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About CEU

Central European University - Budapest

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Central European University (CEU) came into being along with the sweeping social, political, and economic changes of the early 1990s in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (CEE/fSU). The university was established by a group of visionary intellectuals (many of them prominent members of anti-totalitarian, democratic oppositions) led by the philanthropist George Soros. CEU was to be an unusual graduate school for this region--an independent, international institution in the social sciences and humanities, committed to promoting a new model of learning. Teaching and learning at CEU would embody serious and morally responsible intellectual engagement inspired by, and in the service of, pressing and challenging social needs.

Today, CEU is an internationally recognized institution of higher education, serving as an advanced center of research and policy analysis and facilitating academic dialogue while preparing its graduates as the next generation of leaders and scholars. CEU seeks to contribute to the development of open societies in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union by promoting a system of education in which ideas are creatively, critically, and comparatively examined. Also, in response to the spreading democratization beyond Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the University has extended its outreach and financial aid program to other parts of the world experiencing emerging democracies.

CEU is organized as a US-style institution, governed by a Board of Trustees, with an absolute charter from the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, for and on behalf of the New York State Education Department. In the United States, CEU is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. In Hungary, CEU is officially recognized as a non-state-maintained and operated university. The institution and its programs are accredited by the Hungarian Accreditation Committee. CEU's teaching site is in Budapest, Hungary. The language of instruction and communication is English.