Welcome

Welcome to the Department of Political Science!

As a community of students, faculty and staff, the Department of Political Science is committed to academic freedom, equal access to education and collegial self-governance. Our ultimate aim is to enable our diverse student body to become successful and influential professionals in the future social, political and academic life of their home countries.

We offer two Master Programs and a Doctoral Program in Political Science. Our one-year Master of Arts (MA) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programs are registered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York for and on behalf of the New York State Education Department (US). Our two-year Master of Arts (MA) has double accreditation, it is recognized by the Hungarian Accreditation Committee of the Ministry of Education since October 2007 and the New York State Education Department (US) since May 2010.

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Student Ambassadors

Watch video testimonials made by our own students!

Benedict Stefani, Germany

Syeda Mahnoor Amjad, Pakistan

Tali Akuka, Argentina

Lukacs Hayes, Hungary

Hein Htet, Myanmar

Boris Lipovina, Montenegro

Promise Frank Ejoifor, Nigeria

Why Political Science at CEU?

Why Political Science at CEU?

May 1: Application deadline for self-financing applicants.

Upcoming Events

Monday March 25

The Political Morality of School Composition: The Case of Religious Selection
Adam Swift
3:30pm to 5:10pm

Thursday April 18

New Kremlinology: The Challenge of Understanding and Studying the Russian Political Regime
Alex Baturo, Dublin City University
1:30pm to 3:10pm

Thursday April 25

Doctoral Defense - Ioana-Elena Oana: Collective Mobilization and Dynamic Representation - From Citizens to Policy and Back Again
Ioana-Elena Oana
1:30pm to 3:30pm

Recent News

March 14, 2019

Zsolt Enyedi's Interview on the QS World University Ranking

February 27, 2019

CEU Ranks 41st in Politics and International Studies, Among the Top 100 in Four Subjects

February 26, 2019

Differences in Education Systems: A Political Science Perspective - by Polina Vershinina

WHAT OUR ALUMNI SAY

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Akop Gabrielyan (MA 2012-2014)

February 25, 2019
Alumni Testimonials

Executive Assistant to Founder & CEO at Teach For Armenia Foundation

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Hani Sulastri Hamid & Marko Kukec (MA 2012-2013)

February 12, 2019
Alumni Testimonials

Hani is Planning, Learning and Accountability Coordinator at Rikolto Indonesia & Marko is Post-doctoral researcher at Helmut Schmidt Universität, Hamburg

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Bruno Castanho Silva (PhD 2012-2017)

January 8, 2019
Alumni Testimonials

Post-doctoral researcher, Cologne Center for Comparative Politics, University of Cologne

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Gergo Zavecz (MA 2010-2011, PhD 2011-2017)

December 17, 2018
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Junior Research Fellow, Central Bank of Hungary

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Imre Szabo (MA 2009-2010, PhD 2011-2016)

December 4, 2018
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Post-doctoral fellow at University College Dublin

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Bogdana Buzarnescu (MA 2009-2010)

November 28, 2018
Alumni Testimonials
Principal Assistant - Parliamentary Assembly, Council of Europe
"CEU, and in particular, it’s political science department, has been an enriching and truly formative period for me. Firstly, it has been a year of intensely demanding yet intellectually stimulating studies. I suddenly delved into topics that I previously had only a passing notion of and that have since opened interesting avenues for research and further study.

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Constantin Manuel Bosancianu (MA 2008-2009, PhD 2011-2017)

November 27, 2018
Alumni Testimonials

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, “Institutions and Political Inequality”, Political Economy of Development research area, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany.

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Maria Fedorova (MA 2013-2014)

November 19, 2018
Alumni Testimonials

Data Analyst at International Organization for Migration

"Few years in my life so far were as intense, challenging, and rewarding as the year I spent at CEU. The academic excellence combined with a great variety of classes was truly impressive. The knowledge I got proved to be useful years later and helped me substantially in my work.

