Corvinus University of Budapest is the leading institution of Hungary in the fields of economy and social sciences. From July 1, 2019, Corvinus has been operated by Maecenas Universitatis Corvini Foundation, and the aim of the institution is to be the leading university of Central Europe in the fields mentioned. At the Budapest and Székesfehérvár Campuses of the university currently 13000 students are being educated, out of them 3500 are from foreign countries. The university has approximately 300 partner institutions and achieves international recognitions and awards regularly in the ranking of higher education institutions. With the renewed Business and Management Bachelor Programme, Corvinus has won the first prize of Eduniversal 2019, also with its Management and Leadership, Master’s Programme was chosen among the best 100 business universities in Europe by Financial Times Masters in Management 2020. Corvinus University of Budapest is the only higher education institution in Hungary that owns an AMBA and EQUIS accreditation at the same time.  

The Centre for Empirical Social Research (CESR) at Corvinus University of Budapest coordinates theoretically grounded empirical social research primarily in the field of economic actors, elites, media, information society, migration and European integration. Among the applied methods one can find the design and analysis of small surveys and large representative polls, content- and discourse analysis, experiment, interview, focus group, deliberative poll, civic discussion and policy Delphi.