Who still remembers the Accounting students’ anthem? If it’s only a distant memory by now, this is the perfect opportunity to relive it with your former classmates!

Even the biggest setbacks can lead to global success—as shown by the creation of the learning-support app Voovoo— or a pharmaceutical research company employing 80 people today can grow out of a cramped research room, as demonstrated by the Turbine team. The short stories of how these two startups were founded and developed are now available online in Márton Szirmai’s video series about Hungarian inventors and startups.

She never wanted to be an entrepreneur, but during Covid, when she lost her job overnight, she experienced firsthand that the supposedly secure life of an employee isn’t so secure after all. That’s when she decided to pursue her long-time dream and co-founded CLICKnCRUISE, a startup that mediates cruise trips. Together with their investors, who also act as mentors, they grew the business to a value of 1.3 billion HUF in three years, and they are now focusing on international expansion. We interviewed Petra Hajdu-Pásztor, a former Corvinus student.

Not only current students, but also our alumni automatically gain more value from their degrees if the university rises in one of the most important international higher education rankings, the QS World University Rankings. In this process, the alumni community connected to the university plays an important role.