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Sharon S. Belli (MA 2014-2016)

November 16, 2018
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PhD Researcher, Political Science Dpt., University of Antwerp, Belgium

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Ivan Nikolovski (MA 2015-2017)

June 25, 2018
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Junior researcher at the Institute for Democracy ‘Societas Civilis’ – Skopje and President of JEF Macedonia – Macedonian national section of the Young European Federalists movement

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Martin Molder (PhD 2012-2017)

January 15, 2018
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Researcher, Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at the University of Tartu "I will always look back at CEU with fondness and gratitude. By now I have been working and studying at different universities for around 15 years. From all that, my time at the Department of Political Science at CEU clearly stands out."

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Zainiddin Karaev (PhD 2001-2004)

July 9, 2015
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Operations Officer, State and Peacebuilding Fund, the World Bank "For me, experience at CEU and Budapest has been transformative in every way. CEU offered enabling learning environment"

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Maximilian Spinner (2007, PhD)

May 18, 2015
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Foreign Policy Department of the Federal Chancellery, Berlin “For me CEU was a very intense and enriching experience, both academically and personally. "

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Armin Haeberle (MA 2004-2005)

May 12, 2015
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Head of Corporate Development Frankfurt Business Media - Part of the F.A.Z. Publishing Group, Frankfurt, Germany "CEU was a great experience for me. While the academic level was really demanding, the atmosphere was always friendly and the support and interaction with the professors and university staff a real pleasure. "

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Juliane Sophie Stein (MA 2012-2014)

October 9, 2014
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Researcher, Institute for Political Science - Centre for Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Science "One of my major motivations for choosing CEU's Department of Political Science was the attractive combination of excellence in teaching and research on the one hand, and the good range of scholarships on the other. "

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Olga Victorovna Smirnova (MA 2001-2002)

July 24, 2014
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Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, East Carolina University "My life can be divided into before and after CEU. This was a truly transformative year for me as a student of Political Science."

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Anna and Dave McKeever (MA 2011-2012)

July 23, 2014
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Anna is Research Associate at Ulster University, while Dave is Part-Time Lecturer at Ulster University "We studied together on the Political Science MA program and married two years after meeting for the first time. CEU education, the outstanding staff, the resources at the department, and the intense workload (there is no point in pretending otherwise) change people"

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Benedek Kurdi (MA 2012-2013)

July 23, 2014
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Doctoral Candidate, Social Psychology, Harvard University "The curriculum of the Political Science MA program at CEU offers a reasonably broad and, at the same time, in-depth introduction to the social sciences. "

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Aliya Abbasi (MA 2012-2013)

July 23, 2014
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PhD candidate, University of Queensland "Every day spent at CEU was full of learning, challenges, opportunities, motivation and a sense of achievement"

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Batlang Seabo (MA 2012-2013)

July 23, 2014
Alumni Testimonials
Lecturer in Political Science, University of Botswana "Studying at CEU, in the Political Science department, is indeed a rare privilege that will potentially open up opportunities for me in the future, particularly for my career in research. It is a life-changing experience, an investment in my future."

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Andrej Nosko (IRES MA 2005-2006, PhD 2013)

July 23, 2014
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Director for Europe at PILnet: The Global Network for Public Interest Law "To succeed in the current world, you need transferable skills, which will enable you to succeed in many walks of life. "

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Stela Garaz (MA 2004-2005, PhD 2005-2012)

July 23, 2014
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Consortium Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at Habitat for Humanity EMEA "CEU contributed greatly to my professional growth due to its committed faculty, access to a great variety of resources, and high quality of teaching."

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Daniel Horn (MA 2003-2004, PhD 2004-2010)

July 23, 2014
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Senior Fellow, Institute of Economics, Center for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences "CEU is a true academic and intellectual community. Meeting people from all around the world and contrasting approaches from all around the scientific spectrum helped me to develop personally as well as academically."

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Grigorii Golosov (MA 1993-1994)

July 23, 2014
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Professor of Political Science, Project Director, Center for Democracy and Human Rights Helix, St. Petersburg "I spent the 1993-1994 academic year at CEU Pol Sci Department, then newly formed. Academically, the time spent was more than worth it"

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Peter Bajomi-Lazar (MA 1995-1996, PhD 1997-2004)

July 23, 2014
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Professor of Mass Communication, Budapest Business School University of Applied Sciences "My years as an MA and a PhD student at CEU's Department of Political Science have taught me that social scientists have a certain responsibility toward society, and they have to do their best to help open and free societies develop in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe."

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