This year's higher education admission point limits were made public on Thursday evening, thus it was decided how many of the approximately 102,000 applicants will be admitted to universities and colleges in the general procedure. Most students can start their studies at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), more than 11,000, and almost 7,000 students at the University of Debrecen. The highest score, 472, had to be achieved for the international management course in English at Budapest's Corvinus University and for the undivided law course at Eötvös Loránd University.
From 8 p.m., according to best practice, the students received a direct SMS notification, and at the same time, they can also find out about the point limits on the felvi.hu website.
After a one-year hiatus due to the coronavirus epidemic, the official point-limit event was held in Budapest.
This time at the Lágmány campus of the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), where Tamás Schanda, the Parliamentary and Strategic State Secretary of the Ministry of Innovation and Technology (ITM), announced the point limits with a symbolic push of a button.
In their short greetings, Tamás Schanda and Sándor Brassói, acting presidents of the Office of Education, emphasized that the students, more than a hundred thousand of whom have decided to continue their education, are going through a difficult time. Sándor Brasói also thanked his colleagues for their work, so that they could notify applicants in time.
At the festival-like Pont Ott Party held on the Lágymány campus, the entry point limits for higher education courses were continuously projected on a projector, and the young people enjoying the music occasionally heard a joyful scream in the crowd.
The largest number of applicants, 1,824, were admitted to the engineering informatics basic course, followed by the nursing and patient care basic course with 1,817 people, and then the business and management basic course with 1,784 people. 1,534 were admitted to undivided teacher training, while 1,448 were able to study program design IT at the bachelor's degree.
1,125 can start their studies on the general medical undivided course, while 1,022 can start their studies on the economic informatics basic course. 989 students were admitted to the international management bachelor's degree, 971 to the mechanical engineering bachelor's degree, and 955 to the psychology bachelor's degree.
The highest score, 472, had to be achieved for the international management course in English at Budapest's Corvinus University and for the undivided law course at Eötvös Loránd University.
This is followed by the Corvinus University of Budapest's international studies course in English and Hungarian (468 and 467). On the third step of the imaginary podium is the English-language business and management course of Budapest's Corvinus University with 466 points, followed by the legal course of Pázmány Péter Catholic University (463).
Applicants for higher education courses can also check whether they have been accepted on the felvi.hu website
You can start the academic year at ELTÉ at eleven
According to the announcement of the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) on Thursday, more than 11,000 applicants were accepted this year; the highest point limit this year was in the undivided teacher's course, you could enter the mathematics-Italian teacher's course with 492 points.
In their announcement sent to MTI on Thursday, they wrote that ELTE accepted 11,090 applicants this year, last year this number was 9,918, and in 2019 it was 10,170.
6,774 young people enrolled in basic courses, 2,802 in master's courses, 1,344 in undivided courses, and 170 in higher education vocational training.
Of those admitted, 8,871 will start their studies during the day, 2,087 will work by correspondence, and 132 will start their studies in the evening. The vast majority of freshmen (9,658 students) will study with state scholarship funding.
The Faculty of Arts took the most students (2,073), followed by the Faculty of Economics (1,805), which will become an independent faculty this August, and the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology (PPK) (1,455).
The basic and undivided majors starting with the largest number of students are law (791), program design IT (650), special education (601) and psychology (416). Among the master's courses, management and organization (336) are the first, followed by psychology (274), marketing (165), and finance (153).
Among the new ELTE majors starting in 2021, the human resources BA (basic education) (72 students) and the sports management MA (66) are very successful, both of which will increase PPK's portfolio in Budapest, they added.
According to the information, English-language courses are also very popular among Hungarian applicants, which are available in five basic and 14 master's courses. While in 2018, only 134 people started their studies on such courses, this year already 501. The most sought-after basic courses are BA international management (187), BA international studies (108) and BA sociology (51), and among the master's courses, the university singled out MSc in biology (45) and physics (28).
With 2,035 admitted students, economics became the second most popular field of study after humanities and before teacher training.
Since the integration in 2017, ELTE's training site in Szombathely has received the most 701 freshmen this year, which, according to the university, is largely due to the training improvements implemented there. In the field of economics, there were 158 applicants for 2 higher education vocational courses and 3 basic courses, 186 for teaching courses, and 62 for IT courses.
The university announced the undivided teaching courses in 654 combinations, and applicants could also choose from 150 teaching master's programs. 706 applicants were accepted for these courses this year, of which 553 can begin their studies in undivided teacher training. Most of them, 223, are training to become English teachers, 131 to become history teachers and 109 to become Hungarian teachers.
The seven highest points this year were in the undivided teaching major, first was the mathematics-Italian teacher major with 492 points, with which a freshman is admitted. Among the majors with a larger number of students, the cut-off point for the legal education with a state scholarship was 472 points (86 students), for psychology 449 points (332 students), and for international studies in English (100 freshmen) 423 points.
