MISSION STATEMENT

The Eszterházy Károly College, a leading independent multi-faculty four year higher educational institution in the Northern Hungarian Region is a significant component of the college sector of the Hungarian higher education system.
The College also functions as an intellectual, cultural, service providing, and information centre fulfilling both national and regional responsibilities. Supported by the higher educational legacy of the city of Eger, the College is dedicated to serve as a site of continuous educational efforts facilitating the realization of life long learning objectives on the national and regional scale, as well as responding to prevailing societal demands while preserving and maintaining the diversity of the training profile. Furthermore, the instructional, scholarly research, artistic, and information providing activities of the College are geared at the continuous enhancement and dissemination of the values of universal and Hungarian culture.

The Eszterházy Károly College is dedicated to provide diverse and high quality curricula in its post-secondary, university and college level undergraduate programs, special post-graduate programs and in post-graduate curricula aimed at in-service teachers along with distance learning and adult education schemes. While we are proud of our traditional educational programs, we are continuously expanding our training profile with courses of identical rank and our dynamically developing information technology infrastructure provides equal access to information for all of our partners. We integrate the intellectual and cultural resources of the region, continuously develop our own human resources and we are fully committed to serve and promote the social, economic, and scholarly life of the city of Eger and the Northern Hungarian region while strengthening the latter’s professional connections with Europe.
Our main building has been dedicated to higher educational purposes for over 200 years. Our institution is fully integrated into this Baroque town of historic significance, which serves not only as an archdiocesan and regional centre, but as a major tourist attraction. Eger located in the heart of a historic wine country connected to a national park yielding a wine of domestic and international acclaim, qualified as a Hungarian specialty or “hungaricum,” is also a town of medicinal waters and therapeutic baths. We are dedicated to the respect and preservation of our traditions and we are ready to meet training and research demands posed by the dynamically developing local tourism industry and wine culture.

Since we are aware that our objectives can only be realized in an environment of constant competition we launched open educational arrangements, continuously update our curricula, intensify our educational organization efforts, persistently expand our training programs aimed at both domestic and international students, and actively participate in national research programs supported by continuous research development efforts. The demands of our partners and client feedback play a defining role in the operation of the College and the incessant intensification of public accessibility and the strengthening of institutional transparency contribute to greater operational efficiency.

We are fully dedicated to the concept of institutional autonomy and we are aware that our objectives can only be realized with the observance and respect of the law and via a democratic process characterized by the strengthening of the professional autonomy of organizational units and an increasing level of student participation. We guarantee academic freedom for our faculty members and researchers and offer stable lifelong employment possibilities inspiring professional renewal for all of our staff. In addition to ensuring a freedom of learning and program selection for our students, respecting their rights and protecting their interests, we strive to attain high quality comfort levels in student accommodation by an efficient resource and asset management and investment strategy. Our staff and faculty, and students are equally committed to the fulfilment of our goals, and we guarantee the realization of our objectives with an all inclusive and continuously enhanced quality control system. Also, as demonstrated by the functioning of the recently established Social Council our domestic partners and those of representing Europe are intensely involved in the operation of the College.