It has already been built on the Gellért Hill side of the new Corvinus campus, and the visual plans have just been presented
According to the plans, Corvinus students and lecturers will be able to take possession of the university’s new campus on Ménesi út from next autumn, announced Márton Barta, the strategic manager of the Corvinus University of Budapest, on December 9. The institution is undergoing large-scale digital, infrastructural and educational development, as part of which a new college will open its doors and modernize the Neptun study system.
“Corvinus is constantly striving to maintain its leading role in Hungarian higher education, and for this purpose it has embarked on a comprehensive digital, infrastructural and educational modernization,” said Márton Barta at the briefing, where the plans for the university’s new campus on Ménesi út were presented.
Visual design of the new campus of Budapest Corvinus University on Ménesi Street (Photo: MTI/Budapest Corvinus University)
The strategic leader of the university emphasized that 600-700 students will be able to work on the campus at the same time, and all educational and community spaces will serve creative cooperation.
“To plan a multifunctional education, innovation and community center, to present the educational buildings in addition to numerous sports and community spaces, as well as an 11,000 square meter park and a 180-bed dormitory” – Márton details, adding: they are proud that from the next academic year The establishment on Ménesi út that can be taken into possession also meets the latest energy efficiency and sustainability criteria.
A social device rental program is also being launched on campus, so that disadvantaged students can also get access to the devices needed for distance learning, such as tablets, wireless headsets or webcams, he indicated.
Márton Barta explained that the total cost of the construction, which began in the fall of 2021, is expected to be around 16 billion forints net, of which 12 billion forints will be state subsidies, and another gross 650 million forints will be annual resources, the remaining amount will be financed by the Maecenas Univesitatis Corvini Foundation, which manages the development. The strategic leader reminded that in Corvinus 2019, the Hungarian higher education institutions were the first to be maintained by the foundation, and the current developments are also the results of this transformation.
According to the plans, students and teachers will be able to take possession of the new campus from the fall of 2023, visual plan (Photo: MTI/Corvinus University of Budapest)
“The competition for students and teachers in higher education is constantly increasing, so universities must become institutions that breathe with the social and economic environment. The foundation form serves this best,” he said, mentioning that since the transformation, Corvinus’s research effectiveness has tripled, which has resulted in an increase in the number of foreign lecturers, they have received prestigious international accreditation and a significant salary increase, and from next September, with two new English-language majors they expand the training range.
“Our goal is for Corvinus to be the best economic and social science university in Central Europe,” underlined Márton Barta.
At the press conference, they also reported on the ongoing digital developments at the university, a part of which was received from the EU’s recovery fund for this purpose, amounting to about one and a half billion forints. Regarding the details, Péter Major, from the Corvinus Student Services unit, said that they would like to be the first in Hungary to introduce online registration.
“Students and lecturers can be effective if they do not have to deal with administration, but can concentrate their resources on acquiring knowledge, teaching and research. This requires a smoothly functioning, test-customizable and systems-oriented study administration, which is why we decided to further develop the Neptun complex,” said Péter Major.
He also mentioned that, in addition to introducing online enrollment, I would also like to ensure that students can track their applications for internships or part-time courses abroad in a user-friendly way, as well as see up-to-date the processing of their scholarship applications and their legal remedy processes.
Source: MTI
Opening image: Budapest Corvinus University will grow with a new campus next year (Photo: MTI/Budapest Corvinus University)