Budapest Business School (BBS) (Hungarian: Budapesti Gazdasági Egyetem or BGE) is a public university business school specialised in business studies and social sciences located in Budapest, Hungary. Founded in 1857 by merchants and bankers of Austria-Hungary in order to establish the economic vocational training of higher education in the empire and in Central Europe. BBS is officially the oldest public business school in the world, and second oldest among business schools, after the ESCP Europe.