Assistant Professor in Economics and Social Sciences

Corvinus University of Budapest is Hungary’s leading university in the field of economics and social sciences. Maintained by the Maecenas Universitatis Corvini Foundation, Corvinus’ medium-term objective is to become the best higher education institution in these fields, not only in the country but also in Central Europe. Corvinus University currently has around 8,000 students, including 2,000 foreign students. It has close links with more than 250 partner universities worldwide. Corvinus regularly ranks highly in international higher education rankings, and its Business and Management programme was ranked first in the region in the 2019 Eduniversal ranking. Corvinus University of Budapest is the only university in Hungary in the field of economics to have two international institutional accreditations (AMBA, AACSB). 

The Institute of Economics announces an open call for applications for the position of Assistant Professor (part-time) for a definite-term (until 31 December 2030).

Expected earliest start date: spring semester 2026/27

Job description and basic requirements

Teaching duties:

• Teaching of subjects belonging to the education portfolio of the advertising Institute in weekly class hours as defined by the University’s Academic Career Model. 

Research duties:

• Writing articles in prestigious international and domestic journals in the field of empirical economics, particularly labour economics and related fields, including education economics, public economics, health economics, demographic economics, and other areas of applied microeconomics.
• Participating at important international and domestic conferences, building international scientific relationships, getting involved in research projects, active research application activity in the field of empirical labour economics and related areas of applied microeconomics thus securing the resources of the research projects and contributing to the internationalisation of the Institute and the University.

Service duties:

• Active participation in the professional life of the advertising Institute and the University, performing service tasks determined by the head of the Institute.
• Supporting early-career academics at the university, supervising PhD students, as well as students participating in student competitions

Basic requirements

• appropriate teaching/research experience in higher education,
• an outstanding teaching and research record in their branch of science;
• independent research activity;
• ability to teach in a foreign language, and to act as a subject leader.

Documents and certificates to be submitted as part of the application

• Application in English (a single PDF file) that includes
  • a detailed curriculum vitae (CV) with a summary of educational, research and community service achievements;
  • a cover letter explaining the reasons for applying and the contribution the applicant intends to make to the Institute’s work (also specifying gross salary expectations);
  • scanned copies of the documents verifying the university degrees, academic degree (e.g. PhD degree), and of the documents verifying other professional qualifications. (In case of scientific academic degrees obtained abroad, the nostrification will be arranged in the next phase of the selection procedure);
  • up to two publications; this may include working papers, doctoral dissertations, job market papers;
  • at least two professional references (one of which must be from a Hungarian expert if the call is published in Hungarian);
  • Summary table Excel (Please fill in the Summary table Excel for assistant professor applications)

Remuneration and benefits

• favourable conditions regarding research facilities, data access;
• time devoted to research, travel support, etc.;
• a competitive salary is accompanied by a maximum of 15% annual performance bonus in case of outstanding performance;
• one-off relocation allowance for applicants moving to Hungary;
• cafeteria fringe benefit;
• place of work: Budapest.

Application procedure

• The deadline for the submission of the application: 1 October 2026.
• The applications shall be submitted electronically by clicking on the APPLICATION button and by following the instructions at the bottom of the webpage.
• The next step of the selection procedure is that the shortlisted applicants will be interviewed by the relevant selection committee. The shortlisted applicants will be informed in a later phase about details and timing.
• The evaluation of the application is expected to be completed by (31 October 2026).

Please apply via the ‘Apply’ button above.

For further information:

Please feel free to email us at:

• administrative and HR matters: at career@uni-corvinus.hu (Júlia Kosztolányi)
• academic matters: horn@uni-corvinus.hu (Prof. Daniel Horn)