Milestone Institute in numbers

Student achievements and teaching excellence

Milestone Institute of Advanced Studies is a talent enrichment centre located in Budapest, Hungary. Founded in 2010, our mission is to act as a catalyst of societal progress through an internationally recognised programme of education, designed to nurture a community of future leaders within Hungary.

Our graduates have been accepted to top universities across the globe, and our alumni network continues to grow. Over the past 14 years, we have worked on ensuring that our students are admitted to the universities that best match their talents and aspirations.

1300+

alumni

2500+

offers from QS Top 100 universities

180+

offers from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

30+

offers from Ivy League universities (between 2016 and 2023)

Our academic profile as of 2023

Our mentors and module leaders bring knowledge capital from all over the world, having graduated from top universities themselves from Tokyo to Paris, through London, Vienna, Indiana and Chicago. The institute thrives on its international faculty, who come together at Milestone to exchange ideas and provide high quality education to our students.

Modules are taught by subject expert faculty, who design and deliver 8-week-long courses corresponding to an AP-level / undergraduate curriculum.

80+

faculty members

Our faculty holds degrees from

40+

top ranking universities

100%

have BA/BSc

92%

have MA/MSc

50%

have PhD

90+

modules offered

Highlights:

Climate, Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, Data Science, Designing Space, Differentiation & Integration, Econometrics, Electromagnetism, Game Theory,Genetic Engineering, Good and Evil, Human Nature, Imperialism and Modern Politics, Matrices and Markov Chains, Natural Philosophies, Perception and Cognition, Philosophy of Law, Religions of the Middle East, State Theory

Student achievements over the past three years

We encourage and support our students in participating and securing placements in the most prestigious and competitive essay competitions, scientific olympiads, arts competitions, and provide them with many other opportunities of intellectual growth, academic orientation and to serve the community and the common good.

In the past three years, our students have received numerous accolades, which include the following:

