Central European University
Central European University is a private research university with campuses in Vienna, Budapest, and New York. The university offers intensive graduate and undergraduate programs in the social sciences and humanities, and is known for its low student-faculty ratio, and a highly diverse international student body. Admissions are classified as highly selective with an acceptance rate of 13%. All CEU programs and courses are accredited in Austria, Hungary and the United States.
CEU Budapest main entrance
CEU Budapest building
CEU Frankel Leó Street, Budapest
CEU Budapest Residence Center
George Soros is a Hungarian-American billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist. As of October 2023, he had a net worth of US$6.7 billion, having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, of which $15 billion has already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune. Forbes called Soros the "most generous giver". He is a resident of New York.
Soros in 2018
Soros during a session on redesigning the international monetary system at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011
Protesters in Tbilisi with flag of the Democratic Republic of Georgia blocking the way from the Open Society Institute office, 2005
Anti-Soros sentiment graffiti in Resen, Macedonia, 2018. It reads: #Stop Soros #I will profit.