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The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) is one of the oldest universities in Hungary, founded as Institutum Geometricum in 1782 and it is the first institution in Europe to award Engineering degrees in land survey, river control and road construction.

It has developed into the largest institution of higher education and research centres in Central Europe. Several Nobel Price recipients have been associated with the University i.e. Dennis Gabor (Physics), George Hevesy (Chemistry), Eugene Wigner (Physics) and György Oláh (Chemistry).  It has a students’ population of 14,000, 800 of them are international students from 50 countries.

This multilingual environment has a strong contribution to the university’s student mobility programs. BME receives more than 200 international students from Europe under programmes such as Socrates and Erasmus. The international programmes are courses taught in English, French, German and Russian and they are co-ordinated by the International Education Center.

The university ranked at the 408th place on the TOP500 World Universities made by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University published in 2004. It also ranked number 72 on the Webometrics Ranking of the European universities of January 2006 issued by Cybermetrics Research Group, Spain.

Currently the University has bilateral agreements with about 163 international partners, including University of California, Los Angeles (US), Herriot-Watt University (UK), University of Tokyo (Japan), Technical University of Berlin (Germany) and Technical State University of Moscow (Russia). It also joins 11 different education organizations and networks worldwide.

Language of Instruction

Courses are taught in English, French, German and Russian. The bulletin for the courses available in English can be found on the following website. http://www.tanok.bme.hu/bulletin/index.ssi