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Full time students must complete a 20-week (800 working hours) internship during their last semester. The internship cannot be interrupted and has to be done at a partner institution outside of the university.

The dates are based on the faculty calendar as:

• in autumn semester: between 1^st July and 30^th November
• in the spring semester: between 1^st January and 31^st May  

The internship must take 800 working hours (20 weeks). The Internship is worth 30 credits, necessary for the pre-degree certificate.

Before starting the internship, the student must have 171 credits completed, as described in the Programme’s model curriculum.

Students a free to choose a partner institution for their internships.

Any company or institution involved in activities related the university’s degree course can be chosen, as long as it has filled positions requiring a university degree. The position must equip the student with knowledge about the company’s commercial, logistical, and/or marketing activities, thus providing an opportunity to apply and practice knowledge gained at the university.

During the internship, the student should become acquainted with professional work, involved in day-to-day activities, given individual tasks, and equipped with experience necessary for the job market. The partner institution can be an organisation, a company, a public institution, or a civil organisation.

The recommended time for the internship is the 7^th semester for students in the Commerce and Marketing bachelor program.

The internship practice subject (Szakmai gyakorlat) is administered on the online Career Platform and the Form Filler System. This online system is used for all administrative tasks in connection with the internship (choosing a place, signing a contract, assessment).

Students have to sign up for the internship practice subject the same way in the Neptun.

Note: You have to sign up for internship practice in the same semester before the internship finishes.

The student’s status must be active when starting and doing the internship.

The subject Internship practice (Szakmai gyakorlat) should be accepted by the corresponding department (Department of Commerce) connected to the student’s specialization. 

Students have two ways to choose an internship place:

- Choosing from the list of BBS partners,

- Finding an institution, and requesting its acceptance as an internship partner.

The online system contains all partners that already have Cooperation Agreements with the University. Students have the opportunity to take a look at all partners.

Budapest Business School has launched its Online Career Platform. By exploiting state-of-the-art technical possibilities and building on communication forms now used naturally by students, the aim of the Career Platform is to enable us to operate a system that significantly reduces the time spent on contacts management via automated processes. The current system has been developed based on the experience of past years and feedbacks from companies and students.

The system consists of two major platforms:

1. Online internship form filler

2. Career Platform

The purpose of the online internship form filler is to enable the end-to-end documentation of the internship online.

The online internship form filler – replacing all paper forms – puts all administrative tasks of the internship online, makes the process paper-free, creates an organised and unified platform for filling out forms, and eliminates errors.

The Career Platform is a virtual space that enables the offers and demands of companies and students to meet, as well as companies to advertise mandatory internship opportunities and voluntary work for BBS students.

The Career Platform and online internship form filler can be found here.

Students can enter using their Neptun ID codes and passwords. 

The process of administration always starts with the place of the internship.

Students must ask the partner institutions to register on the online platform. This should be done once a preliminary agreement between the student and the partner institution has been reached. 

The first step of administration is that the university has to sign a Cooperation Agreement with the internship company. The Cooperation Agreement is made between the University and the partner institution through the online system. The Agreement states the legal issues, including the rights and obligations of both partners during the internship.

The Agreement created through the online system must be printed by the partner institution, signed and stamped, and then sent to the Career Office. (1149 Budapest, Buzogány u. 11-13.)

In case the Agreement was signed in the online platform, it is not necessary to sign it again in the following semesters. Students can find those companies in the system with which the university have already signed an agreement.

Deadline: three weeks before starting the internship. 

This statement is filled out by the partner institution, stating the acceptance of the student for the internship program. The student must provide the following information for the partner company:

• Name
• Neptun ID code
• Faculty
• Degree course

The deadline for handing in the Statement of Acceptance is three weeks before starting the internship.

The student receives the statement of acceptance prepared by the partner institution through the online system (Student Statement).

