Eötvös Loránd University
Eötvös Loránd University
Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem(Hungarian) | |
| Latin: Universitas Budapestinensis de Rolando Eötvös nominata | |
| Motto | Community of Knowledge |
|---|---|
| Type | Public research university |
| Established | 1635 |
| Affiliation |
|
| Chancellor | Dr. Gyula Scheuer |
| Rector | László Borhy, D.Sc |
Academic staff | 1,800[1] |
| Undergraduates | 16,017[2] |
| Postgraduates | 8,547 |
| 1,442 | |
| Location |  Budapest47°29′26″N 19°03′31″E [12] |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.elte.hu/en [13] |
| University rankings | |
| Global | |
| ARWU World[6] | 501-600 (2018) |
| THE World[8] | 601–800 (2019) |
| USNWR World[9] | 489 (2018) |
| QS World[7] | 701-750 (2019) |
Eötvös Loránd University (Hungarian: Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, ELTE) is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest. Founded in 1635, ELTE is one of the largest and most prestigious[3] public higher education institutions in Hungary. The 28,000 students at ELTE are organized into eight faculties, and into research institutes located throughout Budapest and on the scenic banks of the Danube. ELTE is affiliated with 5 Nobel laureates, as well as winners of the Wolf Prize, Fulkerson Prize and Abel Prize, the latest of which was Abel Prize winner Endre Szemerédi in 2012.
The predecessor of Eötvös Loránd University was founded in 1635 by Cardinal Péter Pázmány in Nagyszombat, Kingdom of Hungary, (today Trnava, Slovakia) as a Catholic university for teaching theology and philosophy. In 1770, the University was transferred to Buda. It was named Royal University of Pest until 1873, then University of Budapest until 1921, when it was renamed Royal Hungarian Pázmány Péter University after its founder Péter Pázmány. The Faculty of Science started its autonomous life in 1949 when The Faculty of Theology was separated from the university. The university received its current name in 1950, after one of its most well-known physicists, Baron Loránd Eötvös.
Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem(Hungarian) | |
| Latin: Universitas Budapestinensis de Rolando Eötvös nominata | |
| Motto | Community of Knowledge |
|---|---|
| Type | Public research university |
| Established | 1635 |
| Affiliation |
|
| Chancellor | Dr. Gyula Scheuer |
| Rector | László Borhy, D.Sc |
Academic staff | 1,800[1] |
| Undergraduates | 16,017[2] |
| Postgraduates | 8,547 |
| 1,442 | |
| Location | Budapest 47°29′26″N 19°03′31″E [12] |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.elte.hu/en [13] |
| University rankings | |
| Global | |
| ARWU World[6] | 501-600 (2018) |
| THE World[8] | 601–800 (2019) |
| USNWR World[9] | 489 (2018) |
| QS World[7] | 701-750 (2019) |
History
Seal of the University from 1880
The university was founded in 1635 in Nagyszombat, Kingdom of Hungary, (today Trnava, Slovakia) by the archbishop and theologian Péter Pázmány. Leadership was given over to the Jesuits. Initially 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 (today part of Budapest) in 1777 in accordance with the intention of the founder. The university moved to its final location in Pest (now also part of Budapest) in 1784. The language of education was Latin until 1844, when Hungarian was introduced as an exclusive official language. Women have been allowed to enroll since 1895.[4]
Campus
Lágymányosi campus
The Lágymányosi campus is home to the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Informatics and the Faculty of Social Sciences. The campus is located in the 11th district of Budapest.
SAVARIA Campus
The Savaria Campus is created for producing best Mechanical Engineers. Only Mechanical Engineering courses are conducted here with modern facilities of labs and work shops. Furthermore, It has great industry collaboration with industry to make sure advanced Mechanical Engineering studies. Dual education system of mechanical engineering are available here. The principal goal of the dual education system is to synchronize the requirements of higher education and the job market. This education system is implemented by reforming a traditional Mechanical Engineering BSc program based on its professional practical background.
Academic profile
ELTE is Hungary's largest scientific establishment with 118 PhD programs at 17 doctoral schools, and also offers 38 bachelor's programs, 96 master's programs, and over 50 degree programs in foreign languages. The course credits awarded are transferable to universities in Europe through the Bologna process.[5]
The eight faculties are:
Faculty of Law and Political Sciences (ÁJK)
Bárczi Gusztáv Faculty of Special Education (BGGyK)
Faculty of Humanities (BTK)
Faculty of Informatics (IK)
Faculty of Education and Psychology (PPK)
Faculty of Social Sciences (TáTK)
Faculty of Elementary and Nursery School Teachers' Training (TÓK)
Faculty of Science (TTK)
Reputation and rankings
In the 2013-14 QS World University Rankings, Eötvös Loránd University was ranked 551-600th. In the 2018, according to the Times Higher Education World University Ranking, ELTE ranked between 601-800. Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked the university among the best 301-400. International Colleges and Universities ranked the university as the 158th globally.
