Campus and city
ELTE is woven through Budapest rather than housed on a single campus: its faculties are scattered across the city, including the riverside Lágymányos science campus by the Danube and humanities and law buildings in the historic centre. Budapest itself is the main draw — an affordable, beautiful and vibrant European capital famous for its thermal baths, ruin bars, café culture and lively student scene, all within the EU. With around 30,000 students and a growing international cohort (~12%), student life is energetic and city-centred, though undergraduate life is largely Hungarian-medium and student facilities and resourcing sit below Western-European norms.