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Central European University

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Central European University
Közép-európai Egyetem
Logo of Central European University
Latin: Universitas Europae Centralis
TypePrivate
Established1991
Endowment€400 million[1]
RectorJohn Shattuck
Academic staff
305
Students1,600
Postgraduates900
410
Location
Budapest
,
Hungary
CampusUrban
AffiliationsUniversity of the State of New York
Websiteceu.hu

Central European University (CEU) is a graduate-level, English-language university offering degrees in the social sciences, humanities, law, public policy, business management, environmental science, and mathematics. The university is located in Budapest, and is accredited in the United States and in Hungary.

CEU has more than 1500 students from 100 countries and 300 faculty members from more than 30 countries. In 2005, university co-founder George Soros announced he was doubling the CEU's endowment to €400 million.[2]

History

CEU Building

CEU evolved from a series of lectures held in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, (now Croatia) before 1989. The University was founded in 1991 in response to the fall of the Socialist Bloc. The founding vision was to create a university dedicated to examining the contemporary challenges of "open societies" and democratization. The initial aim was to create a Western-modeled yet distinctly Central European institution that would foster inter-regional cooperation and educate a new corps of regional leaders to help usher in democratic transitions across the region.

In its second decade, CEU broadened its focus from regional to global, with a special emphasis on democracy promotion and human rights around the world. CEU has since developed a distinct academic approach, combining regional studies with an international perspective, emphasizing comparative and interdisciplinary research in order to generate new scholarship and policy initiatives, and to promote good governance and the rule of law. CEU has extended its outreach and financial aid programs to certain areas of the developing world.[3]

CEU began the region's first master's degree programs in gender studies and environmental sciences.

On 14 October 2007 George Soros stepped down as Chairman of CEU Board. Leon Botstein (President of the Bard College, New York), who had previously served as the Vice-Chair of the Board, was elected as new Board Chairman for a two-year term. George Soros is a Life-CEU Trustee and serves as Honorary Chairman of the Board.[4]

On 1 August 2009 Rector Yehuda Elkana was succeeded by distinguished human rights leader and legal scholar John Shattuck.

Legal Basis

CEU is organized as a American-style institution, governed by a Board of Trustees, with a charter from the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, for and on behalf of the New York State Education Department.[5] In the United States, CEU is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. In Hungary, CEU is officially recognized as a privately maintained and operated university. The university was accredited by the Hungarian Accreditation Committee in 2004.[3]

Departments and Programs

Departments

  • Economics
  • Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Gender Studies
  • History
  • International Relations and European Studies
  • Legal Studies
  • Mathematics and its Applications
  • Medieval Studies
  • Nationalism Studies
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science
  • Public Policy
  • Sociology and Social Anthropology

Degree Programs

CEU Entrance

One-year Master’s degree programs

  • MA programs: Central European History; Economic and Legal Studies; Gender Studies; Human Rights; International Relations and European Studies; Medieval Studies; Nationalism Studies; Philosophy; Political Science; Public Policy; Sociology and Social Anthropology
  • MS program: Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • LLM programs: Comparative Constitutional Law; Economic and Legal Studies; Human Rights; International Business Law
  • Business programs: Transnational Master's of Business Administration (MBA); International Executive MBA (18-month program)

Two-year Master’s degree programs

  • MA programs: Critical Gender Studies; Economic Policy in Global Markets; Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management (MESPOM, Erasmus Mundus); Economics; Historical Studies; Philosophy; Political Science; Public Policy (Erasmus Mundus program), Sociology and Social Anthropology; Women's and Gender Studies (GEMMA, Erasmus Mundus); Women's and Gender History (MATILDA, Erasmus program)
  • MSc program: Applied Mathematics
  • Business programs: Executive MBA (International Master's in Management)

Doctoral programs

  • PhD in: Comparative Gender Studies; Comparative History of Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe; Economics; Environmental Sciences and Policy; Mathematics and its Applications; Medieval Studies; Philosophy; Political Science; Sociology and Social Anthropology
  • Doctor of Juridical Sciences (SJD)

CEU Library and OSA

The CEU Library is one of the largest English-language libraries in Central Europe, with comprehensive on-site and digital collections in the social sciences and humanities. The library contains more than 255,000 documents in various formats and includes access to a range of academic databases.[6]

The Open Society Archives at CEU (OSA) is a notable Cold War research facility, containing 7,000 linear meters of material related to communist-era political, social, economic and cultural life. The OSA’s collection includes an extensive archive of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty transcripts and reports, along with the world’s largest collection of underground literature and materials from Central and Eastern Europe under communism. The archive also houses a growing collection of documents and audiovisual materials on international human rights and war crimes.

Rankings

According to a study published by German newspaper Die Zeit, the CEU Department of Political Science is one of the best Political Science Departments in Europe.[7] Only four continental universities were ranked ahead of CEU in this study.[8] CEU's Department of Legal Studies was ranked first in Central Europe by the Czech newspaper, Lidove noviny. The survey included Austrian, Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish and Slovakian universities.[9] CEU Business School is consistently placed among the top 20 best Business Schools in Europe in the QS TOPMBA survey.[10] The school's rank decreased from 18th place in 2006[11] to 39th in 2009[12] in four years, although it climbed back to 22nd place in 2010.[13]

Distinguished Faculty

Notable Alumni

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Central European University.
  1. ^ Alumni News 2006
  2. ^ Alumni News 2006
  3. ^ a b http://ceu.bard.edu/about/ Bard College: About CEU and Budapest
  4. ^ George Soros Steps down as Chairman of CEU Board
  5. ^ https://www.ceu.hu/about/organization/governance/board-of-trustees
  6. ^ http://www.library.ceu.hu/missionstatement.html CEU Library Webpage: Mission Statement
  7. ^ Excellence Group: Political Science
  8. ^ CEU Ranked Before Oxford, Corvinus Ranked Before the University of Vienna
  9. ^ http://www.lidovky.cz/nejlepsi-fakulta-ve-stredni-evrope-duj-/ln_noviny.asp?c=A110221_000115_ln_noviny_sko&klic=241450&mes=110221_0
  10. ^ http://www.topmba.com/mba-rankings
  11. ^ Top Business Schools in 2007
  12. ^ TOP Business Schools Europe 2009
  13. ^ http://www.topmba.com/mba-rankings/top-business-schools-report-2010/regions/top-business-schools-in-europe

External links

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