General Information In Hungarian

1 Name and Address
2 University of Szeged
3 Academic Calendar

1 NAME AND ADDRESS

University of Szeged
Szeged, Dugonics tér 13.
Hungary, H-6720
Phone: +36 62 544 000 (switchboard)
Internet: http://www.u-szeged.hu/indexe.html
Rector: Professor Rezsõ Mészáros
Institutional ECTS Co-ordinator
Ms. Gabriella Balog Molnár
International Relations Office
H-6720 Szeged, Dugonics tér 13.
Phone: +36 62 544 009
Fax: +36-62-311-895
Email: gbalog@rektj.u-szeged.hu		 ECTS Co-ordinator at the Departments of Physics:
Dr. Mihály Benedict
Department of Theoretical Physics
H-6720 Szeged, Tisza L. krt. 84-86.
Phone: +36 62 544 369, 544 368
Fax: +36 62 544 368
E-mail: benedict@physx.u-szeged.hu

2 UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED

Szeged, situated in the southern part of the Hungarian Great Plain, on the banks of the river Tisza, is one of the largest university towns of Hungary with a population of nearly 200,000. The city is not only a county seat but the natural economic and cultural centre of a larger region reaching across the neighbouring Yugoslavian and Rumanian borders. Local industry is reputed for food production, especially salami and paprika but the city is most famous for its culture, including its various institutions of higher education. The university was founded in 1872 in Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca in Rumania), and it moved to Szeged after the world war in 1921. In 1962 the university took the name of the great Hungarian poet Attila József (according to the traditional Hungarian order József Attila). The number of full time students is about 8500, there are 500 PhD students, and the number of academic staff is about 600. In 1998 a decision was made to merge all the higher educational institutions of the city (JATE, the Medical University, the Teacher Training College, the Liszt College of Music and the College of Catholic Theology) into a unified, sizeable centre of higher education, to be called the University of Szeged in 2000.
At present JATE has four faculties Law, Humanities, Natural Sciences, and the College of Food Technology. The faculty of Natural Sciences is divided into six sections: Biology, Chemistry, Geography and Earth sciences, Informatics, Mathematics, and Physics. The outstanding academic research background ensures the high level of education. The Hungarian Nobel-laureate in biology A. Szent-Györgyi won the prize when he was the professor of this university. The departments and the researchers of the university co-operate extensively with academic institutions in Europe and in the whole world.
The university participates in the programmes of Socrates/Erasmus. Approximately 300 foreign exchange students were registered at JATE in 1998/99, and about 50 bilateral agreements were signed with other universities from the EU envisaging student exchange in the academic year 1999/2000.
The total student population of fifteen thousand fills the streets and squares of the inner city of Szeged, where the university buildings are found. The town offers a wide variety of extra-curricular activities for them. Theatres, cinemas, clubs, riversides, parks, swimming pools and sports grounds provide plenty of possibilities for recreation. The local opera is second in reputation only to the one in Budapest. Folk-festivals, exhibitions, sports events make Szeged one of the most vivid student towns of Central-Europe.

3 ACADEMIC CALENDAR

The academic year is divided into two semesters. The autumn semester runs from mid-September to the end of January, the spring semester runs from the beginning of February to mid-June.
 
Autumn semester 2000: Teaching period:  11 September 2000 - 20 December 2000
  Examination period: 21 December 2000 - 26 January 2001
Spring semester 2001: Teaching period:  1 February 2001 - 11 May 2001
  Examination period: 14 May 2001 - 22 June 2001
For international students there is a weeklong orientation period prior to the beginning of the autumn semester. 
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