The most popular Hungarian universities among international students

There are almost 37,000 international students in Hungarian higher education. It is mainly because Hungarian universities are regarded as top educational institutions offering high-quality training in various different fields. Furthermore, studying in Hungary is relatively inexpensive in an international comparison. Moreover, the government offers scholarships to African, Asian, and South American countries in the framework of the Stipendium Hungaricum Programme.

Based on the data of Erudera, a higher education search platform, 35,579 foreigners were studying in Hungarian higher education in the 2021-2022 academic year. This number is almost three times more than the number of Hungarians studying abroad. The exact number is 13,038 – napi.hu wrote.

Based on the data,

there are more than 100 countries sending students

to Hungarian universities in the following distribution:

• Germany: 3,430
• China: 2,377
• Iran: 2,216
• Serbia: 1,269
• Slovakia: 1,750
• Ukraine: 1,202
• Turkey: 1,138
• Nigeria: 970
• Norway: 906

Interestingly, a large number, probably the majority of the students coming from Ukraine, Slovakia, Romania and Serbia, are Hungarians living in these countries. They come to study in Hungary because there are limited or no opportunities for them in their birth country if they want to pursue higher education in their mother tongue.

The difficulty, in this case, is to convince them after graduation to return to their sending countries.