University of Budapest
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| Latin: Universitas Budapestinensis de Rolando Eötvös nominata
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| Established | 1635 |
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| Type | Public |
| Rector | István Klinghammer, Dr. |
| Staff | ? |
| Students | 30,000 |
| Location | Budapest, Hungary |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | Coimbra Group, EUA |
| Website | www.elte.hu |
- This article is about Eötvös Loránd University, which is often referred to as University of Budapest. If you are looking for another university in Budapest, see the list of universities in Budapest.
The University of Budapest or ELTE, founded in 1635, is the oldest and biggest university in Hungary, located in Budapest.
In 1950 it was renamed Eötvös Loránd University (in Hungarian, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem) after physicist Loránd Eötvös (and in Latin, Universitas Budapestinensis de Rolando Eötvös nominata).
Before 1950, Eötvös Loránd University had been named Pázmány Péter Tudományegyetem, Péter Pázmány University (not to be confused with Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem, a separate and more recent university).
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[edit] History
It was founded in 1635 in Nagyszombat (today Trnava, Slovakia) by the archbishop and theologian Péter Pázmány, who left its leadership to the Jesuits, containing a Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Theology. A Faculty of Law was added in 1667, and a Faculty of Medicine was started in 1769. After the dissolution of the Jesuit order, the university was moved to Buda (a part of Budapest today) in 1777, in accordance with the intention of the founder. The university received its final location in Pest (the other side of today's Budapest) in 1784. The language of education was Latin until 1844, when Hungarian was introduced as an official language. Women have been allowed to enrol since 1895. Its Faculty of Science started its separate life in 1949.
Among its students were George de Hevesy, Philipp Lenard, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Georg von Békésy, John Harsanyi (winners of the Nobel Prize), John von Neumann and Lajos Kossuth.
[edit] Today
Today it has 8 different colleges and more than 30,000 students. According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2005), it was qualified as the second best university in Hungary (301-400th in the complete list), after the University of Szeged (203-300th).
[edit] Colleges
Its eight colleges are the following:
- College of Law
- Gusztáv Bárczi College of Special Education
- College of Humanities
- College of Informatics
- College of Education and Psychology
- College of Elementary and Nursery School Teachers' Training
- College of Social Sciences
- College of Science
[edit] External links
- Eötvös Loránd University (list of colleges)
- ELTE College of Sciences (description in English)
- Its full history in Hungarian
- Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2005
- Pictures, sorted by faculties
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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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