Hungary

• Four universities - Semmelweis, Debrecen, Pécs and Szeged - teach medicine fully in English, most also dentistry and pharmacy, and Univet teaches veterinary medicine; many entrance exams can be sat online from Denmark.
• Szeged waives the entrance exam outright for an IB Diploma with grade 5 in two Higher Level natural sciences, and it will consider predicted grades for a conditional offer.
• The Hungarian érettségi equivalence of the IB Diploma is established in law, so no case-by-case recognition application is needed.
• Living costs outside Budapest are very low. A dormitory place costs HUF 13,000 a month in Szeged and HUF 18,000 in Debrecen, against HUF 225,000 for a private Budapest flat.
• As an EU student you have unlimited work rights once you hold a registration card, and your EHIC gives you healthcare on the same terms as a Hungarian.

• Stipendium Hungaricum is closed to EU citizens: it works through bilateral sending-partner agreements, and no EU member state is on the list (Ukraine, among other non-EU countries, is). The Diaspora Scholarship excludes anyone resident inside the EU. Hungary's bilateral state scholarships list 30 countries and Denmark is not one of them, so check whether yours is. Unless it is, plan to be self-funded.
• Medical tuition is the real cost: Semmelweis charges 9,340 euros a semester for medicine and dentistry, Debrecen 16,900 US dollars a year, Szeged 15,800 euros, Pécs 16,750 dollars. Add application, exam, deposit and registration fees of several hundred to two thousand more.
• CEU's bachelor's degrees are in Vienna, not Budapest. After the 2017 law change CEU moved its degree teaching to Austria in September 2019. Budapest keeps the Democracy Institute, the Institute for Advanced Study and the archives, but grants no bachelor's degrees.
• Semmelweis does not name the IB Diploma anywhere in its entry requirements and offers no exam exemption. It asks only for a school-leaving certificate from an accredited school. Confirm your position with them directly.
• Firm 2027 closing dates so far: Debrecen 15 May, Semmelweis 31 May and Pécs 30 June 2027. Szeged and Corvinus have not published theirs, and only Pécs has firm 2027 exam dates.
• No Scandinavian entrance-exam centre was confirmed anywhere. The online and Zoom formats at Szeged, Semmelweis and Univet are your practical route.

Accepted

Yes

Subjects and levels

IB subjects are mapped onto Hungarian érettségi subjects — Business Management to üzleti ismeretek, Economics to gazdasági ismeretek, and so on. To claim érettségi points you need at least two acceptable or matchable subjects at the required level. Higher Level counts at full value; Standard Level is multiplied by two thirds.

Score conversion

Hungarian legislation establishes that the IB Diploma is equivalent to the Hungarian érettségi, so no separate recognition application is needed. The Educational Authority (Oktatási Hivatal) converts grades to points: a 7 counts as 100 percent and scores 100 points at Higher Level or 67 at Standard; a 6 is 88 percent, 88 or 59 points; a 5 is 76 percent, 76 or 51; a 4 is 63 percent, 63 or 42; a 3 is 51 percent, 51 or 34; a 2 is 39 percent, 39 or 26.

• Only the full IB Diploma counts as a school-leaving certificate. If you are graduating in the admission year you may instead submit an authenticated Results Summary or Candidate Results showing 'Diploma awarded' — a school-stamped printout from the electronic system is accepted. Individual Certificate or Course Results documents are not, and provisional results are rejected.
• There is an exception: if you hold another school-leaving certificate and took DP exams without earning the Diploma, points can still be calculated per subject from the Course Results.
• The whole points-conversion machinery applies to the central Hungarian-language admission procedure. The English-taught medical programmes bypass it entirely and use their own entrance exams instead.
• Of the medical schools on this page, Szeged is the one that publishes an IB exemption: grade 5 in two Higher Level natural sciences from Biology, Chemistry or Physics exempts you from the entrance exam, plus English if your language of instruction was not English. Predicted grades may support a conditional offer.
• Corvinus names the IB Diploma explicitly as an accepted credential, accepts IB English at SL 5 or HL 4 as English proof, and accepts IB Maths at SL 5 or HL 4 in place of its own maths entrance exam.
• CEU accepts IB English at 5 or above, at either level, as exemption from English testing, and for its Data Science degree accepts IB Maths HL 5 or SL 6 as proof of mathematical competency.
• Debrecen, Semmelweis and the veterinary university offer no IB-based exam exemption. No Hungarian institution publishes a minimum IB point score.
• The maximum total admission points in the Hungarian system and the minimum score for medicine are not confirmed here; ask the university.

