Program Overview

Program Overview

The Human Resource Counselling MA program at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) aims to train experts who can make detailed analyses, find global and special correlations, and carry out advising and assessing activities in the world of organisations, employment, and education.

Program Details

• Title: Human Resource Counselling MA
• Degree: Certified Human Resource Counsellor
• Type: Degree program
• Level: Master
• Accreditation number: FNYF/1392-3/2016
• Faculty: Faculty of Education and Psychology
• Institute: Institute of Research on Adult Education and Knowledge Management
• Language: English
• Duration: 4 semesters (2 years)
• ECTS credits: 120
• Minimum number of students: 5
• Maximum number of students: 40

Program Description

The program integrates different but closely interconnected disciplines: psychology, economics/human resource management, educational studies, and relies heavily on partners that offer a “real-life” insight into the profession. It trains experts who, at the end of the program, are able to make detailed analyses, find general and specific correlations in the world of organisations, work, employment, and training, and who can carry out counselling and assessing activities incorporating their HR and economic studies applying their interdisciplinary attitude.

Strength of Program

The program is two-folded, integrating different but closely interconnected disciplines and relying heavily on partners that offer a “real-life” insight into the profession. It has administrative capacity to help facilitate student life.

Career Opportunities

Those who graduate from the Human Resource Counselling MA programme can find advising and career consultant positions both in the public and in the private sectors in human resources, registry offices, career centres, temporary agency work, in organisations dealing with youth’s career orientation or adults’ career advice, and in recruiting and selection at head hunter or consulting companies.

Job Examples

• Human resource counsellor
• Learning and development manager
• HR recruitment specialist

Tuition Fee

• EU/EEA students: 2,900 EUR per semester
• Non-EU/EEA students: 2,900 EUR per semester

Application Fee

• Early bird application (until January 31st): 60 EUR
• Regular application 1 (February 1st – March 25th): 120 EUR
• Regular application 2 (April 26th – June 15th): 120 EUR
• Last Call (June 16th – July 10th): 180 EUR

Other Costs

• Entrance exam fee: 120 EUR (non-refundable)

Admission Requirements

Entry Requirements

Applicants must hold a university Bachelor’s degree (or an equivalent college degree) in the fields listed below, or a university Master’s degree:

• Fully recognised BA studies: Andragogy and Community Management BA degree, college degree in Cultural Management, Human Resource Management, Labour Counselling, Pedagogy, Psychology, Human Resources, Sociology, Political Sciences, Computational Librarian, Cultural Anthropology, and the BA degrees of teacher education. Bachelor Degree in Psychology, Education, Special Education, Sociology.
• Conditionally recognised BA studies: any Bachelor’s or Master’s degree program in case the applicant possesses 30 credits in the following fields: essential studies related to humanities, adult education studies, communicational science related studies, information technology, library studies, essential studies related to social sciences, economic and legal studies.

Language Requirements

• Minimum level of language proficiency (oral): C1
• Minimum level of language proficiency (written): C1

Documents to Submit with Application

• Online application form
• Bachelor-level degree
• Transcript of records
• CV
• Motivation letter: The letter should contain approximately 2000 characters, explaining experiences and ideas, how you met psychology, and why you thought this profession would be suitable for you, what your aim is with the MA degree, how you would imagine your career, which area you are interested in, what further studies you are planning.
• Copy of the main pages of the passport: needs to be valid
• Copy of application fee transfer
• Entrance exam fee
• Reference work: It can be any paper written in English by the applicant connected to the field of human resources counselling (BA thesis extract, a research paper, a seminar paper, a research report, a published journal article or a book chapter, a case study, a literature review, etc.). The ideal length should be between 5-15 pages, excluding references and appendices.
• An official English translation of the certificates and the records if the language of the original is not English

Application Procedure

The application starts in the online application system. Students need to register in the system, fill in the online application form, upload the required documents, and follow the instructions during the application process.

Evaluation and Results

You can obtain a maximum of 100 points for the MA in Human Resources Counselling program according to the following:

1. Reference work (maximum 20 points): based on the reference work submitted with the application.
2. Entrance Examination / Interview (maximum 65 points): based on the following criteria: being well-informed, familiar with literature, having good communicational skills, use of language for expressing yourself, professional devotion, competence, professional attitude in the field of human resources and its market, a clear vision of the future related to the profession.
3. Application (motivation letter and CV) (maximum 15 points)

Program Leader

• Helga DORNER: Habil. Associate Professor, Director of Institute of Research on Adult Education and Knowledge Management

Program Coordinator

• Violetta FRANK: International Admission Coordinator

Additional Information

• Offered for the next academic year: Yes
• Start program: 01, Sep, 2026
• Deadline for applications - September intake: 10, Jul, 2026
• Is there a February intake: No