Notable alumni
The Nobel Prize winner, Albert Szent-Györgyi
The four-time Olympic champion fencer, Jenő Fuchs
Nobel prize winners:
Lénárd Fülöp, Nobel Prize for Physics (1905)
Albert Szent-Györgyi, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of Vitamin C (1937)
Hevesy György, Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1943)
Békésy György, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1961)
Harsányi János, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1994)
Other notable alumni:
Miklós Ajtai, computer scientist; Knuth Prize (2003)
József Antall, Prime Minister of Hungary, 1990-1993
László Babai, mathematician and computer scientist; Knuth Prize (2015)
Wilhelm Bacher, Jewish Hungarian scholar, rabbi, Orientalist and linguist
Albert-László Barabási, physicist, concept of scale-free networks, C&C Prize (2008)
Franz Anton Basch, Nazi executed for war crimes
Therese Benedek, Hungarian-American psychoanalyst
Károly Bezdek, mathematician
Christine L. Borgman, information science researcher and educator
Gyorgy Busztin, ambassador and UN diplomat
Zoltán Dörnyei, applied linguist
Ahn Eak-tai, Korean classical composer
Paul Erdős, mathematician
Péter Esterházy, novelist
Jenő Fuchs (1882–1955), four-time Olympic champion fencer
Laszlo Garai, scholar of psychology
Peter G. Gyarmati, computer scientist
István Gyöngy, mathematician
Pál Schiller Harkai, philosopher and psychologist
Ágnes Heller, philosopher
John Harsanyi, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1994)
Zsuzsanna Jakab, Director of the World Health Organization's Regional Office for Europe
Antal Jákli, liquid crystal physicist
László Kákosy, egyptologist
László Kalmár, mathematician
Karl Kerényi, scholar in classical philology, co-founder of modern studies in Greek mythology
Fritz Klein (1888–1945), Nazi SS doctor hanged for war crimes
Judit Kormos, applied linguist
Andras Kornai, mathematical linguist
Radó von Kövesligethy, physicist, astronomer and geophysicist, developer of "Kövesligethy´s spectral equation" (1885)
Ferenc Krausz, physicist, founder of attophysics, director at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (2003)
Miklós Laczkovich, mathematician
Cornelius Lanczos, mathematician
László Lovász, mathematician, Knuth Prize (1999), Bolyai prize (2007), Kyoto Prize (2010)
Ioan Lupaş, historian, academic, politician, Orthodox theologian and priest
Iuliu Maniu, 32nd Prime Minister of Romania (1928–1933)
László Mérő, research psychologist and popular science author
Ingo Molnár, Linux kernel developer
Péter Molnár, scholar of communication law and speech
Krisztina Morvai, MEP (Jobbik party) and lawyer
Teodor Murăşanu, Romanian writer and teacher
Ádám Nádasdy, linguist and poet
Csongor Istvan Nagy, professor of law
John von Neumann, mathematician, founding figure in computing
Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, 1998–2002, 2010–
Raphael Patai, Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer, historian, Orientalist and anthropologist
Ágoston Pável, Hungarian Slovene writer, poet, ethnologist, linguist and historian
János Pach, mathematician
Rózsa Péter, mathematician, founding figure in computing
Karl Polanyi, Austro-Hungarian multi-disciplined economist, social and political thinker. Originator of substantivism
Michael Polanyi, polymath
Peter Pulay, theoretical chemist
Michael Somogyi, Hungarian-American professor of biochemistry
József Szájer, MEP (Fidesz)
Endre Szemerédi, Hungarian-American mathematician, working in the field of combinatorics and theoretical computer science. Winner of the Abel Prize (2012)
Franz Tangl, physiologist and pathologist
Éva Tardos, mathematician, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Stephen Ullmann, linguist of Romance languages, scholar of semantics
Ferenc A. Váli, lawyer, author, and political analyst specializing in international law
Van H. Vu, Vietnamese mathematician, Percey F. Smith Professor of Mathematics at Yale University
Sándor Wekerle, three-time prime minister of the Kingdom of Hungary
Franz Wittmann, constructor of the Wittmann oscilloscope.
See also
Utrecht Network
List of universities in Hungary
Virtual Globes Museum