1. Work out the funding first. Stipendium Hungaricum and the Diaspora Scholarship are closed to EU citizens, and Hungary's bilateral state scholarships depend on your nationality — Denmark is not on the list, so check whether your country is. Unless it is, budget the full tuition plus living costs before you commit to anything.

2. Decide whether you are applying in English or in Hungarian. They are different systems: English-taught programmes go direct to each university on its own portal, while felvi.hu / E-felvételi handles Hungarian-language and state-funded places on a central mid-February deadline.

3. If you want medicine, decide early whether to target Szeged. Its IB exam exemption is worth a great deal of effort — grade 5 in two HL sciences and you skip the entrance exam altogether.

4. Apply directly to each university through its own portal: SEMAPHOR at Semmelweis, DreamApply at Szeged and Corvinus, apply.univet.hu at the veterinary university, and their own systems at Debrecen and Pécs.

5. Apply early rather than close to the deadline. Pécs, Univet and Corvinus all admit on a rolling basis, and Debrecen closed its September 2026 medicine applications before the published date because of demand.

6. Pay the application fee, which varies enormously: 100 euros at Corvinus, 150 dollars at Debrecen, 200 dollars at Pécs, 200 euros at Univet, 300 euros at Szeged, 400 dollars at Semmelweis — and at Pécs a further 250 dollars for the entrance exam.

7. Book your entrance exam. At the medical schools these run roughly March to July and are taken online — Szeged on Coospace monitored by Zoom, Semmelweis on Moodle, Pécs and Univet with an oral interview over Zoom or Teams.

8. Pay the tuition deposit to hold your place. It is usually deducted from your first semester fee: 2,000 dollars at Semmelweis, 800 euros at Szeged and at Univet.

9. Upload your IB Diploma the week it arrives. Semmelweis wants it by 21 August and Corvinus by 1 August; Pécs will take it as late as September, and Univet before enrolment.

10. After you arrive, register with the National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing within 93 days of entry. The registration certificate costs HUF 1,000 and never expires — and it is what unlocks unlimited work rights.

The English-taught medical programmes select on their own entrance exam, not on your IB points. The pattern is a written multiple-choice paper in biology and chemistry (or physics) plus English, followed by an oral interview over Zoom on motivation and subject knowledge. Debrecen can also place you in a preparatory Basic Medicine Course rather than admitting or rejecting outright. Szeged caps English-programme intake at around 200 students a year and Pécs at 180. At Corvinus, maths is either evidenced by your IB grade or tested in a 26-question online exam, and three programmes add an interview.

• 15 October 2026, 23:59 CET
  2027 entry

  CEU (Vienna) bachelor’s - round 1 of four

  Priority

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  All four rounds close at 23:59 CET. CEU’s own financial aid is awarded in the first two rounds only, so apply in October or February if you want it. Accepted students pay a 500-euro registration fee. Note that CEU’s bachelor’s programmes are taught in Vienna, not in Budapest - it appears on this page because it was founded in Budapest, but you would be living in Austria.

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• 1 November 2026
  February 2027 intake

  University of Debrecen - application closes for the February 2027 intake

  Applies to: applicants to the January/February start, not the September one

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published with its year: Debrecen lists "January/February 2026/2027 - all programs: 1st November 2026". This is the only route on this page that starts in February rather than September, which makes it the fallback for a student who misses a September round - and the nearest deadline on this whole page. Debrecen also states that it closed applications early for the September 2026 Medicine and Dentistry intake "due to an exceptionally high number of applications received", so treat its published deadlines as the latest possible date rather than a safe one. Application fee 150 USD, non-refundable.

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• 1 November 2026
  2027 entry

  University of Pécs - applications open for 2027/28

  Details

  Published with its year: "the application period starts on 1st November 2026 and the application deadline is 30th June 2027 for the academic year 2027/2028 beginning from September 2027". Pécs adds the sentence that makes the opening date matter: "Since admission is continuous, the earlier you apply, the more spots we can offer." There is one intake a year. It is on the online-application page (https://admissions.medschool.pte.hu/application-form), as of 23 September 2026; the page on the same site titled "Deadlines & Requirements" publishes no deadline at all, so look for dates on the application page.

