Bank account details of our university

IBAN Bank Account: HU 03 1003 2000 0142 6201 0000 0000
BIC/SWIFT code: HUSTHUHB
Name of the University: EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY, ELTE BTK
Address: 1088 Budapest, Múzeum krt. 4/a, Hungary
Name of the Bank: Hungarian State Treasury Ltd. (Magyar Államkincstár)
Address of the Bank: 1139 Budapest, Váci út 71.

Please do not miss to add in the message section:

• Name of applicant
• The University's sub-account number: AC9201/04 (Preparatory Courses), AC9202/04 (BA,MA first semester)
• 2022/23/2

EEA and non-EEA students must pay the tuition fees as follow if and when applying directly through the university:

Tuition Fee Payment Deadline

Once you have been accepted into one of its programs, The Faculty of Humanities requires its applicants to settle the payment of the tuition fee for up to one semester in advance.

Newly admitted students must pay the tuition fee 14 calendar days after receiving a Letter of Acceptance. Once the sum of your tuition fee has been credited to the university's bank account, you will receive a confirmation of payment, which might be needed during the process of the visa application. Please note: issuing the confirmation of payment might take 20 working days.

After the first semester, the payment deadlines are as follows in the case of continuing (old) students:

• Fall semester: 15 October

• Spring semester: 15 March

non-EEA nationals
If you require a visa to come to Hungary for the purpose of studies, we strongly recommend you transfer the tuition fee for the first semester to the university's account as soon as possible after getting accepted as the Hungarian embassies require the official confirmation of payment for your visa procedure.

EEA nationals
If you are an European Economic Area (EEA) national, the Faculty requires you to pay for the tuition fee up to one semester in advance. As soon as you transfer the tuition fee, and have met with one of International Student Advisors to set you up, you will be able to register for classes in line with the university's registration schedule.

Important notice: Please only transfer the tuition fee to the university’s account after you have been accepted into one of our programs. You will receive a Notification of Payment, which will provide you with further instructions on the payment procedure. Do not pay until you have been officially accepted into the program.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Refunds can only be made to the account that the original payment was sent from.

Paying tuition fee for Foundation students: According to the Academic Regulations of ELTE (353. §, ad 131. § (9), (4) 803) Foundation students must pay the tuition fee for the first semester until registration. Tuition fee for the second semester must be paid until the beginning of the second semester.

THE BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS OF THE UNIVERSITY: 

• IBAN: HU68 1003 2017 0142 6201 0603 0012
• SWIFT: MANEHUHB
• BIC: HUSTHUHB

General provisions

Based in the official regulations of Eötvös Loránd University tuition fee of newly admitted students can only be refunded if you apply for a refund in full before the beginning of the registration period of the relevant semester. Your tuition fee will be refunded only if you have been rejected to receive a visa to travel to Hungary or you are denied to extend your residence permit.

Getting a refund after the registration period

Students who are registered and already enrolled to one of our programmes and continuing (old) students are eligible to receive a refund after the beginning of the registration period in accordance with the Academic Regulations for Students of ELTE.

Newly admitted students who are not registered/enroled:

Visa rejection or expulsion (kiutasítás): Tuition fees will only be refunded after the beginning of the registration period if you are able to justifiably prove that your visa application or your request for the extension of the residence permit (in Hungary) has been rejected by the Hungarian authorities.

Students deported (kiutasítás) from Hungary at any time are only eligible to receive a refund if the university has coordinated with the Office of Immigration and Asylum about the legal and financial responsibility of the institution. The costs of the deportation will be deducted from the already paid tuition fee.

Tuition fees are non-transferable and non-deferrable. Application fees are nonrefundable, non-transferable, and non-deferrable. Entrance fees are refundable (only in case the entrance exam did not take place), non-transferable, and non-deferrable.

After sending in your refund request, please allow up to 12 weeks to receive an answer from the committee. Processing your refund might take up to 120 calendar days.

Requesting a refund

Each request for the partial or full refund of the tuition fee must be addressed to the Department of International Affairs in writing by e-mail: international-finances@btk.elte.hu

IMPORTANT NOTE: Refunds can only be made to the account that the original payment was sent from.

• Refund Data Sheet (Download document). Please note: we do NOT accept hand written Data Sheets only typed one.
• Official request letter (an e-mail is possible): Addressed to the Finance Unit, stating why you would like to request the refund of your tuition fees. Do not forget to write your full name and affix the place and date of its issuance (for example: Algiers, Algeria, 4 August 2014).
• Letter of Acceptance
• Confirmation of Payment: Please attach the proof of payment that you received from the Financial Department, showing that you have paid the tuition fee
• Bank slip certificate of transfering you receive from your bank
• Colored copy of your passport
• Document(s) supporting your case
• Refusal Letter from the Authorities, in case, at first or second instance, your appeal was denied by the Hungarian authorities (“határozat” from the Hungarian Immigration Office, issued in Hungarian language which says your visa application has been refused).
• Approved Withdrawal of Registration or Suspension of Studies (download GA-02 form from here)
• Death certificate (in case of death)
• Letter of Authorization (Download document). Please note: we do NOT accept hand written Data Sheets only typed one.

Give a Letter of Authorization to the person who paid the fees on your behalf, allowing him or her to collect the tuition fee. This letter is also needed if you paid the fee(s) from your own bank account and now you would like to authorize another person to collect it.

The request counts as "submitted" if the applicant has received written confirmation from the Faculty of the receipt of their e-mail or regular mail.

N. B. It is the exclusive duty of the applicant to prove that he or she has paid the tuition fee that he or she wants to be refunded. In case neither the applicant nor the student can find unquestionable evidence of the payment, the university shall not refund the tuition fee. The university will attempt to find the best solution to recover the tuition fee in case it is shown not found.

Stipendium Hungaricum is a scholarship program for foreign students, founded by the Hungarian Government in 2013. The program aims to promote cultural understanding, economic and cultural relations between Hungary and other countries.

The scholarship can be awarded to citizens from over 50 countries, for full degree or partial studies. 

The amount of the scholarship is HUF 43,700 for students in preparatory, bachelor and master programmes and in doctoral programmes HUF 140,000/month in the first two years (during the training & research period) and HUF 180,000/month during the second two years (the research & dissertation period) for PhD students. (The scholarship is HUF 100,000 for PhD students who started their studies prior to the 2016/2017academic year.)

MORE INFORMATION

The main aim of the Scholarship Programme for the Hungarian Diaspora is to give support to foreign students with Hungarian identity to pursue their studies in Hungarian higher education institutions.

The Programme includes members of the Hungarian diaspora communities in every country in the world, except in the Member States of the European Union, the Republic of Serbia and the Zakarpatska Oblast part of Ukraine.

Application criteria:

• Hungarian identity and connection to a diaspora community declared in a motivation letter and a statement,
• residency in one of the supported regions,
• recommendation letter from a Diaspora Organisation or the Hungarian Representation of the respective territory,
• living outside Hungary for at least 10 years before the submission of the application,
• 4 years of applicant’s secondary school studies completed outside Hungary,
• applicant was born before 31 August 2003 (except those applying for Dance study programmes),
• applicant undertakes to learn Hungarian as a foreign language and Hungarian culture during his/her whole study period and undertakes to pass a Hungarian as a foreign language exam at CEFR B2 level minimum,
• applicant undertakes to help the local Hungarian diaspora organisation in a foreign country with community work for the specified period in the Call for Applications after graduation.