Ágoston Dudás, a student of ELTE Trefort Ágoston Practical High School, won the 2025 Economics Olympiad on Friday, 21 March at Budapest Metropolitan University (METU). In the national final of the international competition for secondary school students, 30 students from 14 schools in 8 municipalities competed in economics.
The Economics Olympiad was first organised in the Czech Republic in 2016. Since 2019, Hungary has been hosting the national competition and delegating the best students from the national final to the international final. The prestige of the competition is reflected in the fact that the number of students taking part in the competition has grown from 4,000 in 2017 to almost 80,000 today. Since its inception, 350,000 students from 21 countries on four continents have competed in economics.
This year’s Economics Olympiad saw a strong competition of secondary school students interested in economics from 64 secondary schools in around 30 municipalities. At the end of February, 329 secondary school students had completed the online round of the competition with an average score of 71%. In this round, 30 students made it through to the final round – they had to achieve a score of 96%, i.e. they had to answer at least 24 out of 25 questions correctly. This is the highest score ever in the national history of the competition! In the final on Friday at the METU in Budapest, 30 students from 18 schools in 10 municipalities competed. The national final consisted of two rounds: in the morning, the students competed in a written test, and the 10 best performing students took an oral exam in the afternoon in front of a jury of renowned economists. The jury of the national final was chaired by György Kocziszky, professor and rector of Budapest Metropolitan University, the host of the final. The other members of the jury were Ákos Péter Bod, Professor, former Governor of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank, former Minister of Industry and Trade, Vice President of the Hungarian Economic Association, and Ákos Dombi, Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University. In the afternoon, the finalists and their companions were given a guided tour of the Money Museum.
The first three winners of the Economics Olympiad are: 1. Ágoston Dudás (ELTE Trefort Ágoston Practical High School); 2, Domán Nacsa (Erkel Ferenc High School and College, Gyula); 3. Bendegúz Ruskal (ELTE Radnóti Miklós Practical School). In addition to the three of them, the fourth and fifth place winners, Ábel Mosonyi (Alternative Secondary School of Economics) and Artúr Bitemo (Budapest-Fasori Evangelical Secondary School) will represent Hungary in the English-language international final of the competition in the Olympiad in Greece in mid-August.