Central European University (CEU) has earned global recognition for a variety of programs, including political science, international relations, philosophy and sociology. In the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) subject rankings, CEU was ranked in six subjects, of which political and international studies made the top 50 in the world while philosophy and sociology maintained rankings in the top 100. Impressively, in its first appearance in QS subject rankings, CEU in social policy and administration was ranked in the top 100.

Degree programs

Bachelor’s degree programs

• BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
• BA in Culture, Politics, and Society
• BA in Quantitative Social Sciences

One-year master’s degree programs

• MA programs: Comparative History; Global Economic Relations; Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies; Gender Studies; Human Rights; International Relations; Nationalism Studies; Philosophy; Political Science; Public Policy; Sociology and Social Anthropology
• MS program: Environmental Sciences and Policy; Business Analytics; Finance; Mathematics and its Applications; Technology, Management, and Innovation
• LLM programs: Comparative Constitutional Law; Human Rights; International Business Law

Two-year master’s degree programs

• MA programs: Comparative History (1500–Present); Comparative History (Late Antique, Medieval, and Rennaisance Studies); Critical Gender Studies; Cultural Heritage Studies (Academic Research and Protection of Cultural Heritage); Cultural Heritage Studies (Cultural Heritage Management and Policy); Economic Policy in Global Markets; Economics; European Women’s and Gender History (MATILDA); History in the Public Sphere; International Public Affairs; International Relations; Nationalism Studies; Philosophy; Political Science; Public Policy (Mundus MAPP); Sociology and Social Anthropology (with an optional specialisation in Global and Urban Studies); Women’s and Gender Studies (GEMMA)
• MS program: Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (MESPOM); Mathematics and its Applications
• MPA program: Public Administration
• MBA: Global Executive Management

Doctoral programs

• PhD in: Business Administration; Cognitive Science; Comparative Gender Studies; Comparative History; Economics; Environmental Sciences and Policy; Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies; Mathematics and its Applications; Network Science; Philosophy; Political Science (Comparative Politics); Political Science (International Relations); Political Science (Political Economy); Political Science (Political Theory); Political Science (Public Policy); Sociology and Social Anthropology
• Doctor of Juridical Sciences (SJD)

Summer University

CEU’s Summer University is an academic program for young scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Since 1996, CEU’s Summer University has involved 269 Hungarian faculty members and 516 Hungarian participants. Tuition was waived for all but 3% of the Hungarian participants, most of whom were junior academics (graduate students, faculty, and researchers) who received guidance on their research, ideas for developing their own courses, exposure to a variety of teaching methodologies, and access to international and academic and professional networks