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Locations

What follows is a brief background on each of the IMM Program locations designed to provide you with added insights and observations that will help you better appreciate these locations and the opportunities that they afford IMM participants.

West Lafayette, Indiana

The main campus of Purdue University is located in West Lafayette, Indiana (126 miles southeast of Chicago and 65 miles north of Indianapolis). Purdue’s statewide university system includes five campuses and numerous teaching and research sites.

Visitors to Purdue’s West Lafayette campus enjoy strolling across the well-tended campus with its scores of stately red-brick buildings and welcoming green spaces. Traveling to Lafayette - West Lafayette can be accomplished by air, auto or bus, water and rail.

The sister cities of Lafayette and West Lafayette, Indiana are friendly, spirited, and energized. This is a place with fresh perspectives and new ideas. The cities are steeped in history, yet moving steadily towards the future. This is a community with a delightful mixture of Midwestern charm and metropolitan attractions.

Tilburg, The Netherlands

The Netherlands is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. About 16 million people live in an area of approximately 37,000 square km. Sixty per cent of the population lives in the western part of the country, which is called Holland. This name is often used to refer to the Netherlands as a whole.

Although Amsterdam is the capital city of the Netherlands, the seat of Government is in The Hague. Here the Dutch parliament meets and most of the foreign embassies are situated here.

The country is flat. There are some low hills only in the centre and in the south. Stretches of forest can be found in many parts of the country and also in the surroundings of Tilburg. Typical features of the Dutch landscape are the broad sandy beaches and dunes that draw so many Dutch and foreign tourists to the North Sea coast.

Dutch is a Germanic language and is spoken everywhere in the country. Many Dutch people speak at least two foreign languages; nearly everyone understands and speaks English.

Tilburg University is located in the southern part of the Netherlands. Its campus, designed with a compact architectural concept in mind, is set in gently undulating, park-like grounds on a forest edge. With a population of 200,000 inhabitants, Tilburg is the Netherlands' sixth largest city.

Budapest, Hungary

Hungary, located in the heart of Central-Eastern Europe, shares borders with seven neighbours: Austria, Slovakia, the Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. Hungary has always been an important link in the chain connecting East and West for over a thousand years. It lies on the crossroads of peoples and cultures, which has influenced its present eclectic and colourful image.

With less than 100,000 square km in total, it is divided into thirds by two rivers flowing north to south-the Danube and its tributary, the Tisza. Hungary occupies the low-lying areas of the Carpathian basin and two-thirds of her territory consists of plains below 200 meters. Of the 10.2 million people who live in Hungary, one-fifth live in Budapest, the capital. Budapest lies on both sides of the Danube in the approximate center of the country.

Hungary has a long and diverse history. The ancestors of the Hungarians, or "Magyars", lived in the Ural Mountains. They had close linguistic ties with other Finno-Ugrian peoples and shared certain anthropological and cultural traits with the Turks. In the 2nd millennium BC they began a nomadic lifestyle based on cattle-breeding; this led to a period of westward migration which brought them into contact with several tribes, including the Alan, Turkish and Kazar ethnic groups.

After World War II, it became part of the Soviet bloc. Nineteen eighty-nine saw the return to a democracy and a free-market economy. Hungary is a member of the NATO since March of 1999 and many of its subordinate organizations. It is also a member of the WTO, the World Bank and other worldwide organizations of similar status. Hungary became member of the European Union in 2004.

CEU Business School is conveniently located on the green, quieter Buda side of the Danube, but still well in the center of Budapest, one of the most exciting cities in Central-Eastern Europe. The School is very close to the Margaret Bridge, which in minutes takes you to the heart of the city - a thriving commercial and financial hub, brimming with restaurants, cafés, museums, galleries, clubs, shops and offices. CEU Business School is only a short walk to the Danube River and Margaret Island, a peaceful oasis in the midst of the bustling city.

Did you know that Hungarians...

  • Enjoy the same amount of annual sunshine as those in Naples
  • Built the first subway system in Continental Europe
  • Developed the holograph, the moon rover, the binary code, the carburetor, the atomic bomb, the Zeppelin, BASIC and computer programming, colour television, full-length motion pictures....
  • Started the California Wine Industry and the U.S. Cavalry

Hannover, Germany

Living in Hannover

The attractive city of Hannover, Germany, is located at the heart of an expanding Europe, and is each to reach by plane (via the international Hannover Airport), by rail (e.g. by high-speed ICE train) or by car. Hamburg and Berlin are just a short train ride away ­ about one and two hours, respectively.

Hannover treats visitors to some surprising contrasts, with old-world flair and the avant-garde often just a few steps apart.

The historic center of town, the Altstadt, features a picturesque array of 11th-century half-timbered houses. Just a stone’s throw away you can see modern architecture worthy of an upbeat city which not only hosted the EXPO 2000 World’s Fair, but is also the site of mega-events like CeBIT ­ the world’s biggest IT exhibition. Thanks to its long tradition as a trade fair city, Hannover is home to such prominent companies such as Continental, VW Commercial Vehicles, Hannover Rück and TUI .

Among the more than 500,000 Hannoverians, the city is also populated by some 40,000 students from around the world. Hannover’s international flair is reflected in the rich variety of restaurants offering foreign cuisine. The selection of trendy bars, cozy cafés and traditional restaurants is huge, and growing all the time. Those in search of parks and nature will feel right at home in a city graced by the likes of the Royal Baroque Gardens of Herrenhausen, the far-reaching Eilenriede forest along the eastern side of the city, and the lovely Lake Masch just a few steps from the downtown area.

For more on Hannover, visit the city’s multilingual website at www.hannover.de.