Here’s why foreign students choose Hungary

Low tuition fees, cheap accommodation, new adventures. These are the main reasons a foreign student decides to study in Hungary for one or more semesters. There are currently 20.000 of them altogether.

There are 20.000 foreign students in Hungary at the moment; 40% of them are Hungarians from neighbouring countries which means that there are 12.000 non-Hungarian students in Hungary right now. Most of them are training to be doctors; out of the 4400 students the Semmelweiss University had last year, almost half of them was from another country. Other popular universities include the University of Debrecen which had 3800 foreign students in the previous year (it’s 500 more than in 2011), and 1400 of them studied at the faculty of medicine. Most of the foreign students of the University of Szeged come from Serbia, Germany, and Nigeria, but they have vast amount of Chinese, Japanese, Iranian, and Israeli students as well.

The Corvinus University of Budapest is also popular among the foreign students; they had 900 international students in 2013, and almost 1200 last year from 80 different countries (Germans, Chinese, Mongols etc.), and the Eötvös Lóránd University has had more than 2000 international students up to last year.

There are a thousand reasons why people choose Hungary; some of them are seeking new adventures, others are thrilled by foreign countries, or would like to learn a new language. The cost of accommodation and food are also more affordable in Hungary than in other Western-European countries, and a great amount of students can live entirely on the scholarship they receive.