Central European University
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The Central European University ( CEU; Hungarian: Közép- Európai Egyetem ) is a private university founded in 1991 with headquarters in Budapest ( Hungary). The university is accredited in the U.S. and in Hungary and licensed, the teaching takes place exclusively in Budapest. English is the official language at the university.
Self-understanding
The main objective of the university, it was originally to promote open societies in post-communist countries and constructively and actively accompany changes in states and shape. In the last ten years, the self-image of the University, however, has increasingly internationalized and expanded to global contexts. Today the CEU Budapest is one which is composed with a student body made up of members from more than 100 nations, the most international universities in the world. Since 2009, the American diplomat, human rights activist and former Vice President of the Harvard University John Shattuck Rector of the Central European University.
With the establishment of the CEU School of Public Policy in the summer of 2011, the University wants to advance to become a leading European institution in this area.
History
The CEU was founded in 1991 by a group of American and Central European intellectuals to the investor George Soros. Overall, George Soros has donated as a promoter and chairman of the Open Society Institute of the University of EUR 420 million.
Started with two locations in Budapest (Hungary ) and Prague ( Czech Republic) but had to move completely to Hungary to pressure the Czech government in 1996 the university. Head of the Economic Department of the University since 1995 Jacek Rostowski, the finance minister of Poland is since 2007.
CEU offers postgraduate programs (Master, PhD) in the fields of social sciences, law, economics and mathematics. Since 2005 there is also an undergraduate program (Bachelor) in cooperation with the Bocconi University in Milan.
The business faculty of the CEU, CEU Business School today was also founded by intellectuals and politicians to Soros in 1988 initially independent of the CEU as the International Management Center (IMC ) in Prague. It was not until 2001, she was part of the CEU in Hungary.
Exchange
After Germany, the CEU has, among other contacts through the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich, Technical University of Freiberg ( exchange and dual degree MBA and Diplom-Kaufmann ), WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management (exchange), GISMA Business School in Hannover ( common Executive MBA program ), the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Ludwig- Maximilians- University Munich ( exchanges under the Erasmus program ).