ABSTRACT
The system of higher education in Hungary, according to the typology of Burton R. Clark, 1 is a single public System with multiple sectors. On the one hand, this means that, apart from a few exceptions, all institutions of higher education are controlled by the state; on the other hand, it means that the system is divided into two tracks: lower-level higher education institutions and the universities. The few nonstate institutions, owned by churches and serving exclusively to train members of the priesthood, do not offer publicly recognized diplomas (in 1987 there were about 650 students studying in postsecondary church schools). The military schools form part of the state system but the official reports and statistics do not deal with them. There are also a few other postsecondary institutions with special training goals; Communist party schools. for training cadres and a recently founded international manager training school, for example, are not integrated into the state system.
