UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED, HUNGARY
The University of Szeged is a prestigious Hungarian institution, with its 12 faculties offering quality education across the whole spectrum of higher education. Our institution is one of the largest educational complexes in Hungary, where about 22,000 students, including nearly 5,000 international students, are enriching their knowledge.
Every year our University achieves excellent results in various international rankings of higher education institutions. In the British Quacquarelli Symonds ranking, our University was ranked 551-560 in 2021, which is the best result in Hungary.
The University of Szeged has been part of the European University Alliance for Global Health (EUGLOH) since 2019. This initiative brings together five universities from across Europe. Combining their outstanding expertise in Global Health, EUGLOH will build the European University of the future.
The mission of our University – which is inseparable from teaching - is to maintain its internationally competitive research university character and to ensure European quality in medical work. In addition, the University of Szeged, as one of the largest institutions in the region, plays an active role in its social, economic and cultural development
One of the strategic priorities of the University of Szeged is the internationalisation of its higher education structure. The three international offices of the Directorate for International & Public Relations work to promote student and faculty mobility and to deepen and expand international cooperation in the fields of education-research-innovation.
Extensive inter-university international relations contribute to improving the quality of education, broadening the outlook of academia and successful preparing students for the labour market. SZTE provides a multicultural environment for all of its students through various mobility and scholarship schemes, and also cultural and language programmes. Many of its lecturers have international experience, which they use in both education and research.
The international reputation of SZTE is proven by the fact that the number of international students studying at SZTE is increasing year by year as well as the number of its bilateral international inter-university collaborations, and also the university is highly ranked in international higher education rankings. The University of Szeged has been an active member of the international higher education system since the 1980s, and its place in this framework is becoming more and more important every year.
