This is how Hungary wants to modernize its universities

Modernising Hungary’s higher education sector and turning universities into innovation hubs is key to securing the country’s competitiveness, the deputy state secretary for education said in an interview in daily Magyar Nemzet’s Wednesday edition.

“Globally, we rank highly in almost every field of training,” Balázs Hankó of the Innovation and Technology Ministry told the paper, evaluating the results of the structural transformation and international rankings of Hungarian universities ahead of the Feb. 15 deadline for applying to university.

Today eleven Hungarian universities rank among the top 5 percent of the world’s 28,000 universities, “with two-thirds of our university students” studying in one of them,

he said.

Increasing the number of university graduates is vital to the country’s economic development, Hankó said, noting that this year 350 bachelor and 400 master’s courses have been announced in 48 cities.

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