General Information

Brief History

The Budapest University of Technology and Economics can trace its evolution through several academic institutions, dating back to 1782 when Emperor Joseph II established the Institutum Geometricum as part of the Faculty of Liberal Arts at the University of Buda. The Institution was the first higher educational insitiution in Europe to award engineering degrees to students of land surveying, river control and road construction.

International Recognition of the Degrees

In professions- and engineering belongs to this circle- where the conditions of education in Hungary are identical with those in the European Union, and these have already been recognized, the member states of the European Union are obliged to accept the diplomas issued in Hungary, independent of the Language of tuition. The EU Directives list a few professions which receive not only automatic recognition but license right, too. Architecture is one of those specialities.
The B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees of the University are fully recognized and accepted in overseas countries, as well, and hundreds of the graduates could continue their studies on graduate, postgraduate level, or get jobs at national, multinational companies and governmental authorities, universities, research centers.

Full-Time Programs in English

The Budapest University of Technology and Economics has eight faculties:

* Architecture
* Chemical Technology and Bio-Technology
* Civil Engineering
* Economic and Social Sciences
* Electrical Engineering and Informatics
* Mechanical Engineering
* Natural Sciences
* Transportation Engineering
  Degree programs, taught in English in all faculties, lead to the
* B.Sc. - a 3 or 3.5 or 4-year program
* M.Sc. - a 2-year program
* Ph.D - usually 3 year of individualized studies and research