Student accommodation in Hungary

The same table puts private rented accommodation at 200-500 EUR/month, food at about 350 EUR/month and a city-wide public transport pass at 12 EUR/month. On renting, the page adds that the university can help find housing, that flat rents run from a minimum of 200 EUR to a maximum of 500 EUR a month (payable in HUF or EUR) depending on location and comfort, that a deposit is usually required and that utilities are not included in the rent.

• Twin room€200 to €225
• Single room€280 to €320

Utilities are included; the lower figure is a twin room and the higher a single. Two months’ rent is asked as a deposit. BME has no contract with these dormitories, so the rules and the booking are between the student and the operator. BME does run its own halls, but it allocates them through the faculties and does not publish a rate for them, and other dormitories on the same list run up to about 420 EUR for a single room.

• Room in a shared apartment, central Budapest districts€300
• Studio, central Budapest districts€500

Semmelweis suggests looking in the 8th and 9th districts, where most of its campus buildings are, or the neighbouring ones. Its dormitory places are limited, allocated on social and financial need, and applied for in August; the university publishes no dormitory rate of its own. Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship holders get either a free dormitory place subject to capacity or a HUF 40,000 a month housing contribution, which Semmelweis itself warns does not cover full rental costs in Budapest.

Elsewhere on the same FAQ the university puts accommodation at approximately 200-500 EUR/month alongside food at 150-300 EUR/month and cultural or sporting activity at 30-150 EUR/month; the 300-500 EUR figure recorded here is the one given in direct answer to "Do you provide accommodation?". For help arranging a place the university points international students to the accommodation office of a partner, College International Ltd.

• 2-bedded shared room, per person (10-month lease)€345
• 2-bedded shared room, per person (5-month lease)€370
• Single room (10-month lease)€515
• Single room (5-month lease)€550

A EUR 750 refundable deposit and a one-time EUR 80 mandatory final cleaning fee apply on top of the monthly rent.

• Category I hall (Bánki Donát, Kiss Árpád)HUF 37,000
• Category IV hall (Kandó Kálmán)HUF 53,000

None of the halls offers a single room. The cheaper figure covers Bánki Donát, Kiss Árpád, Geo and Corvin; the dearer one Kandó Kálmán and Hotel@BMF. Hungarian students on a state-funded place pay less, 20,000 to 33,000 Ft. Students on evening, correspondence and distance courses pay the self-financing rate whatever their funding.

• Room with 2 beds, bathroom and toilet in the roomHUF 70,000

The hall has 276 two-bed rooms with their own bathroom and toilet and 175 three-bed rooms, a study room on every floor, a common kitchen on every floor, a gym, buffet, clubs, bicycle storage, an artificial-grass football pitch and a basketball court; internet is provided but the student must bring their own internet cable, and smoking is only allowed outside. ELTE puts the average travel time to its faculties at 20-50 minutes. Its other Budapest dormitories are cheaper and priced on their own pages on the same monthly basis: Vezér út 50 000 Ft/month for a three-bed room and 55 000 Ft/month for a two-bed, Nándorfejérvári út 55 000 Ft/month, Ajtósi Dürer sor 60 000 Ft/month and Damjanich 65 000 Ft/month — so ELTE dormitory places across Budapest run 50 000 to 70 000 Ft a month. Kőrösi is recorded here rather than the cheapest because it is the only one whose page states a quota of international places.

• Szántó Dormitory wing D — furnished room with bathroom, bedclothes suppliedHUF 79,900
• Balassa Dormitory — furnished room with bathroom, bedclothes suppliedHUF 79,900
• Szántó Dormitory wings A and C — furnished room with bathroom, bedclothes suppliedHUF 93,300
• Damjanich Dormitory — furnished room with bathroom, bedclothes suppliedHUF 103,600

The university has ten dormitories in quiet residential areas with easy access to the faculties and the city centre; most have recently been renovated. Rooms are furnished and contain bathrooms, and bedclothes are supplied. Listed facilities are internet access per room, a study room, lounge, bike storage, parking slots, a cafeteria and a student club.