Financial Aid for Doctoral Students for 2009/2010

CEU offers a competitive package to aid students on doctoral programs.

Students admitted into CEU doctoral degree programs are eligible to receive the Full CEU Doctoral Fellowship for up to three years.

The Full CEU Doctoral Fellowship

Covers tuition and medical insurance. In addition, full fellowship recipients are awarded a monthly stipend of 182,000 HUF [currency coverter*] calculated to cover educational and accommodation costs (Economics PhD students receive a monthly stipend of 250,000 HUF). Students need to budget additionally for travel, recreation, and incidentals, which can vary with the individual.

Read more about the estimated costs of living and accommodation in Budapest.

Doctoral students are not automatically provided with accommodation in the CEU Residence Center. They are eligible to request a room on a space-availability basis, for which they will be expected to cover their costs directly.

Doctoral students who receive funding from state sources or other organizations are required to declare that they are supported externally. For the duration of their external grant, such students are not automatically eligible to receive financial support from CEU.

Additionally, in those limited cases in which a student wishes to keep his/her employment simultaneously with their studies, the student must request permission from their department. CEU may request full or partial tuition payment and will expect the student to cover his/her living costs.

All doctoral students are required to pay a Student Enrollment Fee of 68,400 HUF per academic year.

*(The currency converter is available only in Hungarian. Please use this until the English version will be available again. On the left side, on top, you can find an “Atvaltas” converter. Please be sure that you calculate with the "deviza", rate not with the "valuta" rate (please click beside "deviza"). Enter the amount you want to convert and choose the currency: EUR. Please choose the currency you would like to pay in and press "atvalt" (orange button). The exchange converter will automatically calculate the amount in the selected currency.)