data of our institution

Our institution, which was founded in 1782 under the name of Institutum Geometrico-Hydrotechnicum, has been the top higher education institution of Hungary and it also has well-established international reputation.

The foundation of the effectiveness of the university is the devoted educational activities of our professors and the hard work and enthusiasm of our students. These values ensure the stability and continuity of education, scientific research and technological development at the institution.

Students who feel talented and skilled may join various development projects already during their university years. When they continue their studies from the basic degree to the Masters qualifications we aim at fine-tuning their knowledge and skills so that it is ensured that they become excellent development and research engineers. Those who wish to proceed with their scientific studies may join PhD courses, which will provide 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 of Hungary and is well-known for its scientific results abroad. It is also important that young people joining our programmes should not only become excellent professionals but educated persons in the widest sense. At the university there are various opportunities for intellectual activities and professors tend to convey not only professional skills but also their attitudes, values and viewpoints that may enrich students’ perceptions.

The eight faculties of the University of Technology have their individual characteristics but they all aim at outstanding educational results. The faculties cover such wide scientific areas that are well enough to understand and study within the time frames of the courses.

The qualified professionals have strong technological and scientific base knowledge and economical skills and are also able to 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. In our institution besides Hungarian language there are opportunities to study in foreign languages – mainly in English. Our students can join international exchange programmes and spend some – longer or shorter - time abroad to obtain special skills and good command of foreign languages, and also to make new friends.

In the special atmosphere of the University of Technology 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 main mission 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.

Thanks to the high level undergraduate degree programmes built on a general basis, and the subsequent master’s programmes 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 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.

Currently, BME’s budget is made up of one-half state subsidy and one-half own 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 a model of operation that ensures a continuously balanced budgetary management capable of creating own contribution necessary for development, without 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 serve as a reassurance to all our partners including decision makers, economic actors, scientific bodies, and competitors that the Budapest University of Technology and Economics remains worthy of their trust and cooperation.