Engineering courses provided in English at different technical universities were meant to satisfy the urgent demand of the 1980s in Hungary. The English programme of the Technical University of Budapest (TUB) was established fairly soon after its foundation in 1984; German, French and Russian programmes succeeded the pilot one 8 years later. The compatibility of all the four projects with counterpart national curricula is bilaterally guaranteed. The present paper aims to give an overview of different engineering education programmes available for foreign students at the International Center for Engineering Programmes (ICEP) of the TUB. The coexistence of different types of engineering education within the same institution provides unique experiences of difficulties and benefits that, undoubtedly, might be utilized internationally.