Budapest University of Technology and Economics
#711
QS World University Rankings 2026
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QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#711
QS World University Rankings 2026
#721
QS World University Rankings 2025
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QS 2026 overall score
Indicator-level data
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Academic reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 20.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #595
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 37.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #375
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 18.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 15.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #800
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 4.6
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 22.7
- QS 2026 rank
- #691
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 28.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #629
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 60
- QS 2026 rank
- #691
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 37.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #460
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 57.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #545
About Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Budapest University of Technology and Economics spans built systems, science, and business
Budapest University of Technology and Economics lists faculties in civil engineering, mechanical engineering, architecture, chemical technology and biotechnology, electrical engineering and informatics, transportation engineering, natural sciences, and economic and social sciences. This arrangement brings physical infrastructure, manufacturing, chemistry, computing, transport, mathematics, physics, economics, and social analysis into one technical university. The faculty that owns a question matters because a bridge, chemical process, software system, transport model, and organisational decision use different evidence.
The university's research pages describe work from bachelor's level through doctoral study and include scientific, industrial, national, and international cooperation. A research applicant should therefore move from the faculty to the department, laboratory, and doctoral route. A cooperation label can reveal a useful context, but it does not by itself establish that a particular project, supervisor, or facility is open to a new researcher.
BME research connects engineering design with natural science and industry
Civil engineering can address structures, construction, water, geotechnics, and the built environment. Mechanical and transportation engineering add machines, vehicles, production, logistics, and system performance. Chemical technology and biotechnology can study reactions, materials, processes, and biological systems, while electrical engineering and informatics cover circuits, communication, control, software, and data. Natural-science departments provide mathematical, physical, and chemical foundations for these applied questions.
Economic and social sciences add organisational, market, policy, and human dimensions to a technical project. This is useful for work on infrastructure decisions, innovation, energy systems, mobility, or industrial change. The research-unit and publication pages may suggest a direction, but the named department and academic programme should define the method, expected output, and supervision arrangement.
How to assess a Budapest University of Technology and Economics route
Name the system and measurement first. Civil and architecture research needs a site, structure, material, drawing, or environmental variable. Mechanical and transportation work requires a machine, vehicle, process, network, or performance measure. Chemical and biotechnology projects need a substance, biological model, reaction, instrument, or product. Electrical and informatics research should specify a circuit, signal, algorithm, platform, or dataset. Economics and social study require an organisation, market, policy, or community.
For a BME shortlist, record the faculty, department, question, method, teaching language, expected result, and current doctoral or researcher page. Keep an industrial or international link as context until a named unit explains the project. Mark whether the route is laboratory, computational, experimental, design-based, field-based, industrial, or policy-oriented. Note the test site, instrument, material, codebase, dataset, company, or public agency needed to carry out the work before comparing it with your preparation.
BME is a useful place to separate a technical core from its operating environment. A transport model may depend on a city network, a building study on a measured structure, and an informatics project on users and data. A chemical or biotechnology route may need a process and a laboratory model. Write the core system, the setting, and the result in that order so the faculty choice follows the research design.
This order also makes interdisciplinary plans easier to explain because each supporting field has a defined role instead of an unfocused list of subjects.
A clear unit of analysis keeps the plan testable from the first discussion.
Institution record
- Country
- Hungary
- Region
- Europe
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- L
- Profile record updated
- July 24, 2026
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