The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (in Hungarian, Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem or in short Műegyetem) is the most significant University of Technology in Hungary. The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... 1782 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The word rector (ruler, from the Latin regere) has a number of different meanings. ... The European University Association (EUA) is the main voice of the higher education community in Europe. ... The International Association of Universities list of Universities of the World is a list of organizations recognized as universities by national authorities around the world. ... DRC may stand for: Democratic Republic of the Congo Dancing Robot Contest Danish Refugee Council (drc. ... The African Unification Front is an organisation aiming to promote a political, social and economic union in Africa. ... The Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (Portos Superior Institute of Engineering) or ISEP is the College of Engineering of Porto in Portugal. ... The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE) was founded in 1948 at Imperial College, London. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia Website. ... A University of Technology is an university with a focus on technology. ...

History

The legal predecessor of the university was founded in 1782 by Emperor Joseph II, named Institutum Geometrico-Hydrotechnicum (Institute of Engineering). Count István Széchenyi played a considerable role in industrialization as well as the launch of engineering training in Hungary. Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II Joseph II (March 13, 1741 – February 20, 1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790. ... Portrait of Count István Széchenyi by Friedrich von Amerling Gróf Széchenyi István (Count Stephen Széchenyi) (September 21, 1791, Vienna, Austria-Hungary – April 8, 1860 Döbling), known as The Greatest Hungarian, was a Hungarian politician and writer, one of the founding fathers of New...

It was reorganized in 1871 as Royal Joseph Technical University and was elevated to equal rank with other universities in the country. It received its current site near Gellért tér (next to the Art Nouveau Hotel Gellért) in 1910. Alfons Mucha, lithographed poster Dancel (1898). ...

It was reorganized in 1934 as Palatine Joseph University of Technology and Economics and it played a dominant role in the interwar industrialization process besides engineer and economist training in Hungary.

The university was restructured again in the postwar period. The 1956 Hungarian Revolution was partly launched by students of the Technical University, followed by many professors. The two technical universities seated in Budapest were merged in 1967 to form the Technical University of Budapest with six faculties. An up-to-date pool of machinery and instrumentation has been provided by support from Hungary and abroad. Combatants Soviet Union Hungary Commanders Yuri Andropov Pal Maleter Strength 150,000 troops, 6,000 tanks 100,000+ demonstrators (some later armed), unknown number of soldiers Casualties 7,000 KIA 25,000 - 50,000 {{{notes}}} The 1956 Hungarian Revolution, also known as the Hungarian Uprising or simply the Hungarian Revolt...

Famous students

Among its Nobel Prize winner students are the inventor of holography Dennis Gabor, the chemist George Oláh and the physicist Eugene Wigner. Many other students of the university have become world-famous, including Tódor Kármán, Kálmán Kandó, Dénes Mihály, Károly Kós and Leó Szilárd. Dennis Gabor (Gábor Dénes) (5th June, 1900, Budapest - 9th February, 1979, London) was a Hungarian physicist who is most notable for inventing holography. ... George Andrew Olah (born May 22, 1927) is a Hungarian-born American chemist. ... Eugene Wigner (left) and Alvin Weinberg Eugene Paul Wigner (Hungarian Wigner Pál JenÅ‘) (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly... Theodore von Kármán (von Sköllöskislaki Kármán Todor) (May 11, 1881 - May 6, 1963) was an engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics during the seminal era in the 1940s and 1950s. ... Kálmán Kandó (Kandó Kálmán) (July 10, 1869 - January 13, 1931, Budapest) Hungarian engineer. ... Leó Szilárd (right) and Albert Einstein re-enact the signing of the famous letter to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ...

Today

The "K", central building looking from the river Danube

In May 2000 the university had 1024 regular faculty members (more than 50% of whom had scientific qualifications as Ph.D.). 34 professors/researchers of the university are members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The university is well known in academic circles. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (498x724, 143 KB) Summary Picture taken by http://hu. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (498x724, 143 KB) Summary Picture taken by http://hu. ... The Danube (German: Donau, Slovak: Dunaj, Hungarian: Duna, Slovenian: Donava, Croatian: Dunav, Serbian: Дунав/Dunav, Bulgarian: Дунав, Romanian: Dunăre, Ukrainian: , Latin: Danuvius, Turkish: Tuna) is Europes second-longest river (after the Volga). ... The Hungarian Academy of Sciences (in short: HAS, in Hungarian: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia) was founded in 1825, when Count István Széchenyi offered one years income of his estate for the purposes of a Learned Society at a district session of the Diet in Bratislava (seat...

Training courses are provided in five languages: Hungarian, English, German, French and Russian.

