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Education Reforms in Hungary Trumpeted in London - 46,000 International Students in Hungary

• 21 May 2025 3:22 PM

Hungary’s successful higher education reforms are being recognised on the international stage, the minister for culture and innovation said in connection with the ongoing Education World Forum in London.

The world is paying more and more attention to Hungarian higher education, Balazs Hanko told MTI, noting that the country’s higher education reforms were the only topic to be featured in two presentations at the forum.

Hanko said the interest that the reforms had attracted had to do with the ascent of Hungarian universities in international rankings in recent years.

"Today there are 12 Hungarian universities in the world’s top five percent, one of which is in the top one percent and three in the top two percent," Hanko said. "We have doubled our scientific performance, and the number of students admitted to technology, science, engineering, IT, agriculture and medicine programmes has increased by 44 percent."

The participants at the Education World Forum, which is being attended by the higher education ministers of 135 countries, were mainly interested in how Hungary’s higher education sector had succeeded in establishing close relations with economic players under the new foundation model, Hanko said.

He said there are currently 46,000 international students studying in Hungary, and the aim was to increase their number to 80,000 over the coming years.

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