Documents relevant for Prospective Students

This Policy defines the main principles, organization and mechanisms of Institutional Assessment and Quality Assurance at CEU. It is based on the Characteristics of Excellence in Higher Education defined by the CEU main accrediting agency - the Middle States Commission for Higher Education - European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area, and the Hungarian Higher Education Act.

The purpose of the CEU Ethical Research Policy is to establish the principles and responsibilities for ethical conduct in research by the members of the CEU community. As a research intensive university, CEU values and protects academic freedom while safeguards ethical principles in research such as respect for persons and their welfare and justice.

The present document regulates the CEU Doctoral Program requirements which may result in the awarding of a doctoral degree.

Central European University (CEU) has encountered applicants who have been granted refugee status  by Hungary or other state or are being assessed for refugee status or are in refugee-like situations whose existing qualifications require specific means of assessment and recognition. This policy is intended to establish procedures for assessing qualifications for entry to Masters degree programs at CEU by refugees and asylum seekers or individuals in refugee-like situations.

The document describes the operational and organisational regulations of the Közép-európai Egyetem which is an officially accredited HEI in Hungary.

Plagiarism occurs both when the words of another are reproduced without acknowledgment and when the ideas or arguments of another are paraphrased in such a way as to lead the reader to believe that they originated with the writer.

This Policy shall be interpreted in accordance with the Code of Ethics, which shall also prevail in questions not regulated by this Policy. While both students and faculty may be guilty of plagiarism, this policy only addresses student plagiarism. Faculty cases of plagiarism should be dealt with according to the appropriate section of the Code of Ethics.