26 Hungarian higher education institutions will host students offering a full scale 420 study programmes altogether. In total, four times more applications were received than the available number of scholarships. The most applications were submitted from Pakistan (about 38 times more than the quota available for them), then Kazakhstan (with 13 times more applications than the quota), Nigeria (11 times more), Cambodia (9 times more) and Mongolia (7 times more) followed. In close cooperation with several other participants, such as the Ministry of Human Capacities, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the higher education institutions, the participating institutions improve the academic quality of their programmes and due to the growing number of students, they may achieve a better position in the international rankings.