The Faculty of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering of the University of Miskolc, Hungary has been conducting master's programs in English for Hungarian and international students for ten years. Each of our five English-language master's programs provides special, unique training in Hungary for the raw materials and environmental protection sector. The courses teach important parts of the raw material and natural resource value chain, from innovative mineral resource exploration to the recycling technologies that form the basis of the circular economy. The MSc programmes encourage the students to do research and development activity during their studies and provide the opportunity to continue the research topics in doctoral training.
Our first, fully English-taught master's degree, the MSc in Petroleum Engineering was launched in 2012. Then it was followed by the launch of the Earth Science Engineering, Hydrogeology Engineering and Environmental Engineering master's degrees in English from 2014, and lastly the Petroleum Geoengineering as the fifth from 2017. With these programmes, the faculty have been participating in the Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship program since the beginning. So far 219 foreign scholarship student graduated at our faculty from 42 country.
We have constantly made sure that our foreign students have the opportunity to participate in conferences and academic competitions during their studies. Our outstanding competition results are the winning of Grand Prize in the EAGE’s Laurie Dake Challenge in 2022, the first place in the SPE International Student Paper Contest in 2019, the grand Prize of the PDAC’s Next Generation Explorers Award in March 2023.
With the English-taught master's programs we are cooperating in European joint courses, so our master's students in environmental engineering can participate in the ENTER international joint programme, and our geoscience engineering students in the EIT-Labelled TIMREX joint master’s programme for innovative mineral resource exploration. In the field of recycling, our faculty teaches in the EIT-Labelled AMIR international joint programme.
The master's courses taught by our faculty are in demand in developing countries, where the raw materials sector accounts for most of the national income, and the protection and sustainability of the environment and natural resources, such as groundwater base - is of prime importance.