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• 1 January to 30 June 2027
  annual standing rule, applied to 2027

  University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest - rolling application window

  Rolling

  Details

  Considered as they arrive, until places run out.

  Published as a standing rule with no year: "Applications are accepted on a rolling basis from 1st January until 30th June (in cases of vacancies later)"; this site assumes the 2027 intake. Decisions are made on a rolling basis through the window, so an early application is a better one. Entrance examinations are arranged online between March and July, with "further rounds of entrance examinations organized in August depending on the number of vacancies" - a real second chance, but one that depends on other people turning places down. An applicant still in the final year of school may apply, but the school leaving certificate must be presented before enrolment.

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• 2 February 2027, 23:59 CET
  2027 entry

  CEU (Vienna) bachelor’s - round 2 of four

  Priority

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  All four rounds close at 23:59 CET. CEU’s own financial aid is awarded in the first two rounds only, so apply in October or February if you want it. Accepted students pay a 500-euro registration fee. Note that CEU’s bachelor’s programmes are taught in Vienna, not in Budapest - it appears on this page because it was founded in Budapest, but you would be living in Austria.

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• 3 March to 14 July 2027
  2027 entry

  University of Pécs - entrance exams, every Wednesday

  Details

  Published with its year: "Entrance exams are organized each Wednesday between 3rd March and 14th July 2027." The window runs weekly, not continuously - there are twenty Wednesdays in it and you sit one of them. Register two weeks in advance. Exams can be sat in Pécs, in Budapest at McDaniel College, or abroad through representative agencies, and there is a 250 USD (about €220 at the ECB rate of 24 September 2026) entrance exam fee on top of the application fee.

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• 15 April 2027, 23:59 CET
  2027 entry

  CEU (Vienna) bachelor’s - round 3 of four

  Priority

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  All four rounds close at 23:59 CET. CEU’s own financial aid is awarded in the first two rounds only, so apply in October or February if you want it. Accepted students pay a 500-euro registration fee. Note that CEU’s bachelor’s programmes are taught in Vienna, not in Budapest - it appears on this page because it was founded in Budapest, but you would be living in Austria.

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• 15 May 2027
  2027 entry

  University of Debrecen - application closes for September 2027

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published with its year: "The application period for the September 2027 intake will open later this year, and the final application deadline will be May 15, 2027." In 2026 the deadline was 15 June; for 2027 Debrecen has brought it forward by a month, so a 15 June date you see elsewhere is wrong for 2027. The opening date is still only "later this year" (as of 23 September 2026). Debrecen closed its September 2026 Medicine and Dentistry applications ahead of the published deadline because of demand, so do not plan to use the last week of this window.

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• 31 May 2027
  2027 entry

  Semmelweis University - medicine, dentistry and pharmacy applications close for autumn 2027

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published with its year, as "Application deadline: 31 May, 2027", on all three programme pages, so this is a genuine 2027 date rather than an assumed one. The opening date is not: Semmelweis shows "Application starts: (to be announced soon)". Applications run through the SEMAPHOR system. Entrance exams are held once or twice a week from early March until the end of June, but Semmelweis publishes no calendar - "The exact dates and times will be provided to the applicants having submitted their application(s)" - so the exam dates are only visible from inside the system. One eligibility rule that catches younger IB candidates: you must be 18 by the end of the spring semester of year one, "i.e., by the end of May 2027".

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• 30 June 2027
  2027 entry

  University of Pécs - application closes for September 2027

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published with its year: "the application deadline is 30th June 2027 for the academic year 2027/2028". It is on the online-application page, not on the page called "Deadlines & Requirements", which carries no dates at all. Because the entrance-exam window closes on 14 July and exams have to be arranged two weeks ahead, applying at the very end of June leaves almost no room to sit the exam, let alone re-sit it.

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• 6 July 2027

  IB results released

  Via Hungarian university

  Details

  After most Hungarian deadlines. You apply on predicted grades and entrance exams, and upload the Diploma once you have it.

