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How will you learn?
The academic year is divided into four terms, each being about 10 weeks long (including breaks if any).
Before the start of each term, we bring all students together for vibrant event series called Discovery Week. With 20+ enrichment activities available across 6 days, you can develop your skills, dedicate time for your project, attend Meet the Expert sessions and connect with the wider community of Engame. A range of online sessions will be available throughout the week to cater for those students learning on our online programs.
As the term officially starts, you'll focus on your two core program elements: attending your Seminar (or seminars if you choose two) and your Mentoring sessions. During term time, we'll also offer Field Trips and various student-led and community events (see under Student life) to delve deeper into various interests and build relationships with students from other years, a number of which will be available online.
On top of the Junior elements, students who choose to enrol to the Study Abroad Program will have extra sessions from term 3.
In Junior, all program elements are sign up-based and will be announced on Classroom. We invite you to participate in as many things as you can - experience new things, try yourself in different situations, and make valuable connections!
Academic Year dates
2026-27 academic year:
7 Sept 2026 - 12 June 2027
Term 1: 7 Sept - 14 Nov 2026
Discovery Week: 7 Sept - 12 Sept
Autumn break: 23 Oct - 31 Oct
Term 2: 16 Nov - 30 Jan
Discovery Week: 16 Nov - 21 Nov
Christmas break: 21 Dec - 2 Jan
Term 3: 1 Feb - 10 April
Discovery Week: 1 Feb - 6 Feb
Spring break: 25 Mar - 3 Apr
Term 4: 12 Apr - 12 June
Discovery Week: 12 April - 17 April
Summer break: 13 June - 31 Aug
Access to Events and other student activities
As an online student, you'll have access to all the main program elements online. However, if you are able and happy to travel to Budapest for an event, we highly encourage you to do so - even coming in person only a few times a year can add great value to the experience, give you an opportunity to try new things and deepen your connections with the Engame community.
Core program
🎯 Seminars
We offer two main types of these in Junior year, Introductory and Field-specific seminars, both with a distinctive aim to support your academic orientation and help you build your profile for your university application.
Introductory seminars are offered in the three most popular broad academic areas; Business and Economics, Social Sciences and STEM. These will provide you with an insight into larger subject areas as a start of a deeper engagement with the field(s) that you are considering for your future studies, allowing you to experience what studying a particular field would be like at university level. We have these as recurring items on our Seminar menu in Term 1 and Term 3, enabling you to engage with more than one wider field over the year - may this be because you need more input for your orientation, or because your interest lies at the intersection of two fields. Space permitting, you will also be able to register for two seminars in the same term if you choose our Fast Track option.
Field-specific seminars in Term 2, 3 and 4 will focus on more niche and specific areas, allowing you to delve deeper and develop a more thorough understanding of topic and its application. They tend to cover contemporary academic discussions rather than linear or historical totality, with activities that help you build relevant skills required for the study of the field.
Format: Small group sessions
Schedule: weekdays from 17.30
Saturdays from 10.00, 12noon or 14.00
Number of sessions: 6 sessions per term
Length: Workshops last for 90 minutes
Registration: Termly, first come first served, announced on Classroom
🏁 Fast Track (optional)
Once the first round of the seminar registration is done, we will open up the Fast Track application for those who would like to take more seminars.
💬 Mentoring
Mentoring in Junior year has a specific purpose to support your orientation and profile building, allowing you to discuss the fields you currently have in mind for your future studies / career. You will be paired with a professional who has a background in the field you are considering, and meet twice in each term. With support and guidance from your mentor, you'll look into possible study fields more deeply, find answers to your questions and dilemmas, and start collecting specific relevant experiences that you'll be able to use in your university application.
🚀 Project
🚀 Project
You can turn your passion into a portfolio-ready achievement with a project work at Engame. It is an opportunity to dive deeper into a topic you love and master critical skills on the way from managing tasks to communicating your achievements with support from your mentor and the dedicated Discovery Week workshops. Create a unique piece of work that elevates your university applications and sets up your future career path!
🧩 Skill-Building Workshops (part of Discovery Week)
🧩 Skill-Building Workshops (part of Discovery Week)
Each term, we offer a wide range of skill-building workshops focusing on key academic, 21st century and personal skills. You are welcome to sign up to any number of skill workshops during the year.
🎤 Meet the Expert (part of Discovery Week)
🎤 Meet the Expert (part of Discovery Week)
A wide range of Meet the Expert sessions are held in Engame or online, where we invite people with exciting academic and professional backgrounds who love what they do. They share their stories, the dilemmas they faced during their career, and talk about various aspects of jobs they’ve had, giving you great insight into what working in different fields entails to help your orientation.
🏢 Field Trips (during term time)
🏢 Field Trips (during term time)
We organize field trips to a range of exciting places from the coolest startups to high-value multinational companies, and from state and cultural institutions to NGOs. You will get a glimpse into how people work at these organizations and what they do. Come with an open and curious mind - you may learn about areas of work you haven’t considered before for your own future!
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