Institutum Geometrico-Hydrotechnicum, the legal predecessor of Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) was founded in 1782, and it was the first institute in Europe to train engineers at university level. BME, as a prestigious Hungarian higher education institute is committed to differentiated, multilevel, high-standard education, founded on intensive basic training, research, development and innovation, and scientific qualification in technical and natural sciences and in certain fields of economic and social sciences.
The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) enjoys an excellent reputation both in Hungary and abroad and has, throughout the more than two hundred years of its existence, retained close links with the economy. We see it as our task to provide a high standard of teaching, specialist training, research and technical development at every level which rests on a firm foundation of basic training. The result of our efforts is that we have long occupied a leading position in the training of Hungary’s engineers and in her technical development. Central to our objectives for the future is the securing of our reputation for both teaching and research & development.
Paying heed to the requirements both of tradition and of expectations, our vision of the university’s future is as an active, prestigious centre of learning in Europe, in which the teaching is characterised by variety in terms of content (covering the fields of technology, the natural sciences and economics), level and language. The development of new, quality connections within the university and among its students is continuing, and a high standard of educational provision for our large number of students is maintained alongside specialist training and further education activities, together with the extensive development of information and communications technology. The flexible education structure makes possible simultaneous participation in educational contests and networked cooperation projects.
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