Scholarships in Hungary for international students

Global Admissions lists 13 scholarships open to international students studying in Hungary. 9 of them cover tuition in full, and 1 pay a living stipend on top.

Yes. 9 of the 13 awards listed for Hungary are recorded as covering full tuition or as a full ride including living costs. Fully funded awards are the most competitive category, and most require you to hold or be applying for admission to a specific university before you apply for the money.

10 government-funded awards appear on this page, including Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship 2026-2027, Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Artificial Intelligence for Image Processing and Computer Vision (IPCV), Scholarship Programme for Christian Young People (SCYP). Government programmes usually carry the largest budgets and the earliest deadlines, and several attach a condition to return home for a set period after graduating.

Across the 307 programmes at 5 institutions in Hungary in the Global Admissions catalogue, a master's degree has a median listed tuition of US$7,500 a year, with the middle half of programmes falling between US$5,841 and US$8,380. Living costs sit on top of that and are not covered by a tuition-only award.

Yes — 3 of the 13 awards listed for Hungary are funded by the institution rather than by a government or foundation. University awards are typically smaller than national programmes but far less competitive, they are often assessed automatically from your admission application, and many can be combined with an external scholarship.

It depends on the award. University-administered scholarships in Hungary are usually assessed alongside or after your admission application, so you apply to the programme first. Government and foundation programmes vary: some require proof of admission at the point of application, others issue a conditional award you then take to a university. Each award page on Global Admissions records which applies.

3 of the 13 awards listed here are limited to citizens of particular countries, often through a development or bilateral agreement. The remaining 10 carry no nationality restriction that we could verify, which usually means they are open to any international applicant who meets the academic criteria.