Over the past two decades, the DE TTK’s range of programs and network of industry partners has grown to include more than a hundred partner companies. At Wednesday’s event, thirty key market players from among these partners were represented to build direct connections with the faculty’s students.
As noted both at the event’s opening and during the professional sessions, a degree from the Faculty of Technology and Economics (TTK) is now a guarantee of quick employment. The faculty’s leadership is consciously building a network where theoretical education meets practical market needs; successful university education is now inconceivable without the active involvement of industry stakeholders.
- Today, the only way to deliver successful university education and meet the challenges of the labor market is to work closely with industry stakeholders and involve our industrial partners in our programs. “We have therefore taken special care to build relationships with virtually every industrial company in our broader region; this network has now become so extensive that every one of our institutes has off-campus departments operating within companies- emphasized Dean Ferenc Kun.
The structure of the career day reflected the faculty’s diversity. Students could explore opportunities in four separate sections: electrical engineering and microelectronics, recommended for physics and mathematics majors; the chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries, one of the faculty’s strongest industrial bases; data analysis and earth sciences, advertised with a focus on computer science and natural sciences; and the English-language section for the faculty’s more than 800 international students.
In connection with the latter, the dean emphasized: DE TTK has now become a truly international faculty, where one-third of the students come from abroad. This multicultural environment also benefits Hungarian students, as it prepares them for the working language and expectations of multinational companies.
The faculty’s dynamism is demonstrated by the fact that it continuously adapts its curricula to new industries that have established themselves in the region. During the career day, there was discussion about integrating specialized knowledge related to battery manufacturing into the chemical engineering and physics programs, as well as the highly successful, market-driven undergraduate biotechnology program, which runs with full-enrollment classes in both Hungarian and English.
The dual training program—in which TTK played a pioneering role in 2016—is now available not only in engineering programs but also in half of the master’s programs in the natural sciences, enabling students to work at their dream companies while still in college.
- We strive to show our students that a TTK degree is of immense value, and that those who graduate from us can look forward to a secure future. Our goal is to help students connect with companies during their university years so that by the time they receive their degree, they already know exactly where they will start working- summarized Ferenc Kun, conveying the message of the career fair.
At the event the students attended lectures and participated in mock interviews in the booths, leaving the Life Science Building armed with concrete internships or job offers.
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