Changing Position and Catchment Area of the University of Miskolc

The last decade brought a structural transformation in the Hungarian higher educational system. The main drivers of the change are the followings: the credit system was introduced; the traditional educational structure was replaced by the new, Bologna one with BA and MA programmes. Besides the number of students in the secondary schools stagnated, reduced, which could be just partly counterbalanced by the foreign students and elder population. Finally tuition fee has to be highlighted, which became mass in the cases of economic programmes. In the paper the national and international positions of University of Miskolc, Faculty of Economics are investigated with special focus on the catchment area and the demographic conditions