Pázmány Péter Catholic University
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| Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem | |
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| Established: | 1635. May 12 |
| Rector: | Ft. dr. Fodor György |
| Faculty: | 5 |
| Students: | >8865 |
| Location: | Budapest, Esztergom, Piliscsaba, Hungary |
| Website: | www.ppke.hu/ |
- For other universities with similar names, see Pázmáneum (disambiguation)
Pázmány Péter Catholic University is a public university of the Catholic Church in Hungary, recognized by the State. Founded in the 17th century, the PPKE is one of Hungary's oldest and most prestigious institutions of higher education.
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[edit] Faculties
The university has five faculties and two institutes. The Faculty of Theology is the oldest of these, founded back in 1635. The Faculty of Humanities was founded in 1992 by the Hungarian Catholic Bishops' Conference, with the assent of the Holy See. The National Assembly of Hungary registered the university as a state-recognized university of the Catholic Church in 1993. The Faculty of Law and Political Sciences was established in 1995 and the Faculty of Information Technology has been functioning since 2001. Its two other institutes are the Postgraduate Institute of Canon Law and Collegium Hungaricum (the latter in Belgium).
[edit] Pázmáneum
The Faculty of Theology is the legal successor of the Faculty of Theology of the university founded by the archbishop Péter Pázmány in Nagyszombat, the Kingdom of Hungary (today Trnava) in 1635. The legal successor of the rest of the Nagyszombat university is Eötvös Loránd University, which was known as Pázmány Péter University from 1921 to 1950.
[edit] Location
Three faculties and an institute is located in Budapest, the Faculty of Humanities is at Piliscsaba, and the János Vitéz Faculty is in Esztergom. The Piliscsaba campus was created from a Soviet barrack, on 220,000 m². As it is situated in a nature reserve, only pavilion-like buildings were allowed to be built which don't interfere with the landscape's harmony. Its buildings were designed by the group of Imre Makovecz and it has become an architectural landmark (see the pictures below). The campus has a train station (since 1995) and a bus stop (since 1996) on its own; it is accessible from Budapest centre in less than an hour. Most of its students commute on a daily basis, but it has dormitories for the other students at the venue and in the town. The Esztergom campus is located around the esztergom Basilica. Until 2007 it was a separate college, when it became a faculty of the PPCU.
[edit] Students
Approximately over 8,000 students attend the University, including corresponding students and students studying from abroad. For example, the University of San Francisco and the University of South Dakota operate a joint study abroad program with Pázmány Péter Catholic University . The University is open for everyone without regard to religious affiliation, who is willing to accept its order of morals and discipline and who respects its mentality.
[edit] External links
- Website (Hungarian)
- Pictures of the buildings at Piliscsaba campus
- Further pictures of the Piliscsaba campus
- Introduction of Piliscsaba town
- Joint study abroad program with the University of San Francisco
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