• 15 July 2027, 23:59 CET
  2027 entry

  CEU (Vienna) bachelor’s - round 4 of four

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  All four rounds close at 23:59 CET. CEU’s own financial aid is awarded in the first two rounds only, so apply in October or February if you want it. Accepted students pay a 500-euro registration fee. Note that CEU’s bachelor’s programmes are taught in Vienna, not in Budapest - it appears on this page because it was founded in Budapest, but you would be living in Austria.

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• 1 August 2027
  2027 entry, projected from an undated annual rule

  Corvinus - final diplomas, certificates and proof of English due

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "1 August" with no year, twice: the application-information page lists "Step 8 Submit final diplomas and certificates by 1 August", and the admissions-requirements page says Corvinus "accepts the following proof of English language proficiency (minimum equivalent B2 level) submitted no later than 1 August". This site assumes the 2027 intake. Comfortable for an IB candidate - the diploma is issued in early July - but it is the last gate before enrolment, and an offer is conditional on it.

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• 21 August 2027

  Semmelweis: upload your school-leaving certificate

  Applies to: applicants who applied before their diploma was issued

  Hard deadline Via Hungarian university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Semmelweis only. Published as a standing rule, '21st of August the year of application', so this site assumes 2027. Other universities set their own document deadline.

  Published as "the 21st of August the year of application", with no year; this site assumes the 2027 intake. Semmelweis lets you apply and sit the entrance exam while still in your final year - "Those who have not yet received this certificate can also submit their application and take the entrance examination" - but "The final deadline for uploading the Matriculation Certificate is the 21st of August." Your IB Diploma is issued in early July, so the gap is about six weeks; the risk is not the date but forgetting the step exists.

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• Set by each institution

  Each university's own closing date

  Via Hungarian university

  Details

  English-taught programmes are applied for on each university's own portal, not through the national felvi.hu system. Dates differ: Semmelweis closes medicine on 31 May 2027; Pécs takes applications from 1 November 2026 to 30 June 2027 and admits continuously. Several universities fill places as applications arrive, so treat a published deadline as the last possible day.

• Not yet announced for this intake
  2027 entry

  Corvinus applications open for 2027/28

  Details

  Corvinus publishes the month and not the day: "The online admission platform for the Academic year 2027/28 will open in October 2026" (as of 23 September 2026). Nothing can be submitted before it opens, and because Corvinus runs rolling admissions with staged entrance-exam rounds, opening day is effectively the start of the queue - in the 2026 cycle the first "early bird" phase ran from 1 October 2025 to 26 January 2026 and those applicants got the February oral exams. The application fee is 100 euros and is payable before the application is processed at all.

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• Not yet announced for this intake
  2027 entry

  Central felvételi deadline - the Hungarian-language and state-funded route

  Applies to: applicants to Hungarian-taught or state-funded places only

  Details

  Hungary does have a central admissions system, and it is not the one an IB student from Denmark normally uses: felvi.hu / E-felvételi handles Hungarian-language and state-funded places, while the English-taught programmes on this page are applied for directly to each university. felvi states the rule in Hungarian rather than publishing a 2027 date: "a szeptemberben induló képzésekre vonatkozó általános felvételi eljárás meghirdetései legkésőbb az előző év december 31-ig jelennek meg honlapunkon, a jelentkezési határidő többnyire a rákövetkező év február 15-én jár le" - the programmes are announced by 31 December of the previous year at the latest and the application deadline usually falls on 15 February, with the point thresholds (ponthatárok) set in July. "Többnyire" is felvi’s own hedge, which is why no date is recorded. Semmelweis puts the division plainly from the other side: "Our English language programs are fundamentally available for applicants having no Hungarian citizenship as the Hungarian citizens are eligible to apply for the Hungarian language programs through FELVI." (felvi.hu is in Hungarian.)

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• Not yet announced for this intake
  2027 entry

  Corvinus - applications close for September 2027

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Corvinus had published nothing beyond "October 2026" for the 2027/28 cycle by 23 September 2026, so no closing date is given. Precedent from the 2026 cycle, which shows how the shape of it matters more than the day: applications ran "from 27 January onwards until 25 May 2026", but admission is staged, and what you actually have to hit is the deadline to complete the written entrance exam or upload exemption evidence in order to be invited to the next oral round. Those fell on 8 February, 22 February, 29 March, 3 May and 26 May 2026, with oral exams on 11-13 February, 11-13 March, 15-17 April, 20-22 May and 10-12 June. Applying in the last week means the last oral round or none.

