Purpose of the scholarship
The purpose of the “BUEB Scholarship” is to support self-financed students of the University who have outstanding academic results and/or are in a socially disadvantaged situation, in order to help them successfully continue their studies. The scholarship is awarded through a competitive application process and is financed from the University’s own revenues or from additional sources approved by the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Budapest University of Economics and Business.
Eligible applicants
Full-time undergraduate Hungarian and foreign students of the Budapest University of Economics and Business self-funding their tuition fees are eligible for the scholarship (financial status are self-funded or self-funded foreigner) who have at least two completed active semesters and an active student status.
Students are not eligible if they have exceeded the standard period of study of their degree programme or more than 25% of their total credits are recognised credits, or they are participating in their mandatory internship in the semester concerned.
The scholarship can be granted to students whose cumulative limited adjusted credit index is 3.5 or higher and who have at least 30 credits on average over the semester.
No more than 10% of scholarship recipients may come from the same study programme.
Content requirements of the application, documents to be submitted:
The application must be submitted in the Modulo system on the standard application form.
Eligible students may submit their applications electronically twice a year until the 3rd working day following the last working day of the exam period.
The scholarship may be awarded for one semester retrospectively, at an amount equal to 50% of the semester tuition fee applicable in the year of admission to the programme, as published on Felvi.hu, for both Hungarian and international students. The scholarship is paid in one lump sum.
Applications may be submitted from 8 January 2026, 12 noon to 4 Februáry 2026 midnight.
The evaluation process and the ranking of the applications will be based on the cumulative limited adjusted credit index or cumulative adjusted credit index (max. 70 scores) and the student’s social situation (max. 30 scores), up to the budget available for the semester. The data on the student’s social situation can be submitted through the Modulo system, by filling in the "Social Situation Assessment Form” which can be found under the student forms.
The Student Services Directorate will review and rank the applications received with the assistance of the Student Social Committee (SSC) and will forward the ranking of the applicants to the Vice Rector for Education, for approval. Max. 10% of the scholarship is available for each degree program. The decision will be notified to the applicants on the website, in the Modulo system and the Neptun system, following which the Student Services Directorate will make the bank transfer to the students in a lump sum within 5 working days.
The deadline for notifying the applicants of the decision is 27 February 2026.
The deadline for paying the scholarship by bank transfer to the students’ bank account is 6 March 2026.
If there are missing documents in the application process, there is no subsequent possibility to remedy the deficiencies. Students may appeal against the decision through the Neptun system, in accordance with the rules of the Student Requirements System within 15 days of the Modulo notification.
Further information can be obtained from the administrators of the Student Customer Service.