The student:

- must confirm his/her wish to do the internship at the given partner institution, in the position stated, and during the time period given.

- must also accept that the University will share his/her personal information with the partner institution in order to prepare a Cooperation Agreement

- the student must state that he/she will finish his/her course requirements by the beginning of the internship.

- students have to accept the professional indemnity insurance

Student can access the system with their Neptun ID  (username) and password. 

The instructor responsible for the Department’s internship programs will decide whether the position is acceptable from a professional point of view. Both the partner institution and the student will receive the decision (Statement by the Department).

Any questions regarding professional aspects of the internship should be addressed to the following instructors responsible for the Department’s internship programs:

Students in the English-language programme should contact Dr. Vanda Papp during her office hours or by email at: Papp.Vanda@uni-bge.hu.

The student, under the supervision of the partner institution’s instructor or professional guide, performs the internship during the time period stated in the online system. Any significant change from the conditions described in the Cooperation Agreement and any problems must be reported to the university by the student or the partner institution. 

Three evaluations are made at the end of the internship:

1. The partner institution fills out the form titled Internship Certification and Evaluation Form. The performance of the student is evaluated in several aspects, giving percentages.
2. The student gives feedback to the University by filling out a form titled Evaluation of Partner Institution. The average values of student evaluations will be available through the system, giving information to prospective students planning their internships.
3. The student prepares a 10-page report, uploading it to the Career Platform.

Formal requirements of the internship report:

• 10 pages, Times New Roman font, 1.5 line spacing, at least 20,000 characters (without spaces), including tables, graphs (with titles), and sources.

Content requirements of the internship report:

• Introduction: describing the partner company and the market environment
• Discussion: describing practical experiences, including positive and negative aspects (strengths and weaknesses)
• Conclusions: Conclusions, suggestions about experienced areas (for example, the position), processes, and the institution.

The instructor responsible for the internship evaluates the internship based on the partner’s Internship Certification and Evaluation (the average mark given) and the student’s report. The Department then enters the grade (1-5) into Neptun.

Deadline for uploading: One week after the last day of the internship.

For students studying with a Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship, it is important to: Rules and Regulations of the Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Programme, these students can fullfill their internship only in Hungary.

In the case of self-funded foreign students, state scholarship and self-funded students: The online system is available both in Hungarian and in English. Therefore, the procedures for internships done abroad are the same as those done in Hungary.

Declaration on the conclusion of liability insurance

In the case of internships abroad, the students must also undertake in a Student Declaration that for the duration of their internship to be spent abroad, they will take out health, occupational safety and other liability insurance on their own responsibility and at their own expense.

Pannónia Scholarship Programme

For internships abroad, you can also apply for a Pannónia Scholarship Programme in this case it is still necessary to complete the administration of the mandatory internship in the online Career Platform, and the application for the Pannónia Scholarship Programme can be submitted to the International Relations and Mobility Office at least 2 months before the planned trip.

There may arise a good reason why a student wants to change the partner institution where he/she has started doing the internship. Important: Please, contact the Career Office.

In case of choosing a new partner institution, the original internship has to be closed in Career Platform by both:

1. the original partner (filling out the Internship Certification and Evaluation Form)
2. the student (Evaluation of Partner Institution Form)

The new partner institution has to start the process by indicating the remaining time-period in the Career Platform.

Important: If the University accepts time done at both internship partners, then the total time done at the two partners must add up to the required number of hours of the internship.

At the end of the internship, a separate report must be uploaded about time spent at each partner. 

In case a student has past work experience that corresponds to the internship requirements (see 8.2 of the curriculum) an Request for recognition form must be filled out and submitted through Online Career Platform. The request will be evaluated by the Department.

Please enclose the following documents to the request:

• An employer’s certificate that demonstrates the duration of work and the job fulfilled.

• A 10-page report (You can find all requirements at point 9.)

The request can be found in the Online Career Platform under the Internship Administration/Request for recognition.