Hungarian students disappear from British universities

In the summer of 2020, the UK’s Department for Higher Education announced changes affecting EU students. Annual tuition fees may increase from £9,250 (about HUF 3 million) to an average of HUF 27,000 (about HUF 10 million), and the student loan covers the entire amount, which has been used at 85-90 per cent. Hungarian students studying abroad will be cancelled. Because of the new system, the number of Hungarian students starting a university in the UK is down 95 per cent this year compared to last year. Without an EU student loan and low tuition fees, further education in England has become unaffordable.

With the Hungarian student community in the thousands, the foreign organizations that have so far managed to lure young British graduates back home are also disappearing – says the portal in the article.

said Balent Karajic, co-founder of the Hungarian Youth Association (HYA), which together brings the university’s communities together.

Before Brexit, 2,500 to 3,000 Hungarian students were studying abroad every year, and returning students who had graduated from top universities were collected by various organizations, such as the Milestone Institute, the Hungarian Youth Association or the New Generation Centre.

For example, Viktor Orban studied at a British university and studied the history of liberal philosophy at Oxford for six months as part of a scholarship programme. The portal states that Giorgi Soros also graduated from the London School of Economics in England.