2024
British Biology Olympiad (BBO)	Barnabás Kurszán Tőrös, Marcell Schwarczkopf	Silver medal
British Biology Olympiad (BBO)	Kristóf Bence Barátosi, Viktória Orlay	Bronze Medal
Földgömb National Geographic Competition	Hédi Tapasztó	1st place
Future We Want MUN Conference (New York)	Boldizsár Nagy	Best delegate (Security Council)
Harvard GlobalWE Essay Contest	Nola Hanna Lakits	Certificate of Excellence
Hungarian National Science and Innovation Olympiad 2024	Ákos Vida	1st place in the Engineering section
International Chemistry Tournament	Anna Koharek	1st place as part of the national team
International Conference for Young Scientists (ICYS) 2024	Ákos Vida	1st prize in the presentation section
IX. Semmelweis Health Competition	Lin Xia Vivi	1st place in a team
IX. Semmelweis Health Competition	Lili Marx	2nd place in a team
John Locke Essay Prize	Eliza Baranyai, Laura Bartha, Szabolcs Benedek, Léna Bognár, Dávid Kristóf, Viktória Orlay, Gáspár Pápai, Dániel Radnai, Ádám Rammacher, Róza Szalay, Benedek Szegi, Lilla Szimeiszter, Anna Takács, Thien Kim Tran	shortlisted
John Locke Essay Prize	Marcell Pap	2nd place
The Oxford Union Debate Competition	Szabolcs Benedek, Gergő Tóth-Göde, Bálint Weiszbart	participation
Scientific Students’ Circles Conference (TUDOK)	Ákos Vida	Grand prize in Engineering/Computer Science section
2023
Baltic Sea Philosophy Essay Event (BSPEE)	János Pecznik	Gold medal
Baltic Sea Philosophy Essay Event (BSPEE)	Benedek Szatmáry	Honorary mention
British Biology Olympiad (BBO)	Marcell Schwarzkopf	Bronze medal
Cinemira Youth Film Festival 2023	Mateo Coelho	Mateo's short film ‘Fuss el véle’ made it to the finals of the festival's competition and was screened during the festival in October
Dialexicon	Bernadett Osvay-Szabó	Publication essay titled ‘Generative AI: A Blessing or a Curse for Artists?’
International Biology Olympiad (IBO)	Nándor Szombat	Silver medal
International Geography Olympiad (iGeo)	Olivér Lontay	1st place
International Chemistry Tournament	Anna Koharek	2nd place
International Linguistics Olympiad (ILO)	Júlia Hegedűs	Bronze medal (as a member of the Hungarian team)
International Philosophy Olympiad (IPO)	Róza Mária Zolnai	Honorary mention
John Locke Essay Competition	Botond Magyar, Dávid Hadházy, Alexandra Sipos, Kristóf Dávid, Laura Tompos, Gergely Hernádi, Anna Dámosy, Marcell Borbély, Hanna Vámosi, Panna Csonka, Ádám Bárdos, Anna Nguyen, Szonja Végváry, Nóra Marianna, Szikszai Hédi Tapasztó, Márton Ábel Molnár	Shortlisted
2022
31st Youth Science and Innovation Talent Contest	Barna Benedek	1st place
Baltic Sea Philosophy Essay Event (BSPEE)	Simon Rózsa	Silver medal
Baltic Sea Philosophy Essay Event (BSPEE)	János Seregi	Bronze medal
Dialexicon	Efraim Tóth, Sámuel Vető, Soma Virágh	Honorable mentions
European Citizen’s Prize	Marco Németh	Awarded annually by the European Parliament
Hungarian qualifiers of World School Debating Championships (WSDC)	Julianna Balázs, Lili Törőcsik, Ádám Vas and Szabolcs Veress	1st place
International Geography Olympiad (iGeo)	Olivér Lontay	Silver medal
International Geography Olympiad (iGeo)	Simon Rózsa	Silver medal
International Philosophy Olympiad (IPO)	Efraim Dahlén	Honorary mention
International Public Policy Forum (IPPF)	Hédi Nguyen, Péter Paksy-Kliment, Tamara Lehoczky	Made it to the top 32 as the only team from the EU
John Locke Essay Competition	Sára Bogdán, Leila Csorba, Anna Strbka	Shortlisted
National Conference of Researching Students (TUDOK)	Johanna Telek	1st place
XX. Hungarian Research Student Association Scientific Essay Competition	Eszter Szentiványi	1st place
2021
Baltic Sea Philosophy Essay Event (BSPEE)	Benjamin Zoltán Allen	Gold medal
Baltic Sea Philosophy Essay Event (BSPEE)	Laura Lakits, Mira Weiler	Honorable mentions
Bionics Competition of Pázmány Péter Catholic University	Ádám Gao, Marcell Németh, Ábris Tóth	2nd place
Cinemira International Children's Film Festival	Ani Nguyen	Junior Squirrel Award for ‘Best Film made by Teens’
Dialexicon	Emma Mészáros	Published article, titled ‘How Viktor Orban's Hungary is heading towards dictatorship’
Dialexicon	Benjamin Zoltán Allen	Honorable mention
High School Business Challenge	Zsófia Lazur, Bettina Tang, Réka Apjok, Olivér Lontay	1st place
International Biology Olympiad (IBO)	Bich Diep Nguyen	Silver medal
International Geography Olympiad (iGeo)	Zsófia Balogh	Silver medal
International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA)	Ádám Mátéfy	Silver medal
International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics	László Jirkovszky-Bari	Honorable mention
Mary Renault Prize (by St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)	Olivér Csákány	1st prize
National Conference of Researching Students (TUDOK)	Anna Aliz Tóth	1st place
National Secondary School Academic Competition (OKTV) in Philosophy	Bence Örkény	1st place
National Secondary School Academic Competition (OKTV) in Philosophy	Dániel Gonda	2nd place
National Secondary School Academic Competition (OKTV) in Philosophy	Márton Vida	3rd place
Oxford Schools’ International Debating Competition (by the Oxford Union)	Julianna Balázs, Lili Törőcsik	1st place in ‘Novice’ category
University College London (UCL) Essay Competition	Simon Rózsa	1st place
Warwick Online Debate Tournament	Julianna Balázs, Lili Törőcsik	Bronze medal

International recognition

We recognise the fact that admission to the two most prestigious UK universities (Oxford and Cambridge) is considered an important indicator of the success and reliability of an institution of secondary education. We are immensely proud that since our foundation in 2010, over 180 students from Milestone Institute have gained admission to Oxbridge, and that we have been recognized by The Telegraph as one of the leading international schools in this respect in two consecutive years (2021 and 2022).

Our students and ourselves are similarly curious about other horizons. Therefore, we have been steadily focusing on excellence at other top universities both in Europe and beyond. Just in the last year, our students received 26 admissions to top US universities such as Princeton, Harvard, Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania. We have also been building up to become a steady feeding school of outstanding European universities such as Sciences Po, Bocconi and the Universities of Amsterdam and Groningen: 20 of our alumni in 2023 continued their studies at these four prestigious institutions alone.