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Mission Declaration

The Budapest University of Technology and Economics* (BUTE), as one of the greatest Hungarian higher education institutions regards its mission the differentiated, multi-level, wide base quality education, elite-training, research and development, based on a strong primary training corresponding to social demands and the general development of science.

Aim of the BUTE is the high level university and college basic training, professional further training, scientific training, and scientific qualification on several fields of natural and technical sciences, of the inanimate and animate natural sciences as well as social sciences.

1. Education

According to its good traditions the University ensures in the education the unity of theory and practice, namely the high level theoretical foundation and the practical training also based on industrial, agricultural, and other economic connections.

It considers its duty, keeping in view the progress of science and the social demands, the continuous development of the training’s subject both in the training’s multi-level and multilingual fields.

Training levels of the education process:

  1. university (college) level basic training, and complementary basic training
  2. postgraduate training
    • university (college) further training in a speciality branch
    • Ph.D or masters’ training
The University issues in university (college) basic training a diploma on the university (college) degree and speciality, and in special further training based on university (college) degree a diploma on the speciality branch training.

2. Research and scientific qualification

The University’s mission is - together with the education - the cultivation of sciences: scientific research, ensuring the image of the "research university".

Joining the European research cooperation it considers its duty to cultivate the innovation chain including basic research, applied research, product- and service development as well as complex quality insurance alike.

  • The University is the basis of the scientist training: this being realised by the training of Ph.D. students joining scientific schools, and post-Ph.D scholars working in the national scientific institution system, - especially in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

  • The University joins the domestic and international scientific, innovation and technology-transfer processes.
The University may award, after organised PhD training or individual studies, a doctor’s (PhD) degree; after organised master training at the Faculty of Architecture or individual studies a master (DLA) degree.

The University is authorised - in defined scientific fields and branches - to conduct procedures for awarding the titles habilitated doctor (dr. habil.), and at the Faculty of Architecture habilitated master (Mag. habil), and issuing the diplomas.

3. Enterprise, services

The University provides the tasks enumerated under items 1 and 2 as basic activities, their financial sources being ensured by the state according to the Higher Education Act and the Budgetary Act. Further sources of the University’s functioning are its own incomes and the fortunes offered to it.

The University undertakes, with employing the available personal and objective capacities beside its basic tasks in the field of education, research and development pay-service activities.

Main areas of the enterprise activity:

  • offering training and services not connected to complying with study duties included in qualification requirements and curricula for students taking part in state financed higher education,
  • payments courses in specialist education on all training levels and in all forms using different technical means
  • supporting of lifelong learning
  • payment courses in secondary education
  • organisation of admission courses
  • as enterprising activity performing for outside employers and orderers training, research works, developing, consulting, servicing and other tasks.

4. General objectives

  • The University’s objective is that its diploma suitable to the traditions shall be of highest value on the labour market and that for its graduated students the best enterprises and institutions shall compete.

  • The University’s objective is to ensure the students’ training conditions and help in their scientific development. It undertakes an important role in organising the students’ life outside the training with ensuring possibilities promoting the maintenance of chance-equality among the students, their becoming intellectuals, their education to a healthy mode of life and their adapting themselves in the society. The University considers of high priority the guarding of the good relation established with the students’ self-government. It would like to achieve that as the result of the university training every student shall reach the possibly highest education level corresponding with his/her talent and his/her diligence.

  • The University maintaines close connections with the professional organisations and with the representatives of the enterprising sphere. In this relation emphasis is laid on the utilisation of the mutual advantages.

  • The University endeavours to establish good training and work connections with other institutions of Hungarian higher education.

  • The University considers its task the promoting of its wide international relations for the interest of further knowledge increase of its students, teachers, researchers, thus forming a modern institution of the XXI. century.
Budapest, March 1998


*: The renewed name also used by the legal predecessors merges anew the two universities which used to live together. We mention - primarily for the English reader - that the word "economics" in the name basically means the training of specialists with skills in the management of the production sphere and with knowledge in microeconomy and does not want to mean parallel education and unnecessary competition for (macro-economist) training pursued at other excellent universities.



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