CEU Organization: Administrative and Academic Units

The Academic Cooperation and Research Support Office (ACRO) is a unit responsible for co-ordinating CEU efforts in international academic co-operation and providing administrative support to CEU research activities and projects. ACRO assists CEU faculty, staff and students to seek and secure partnerships and support for their academic mobility, cooperation and research. It proposes and implements policies ensuring that externally funded research and CEU academic partnerships are of the highest quality and in line with CEU mission and values.

Academic Cooperation and Research Support Office (ACRO) address:
1051 Budapest, Nador u. 13. building, 5th floor, offices 510-512

Alumni Relations and Career Services’ mission is to engage all CEU alumni and students in a mutually beneficial, lifelong connection to each other and the university. We strive to empower students and alumni with the skills necessary to succeed in their professional lives, while fully utilizing the power of the CEU alumni network. The integrated Alumni Relations and Career Services unit (ARCS) coordinates all the alumni and career support programs. It also provides the primary means of communication between students, alumni and employers, and between alumni and the university.

The Center for Arts and Culture (CAC) stimulates research and curricula development in the field of arts and culture and cultural policy, initiates culture-related debate within the university, and provides the CEU community with innovative artistic programs aimed at bringing together students from all disciplines, as well as academic staff and the Budapest public.

The Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy (3CSEP) is an interdisciplinary research and educational center whose mission is to foster solutions to climate change and sustainable energy challenges, while advancing the implementation of development agendas. The center conducts its research at both the global and the regional/local levels, using selected regions and localities as case studies.

The Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB) was established in 2005. Ethics and law of biotechnology have obtained increasingly global dimensions. Responding to emerging data protection and intellectual property issues in biomedical law and working towards a better international coordination of regulatory policies in these fields have been two most important issues that CELAB has focused its activities on. The idea behind establishing this Center was based on the recognition of a new and increasingly developing interdisciplinary field: the ethical, legal and social implications of biotechnology. The main pillars of the work done by the Center are the ethics and policy oriented research in the academic field of biotechnology and biomedical law. The Center runs an online biolaw-database, organizes and participates in several international research and policy networks. In the academic year of 2009–10 CELAB is involved in five EU founded projects. In various research projects the Center explores social, cultural, ethical and legal aspects of biobank, stem cell research, genetics, human reproduction, nanotechnology, organ transplantation, regenerative medicine.

The Center for European Union Research (CEUR) is a platform for collaborative research, dissemination and international networking in the field of European Union studies. CEUR is open to all CEU faculty and emphasises an interdisciplinary approach. CEUR is a crucial component of CEU’s research infrastructure. It promotes CEU’s profile as a key provider of research and teaching in the field of European Union studies.

The CMCS is dedicated to advancing media and communication scholarship and policy and the democratic potential of the media. The Center produces scholarly and practice-oriented research addressing academic, policy and civil society needs. CMCS research and activities address media and communication policy, social media and free expression, civil society and participation, fundamental communication and informational rights, and the complexities of media and communication in transition.

The Specialization Religious Studies is a young teaching unit, launched in 2007 by the Center for Religious Studies (formerly the Religious Studies Program). Its diverse course offers cover the three monotheistic religions, over a vast span of time, and from multidisciplinary perspectives

CEU Business School, a landmark institution in the region since its inception in 1988 by a group of visionary leaders including George Soros, has offered superb management education to outstanding men and women from all over the world, but with a special focus on participants from Central-Eastern Europe. CEU Business School was the first educational institution in Central-Eastern Europe to offer graduate business education leading to a US accredited MBA. Since the beginning, the School has played, and continues to play a pivotal role in linking global management theories with the realities and challenges of the region’s transforming economies.

The CEU Web Unit develops and technically maintains some 100 interconnected institutional websites, all published via Drupal, a flexible and secure open-source content management system.

CEU’s Communications Office was established in June 2011 with a mandate to initiate and conduct a comprehensive communications program that advances the strategic goals of the university.

The Curriculum Resource Center (CRC) is Central European University's (CEU) external and internal resource, consultancy, and training unit in curriculum development and related issues with a special emphasis on social science and the humanities. CRC is part of the Special and Extension Programmes (SEP) and is funded by Open Society Institute's Higher Education Support Program (OSI - HESP).

The Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy is a center of excellence for environment -related scholarship and teaching in Europe, offering a comprehensive curriculum in environmental studies for intellectually advanced and ambitious graduate students. Our programs challenge students' ability to integrate theory and practice for the analysis, understanding, and management of environmental and environment-related problems.

The History Department is part of the newly established CEU School of Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, which brings together related teaching units (Medieval Studies Department, the Nationalism Studies Program), research centers (Open Society Archives, Pasts, Inc.) and the Religious Studies Program to strengthen CEU’s commitment to interdisciplinarity and the link between teaching and research. Through our CEU-HESP Comparative History Project we are at the core of dynamic academic and professional networks promoting a special blend of tradition and innovation in historical studies and related fields.