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• Not yet announced for this intake
  2027 entry

  University of Szeged - application deadline

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Not published yet: on 23 September 2026 the DreamApply course page still showed "Fall semester 2026/27 - Application period has ended" and nothing for 2027/28. For the 2026/27 intake entrance exams ran from the end of February to the end of June, every second week. Szeged is worth watching for rather than writing off: it exempts strong IB science candidates from the entrance exam altogether, and it caps the English programme at roughly 200 students a year. Check the portal from late 2026.

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English-taught bachelors

Substantial in medicine and business, thinner elsewhere. Four universities teach medicine in English, most also dentistry and pharmacy; Corvinus has 8 English-taught bachelor's degrees in business, economics and social sciences; the veterinary university teaches its whole degree in English; BME lists 13 English-taught BSc degrees. Counts for ELTE, Óbuda, MOME, the Liszt Academy, Budapest Metropolitan and Széchenyi István are not confirmed here.

Proving your English

Set institution by institution, and generally easy for an IB student. Corvinus accepts IB English at SL 5 or HL 4, or IELTS 6.0. CEU accepts IB English at 5 or above at either level, or IELTS 6.5 / TOEFL iBT 88. Debrecen requires a proctored B2 certificate but exempts anyone who completed secondary education in English — which covers an IB school. At Semmelweis, Szeged, Pécs and Univet, English is assessed inside the entrance exam itself, so no external certificate is usually needed.

Local language needed?

Not for English-taught programmes

• Hungarian-language state-funded places exist but are not a realistic route. Whether an EU citizen is legally eligible is not confirmed here, and the obligations are severe: you must graduate within one and a half times the standard study period and then work in Hungary for a period equal to the scholarship duration within a twenty-year window, or repay the whole thing.
• No official source says state-funded places exist on English-taught programmes at all.
• Semmelweis publishes no certificate score, asking only for 'upper intermediate' English tested through its General English and Biomedical English papers.

Tuition, EU/EEA

No EU discount exists — you pay the same published fees as everyone else. Medicine: Semmelweis 9,340 euros per semester (18,680 a year), Szeged 7,900 per semester (15,800 a year), Debrecen 16,900 US dollars a year, Pécs 16,750 dollars a year. Dentistry: Semmelweis 9,340 euros per semester, Debrecen 17,500 dollars, Pécs 17,350 dollars. Pharmacy: Semmelweis 5,820 euros per semester, Debrecen 8,000 dollars, Pécs 8,400 euros. Veterinary medicine at Univet Budapest 12,480 euros a year. Corvinus bills EEA applicants in forints: HUF 1,700,000 to 1,980,000 a year. (Semmelweis 2027 entry, Pécs 2027/28, Szeged and Debrecen and Univet 2026/27, Corvinus year not stated)

Tuition, non-EU

Broadly the same, with one exception. The medical schools publish a single fee per programme with no nationality split. Corvinus does distinguish: it bills non-EEA applicants in euros at 6,600 to 7,000 a year and EEA applicants in forints at HUF 1,700,000 to 1,980,000, so the difference is the currency and the exchange-rate risk as much as the headline price. (2026/27)

Application fee

Varies a lot: 100 euros at Corvinus, 150 US dollars at Debrecen plus a 350-dollar exam fee, 200 dollars at Pécs plus 250 for the exam and 220 registration, 200 euros at Univet plus 250 for the exam and 220 registration, 300 euros at Szeged, 400 US dollars at Semmelweis plus a 2,000-dollar deposit and 230 enrolment fee. CEU charges accepted students a 500-euro registration fee.

