CEU is committed to ensuring that its graduates are prepared to transform their CEU experience into meaningful professional engagement. Support for student professional development is offered through a range of programs and initiatives across the university.

For all students

Community Engagement Office: get involved with the local community while gaining experience and developing skills

BOOST: Bringing Objectives, Strategies and Options Together certificate program focused on professional development

Erasmus+ Internship Mobility Program: an initiative of the university's Academic Cooperation and Research Support Office (ACRO)

Human Rights Initiative (HRSI): HRSI's mission is to promote social engagement through awareness raising and capacity building, including intensive skills workshops for CEU community members.

Mirabaud Media Lab: a resource for students, faculty, and staff to produce and edit media production projects, and for instruction in courses that incorporate the lab’s specialized applications

CEU Innovations Lab: support for venture teams of CEU students, alumni, and faculty as they translate great ideas into successful enterprises

Visual Studies Platform (VSP): CEU’s cross-disciplinary initiative designed to explore and propose innovative approaches to research and teaching visual imagery in the digital century

VSP Advanced Certificate Program in Visual Theory and Practice (VTP): certificate program and stand-alone courses offering professionally-relevant training focused on forging connections across disciplines, critical analysis of visual production, and the skills required to produce creative works

Especially for doctoral students

Global Teaching Fellowship Program (GTFP): opportunities for CEU doctoral candidates to gain valuable teaching experience with partner universities around the world

Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL): support for CEU doctoral students as they grow as apprentices and future teachers, scholars, and educational leaders

CTL Certificate Program for Excellence in Teaching in Higher Education: certificate program and stand-alone courses providing support for doctoral students as young-career academic teachers

External Funding Opportunities to Support Doctoral Student Training through Research: CEU supports doctoral training by providing opportunities for doctoral students to obtain external funding for research and travel