Central European University

Finance at the Cutting Edge Guided by Industry The MS in Finance is a professional program designed and taught with industry, continuously updated to deliver cutting-edge skills. Choose electives from any thematic module – Investments & Banking • Financial Management • Innovation & Fintech • Data Tools & Analytics. Study and Work at the Same Time Mandatory and main elective courses run two days a week from 1.30pm. Join full-time as a graduate or career changer – Take a part-time job or internship at any time. Should you be offered a full-time job, you may request a change of status and become a part-time…

You learn to analyze and act on insights from data Cover a unique mix of data analytics, computer science and business topics including programming, statistics with machine learning, big data and cloud computing, and data engineering. Complete your training with use case seminars, specialist courses on text mining, deep learning or agile project management, and a capstone consulting project. The Master's in Business Analytics program serves a pressing business need of preparing quantitative professionals and key decision makers for data driven businesses and has a modular structure of Data Engineering, Data Analysis, Data Science, Data Visualization and Managing Analytics.

The duration of the MA in Economic Policy in Global Markets is two academic years. The overview of the program structure is as follows: Pre-session: getting acquainted with CEU plus remedial mathematics course. Opting out of the course is possible only if a student passes a preliminary test with a sufficiently high mark. Final exam must be passed to continue in the program.  Fall first year: foundational mandatory courses in micro and macroeconomics, and data analysis (statistics). No electives possible. Winter first year: mandatory courses in global economic policy issues and academic writing. Electives may begin. Spring first year: elective…

The department offers two Master's degrees: Master of Science in Environmental Sciences and Policy (MESP); and Master of Science in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management (MESPOM). The length of study for the MESP Program is ten and a half months and for the MESPOM program two years. The MESPOM program began in 2005/2006 in cooperation with three other leading European Universities - Lund University (Sweden), the University of Manchester (UK) and the University of the Aegean (Greece). MESPOM has been selected and funded as an Erasmus Mundus course by the European Commission.

The one-year MA program offers a condensed grounding in interdisciplinary gender studies for students with substantial previous background in gender studies or a related field (a minimum of a four-year BA is required). Applicants are asked to demonstrate their formal or informal exposure to some aspect of gender studies, along with evidence of initial thinking about a broad area of research. The program aims at developing independent and critical thinkers with a broad basic knowledge of gender studies and the skills to approach gender as a key element of social and symbolic order at the local and the global levels.…

The MA degree in Critical Gender Studies is designed to educate and train future generations of gender specialists in a variety of fields and professions that address the many gendered political, cultural and social challenges of contemporary society. These fields include education, academic research, social services, non-governmental organizations, policy, social change advocacy, government advising and applied research, journalism, as well as jobs that entail various kinds of artistic production. Gender studies in the two-year program is defined as “critical” Gender Studies, signaling the ways in which students are trained to critically analyze established ideas, systems, and inequalities that decrease the…

Are you interested in Women’s and Gender HISTORY? The MATILDA European Master in Women's and Gender History, established in 2008 as part of the EU Erasmus+ Programme, offers a unique two-year program if you wish to develop expertise in women's and gender history and are interested in international experiences and intercultural exchange. MATILDA is for those students interested in intersectional gender history of the medieval, early modern, and modern eras. It approaches “Europe” not as an isolated entity but as connected to the rest of the world, especially through Europe’s colonial history. The program of study is spread over two…

The one-year MA program builds on the strong tradition of international relations scholarship in North America, the UK, and Western Europe. The aim of the program is to enable students to both explain and understand material, military, economic as well as ideational factors for continuity and change in the international political system. In doing so, although therefore necessarily global in its outlook, the department is also committed to a particular focus on the European context. In addition to exposure to the main areas of teaching in the program, students will also receive thorough preparation in academic writing and research design.

Applicants for the LL.M. in Human Rights program must have completed their undergraduate studies in law before enrolling to the program. A law degree will be considered as adequate if, in a given country, academically it would allow the applicant to take the bar exam. Non-university practice or traineeship periods for such bar exam shall not be necessary. 

Applicants for the M.A. in Human Rights program must have completed their undergraduate university studies before enrolling to the program.  Admission with a three-year Bachelor’s degree* (including three-year Bachelor of Laws) may be possible for suitable candidates in exceptional cases such as excellent grades, relevant work experience, previous coursework and/or other demonstrated commitment to human rights.  

Applicants for the LL.M. in Comparative Constitutional Law program must have completed their undergraduate studies in law before enrolling to the program. A law degree will be considered as adequate if, in a given country, academically it would allow the applicant to take the bar exam. Non-university practice or traineeship periods for such bar exam shall not be necessary. Candidates with a degree in social sciences (e.g. political science, international relations, etc) may also apply for admission, provided their degrees have had some significant legal element.   

Applicants for the LL.M. in Global Business Law and Regulation program must possess a qualifying law degree from an accredited university or other accredited tertiary educational institution. A qualifying law degree is one that satisfies the academic requirements for admission to the bar in a given jurisdiction. 

How to follow, forecast and control the spreading of a pandemic? How can we use data to improve and inspire decisions that could lead to positive changes in our societies? How could we use new technologies to achieve larger participation of people in the decision-making processes?  From understanding how the internet influences our world to forecasting and controlling the spread of a pandemic, we need data science experts who are ready to face the new societal, organizational, and environmental challenges.  Our interdisciplinary MS program in Social Data Science prepares you to better understand our digital societies and contribute to shape their future. As a social data…