Budapest University of Technology and Economics
The university was founded in 1782 (under the name Institutum Geometrico-Hydrotechnicum) and it has been regarded as Hungary's number one technical higher education institution for nearly 240 years.
BME is the institution that defined the history of the 20th century in 1956, and which has been offering outstanding professional knowledge and extraordinary technical solutions to respond to various challenges. BME continues to be Hungary's leading educational institution; its operation and high-standard of academic achievement greatly contribute to the country's present and future economic performance through the engineers, scientists and economic experts that graduate from the university and work for the country's leading businesses.
At the university's 8 faculties and 76 departments, there are as many as 1,200 lecturers teaching 5,000 subjects and 10,000 courses each semester. Professionals graduating from BME have a strong theoretical and scientific background and, equipped with relevant economic and domain-based competences, they also have the capacity to apply holistic approaches in understanding various processes. BME is also unique in its quest to offer a synergy between various faculties and help future managers, economic and social science specialists preparing for their careers in a wholly cooperative environment. BME's menu of training programmes is constantly expanding, partly by relying on the needs signalled by the market and the industries, and also by keeping abreast of the latest trends in technology.
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