Both the number and share of art students is around 3 percent in Hungarian tertiary education. However, the share of state-funded places is decreasing (as in all of higher education). Women are overrepresented among art students.
Table 7: Number of art art students, 2021-2024
|
Year |
Number of art students |
Share of art students within all students (%) |
Share of women within art students (%) |
|
2021/22 |
6 994 |
2.8 |
64.0 |
|
2022/23 |
7 210 |
2.9 |
64.9 |
|
2023/24 |
7 588 |
2.8 |
66.3 |
Source: Central Statistical Office
At BA level, students could choose from 19 higher educational programmes, while at MA level, 45 are available. These include 8 educational programmes – e.g., acting and painting – that stayed in their old one-tier system apart from the majority within the Bologna system
The latest development were presented in Chapter 2.1: three out of the five art universities have been transformed into nominally autonomous “public interest foundations”:
- Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
- Hungarian Dance University
- University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE)
The University of Fine Arts and the Franz Liszt University of Music remained state institutions.
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