Central European University

Anyone know anything about this school? A friend of mine really likes their Master of Arts in International Relations and European Studies and asked me what I thought of it. Honestly, I've never heard of it. I did see (when I looked at their site) where they are able to accept student loans and offer a 1 year master's program, but I cant see anything anywhere on their site that says they are online at all. My friend has a bachelors in Liberal Arts and a masters in Mass Communication and Journalism. Im not sure what she wants to do with this degree, so I cant offer any insight into that. She just emailed me and asked me what I thought of it, and since I know less than nothing about it, I figured I'd pose the question here.

 

Here's a link to the program in question: Master of Arts in International Relations and European Studies | Central European University

 

How does that come up in a conversation? Weren't you looking in to international relations programs when you joined (just a few weeks ago)?

Regardless, it looks like they are regionally accredited.....:

"In the United States, CEU is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools: 3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States. Phone: (1 215) 662 5606."

Here is another thread about the school:

http://www.degreeinfo.com/accreditation-discussions-ra-detc-state-approval-unaccredited-schools/18145-reginal-accreditation-central-european-university.html

As for that particular program, I have no idea.

 

It comes up because I belong to different facebook and Yahoo groups, and one is for those of us interested in International Relations and similar degree programs. She was interested in International Communication but now seems to like this program. So she messaged me and asked if I knew anything about it, which I dont. Yes, I was looking at programs but I have found what I like. And I tend to stay away from schools that arent in the US simply because I dont know how to see if they are well regarded and respected here. So I just stick to US schools.

 

I contacted CEU last year when I thought I was going to be posted to Budapest. They don't do part time or distance programs.

 

Thanks! I'll let her know

 

It seems Central European University has some powerful enemies - and also many supporters.

http://www.thenation.com/article/central-european-university-under/

(I thought this new development justifies to revive this thread, even if that school dosen't offer any online or distance programs.)

 

Yes. We have some additional stuff on the Viktor Orbán vs. CEU conflict in this thread: http://www.degreeinfo.com/accreditation-discussions-ra-detc-state-approval-unaccredited-schools/54524-hungarian-pm-denounces-soros-backed-college-us-urges-restraint.html

 

They will gone from there in a year or so. People are sick of the Soros push on their countries.

 

CEU is in Hungary. Soros is from Hungary. Your statement is ignorant.

You would think Americans would side with an institution promoting "Open Society" in a standoff with a two bit dictator wannabe. Trumpniks have a peculiar ideology I guess.


Canadian connection: CEU President is currently Michael Ignatieff, a prolific author and former Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.

 

Easy their cowboy, Soros is a thug as well. He is just a Nazi, and then commie thug. He wrecks nations and crashes economies for profit. Almost all of the "protests" seen in America are funded by groups funded by him and the open society. The CEU is nothing but a front for the training of commies, what it claims to fight. I hope they chase the globalist out of their nation.

But answer this, can you run a school in an American state with a foreign accreditor and no location in the home nation?

 

This, I suppose, is the official US position:

https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2017/03/269343.htm

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences is not particularly enthusiastic either

Statement of President László Lovász regarding the Central European University | MTA

And yes, back in the days when Orbán was not yet a fan of Putin, China, Turkey and illiberal democracy, he was granted a Soros scholarship to study at Oxford.

 

Bollocks. CEU offers social sciences programs that are ranked substantially higher than native Hungarian universities. This, my friend, is no way to train "commies". And, yeah, my Soros-funded physics teacher taught, surprisingly enough, physics, and not politics of any stripe.

Sure you can. Does any ASIC-accredited entity have a campus in England? There's no law in US that prohibits a school joining an academic association in a foreign country.
Also, this is common in many countries. American University of Lebanon is the best school in that country; no relation to the American University in DC. There are many "Anerican Universities of X" around the globe. "Wisconsin International University in Ukraine" is a real school while the alleged WIU-USA is not. Ukrainian Catholic University recently got Vatican accreditation for its theology program; the school had a predecessor ran in exile in Rome, but it doesn't offer any degrees there anymore.

 

Soros was born in 1930 and left Hungary when he was 17. (After having survived world war two when his Jewish family pretended to be Christian) He ended up in England as a displaced person where he attended LSE and eventually moved to New York city when he was in his 30's. So he may have always been a bit of a stateless person psychologically, somebody who never really felt that he fit in anywhere, which probably helps explain his "open society" hostility to popular sovereignty, to cultural ethnicity and to nation-states generally.

I expect that rulers listening to and heeding their own people is 'populism' in Soros' mind and probably leads in his mind to the kind of demagoguery that installed Hitler. Nationalism likely equates to 'fascism' in his mind.

So I'd guess that he has a bit of a love-hate relationship with Hungary, the land of his early childhood.

I can understand why Orban, who is a Hungarian nationalist and a bit of a populist, collides violently with Soros' vision for his country's future (none basically, at best another homogeneous cookie-cutter province in a post-nationalist European superstate with no control over its own borders and no say in who lives inside them).

 

You forgot to mention what Mr. Soros and his father did to the Jews in Hungary before moving to the US. You can read the details in his biography and listen to his own words in TV interviews.

Or, what his organization, International Renaissance Foundation did in Ukraine around 2003-5.
Or, the deals he made with the Brazil government in 2008.
Or, about the Cresud company in Argentina.
Or, in Macedonia around 2010.

And, so on.

Otherwise, he is an angel.

 

That won't please the Rus.

 

Yeah, when he was between ages 9 and 14. Major shaker, even then.

No gazillionnaire is an angel, especially not a financial speculator. But you kind of smell BS when the stories make him into a Dr. Doom. Not even th late Dr. Berezovsky was that.

I have a suspicion that we won't agree about Ukrainian politics, and about an ultimate source of your information. Just, let's not go there. Trump is no "literal Hitler", but Mr. Putin is as close as you can get. Let's. just. not. go. there.

 

I do not give a fig.

 

That would be an interesting topic, and I would be interested to know how you arrived at your opinions, and for evidence showing how "open society" means "no future for a nation" (I think the opposite is more risky, to be frank). However...

What you "can understand" is a prime minister using the power of state to crush a political opponent, precisely because he is a political opponent. That, in America, used to be widely understood as unacceptable, regardless of what the political views in question are. And I do not trust political analysis from anyone who does not understand that. Sorry. Liberty and justice, folks, liberty and justice.

We see two political visions here: one motivates a mogul to create a nice little research university, in a part of the world where academia is notably weak in areas offered. Other vision demands for that university to be pushed out. Hmmm...

 

Soros is a cancer on sovereign nations. He wants a one world government that reflects his tastes. Scary stuff.....I am always amazed how fast his worshippers move when he starts handing out money.