Living costs

Dormitory places run from HUF 13,000 a month in Szeged and 18,000 in Debrecen up to HUF 36,000 in Budapest and 40,000 in Győr. A shared flat with utilities costs around HUF 80,000 outside Budapest and 140,000 in the capital; a private flat 135,000 to 175,000 outside Budapest and 225,000 in it. A restaurant meal is HUF 2,500 to 4,000 and a single transport ticket 350 to 650. (not stated on the source page)

• Study in Hungary publishes no all-in monthly total and no euro figures, and does not say which year its price data is from. At roughly 400 forints to the euro, a Szeged dormitory is about 33 euros a month and a Budapest private flat about 560 — but that arithmetic is not from the source and is sensitive to the exchange rate.
• Two official pages disagree about private rents. The accommodation page gives HUF 120,000 to 220,000 in Budapest plus overheads and 70,000 to 180,000 outside it; the cost-of-living page gives higher figures including utilities.
• Landlords usually want a deposit of at least two months' rent up front.
• Szeged offers three discounts worth 300 euros each: an early-bird if you are admitted by 30 April, a sibling discount, and an alumni discount if a parent graduated there. Corvinus offers 10 percent off first-year tuition for early admission with payment by 31 March.
• The regional medical cities are dramatically cheaper than Budapest on housing, which partly offsets Semmelweis's higher tuition.

Funding you could actually get

• Danish SU can follow you here if you can claim it (Danish citizens, or EU/EEA citizens with equal status under EU rules) and meet the ties-to-Denmark requirement. In 2026 it is DKK 7,426 a month before tax if you live away from your parents. The programme must be SU-approved, and outside the Nordics SU is capped at four years (48 klip). The cap does not cover a six-year medical degree: plan for that gap. If you cannot claim SU, look first at your own country's student finance: several EU/EEA systems fund a full degree in another country.
• Stipendium Hungaricum is closed to EU citizens. It operates through bilateral sending-partner agreements and requires nomination by your country's designated authority. No EU member state appears on the partner list — the only European entries are non-EU countries in the Western Balkans plus Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Türkiye.
• The Hungarian Diaspora Scholarship is closed to anyone living in the EU: it is open only to members of the Hungarian diaspora residing outside it, so Hungarian ancestry does not help while you live in Denmark.
• Hungary's bilateral state scholarships, administered by the Tempus Public Foundation, list about thirty eligible countries for full-degree study. Denmark appears in none of them. This is a specific and unusual gap — Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland are all on the list and Denmark is not.
• What is left are institutional discounts, and they are small. Szeged offers 300 euros off per semester for siblings and children of alumni, and 300 off the first semester for early admission. Corvinus offers 10 percent off first-year tuition for early admission and 30 percent for holders of a Corvinus degree. CEU awards its own financial aid, but only to applicants in the first two of its four rounds, and the amounts are not confirmed here.
• A realistic conclusion: unless your country has a bilateral scholarship agreement with Hungary, you are self-funded here, with Danish SU if you can claim it, or your own country's student finance, as the only meaningful support.

Residency

As an EU citizen you may stay beyond three months if you are enrolled at an accredited institution, and you must register with the National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing within 93 days of entering the country. Bring your admission certificate, your passport or ID card, proof of sufficient funds and evidence of health insurance. The fee is HUF 1,000, payable by card or transfer, and you can file at a regional directorate or electronically through the Enter Hungary platform. The registration certificate is issued immediately and has no expiry date.

Working

EU and EEA students have no limit on working hours, provided you hold a registration card. That makes registering within 93 days more than a formality. Non-EU students are capped at 30 hours a week during term and 90 days or 66 working days outside it. Study in Hungary puts unskilled student work at roughly 445 euros net a month for eight-hour days and skilled work at about 550.

Housing

Dormitories, called kollégium, are the cheap option and the gap between cities is enormous: HUF 13,000 a month in Szeged against HUF 36,000 in Budapest and 40,000 in Győr. Whether international fee-paying students can actually get dormitory places is not confirmed here, and neither are university-specific dormitory prices — so treat the national figures as indicative and ask your university directly. Private rentals in Budapest run HUF 120,000 to 225,000 a month depending on which official page you read, with a deposit of at least two months' rent.

Healthcare

Bring your EHIC. As an EU citizen you are covered on the same terms as a Hungarian, with the same rights and obligations. Students on exchange or at a state-run institute get free medical care; students who do not meet those criteria can sign an agreement with the Hungarian Health Insurance Fund at a cost of 30 percent of the local minimum wage. Note that the EHIC covers medically necessary state-provided care, not comprehensive private cover. Whether an EU student needs a Hungarian TAJ social security card alongside the EHIC is not confirmed here — the official healthcare page does not mention it; ask your university.

Your IB is still a foreign qualification here, so the IB entry rules still apply to you.