Environmental Engineering, BSc

About the course

This course covers environmental protection, sustainability, waste management and pollution reduction. It starts with the basic sciences and moves on to specialist environmental engineering topics. It includes a compulsory 6-week internship at a company.

Entry requirements for Irish students

• The University of Debrecen asks for a secondary school leaving certificate, translated into English, plus transcripts or predicted grades. It publishes nothing specific on the Irish Leaving Certificate and uses no points or H-grade conversion. Your Leaving Cert should meet the basic requirement, but confirm with admissions. Note that the gap since you left school cannot be more than 4 years.
• You sit online written and oral entrance exams in Mathematics and in Chemistry or Physics. These test your subject knowledge and your motivation.
• English: B2 level (for example IELTS 5.5 or TOEFL 513 paper-based). The university also checks your English at the entrance interview. It does not say whether Leaving Cert English is accepted, so ask admissions.

How to apply

1. Check the detailsRead the programme page and the 2026/27 fee table. Note that fees are charged in US dollars.
2. Apply onlineCreate an account on the university’s application portal. Upload your Leaving Cert results or predicted grades, transcripts, passport, CV, medical certificate and proof of English, and pay the 150 US dollar application fee.
3. Sit the entrance examsPay the 350 US dollar entrance fee, then take the online written and oral exams in Mathematics and in Chemistry or Physics, plus the interview.
4. Meet the deadlineApply by mid-June. The 2026 deadline was 15 June. Confirm the 2027 date and pay your first tuition fees when you receive an offer.

Costs

• The fee is 7,500 US dollars a year for 2026/27, charged in US dollars, with no separate EU rate. You also pay a one-off application fee of 150 US dollars and an entrance procedure fee of 350 US dollars for the exam and interview. Neither is refundable.

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