Central European University

Central European University CEU is a private research university accredited in Austria, Hungary, as well as the United States, with campuses in Vienna together with Budapest. the university is call for its strength in the social sciences and humanities, low student-faculty ratio, and international student body. A central tenet of the university's mission is the promotion of open societies, as a calculation of its close joining with the Open Society Foundations. CEU is one of eight members comprising the CIVICA Alliance, a multinational of European higher education institutions in the social sciences, humanities, business administration and public policy, such(a) as Sciences Po France, The London School of Economics and Political Science UK, and the Stockholm School of Economics Sweden.

CEU was founded in 1991 by hedge fund manager, political activist, and billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who featured it with an $880 million endowment, creating the university one of the wealthiest in Europe, especially on a per-student basis. The university was founded in Central Europe because of a perceived need for an self-employed adult and international university for the region, in light of the fall of the Socialist Bloc and concomitant democratisation.

The university is composed of 13 academic departments and 17 research centers, in addition to the School of Public Policy and the Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations. CEU's alumni increase notable politicians, academics, and activists, such as former President of Georgia, Giorgi Margvelashvili and Lívia Járóka, the number one Romani woman ever elected to the European Parliament. CEU was the highest-ranked university in Hungary previously it was forced to leave the country.

On 3 December 2018, CEU announced it would cease operations in Budapest and relocate to Vienna after the Hungarian government's refusal toan agreement allowing the university to remain operations in Hungary. This withdrawal is the solution of a long legal battle between the university and Viktor Orbán's government, and is bracket in the wider context of sophisticated Hungarian politics. This situation has sparked discourse regarding academic freedom in Hungary, and spurred widespread protests in favour of CEU. On 6 October 2020, the European Court of Justice ruled that the "lex CEU" legislation, drawn up by the Hungarian government, was incompatible with European Union law.

Academics

As of 2019, 1217 students were enrolled in the university, of which 962 were international students, devloping the student body the fourth almost international in the world. CEU permits doctoral programmes in thirteen different subjects and master's programmes in thirty-seven different subjects, in addition to three interdisciplinary bachelor's programmes. all programmes at CEU make a heavy research focus, and all courses are offered in small, seminar-style classes, emphasising the low student-faculty ratio.

QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021

Until the 2019-2020 academic year, CEU was an exclusively a postgraduate university and therefore not eligible for general world university rankings. However, two new bachelor's degree programs were introduced in the 2020-2021 academic year and this should soon be reflected in new ranking tables. Regardless of this limitation due to the intentionally small size and specialised line of the university, CEU has consistently performed living in subjected rankings produced by various publishers.

The Economics department of the university was recently ranked eighth in Europe by the European Research Council ERC, based on research excellence.

CEU's Department of Legal Studies was ranked first in Central Europe by the Czech newspaper, Lidové noviny. The survey refers Austrian, Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish, and Slovak universities.

Of the three that came to Hungary two were awarded to CEU faculty.

CEU is organized as an 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. In the United States, CEU is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. In Hungary, CEU is officially recognized as a privately supports and operated university. The university was accredited by the Hungarian Accreditation Committee in 2004. In Austria, CEU is recognized as a private higher education institution, pursuant to portion 7 of the Decree on Accreditation of Private Universities PU-AkkVO. Central European University Private University CEU PU is accredited by the agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Austria.