The Department of Legal Studies provides a high level of advanced legal education. Its programs are among the finest in Europe, enabling students to obtain a firm grounding in fundamental legal concepts before branching out into specific fields (such as the law of the European Union, intellectual property, international dispute settlement, international business transactions, fundamental rights protection vis-à-vis the state, and international and European human rights).

The Department of Medieval Studies offers multidisciplinary courses on both the Master’s and the doctoral levels to medievalists from diverse backgrounds (history, art history, archaeology, philology, philosophy and theology). The program focuses on late antique and medieval civilization in Europe (c. 300-1550 AD), dealing with different methods of communication, migration of peoples, mobility of objects, texts, and ideas in the larger medieval oikumene, including Asia and North Africa. Students are provided with a broad grounding in these areas as well as training in advanced research methodology with special reference to interdisciplinary, comparative and supranational issues.

The Department of Political Science invites students wishing to develop the analytical skills necessary to achieve excellence in their areas of study. With original scholarship, basic and applied research, and creative instructors constituting an essential core upon which to draw, graduate work at the department attracts an outstanding selection of uniquely qualified students from throughout the region and the world.

The Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology offers an integrated program aiming to go beyond the disciplinary boundaries between sociology and anthropology, asking new questions about social analysis, regionalizations, and of sociology and anthropology as disciplines.

The Doctoral School in Economics at CEU was launched in 2000/2001. The program has been accredited in the US since the beginning; its Hungarian accreditation took place in 2005. Each year 5-6 students are admitted into the program. The language of teaching is English, its structure and the content follow the US standards. The Doctoral School provides up-to-date knowledge in economic theory, quantitative methods and several applied fields. Quality education is assured by internationally recognized Faculty with research interests in many areas in economics. The program prepares the students for careers in education, research and the public sector.

The External Relations Office (ERO) is responsible for the university's public and media relations, and also oversees the university's extensive public events offering, directly managing key institutional events. CEU's promotional and other institutional print materials and products are designed and produced here. The Office of External Relations reports to the President and Rector, and works closely with the Recruitment Office and the Development Office.

Information Technology Department at CEU ensures that faculty, students, and staff members have the information technology tools and infrastructure necessary to carry out the University's mission. IT Department designs network and telephone infrastructure, installs and maintains hardware equipment and supports software environment to ensure that computers, network and internet services efficiently contribute to the learning, teaching, research, administration, and support activities for all members of the University.

The Library's main responsibility is to serve the CEU community, but its library services are also offered to the academic public worldwide. The convenient location, the airy and elegant atmosphere of the Library, its state-of-the-art electronic equipment and data retrieval tools, as well as its lengthy opening hours (84 hours per week!), and user-friendly, high-quality services attract patrons from both the CEU community and many other academic institutions

The Nationalism Studies Program responds to the growing demand for new knowledge and teaching in the field. The program engages students in empirical and theoretical study of issues of nationalism, self-determination, problems of state-formation, ethnic conflict, minority protection, language and citizenship rights and constitutional design in ethnically-divided societies. Drawing upon the supranational milieu of CEU, the program encourages a critical, non-sectarian and interdisciplinary stance toward the study of nationalism.

The Open Society Archives at CEU (OSA), established in 1995, saves, processes and makes publicly available the materials of the Research Institute of the legendary “enemy” radios: Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. OSA’s collection has since expanded to become one of the largest archives on communism and the Cold War, with one of the most significant human rights materials collection in the region.

Our confidential student psychological counseling service is ready with professional help and support for your personal concerns. Our professional counselors provide individual psychotherapy and counseling. Problems treated include (but are not limited to): motivation and concentration difficulties, self confidence problems, anxiety, stress, panic attacks, "perfectionism", obsessions/compulsions, depression, relationship concerns, emotional trauma, concerns that may result from racial, cultural or other identity issues.

The CEU Residence and Conference Center (Kerepesi Dormitory) is a modern residence complex located in District 10 of Budapest. It provides air-conditioned single rooms for up to 360 students; each room has internet connection and a private bathroom. The dormitory is run as a hotel-type service and students can find many other facilities such as a sport center; a cafeteria, a coffee bar and a pub.

SEP/SPO is part of Central European University (CEU) which is an internationally recognized institution.

The Student Life Office provides support and day-to-day assistance during your time at CEU, whenever you need it.

CEU’s Summer University (SUN) program is the extension of the university’s mission of promoting research, teaching and social engagement by hosting high-level, research-oriented, interdisciplinary and innovative academic courses as well as workshops on policy issues for professional development in the social sciences and the humanities. Courses, taught by a team of distinguished international faculty (including CEU professors), are advertised worldwide to attract graduate students, junior or post-doctoral researchers, teachers and professionals. Summer school.