This page contains important information for students starting in September 2025.

Please click on your programme at the bottom of this page to find further enrolment details. 

Feel free to contact us at info@ibsbudapest.com if something is not clear. 

BSc: IBS will launch all its BSc programmes with face-to-face classes in Budapest. In addition, a temporary online study option is provided in the Buckingham BSc programmes for students whose visas are delayed.
If you have applied for a Pathway programme and cannot arrive in Budapest by 15 September, you will be advised to switch to a Buckingham BSc programme, from which you can transfer later back to your chosen programme.

MSc Budapest: IBS will launch all its Master’s programmes with face-to-face classes in Budapest. In addition, an online study option is provided on the MSc in Strategic International Management programme for students who wish to study online or whose visas are delayed. Online study mode is NOT available on the MSc in IT for Business Data Analytics and the MBA in Strategic Data Driven Management programmes.

MSc Vienna: IBS will launch the MSc in International Management programme with face-to-face classes in Vienna. In addition, an online study option is provided for students who wish to study online or whose visas are delayed.

Foundation: IBS runs its International University Foundation programme only with face-to-face classes in Budapest. If you do not get your visa until the start, you will be allowed to join the programme later, but you may lose some weeks of teaching.

Please note that the tuition fees are the same in both face-to-face and online study modes.

Enrolment is an administrative event, conducted in person or online, where, after checking the original copy of all your key documents, a Contract of Education is signed, whereby you officially become an active student of IBS.

Please check the enrolment period on our website here.

The normal enrolment period is 11 August - 5 September. It is strongly recommended that you enrol during this period. Late enrolments will be possible between 8-12 September.

A. In-person enrolment:
If you are physically present in Budapest, you should enrol on campus. Please come to the Centre for Student Services on the Campus during opening hours (9-12 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. every weekday except Friday afternoons).

When enrolling in person, please bring all original documents and certificates with you – you will not be able to enrol without presenting them on the spot.

B. Online enrolment:
Those non-EU students who do not receive their study visa in time must enrol online. To enrol online, please email info@ibsbudapest.com (provide your full name, programme and 5-digit application ID number) to get an appointment for your online enrolment via Microsoft Teams.

Online enrolment is a video chat where you have to present your original documents and sign the contract of education in front of the camera.

Please do not forget to bring with you to enrolment the original copy of all required documents and certificates, including the ones that you uploaded to your online application profile – you will not be able to enrol without presenting them on the spot.

The Foundation programme, the Pathway programmes, the MSc in IT for Business Data Analytics and the MBA in Strategic Data Driven Management programmes will only start with face-to-face classes.

Online study option is only available on the Buckingham BSc programmes, the MSc in Strategic International Management and the MSc in International Management (Vienna) programmes.

If your programme is offered with face-to-face classes but your visa is delayed and you cannot arrive by 15 September, you will be required to study temporarily online up until 17 October. In this case, you will be asked again early October whether you will be physically present on campus by 20 October. This is the only date when you can switch from online to face-to-face classes. If you cannot arrive even by this date, you will have to complete the rest of the semester online.

Currently the Hungarian consulates are overcrowded due to a large demand for studies in Hungary. Because of this, several consulates may not be able to offer you an appointment for a visa interview in time for you to arrive in Hungary before the start of the semester.

To provide our students with as much flexibility as possible, we are offering all IBS applicants the following solution:

IBS applicants who do not receive their visas in time are allowed to start their studies online from September 2025 (where an online option is available, see above) and complete the entire first semester online if necessary. They can submit their visa application whenever they receive an appointment from the Consulate, and they will be able to travel to Hungary any time after receiving their visa, but switching from online to face-to-face classes is only possible on 20 October.

This allows you to have more options for interview appointments and travel dates. If your visa is denied for Hungary, you are entitled to a FULL REFUND (with the exception of EUR 400) until the end of the semester (31 January 2026).

