CEU Business School, a landmark institution in the region since its inception in 1988 by a group of visionary leaders including George Soros, has offered superb management education to outstanding men and women from all over the world, but with a special focus on participants from Central-Eastern Europe. CEU Business School was the first educational institution in Central-Eastern Europe to offer graduate business education leading to an American MBA.
The capital city of Hungary, Budapest, was created out of the unification of the separate historic towns of Buda, Pest and Óbuda in 1873. Whilst the area had been inhabited from early times, it was from this date that the city’s expansion into a world capital really began. Budapest is bisected by the River Danube, with the city as much a natural geographical centre as it is the country’s transport hub. Covering an area of two hundred square miles and divided into 23 administrative districts, it is home today to a population of 1.8 million people.