April 27, 2016 16:18
Record participation in Stipendium Hungaricum Programme

The call for Stipendium Hungaricum Programme for 2016/2017 study year has come to a successfull end, receiving a record high 13 129 applications from 49 countries and regions.  As a result, more than 3000 foreign students are expected to start their full-time study programmes as Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship holders in September.

26 Hungarian higher education institutions will host students offering a full scale 420 study programmes altogether. In total, four times more applications were received than the available number of scholarships. The most applications were submitted from Pakistan (about 38 times more than the quota available for them), then Kazakhstan (with 13 times more applications than the quota), Nigeria (11 times more), Cambodia (9 times more) and Mongolia (7 times more) followed. In close cooperation with several other participants, such as the Ministry of Human Capacities, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the higher education institutions, the participating institutions improve the academic quality of their programmes and due to the growing number of students, they may achieve a better position in the international rankings.

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