Official: Confidence in Hungary higher education institutions strengthened

Written by BT/MTI

Confidence in Hungary’s higher education institutions has been strengthened in recent years, the state secretary for higher education, vocational and adult training at the ministry of culture and innovation said on Saturday.

Veronika Varga-Bajusz told a press conference that this was evidenced by the fact that more than 100,000 students were admitted to higher education institutions for the second consecutive year, with half of them set to study in fields that are “important from the point of view of the national economy”.

Fully 70 percent of university and college applicants were offered admission this year, three-quarters of them to state-financed programmes, the state secretary said.

Varga-Bajusz welcomed that the number of students admitted to teacher training programmes has doubled to 15,000 this year compared with 2022.

Also, every other applicant will begin their studies at an institution outside the capital, she said. One-fifth of applicants are over the age of 30, she said, adding this meant that the value of higher education degrees was constantly rising.

Business studies programmes were again the most popular this year, followed by teacher training and engineering schemes, she said, adding that interest in STEM programmes has also increased.