In law, in addition to the 86 students with state scholarships, another 705 start their studies with self-financing.
They wrote that the increase in the number of people admitted to the correspondence course was also a success, it was 254 in 2020, and 2,286 this year, thanks to the new teaching methods introduced during distance education.
In the Faculty of Arts, the most popular basic course is the BA in Oriental Languages and Cultures (366 admitted), with a total of 315 students who can start their studies in Korean, Japanese and Chinese. The second place was achieved by English (269 students), and the third by liberal arts (222 students).
Twice as many students start the autonomous system IT MSc, which prepares for the design of software for intelligent systems offered by the Faculty of Informatics, than in previous years (15 students), as well as the program design IT master's course, where 68 students can start their studies in 2019 and 142 this year. .
University of Debrecen: Seven thousand students were admitted
Every year, more students choose the University of Debrecen, in this year's general admission procedure, the institution accepted 6,958 students, 787 more than last year, which means an increase of 13 percent.
The vice chancellor of education of the university Bartha Elek wrote: 4261 can start their studies in basic, 1039 in master's, 974 in undivided majors, and 684 in higher education vocational training. In the semester starting in September, 5,871 people can study in state scholarship training, and 1,087 people can study in self-financing.
The most prospective students, 1,565, were admitted to the Faculty of Economics, followed by the Faculty of Humanities with 864 admissions, and the Faculty of State and Law with 664 students
- listed the professor.
According to Elek Bartha, their most popular bachelor's degree is nursing and patient care, to which 537 students were admitted, 350 prospective first-year students were admitted to the undivided law degree, and the most, 77 students, were admitted to the master's degree in psychology.
The highest score, 447, was required for the undivided teaching program of English language and culture teacher and chemistry teacher, with the same number of points you could get into the IT teacher-mathematics teacher pairing, followed by the correspondence course in law with 442 points, the deputy rector ranked.
He added that 9,207 first-year students are expected to start the 2021/2022 academic year at the University of Debrecen, together with those admitted in the general admission and supplementary admission procedures, as well as new foreign students.
Nearly 4,800 students were admitted to the BME
The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) is accepting almost 4,800 new students. The average score of state scholarship students admitted to bachelor's programs exceeds 425 points, they said.
It was announced: in September, 4,727 first-year students will occupy the lecture halls of the University of Technology, which represents a 2 percent increase compared to the previous year.
They wrote that the excellence of the BME is well indicated by the fact that the number of applicants admitted to the institution's bachelor's programs and the average score remained high, and in fact both increased compared to last year, despite unfavorable demographic trends and the pandemic.
In the form of education with a state scholarship, the average score is exceptionally high, over 425 points, and even with those enrolled in the self-funded form, it is almost 420 points
they added.
In addition to the score limit, "the high average score and, together with it, the high number of admissions, are important data that better indicate excellence. The institution performs excellently in all of them," they emphasized.
According to the information, more than a thousand students can start their studies in the master's program in the fall, and more than one thousand and one hundred more were admitted to one of the BME's master's courses in January this year.
In the current admission procedure, 21 percent of the almost 11,000 young people applying to the university selected a master's program, which is four percentage points higher than the national rate, even though this is not the main admission procedure for the majority of BME's master's programs, but the January one, they noted.
He drew the applicants' attention to the fact that the university also offers state scholarship programs in most of its bachelor's programs in the current supplementary admission procedure. More details are available at felvi.hu.
Corvinus: almost a quarter more applicants
This year, 24 percent more applicants applied for the courses of the Corvinus University of Budapest in the first place than last year; more than twice as many people applied for courses starting in English.
According to the announcement, the strategic goal of Corvinus, which was maintained by the foundation two years ago, is to become the best university in the Central and Eastern European region in the field of economic and social sciences by 2030.
"This is what the university wants to achieve with elite training and internationalization," they wrote.
For the sake of high-level, quality education, this year compared to last year, Corvinus accepted fewer students for its basic courses, with higher score limits.
"In this way, the instructors can provide high-quality education to students with outstanding abilities instead of mass training," they said, adding that Corvinus expects students to "primarily focus on their studies during their university years." For this - as they continued - the university provides all the support: the best students are provided with a scholarship of up to HUF 70,000 per month by the Maecenas Universitatis Corvini Foundation, which is more than twice the amount of the state scholarship.
It has been reported that starting this fall, the most popular and largest core course at Corvinus, farming and management, has been completely renewed. "It was transformed into a modern business basic course based on the Western European model, providing generalist knowledge, into which the former trade and marketing, tourism-hospitality, human resources and rural development agricultural engineering basic courses were integrated," says the written summary .
The communique called the major advantage of the renewed major that the applicants do not have to decide at the age of 18 exactly which business field they want to specialize in, they will be able to make this decision in the last year of the training.
