University of Budapest
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University of Budapest |
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 Latin: Universitas Budapestinensis de Rolando Eötvös nominata
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| Established | 1635 |
| Type | Public |
| Rector | Ferenc Hudecz, 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 the University of Budapest. If you are looking for other universities in Budapest, see the list of universities in Budapest.
The University of Budapest or ELTE, founded in 1635, is one of the oldest and the biggest university in Hungary, located in Budapest.
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[edit] History
It was founded in 1635 in Nagyszombat (today Trnava, Slovakia) by the archbishop and theologian Péter Pázmány. Leadership was given over to the Jesuits. At this time, the university only had two colleges (College of Arts and College of Theology). The College of Law was added in 1667 and the College 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 enroll since 1895. The College of Science started its separate life in 1949.
Until 1950, Eötvös Loránd University had been named Péter Pázmány University (not to be confused with Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem, a separate and more recent university).
In 1950 it was renamed Eötvös Loránd University after the physicist Loránd Eötvös.
[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] Notable Alumni
- József Antall
- Wilhelm Bacher
- Georg von Békésy
- Christine L. Borgman
- Robert Levinas Chimsky
- Klára Dobrev
- Ahn Eak-tai
- Paul Erdős
- Peter G. Gyarmati
- Zsuzsanna Jakab
- Ferenc Joachim
- Andras Kornai
- Ferenc Krausz
- Miklós Laczkovich
- Ágnes Heller
- John Harsanyi
- Ferenc Gabriel Joachim
- László Kalmár
- Karl Kerényi
- László Lovász
- Ioan Lupaş
- Péter Molnár
- Ádám Nádasdy
- John von Neumann
- Viktor Orbán
- Raphael Patai
- Rózsa Péter
- Karl Polanyi
- Michael Polanyi
- József Szájer
- Franz Tangl
- Stephen Ullmann
- Ferenc A. Váli
- Sándor Wekerle
- Franz Wittmann
[edit] External links
- Eötvös Loránd University (list of faculties)
- ELTE Faculty of Science (description in English)
- Its full history in Hungarian
- Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2005
- Pictures, sorted by faculties
- Site of Faculty of law
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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 Pannonia | University of Pécs | University of Szeged | University of West Hungary |
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