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 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
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:
2023 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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.