MSc in Management and Leadership

Last modified: 13. March 2025

The aim of the course is to train professionals for public and private sector organizations who have a sound and integrated professional knowledge in the broad and narrow field of management, according to their optional specialization. With this knowledge, they are able to analyze, plan, organize and manage the work processes of competitive and public sector organizations. They are able to identify, analyze and solve emerging problems, while using familiar categories of individual and organizational learning and exploiting their capacity for innovation and creative thinking. They have the skills to pursue their studies in a doctoral program.

Qualification of the degree:

• level of degree: Master of Science (MSc);
• qualification: Economist in Management and Leadership.

Length of program: 4 semesters
Work schedule: full-time (HU, EN) or correspondence (HU)
Financial options: state scholarship or self-funded
Program Leader: Dr. Katalin Szabó associate professor (Szent István Campus)
Cooperative Program Coordinator:

• Dr. Zsolt Sándor Kőműves associate professor (Kaposvár Campus)

Training sites:

• Budapest (Buda Campus)
• Gödöllő (Szent István Campus)
• Kaposvár (Kaposvár Campus)

Language of conduction:

• Buda Campus: Hungarian
• Szent István Campus: Hungarian or English
• Kaposvár Campus: Hungarian

Elective specializations
 

SPECIALIZATIONS	RESPONSIBLES FOR SPECIALIZTAION	WORK SCHEDULE AND LOCATION
Management Consulting		Full-time, correspondence
Human Resource Management and Organization Development		Full-time, correspondence
Information Management		Full-time, correspondence

 

Conditions for selecting specialization

There is no specific requirement for the choice of specialization in the Master of Management and Leadership program.

Skills and professional competences acquired on completion of the program

The professional skills and attitudes of graduates in Management and Leadership program include:

• Independently formulate new conclusions, original ideas and solutions, apply sophisticated methods of analysis and modelling, develop strategies to solve complex problems, and make decisions in a changing national and international environment and organizational culture.
• Following the acquisition of practical knowledge and experience, able to manage medium and large enterprises, complex organizational units, to perform a comprehensive economic function in a business organization, to plan and manage complex business processes, to manage resources.
• Ability to work effectively in an international, multicultural environment.
• Ability to critically evaluate research and its results in the field of management organization.
• The ability to continuously develop their knowledge, skills and abilities throughout their lives.

Conditions of obtaining pre-degree certificate (absolutorium)

• completion of: all the compulsory subjects of the program, the required number of optional credits according to the curriculum and the number of credits for the preparation of the thesis, for a total of 120 credits.

Final exam

Condition to attend final exam:

• obtained pre-degree certificate (absolutorium);
• submission of thesis and its acceptance by reviewers;
• the student shall not be in debt to the University.

Parts of final exam:

• comprehensive complex exam;
• thesis defense.

Field of knowledge and subjects of final exam from 2021/22 academic year:
The comprehensive complex exam is based on the knowledge of the core subjects and the specialization subjects, on the basis A and B series of questions are issued.

Evaluation of final exam and qualification of degree from 2020/21 academic year

Accordingly, to chapter 4.3.16 Final exam and chapter 4.3.17. Degree certificate.

Model curriculum of the program