Dear Prospective IBS Student,

Thank you for your kind interest in our programmes.

Please find some general information about the February 2026 intake below, then click on the programme you applied for to find further details.

International Business School is a private university with campuses in Budapest (Hungary) and Vienna (Austria) offering comprehensive degree programmes in different fields of business in cooperation with The University of Buckingham (UK) that is rated Top in the UK for student satisfaction since 2006 as well as Top in the UK for Teaching Quality, for Student-Staff Ratio and for Student Experience.

• Practice-oriented and up-to-date programmes in small interactive classes, focusing on skills development (without lectures)
• All programmes delivered in English
• Accreditations in the EU, UK, USA
• British degree conferred by The University of Buckingham (in addition to the IBS degree)
• University Foundation if your English skills need improvement
• Erasmus or internship option in semester 5 on the BSc programmes
• 3-semester MSc programmes with a work-friendly schedule
• Students from over 100 countries
• Personal assistance from staff and faculty
• Campuses in the heart of Europe

Watch videos and photos to have a glimpse of what is awaiting you. Check out the academic life and the IBS clubs.

We intend to start the February intake with face-to-face classes (where the student numbers are sufficient) and will normally offer an online study mode option only for those whose visa is delayed and cannot arrive in Budapest in February.

1. Online application.
2. IBS provides application fee payment details.
3. After application fee payment, IBS checks your documents.
4. MSc applicants have an ONLINE MSc interview.
5. IBS issues the conditional acceptance letter with the tuition fee invoice.
6. After IBS receives the tuition fee payment, we email your visa support certificates.
7. You book your visa interview at the nearest Consulate of Hungary.
8. You inform IBS when you receive the visa decision.
9. You travel to Hungary at the end of January/beginning of February.
10. You enrol to the programme and present your original documents.
11. You have 1 month upon arrival to pick up your residence permit card in Budapest.

Our campus in Graphisoft Park is in the northern part of Budapest, right next to the Danube, just 30 minutes from the city centre by public transport.

It has an on-campus Residence Hall with single and shared rooms for 5 or 10 months. If you wish to book and pay for a room there, please send an email directly to the RH contact person, Ms Ortiz (osm@ibs-b.hu). Ms Ortiz will email you the details and rooms will be secured in the order of payment. Only those students will stay in the Residence Hall who have paid for it. You can move in only on or after 1 February.

You will buy your health insurance upon arrival in Budapest from our appointed insurance agent. The fee for 12 months is HUF 120,000. You will pay cash and receive your insurance policy. This insurance can be used only for newly acquired health problems.

If you are under 18 when you enrol at IBS, you are officially an underage person in Hungary.

As a result, you will have to bear in mind some legal restrictions when starting your IBS studies and stay in Hungary:

• you alone cannot sign any official documents including the IBS Education Contract or your residence permit at the Immigration Office,
• you cannot sign a rental contract alone,
• you alone cannot open a bank account in Hungary,
• you alone cannot buy your health insurance at IBS (you should buy it in your home country for 12 months),
• you cannot receive a vaccination in Hungary alone etc.

So either one of your parents/legal guardian will accompany you for enrolment to sign all these documents, or you will need to present an official and notarized authorization where your parent/guardian authorizes a person above 18 who is in Budapest and can act/sign on your behalf. Please contact us for the authorization form if you need it.

If your parent cannot come with you and you do not have a person who can sign instead of you, please contact Mr. Zsolt Dukkon at the DUKKON Law Firm in Budapest at dukkon.zsolt@dukkon.hu and he can assist you with that for some fee.

After payment and receiving our Visa Support Certificate, you will need to apply for a residence permit  (Type D visa) at the nearest Hungarian Consulate.

Please contact the Consulate for the exact requirements, you can find further details on the website of the Office of Immigration and Nationality.

Please note that for the visa application the Hungarian Consulate will want to see among others:

• official and original school and ID documents,
• considerable financial background on your or parents’ bank account (enough for one year’s stay in Budapest, around EUR 8000, coming from a regular income whose origin you have to prove), if your parents are sponsoring your stay, you have to prove that you are related by presenting their birth certificates,
• only parents and no other relative are accepted as sponsors,
• some knowledge about Hungary, IBS and our programmes,
• health insurance (HUF 120,000 to be paid upon arrival in IBS),
• accommodation details (we certify your accommodation in the on-campus Residence Hall for the visa application, but please make sure you have a place to stay that you have paid for),
• a language certificate of English skills is an asset for the Consulate.

Please consult our visa information page and go through this list of key visa points compiled from reasons for visa refusals, the most common of which are financial matters.