IMCEERES Digital Programme Guide

Corvinus University of Budapest

Corvinus University is Hungary’s most eminent educational institution in the fields of Economic, Management, and Social Sciences. University-level education, just as in the most advanced countries of the world, started in Budapest in the 1920s at the autonomous Economics Faculty of the Hungarian Royal University of Science. CUB has numerous BA programmes and MA programmes, joint programmes with partners in the EU, and accredited doctoral schools. We have received accreditation from renowned AMBA, the Association of MBAs. This international organisation is one of the world’s leading authorities on postgraduate business education. Fewer than 300 business schools in the world hold this accreditation, the first in Hungary being Corvinus.

Corvinus with its institutions has 540 academic staff, over 12,000 students and 400 international agreements with universities in over 70 countries. It is a member of several international associations such as the European University Association and the International Association of Universities. Corvinus’ Department of Political Science is one of the most prestigious social science educational units in Hungary: in 2020 it succeeded in being ranked among Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). We teach economics, international studies, political science and business at BA, MA, and doctoral levels.

Further information can be found on the Corvinus University website.

Corvinus can offer thesis supervision in the following general teaching areas:
  • East European Transformation
  • Communist Studies, Remembrance Policies
  • East Central Europe and the European Union
  • Regional Cooperation in Central Europe and the Balkans Populism and Radicalism
  • Feminism
  • Media and Politics
  • Nationalism
  • Ethnopolitics and Minorities
  • Globalization
  • Economic Policy
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Comparative Politics

https://www.uni-corvinus.hu/main-page/programs/subjects-amp-courses/?lang=en

Compulsory modules
  • Politics of Transition in East Central Europe (6 ECTS)
  • Challenges to Security in CEE (6 ECTS)

Optional modules

You choose the remaining 18 credits from a range of options, for example:

  • Contemporary Hungarian Politics (6 ECTS):
  • Nations, Minorities and Minority Policies in ECE (6 ECTS)
  • Parliaments in East-Central Europe (6 ECTS)
  • Radical Right in Europe (6 ECTS)
  • Political Discourse Analysis (3 ECTS)

OR
• a great variety of social science studies courses offered by our institute and by other institutes of CUB
In NEPTUN you will be able to identify their list as a specific group of subjects/courses.
• Hungarian language (language of instruction: English)
• Other language options (e.g. Russian) are also available to a maximum of 6 ECTS
Taking extra language courses may mean additional individual expenses to the students.

Note that Hungarian credits and ECTS credits are not always equivalent so you are required to consult your academic registrar assistant on an individual basis.

For further information see our IMCEERES website.

All course descriptions of CUB are available online or through the programme administrator or from the instructor directly.
Please note that some changes may occur in the list of option modules.

Dr Katalin Farkas Bede: katalin.farkas.bede@uni-corvinus.hu

Dr Éva Ványi: eva.vanyi@uni-corvinus.hu 

Mailing address: Corvinus University of Budapest, Department of Political Science, Fovam ter 8, 1093 Budapest, Hungary

Tel: +36-1-482-7177

Nikolett Menyhart (Exchange Programme Coordinator): nikolett.menyhart@uni-corvinus.hu

2022-2024 cohort

Enrolment
28 August – 10 September 2023
Teaching begins
4 September 2023
Teaching ends
17 December 2023
Exam period
18 – 21 December 2023 AND 2-21 January 2024
Thesis submission
22 August 2024
Thesis defence
27 September 2024

 

2023-2025 cohort

Enrolment
26 August – 13 September 2024
Teaching begins
9 September 2024
Teaching ends
13 December 2024
Exam period
16 – 20 December 2024 AND 6-24 January 2025
Thesis submission
22 August 2025
Thesis defence
25 September 2025

At CUB students must submit one electronic copy (via Neptun). CEERES students also need to submit one electronic copy to the University of Glasgow, which automatically also counts as submission to the University of Tartu.

In addition to the CEERES thesis defence, CUB students are required to pass an oral exam which takes place right before the defence of the thesis. You will get a few minutes to prepare for the exam questions. Paper to take notes on is provided by us. In-person exam attendance is required. At the exam you may not use any supporting materials. Both parts of Exam are oral exams. Students must arrive some minutes earlier than scheduled on the day of the final exam. Skype or any other alternative arrangements are not permissible.

Oral exam on course topics
All students have to take and pass a final oral exam, which is based on the core subjects of their studies. The questions are framed on the basis of the lectures and literature of the ‘required courses’: Politics of Transition and Challenges to Security. Students will draw 1 question out of a list of 11 provided a month before the exam. Passing the first part of the Exam is a precondition for the defence.
On completion of this oral examination on course topics students will move directly to the oral defence of their thesis.

Original degree and language-skill certificates are required upon registration, the former one must be notarised.

Please note that missing deadlines or requesting any individual change might mean additional expenses, including extra language classes (as noted above).

Upon any individual extension request, students are to pay an extra HUF 66,700 fee for supervision costs.

Page last updated: 01.07.2024

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