Honnan jönnek a hallgatók?
From Where are Students Coming?

Summary/Abstract: In the twenty years after the ‘transition’ there have been major developments in Hungarian higher education; yet such expansion halted in the middle of the first decade of the 2000s partly because its demographic base was exhausted and partly because higher education policy was being influenced by specific measures affecting in this direction. Between 2008–2011, the number of applicants for higher education studies increased once more, though the new (2012) law means that a radical reduction in the number of students can be expected (due to radical reductions in the number of students that can get free tuition and rises in tuition fees generally). The higher education entrance application database also suggests that from 2000 to 2010 the pursuit of more prestigious higher education relates to the region’s economic level of development. The study concludes that elite students from the capital city and more wealthy regions basically study in Budapest, while elite students from poorer regions will be more likely to accept a place at a large(r) university in their region, where the amount of prestige will be sufficient. One particular consequence of this is that even prominent universities in eastern Hungary are clearly limited to their own region.

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