University of Szeged - Where knowledge and challenge meet

The year 2000 was a milestone in the history of the university: the higher education institutions of Szeged were integrated under the name University of Szeged. At present the University has 12 faculties covering the fields of arts, sciences, law, economics and business administration, engineering, medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, health sciences, education, agriculture and music. It also provides quality education at the levels of Bachelor, Master, scientific (PhD), higher-level vocational and postgraduate specialist training programmes. The University’s educational mission also embraces medical assistance, conducting internationally competitive research activities and fulfilling its role as a research university. The wide scope of its research and creative activities include basic and applied research, creative arts, product- and service development.

Concerning the size of the University of Szeged, it is one of the biggest university in Hungary, with nearly 30,000 students and more than 7,000 employees altogether, including about 2,200 academic staff.

Partnership in research, quality education and innovation are integral parts of the University of Szeged which in recent years has produced tangible results both in terms of joint efforts with businesses and cooperation with other actors of higher education. Thanks to partnership in research and innovation with various companies and organizations, the successes of scientific activity at the University of Szeged promote the attainment of practical, significant and remarkable results that will positively affect education as well. The University also works in close cooperation with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in three key research areas, namely in natural sciences, humanities as well as in medicine and pharmacy.

A number of outstanding professors work and have worked at the University of Szeged, including Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi, who was the first to isolate Vitamin C, extracting it from Szeged paprika. His outstanding skills and activities contributed to Szeged becoming one of Europe’s most significant centres for life-sciences and uniting the laboratories of the University of Szeged and the Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Thanks to the internationally acknowledged research in laser physics at the University of Szeged, our town will be the home of the biggest centre of laser physics in Europe, the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) in the near future. This will increase the need for more employees at the University and at the connected companies.

1581: István Báthory establishes an academia with an arts and a theological faculty in Cluj.

 

1872: The Hungarian royal university is established that claims to be the spiritual successor of Báthory’s academia.

 

1881: The University of Cluj takes the name of Franz Joseph.

 

1921: Four faculties – Faculty of Law, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Arts, Language and History and the Faculty of Mathematics and Science – of the Ferencz József University of Kolozsvár moved to Szeged.

1999: The independent Faculty of Economics and Business Administration was established within the József Attila University.