Corvinus University of Budapest defines itself as a research university oriented towards education, where the scientific performance of the academic staff measures up to the international standard and the students can obtain a competitive degree having a standard and knowledge content identical to similar-profile universities and acknowledged on the European Union’s labour market and on a global scale.
The international acknowledgement of the University is reflected in the number of outgoing and incoming students, which is around 550 annually. Corvinus University defines its main goals and objectives in the light of quality improvement and mobility growth. This was recognised in Spring 2009 when the University was awarded the International Cooperation Prize for the high quality institutional coordination of the Erasmus Project within the Life Long Learning Programme of the European Union.