BBS legal predecessor was formed in 2000 by the integration of three successful colleges and was awarded the Higher Education Quality Prize in 2010. School’s history dates back to the Academy of Commerce, established in 1857.
Three of BBS faculties are based in Budapest: the Faculty of Commerce, Hospitality and Tourism, the Faculty of International Management and Business and the Faculty of Finance and Accountancy.
The forth faculty, the Faculty of Business Administration, is based in Zalaegerszeg. Their education portfolio covers all areas of economic sciences, their uniqueness and market recognition is due to experience-based and practice-focused training structure tuned to fit the needs and expectations in the market.
Their mission is to become one of the leading economic universities of applied sciences in the Central European region. BBS continuously strives to offer their students knowledge that is useful in practice and is an expectation of the employment market. The scool focuses on enabling the students to become professionals who are well prepared, ethical, socially responsible and who have wide perspective, innovative skills and a solid knowledge of their particular field and related foreign languages.
Entrepreneurship-friendly university
The university aims to establish an integrated and continuously renewing co-operation with all sectors of the economy. they pay special attention to further develop dual training and form a close collaboration with corporate partners. They have been involving corporate professionals, partners and organisations in their education programmes for decades, due to which they are renowned for offering high-quality practical training.
Internationally competitive university
BBS has a broad international network with more than 200 higher education institutes in 40 countries on five continents with some of which they have a double degree agreement. Currently, more than 1000 foreign students study at BBS. Through international mobility scholarship programmes, Hungarian students have various opportunities to study abroad.
Their aim is to become a definitive institute in the region. In order to reach this goal they not only work to develop an international study environment, the mobility of both students and teachers and the training of foreign students, but also strive to broaden the opportunities of international research and innovation.
Experience-based study environment
On all of the university campuses, they seek to create a studying and working environment fit for the 21st century. Responding to the students’ needs, using the results of the latest innovations in the field of teaching methods and putting the colourful opportunities of the digital world into practice. They provide experience based student services and the most up-to-date digital solutions such as wifi hotspots, BBS Campus mobile application, online customer service, info tablets in study rooms, etc.
Socially responsible and sustainable university
One of the university’s traditional values is social responsibility. BBS believes it is important that their graduates enter the employment market with a clear sense of environmental awareness and social responsibility that they can apply in their daily work and life. Through their strategy of sustainability covering the entire organisation they assess, manage and communicate the impact of their activities on social, natural and economic environment, and build their observations into operation, research and education strategy. Budapest Business School is devoted to contributing to a sustainable future.