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Eötvös Loránd University

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Eötvös Loránd University
File:Elulogo.jpg
Latin: Universitas Budapestinensis de Rolando Eötvös nominata
TypePublic
Established1635
RectorFerenc Hudecz, Dr.
Students30,000
Location
Budapest
,
Hungary
CampusUrban
AffiliationsCoimbra Group<br\> EUA
Websitewww.elte.hu

The Eötvös Loránd University or ELTE, founded in 1635, is one of the oldest and the largest universities in Hungary, located in Budapest.

History

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Main building of its Faculty of Humanities on Múzeum körút, Building “A” is farther left

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.

Today

Today it has 8 different faculties 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).

Faculties

Its eight faculties are the following:

  • Faculty of Law
  • Bárczi Gusztáv Faculty of Special Education
  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Faculty of Informatics
  • Faculty of Education and Psychology
  • Faculty of Elementary and Nursery School Teachers' Training
  • Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Faculty of Science

Notable alumni

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