Károli Gáspár University, located in Budapest, Hungary, is a renowned institution of higher education with a rich history and a commitment to academic excellence. Named after the famous Hungarian Protestant pastor and theologian Gáspár Károli, the university offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs across various disciplines.
The university traces its roots back to 1855 when it was established as the Hungarian Reformed Theological University. Over the years, it has evolved and expanded its academic offerings to encompass fields beyond theology, including humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. Today, Karoli Gaspar University is a comprehensive institution with faculties and departments dedicated to areas such as theology, law, arts and humanities, teacher training, social sciences, economics, and information technology.
The Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian College is a non-state-owned institution of higher education, established by the Foundation for the Transcarpathian Hungarian College (KMFA). The College has been operating since 1996 under the license of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Initially it was called the Transcarpathian Hungarian Teacher Training College and in 2003 it was renamed the Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian College. At present, the institution offers full-time and part-time higher vocational education, baccalaureate and master's degrees, as well as non-accredited courses organised and conducted in accordance with the Law of Ukraine On Higher Education. In accordance with the Statute of the College, education is provided in Ukrainian, Hungarian and English. During their studies, KMF students are also given the opportunity to choose the language in which they write their tests, essays, term papers, baccalaureate and master's theses (in Ukrainian, Hungarian or English, according to the statute).
At the beginning of the academic year 2023-2024, the total number of students at the institution will be 1698. Of these, 1014 are full-time students and 684 are part-time students. The number of students in non-accredited courses is 271. The first graduates of the College received their diplomas in 2001. Part-time students received their first diplomas in 2008. Most of the graduates have stayed in their home countries and work as teachers in local educational institutions.
Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania is an accredited institution of higher education, which has been providing Hungarian-language university education to Hungarians in Romania since 2001. The institution has four faculties for teaching and research: in Cluj-Napoca, Târgu Mures, Mureș, Miskolc and Sfântu Gheorghe. In the 2023/2024 academic year, a total of 2,179 students will study in 32 bachelor's and 13 master's degree courses.
The Selye János University in Komárno was established on 23 October 2003 by the National Council of the Slovak Republic on the basis of Act No. 465/2003 Coll. The law entered into force on 1 January 2004. Selye János University is the only public higher education institution in Slovakia with legal personality, teaching in the language of the national minority - Hungarian - and the highest level of the educational system from kindergarten to university. The establishment of the University is a unique and historic moment not only for higher education in Slovakia, but also for the history of the European Union.
As part of the European area, Selye János University is committed to providing quality education and scientific activity at the undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels, to developing a knowledge-based society, moral values, harmonious personality and creativity, and to fostering free thinking and scientific research. Our University is opening up higher education in Slovakia in the hope that the number of young Hungarians with higher education and the level of education of Hungarians in Slovakia will gradually increase. Better education can create equal opportunities for young Hungarians in the labour market, which can lead to a reduction in unemployment and an economic recovery in Hungarian-inhabited areas. In this way, our institution aims to become a catalyst for the social and economic uplift of the region.
Selye János University will help to create a Hungarian intellectual class that can become a pillar of our national community, whose members can also assert themselves internationally through their language skills. The university is an open type of higher education institution, which is based on the principles of multiculturalism, freedom of thought, independence, responsibility, humanism, democracy, creativity, originality of scientific research and dialogue between teacher and student. The University develops scientific excellence alongside education; it integrates the Hungarian scientific community in Slovakia into the international scientific community, and it establishes links with the international network of scientific institutions. It plays the role of a regional centre of scientific excellence, taking an active part in the social, economic and cultural life of the region.
