In a former four-star hotel in Budapest¡¯s leafy 11th district, Mathias Corvinus Collegium invites young people into a relative world of luxury.
Its headquarters a 20-minute walk up from the Danube River is replete with spa access and study pods overlooking a park with a duck pond. Students can browse seminars ranging from digital transformation to modernizm in architecture. They can hang out in a caf¨¦ named after conservative English philosopher Roger Scruton or sign up for study trips to the U.K. and Ireland.
The MCC, as it¡¯s known locally, couldn¡¯t be more divorced from the teacher shortages and battered infrastructure typical of Hungarian schools and colleges right now. That¡¯s because MCC is no typical institution in a country where power is centered around one man and his world view.
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