Corvinus University of Budapest
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| Motto | Scientia mea Adiutor meus |
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| Established | 1920 |
| Type | Public university |
| Rector | Prof. Tamás Mészáros |
| Staff | 620 |
| Students | 17,000 |
| Location | Budapest, Hungary |
| Affiliations | CEMS, the PIM |
| Website | http://www.uni-corvinus.hu |
The Corvinus University of Budapest is specialized in teaching economics, but since 2000 it has incorporated other universities as well.
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[edit] History
The education of economics and commerce started in Hungary in 1763, but the immediate forerunner of this university was established in 1920 as the Faculty of Economics of the Royal Hungarian University. The faculty bore the term 'university' in its name, but it had a separate, independent organization. In 1953 it was renamed Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences; in 1991, Budapest University of Economic Sciences; in 2000, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration (BUESPA, with the integration of the latter college); and with the University of Horticulture joining, it finally received its present name in 2003 after the king Matthias Corvinus of Hungary.
[edit] Today's education
Today it has 7 faculties:
- Faculty of Business Administration
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Faculty of Public Administration
- Faculty of Horticultural Science
- Faculty of Food Science
- Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Protection and Development
As of 2003 (before the joining of the agricultural university), the university had 620 teachers and 16537 students, and 2721 students graduated in that year. In 2006 it has in total 17000 students. — The education takes place not only in Hungarian but in English and German as well, like several of the programmes. A growing number of the university's students come from other countries than Hungary.
[edit] Setting and architecture
Its main building, next to the Grand Market Hall and facing the Danube and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics on the river's other bank, was planned by Miklós Ybl as the Main Customs Office in neorenaissance historicist style. It was finished in 1874 and underwent major renovations in 1950 and 1989-1990.
[edit] See also
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Eötvös Loránd University | Budapest University of Technology and Economics | Corvinus University of Budapest | Central European University | Andrássy Gyula German Language University of Budapest | Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music | Semmelweis University | Pázmány Péter Catholic University | Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church | Evangelical-Lutheran Theological University | Jewish Theological Seminary – University of Jewish Studies | Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design | Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest | Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts | Zrínyi Miklós National Defence University Reformed Theological Academy of Debrecen | Szent István University | Széchenyi István University | University of Debrecen | University of Kaposvár | University of Miskolc | University of Pécs | University of Szeged | Pannon University | University of West Hungary |
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