All Hungarian visa decisions are made by the National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing in Budapest and IBS cannot influence the speed of the visa process in any way.

• Once you have received the admission certificates of IBS for the visa application, you are entitled for a refund only if your visa is refused and you email the visa refusal document to IBS. No other excuse for claiming a refund is accepted.
• In case your visa is granted, we CANNOT refund you the tuition fee and the registration fee in any circumstances.
• If your visa is rejected, EUR 400 from your payment is non-refundable, the rest will be refunded.
• Instead of a refund, you may request deferral to the next intake with the same conditions. EUR 400 will be charged for your first semester even if deferral is granted.
• If you have enrolled but do not receive the visa decision up to 31 January 2026, you can ask IBS to defer you to the next intake, but EUR 400 will still be charged for your first semester
• If you have arrived in Hungary but regularly fail to show up on your classes, your student status and your residence permit will be suspended. In this case you will be asked to leave the country within 8 days and your tuition fee and registration fee will NOT be refunded.
• If you decide to leave Hungary or to transfer to another institution, the tuition fee and the registration fee will NOT be refunded.

Please note that no refunds are available after the last day of the semester.

Please note that we can refund the fee only to the same bank account that you transferred it from due to strict financial regulations!

Please buy health insurance in your home country that is valid for 30 days upon entering Hungary.

Your Type D visa is valid for ONE entry to Hungary and you will collect your residence permit card at IBS upon arrival: you will need to be enrolled to your programme at the Centre for Student Services, have your health insurance (that you can buy cash in HUF at IBS) and accommodation documents.

We do not have a pick-up service from the airport, you can use the Airport Mini-Bus or the official taxi company called Főtaxi to get to the city.

IBS is located in Graphisoft Park in the 3rd district of Budapest, the address is 7 Záhony utca, 1031 Budapest. Please check out our website how to get here. 

The on-campus Residence Hall is about 200m from the IBS Offices building, the address is 3rd district, 6 Reichl Kálmán utca. You can move to the Residence Hall on or after 1 September if you have paid the rental fee. With further RH questions please contact the RH Manager, Ms Maria Ortiz at osm@ibs-b.hu

If you still need accommodation in Budapest, please check out our website for options here or contact Etelka Dombora (edombora@ibs-b.hu), our International Student Advisor.

When you arrive in Budapest, it will take some days until you receive your temporary student card certificate at IBS which entitles you to a student pass. So please buy tickets or full-price passes until you receive this certificate. Find ticket options on the website of the Budapest Public Transportation System.

Non-EU citizens can buy their health insurance in the ground floor lobby of the IBS Offices Building from the appointed insurance agent, Mr Tamás Kocsis-Barna. Please contact the Centre for Student Services for the dates. 

The health insurance is valid for 12 months and costs HUF 120,000. The insurance fee must be paid in cash in Hungarian Forints, please note that you cannot change money at IBS, the nearest exchange office is in the Auchan shopping mall. You will need your passport and address in Budapest.  

Please find details of the insurance and medical treatment on our website. 

EU students should bring their European Health Insurance Card.

Please check out our website for basic information. The official currency of Hungary is FORINT. It is better to change your money in the city and not at the airport. There is also an exchange office in the Auchan shopping mall next to the campus.

Please find some interesting and useful information on Hungary, follow the latest news in the student life section and watch our welcoming video.

IBS Contacts after you have enrolled on your programme

• Central helpline: studentadmin@ibs-b.hu
• Help on specific matters
  Forgotten passwords and other IT issues: computing@ibs-b.hu
  Payment issues: request@ibs-b.hu
  Academic issues (absences, deadlines, etc.): request@ibs-b.hu
  Personal issues or academic difficulties: wellbeing@ibs-b.hu
  Placement and job issues: careeroffice@ibs-b.hu
  Library: library@ibs-b.hu
  Matters related to studies or finances: studentadmin@ibs-b.hu
  Help with settling in Hungary: edombora@ibs-b.hu