[4] She retired to become a professor emerita in 2001, but after that she continued to head the university's Poverty Research Center.

[3] Methodologically, Ferge's academic work focused on statistical sociology.

[3] In 2002, Ferge was awarded the Middle Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary.

[2] In 2007 she was the winner of the Hungarian Government's Imre Nagy Order of Merit (hu), and in 2009 she won the Government of Hungary's Twenty Years of the Republic Award (hu).

[6] In 2011, Ferge won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hungarian Sociological Society.