Informatics has seen the most spectacular advancement in Hungarian education in recent years, a government official said at an event on Thursday, according to a report by news wire MTI.
Universities have doubled their revenue from corporate research and innovation, while Q1-ranked scientific publications rose by nearly 50%, patent filings increased sixfold, and income from intellectual property exploitation grew sevenfold, Veronika Varga-Bajusz, state secretary for higher education, vocational training, and youth at the ministry of culture and innovation, said at the EduDigiTech educational platform’s annual launch event at Edutus University.
Varga-Bajusz noted that 12 Hungarian higher education institutions now rank in the global top 5 percent, meaning two out of every three students attend a world-leading university. She also pointed to Hungary’s success at the 2025 Euroskills competition, where trainees won gold medals in all four informatics disciplines.
“Digitalization is no longer just part of daily life; it has evolved beyond the internet, PCs, and smartphones into robotics and artificial intelligence,” she said, adding that Hungary’s strength lay in turning vision into reality, as exemplified by John von Neumann’s foundational role in modern computing.
“We don’t just dream; we build the future,” she declared, citing recent achievements such as doubling Hungary’s Nobel Prize count in 2023 and sending a Hungarian astronaut into space in 2025.
The state secretary said Hungary excelled by focusing on high-expertise industries, noting the country’s global rankings: while it is 96th in terms of demographics, it is 33rd in innovation performance, 13th in Olympic success per capita, 11th in Nobel laureates, 10th in research talent, 9th in the Mathematics Olympiad, and 5th in the Physics Olympiad. Andrea Némethné Gál, rector of Edutus University, highlighted the institution’s role as the Hungarian organiser of the World Robot Olympiad (WRO) since 2014.
Edutus, in collaboration with Széchenyi István University, will launch drone competitions from 2026.
“At last year’s WRO finals in Singapore, Hungary was the only European team to reach the final alongside Asian competitors,” she added, underscoring the country’s growing reputation in robotics.