According to the information, the point limit required for the free training place in the Hungarian-language economics and management basic course increased by 24 points, and it was possible to get in with 451 points. Last year, 434 points were required for the English-language training form of the same major, but this year it was already 466 points. The university admitted a total of 718 students to the various courses of the major, it was announced.
Corvinus also pointed out that 35 points more than last year were needed to get into the applied economics basic course, which is unique in the country. With 445 points, you could get into the Corvinus Scholarship for this course, and for the English-language subsidized form of education, you needed 442 points for admission.
They added: "extremely high", 472 points were needed this year to get a place with a scholarship in the international management course, which started only in English since last year, and a total of 198 students were admitted to this course.
It was also not easy to get into the university's popular social science courses this year - they wrote, explaining that 468 points were required for the English-language international studies basic course, while 442 points were needed for the English-language communication and media studies basic course.
The announcement called the internationalization of Corvinus a strategic goal, an important part of which is that the university advertises more and more courses in English, or only in English.
In the case of courses in English, from September 2021, Corvinus Scholarship students will no longer have to pay a foreign language contribution.
This year, applicants' interest in foreign language courses increased significantly, more than twice as many applied for courses in English as the first place compared to last year. 20 percent of all students accepted in this year's admission procedure applied from abroad, despite the year-long epidemic situation.
The university indicated that it accepted about the same number of students for its master's programs this year as last year, a total of 641.
In the following years, the aim is to start the majority of master's courses exclusively in English, they emphasized, also stating that for those master's courses where it is justified and feasible, a one-year master's program will be introduced on the Western European model.
As part of the renewal of the Budapest Corvinus University, in the last two years it has started to transform its training portfolio on the Western European model. In the coming years, the goal is to create a basic training portfolio that provides generalist knowledge and a specialist master's training portfolio, launched with fewer majors than at present, by launching renewed and unique new majors that reflect the needs of the labor market, they wrote.
A record number of applicants at the BGE
This September, 6,448 first-year students can start their studies at the Budapest University of Economics (BGE), 16 percent more than last year. As in previous years, the proportion of students admitted as state scholarship recipients continued to increase this year.
In their press release, they wrote that BGE is the third most popular university in the country based on the number of applicants, which, as they put it, "owes its recognition to its well-designed training portfolio that is adapted to market needs, as it offers five of the ten most popular basic courses in Hungary".
As they added, this year's admission results prove the popularity of the institution, which has been operated by a foundation since August 1, and the "unbroken interest" in business-focused courses. By way of comparison, they announced that last year 5,547 students were admitted to the three Budapest faculties, so this year the number of newly admitted students is 16 percent higher.
As in previous years, the proportion of students admitted as state scholarship recipients increased this year: almost 67 percent of the admitted students will begin their studies as state scholarship recipients, the university announced.
In addition, all three faculties of the university – Faculty of Commerce, Hospitality and Tourism; Faculty of Foreign Trade; Faculty of Finance and Accounting - the number of admitted students increased this year.
According to the written summary, the majority of applicants voted for the bachelor's degree courses in trade and marketing, business and management, tourism and hospitality, international management, finance and accounting, and business informatics.
"This year's results exceeded all our expectations, especially that we were able to increase our attractiveness even compared to the record-breaking year 2019," quoted Rector Balázs Heidrich in the communiqué, who says that this clearly shows that the developments carried out in recent years have been successful, "so more and more it is obvious to many applicants that studying and obtaining a degree at BGE is an excellently profitable investment in the future".
The announcement also mentioned that those who missed the admission process or were not admitted can submit their application to the Budapest University of Economics within the framework of the supplementary admission procedure.
Admission background information
In addition to the institution's capacity, the point limit for a course is influenced by how many people applied there and with what results. The higher the number of high-scoring applicants, the higher the score limit will be. Higher education institutions can decide to set the minimum score for applicants higher than the legal requirement. In this case, it may also happen that the institution does not use its full capacity in a given course.
According to the Ministry of Innovation and Technology, almost 110,000 students applied to a college or university this year. Balázs Hankó, the deputy state secretary responsible for higher education, spoke on M1 about the fact that 11 percent more people applied for higher education this year than last year. According to him, this clearly confirms the success of the Hungarian higher education system.
Those who have not been accepted now need not despair either, as they will be able to apply during the supplementary enrollment period.
During the supplementary admission process, only one course could be selected, and only those who were not accepted to any of the courses they indicated or who did not apply to higher education at all this year may apply.
Last year's point limits in some majors of major universities:
- Semmelweis University Faculty of General Medicine, general medicine department 430
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering Bioengineering 359
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics: 350
- Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Informatics Program Development IT Department 395
- Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Economics, general economics major: 410
- Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management 434
- ELTE Faculty of State and Law, Faculty of Law: 472
- Dániel Berzsenyi Pedagogical Training Center undivided teaching major: 378
Source: hirado.hu
Photo: MTI/Noémi Bruzák
