Corvinus University of Budapest is a university in Budapest, Hungary. Corvinus University of Budapest is a research university oriented towards education. The university currently has an enrollment of approximately 14,500 students, offering educational programmes in business administration, economics, and social sciences.
Corvinus University accepts students at six faculties and offer courses leading to degrees at the bachelor, master and doctoral level in specialisations taught in Hungarian, English, French or German.
Faculties
As of 2016, the university has three faculties:
- Faculty of Business Administration
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Social Sciences
Setting and architecture
The university is in an urban setting. The faculties operate in multiple buildings that stand in the city centre of Budapest.
The university’s main building – now part of the UNESCO Heritage Site– is located in Pest on the left bank of the Danube, next to the Great Market Hall and facing the Budapest University of Technology and Economics on the river’s other bank. The main building was planned by Miklós Ybl as the Main Customs Office in Neo-Renaissance style.
Much of the education of the business faculties (Faculty of Business Administration, Economics, Social Sciences) takes place in the main building. This is the location of the rector’s offices as well.
The university’s Közraktár Street building was completed in 2007. It offers 50,000 square metres (540,000 sq ft) of floor space, which includes an office building and education areas. The building has community areas, and hosts the 450-seat central library of the university which contains 100,000 books and journals.
Student life
Lecture hallCentral library at the new Közraktár building
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Seven colleges for advanced studies are connected to the university. These are student groups that offer their own body of extracurricular coursework and often provide accommodation for their members as well.
- Rajk László College for Advanced Studies
- Széchenyi István College for Advanced Studies
- College for Advanced Studies in Social Theory (Társadalomelméleti Kollégium, TEK)
- EVK College for Advanced Studies
- Heller Farkas College for Advanced Studies
- Society of Young Autonomous Economists (FAKT)
- College for Advanced Studies of Diplomacy in Practice (GyDSz)