The 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 their professors and the hard work and enthusiasm of their 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 they 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 their 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.

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.