The Institute of Social Sciences at the College of International Management and Business of the Budapest Business School is an umbrella unit coordinating interdisciplinary research, education and curriculum development between the Department of Social Communication and Media, the Department of International and European Studies, and the Department of Applied Communication.
The research interests of the faculty of the institute cover a wide range of areas, including comparative politics, comparative media research, social movements and civil society development, and forced migration. Within the current project, the Institute of Social Sciences is to coordinate research and gather data in Central and Eastern Europe, its area of expertise.