Central European University
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Central European University is a US-licensed and accredited university based in Budapest, Hungary. It states that its goal is to contribute to the development of open societies in post-Communist countries by education.
CEU was established 1991 with campuses in Prague, Czech Republic and Budapest, Hungary, when an idea of several Central European intellectuals received financial support from George Soros. Following political pressure from the Czech government of Vaclav Klaus, the university's Prague-based faculties moved to Budapest in 1996.
As of 2003, Central European University had 100 faculty and 926 students from 76 countries. It offers Master's and Ph.D programs in social sciences, law, business and mathematics. The official language used at CEU is English.
An undergraduate degree in business, jointly administered with Bocconi University of Milan, Italy, was first offered in 2005.
Soros has endowed CEU with a total of €420 million [1] (which includes €20 million dedicated to the business school). This is believed to be the third largest endowment in Europe, after Oxford University and Cambridge University.
The CEU Business School was established independently of CEU in 1988 as the International Management Center (IMC), and was the first institution behind the Iron Curtain to award American-style MBA degrees.
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Eötvös Loránd University | Budapest University of Technology and Economics | Corvinus University of Budapest | Central European University | Andrássy Gyula German Language University of Budapest | Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music | Semmelweis University | Pázmány Péter Catholic University | Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church | Evangelical-Lutheran Theological University | Jewish Theological Seminary – University of Jewish Studies | Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design | Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest | Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts | Zrínyi Miklós National Defence University Reformed Theological Academy of Debrecen | Szent István University | Széchenyi István University | University of Debrecen | University of Kaposvár | University of Miskolc | University of Pécs | University of Szeged | Pannon University | University of West Hungary |
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