CEU to launch all US-accredited degree programs in Vienna in 2019

Budapest's Central European University (CEU) will launch all US-accredited degree programs in Vienna in September 2019, the university said on Monday. "Over the course of 20 months, CEU has taken all steps to comply with Hungarian legislation, launching educational activities in the US that were certified by US authorities. Nevertheless, the Hungarian government has made it clear it has no intention of signing the agreement that it negotiated over a year ago with the State of New York, which would ensure CEU’s operations in Budapest for the long term," the statement added. "CEU has been forced out," Michael Ignatieff, the university's president and rector, said. "This is unprecedented. A US institution has been driven out of a country that is a NATO ally. A European institution has been ousted from a member state of the EU," he added.