The ECTS credit system was introduced in 1995. This helps students to enroll in the student exchange program of the EU, Socrates(also known as Erasmus). European credit transfer system (ECTS) is a method that is used to compare the marks (US: grade) given in education across European Union. ... The Socrates programme is an educational initiative of the European Commission whose principal aim is to strengthen the European dimension of education at all levels. Some of its building blocks are The Erasmus programme The Leonardo programme The Lingua programme The Minerva programme The Grundtvig programme The Commission has proposed...

Faculties

At present university has eight faculties (founding date in brackets):

• Civil Engineering (1782)
• Mechanical Engineering (1871)
• Architecture (1873)
• Chemical Engineering (1873)
• Electrical Engineering and Informatics (1949)
• Transportation Engineering (1955)
• Natural Sciences (1987)
• Economic and Social Sciences (1998)

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Admissions

Admission is possible for Hungarians who pass the Hungarian high school matura with enough points (as calculated per the Hungarian system), as well as for anyone else in possession of an International Baccalaureate (again with high enough points). Matura (Matur, Maturita) is the word commonly used in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Liechtenstein, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia and Switzerland for the final exams young adults (aged 18 or 19) take at the end of their secondary education. ... The International Baccalaureate (IB) is a group of three educational programmes and their respective examinations, as established by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). ...

As with all Hungarian universities, no fee is required for Hungarians if it is their first university, and they do not surpass a limit of 13 semesters to finish the university.

International students are rare, unlike in the medical university of Semmelweis in Budapest. Ignaz Semmelweis on an old Austrian postage stamp Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (originally Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis) (July 1, 1818 - August 13, 1865) was the Hungarian physician who demonstrated that puerperal fever (also known as childbed fever) was contagious and that its incidence could be drastically reduced by enforcing...

Position

The university was originally located on the side of the Danube between the Szabadság Bridge and the Petőfi Bridge, but is currently expanding towards the Lágymányosi Bridge. This makes the university especially elongated, that is becoming an increasing problem, as walking from one side of the university to the other can take up as much as 20 minutes. The only alternative to walking is the bus 86, which is very rare to come. The Danube (German: Donau, Slovak: Dunaj, Hungarian: Duna, Slovenian: Donava, Croatian: Dunav, Serbian: Дунав/Dunav, Bulgarian: Дунав, Romanian: Dunăre, Ukrainian: , Latin: Danuvius, Turkish: Tuna) is Europes second-longest river (after the Volga). ... The Szabadság híd or Liberty Bridge (sometimes Freedom Bridge) in Budapest, Hungary, connects Buda and Pest across the River Danube. ... PetÅ‘fi híd or PetÅ‘fi Bridge (named after Sándor PetÅ‘fi) is a bridge in Budapest, connecting Pest and Buda across the Danube. ... Lágymányosi híd or Lágymányosi Bridge (sometimes Lágymányos Bridge) is a bridge in Budapest, Hungary, connecting Buda and Pest across the Danube. ...

External links

• Detailed history in English and in Hungarian
• Photo
• Photo, with view to the Gellért hill

	List of universities in Hungary
Universities in Budapest 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 | 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 Download high resolution version (1200x800, 3 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... List of universities in Hungary: // Universities in Budapest Eötvös Loránd University (University of Budapest) [1] – Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem (ELTE) Budapest University of Technology and Economics [2] – Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem (BME) Corvinus University of Budapest [3] – Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem... Download high resolution version (1200x800, 3 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... This article is about Eötvös Loránd University, which is often referred to as University of Budapest. ... Corvinus University of Budapest The Corvinus University of Budapest is specialized in teaching economics, but since 2000 it has incorporated other universities as well. ... Central European University is a US-licensed and accredited university based in Budapest, Hungary. ... The Franz Liszt Academy of Music (in Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem or simply Zeneakadémia, Music Academy) is an university in Budapest, Hungary. ... Semmelweis University, university for medicine and health-related disciplines, located in Budapest, Hungary, named after the Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis. ... Pázmány Péter Catholic University is a public university of the Catholic Church in Hungary, recognized by the State. ... The Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (in Hungarian: Moholy-Nagy Művészeti Egyetem) former Hungarian University of Arts and Design is located in Budapest, Hungary. ... Universities in the rest of the country Reformed Theological Academy of Debrecen | Szent István University | Széchenyi István University | University of Debrecen | University of Kaposvár | University of Miskolc | University of Pécs | University of Szeged | University of Veszprém | University of West Hungary The University of Debrecen (in Hungarian: Debreceni Egyetem) is one of the most significant universities in Hungary. ... The University of Miskolc (before 1990: Technical University of Heavy Industry) is the largest university of Northern Hungary. ... The University of Pécs was originally founded in 1367, making it the fifth oldest university in Europe. ... Central building of the University of Szeged at Dugonics Square The University of Szeged is one of the most distinguished universities in Hungary and in Central Europe. ... The main campus of the University of West Hungary is located in Sopron. ...