University of Budapest
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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 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. In
Latin Universitas Budapestinensis de Rolando Eötvös nominata.
Before 1950, it was 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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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, 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.
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).
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
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Eötvös Loránd University (list of colleges)
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ELTE College of Sciences (description in English)
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Its full history in Hungarian*
Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2005*
Pictures, sorted by faculties
