Top 3 Faculties of the University of Pécs among foreign students

The University of Pécs is one of the finest institutions in Hungary. The original medieval institute was the first university of the country, founded in 1367 by King Louis I., or as many Hungarians may call him, Louis the Great. Today, it is one of the most popular destinations for foreign students as well, as there are almost 4000 students from other countries. Let’s see how the university became what it is today and which are foreign students’ favourite faculties.

History of the University

Today’s university was founded in 1921 when the Royal Erzsébet University was relocated from Pozsony (Bratislava) to Pécs. Throughout the last century, the university went through a lot. There was a time when the only faculty was the Faculty of Law; the Faculty of Medicine was an independent university (1951), and the Faculty of Humanities was moved to Szeged and Cluj (1940). Then, a slow but steady expansion started with the establishment of the faculty of economics (1975). Since then, the Teachers Training College merged with the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Business and Economics (1982), and thus the whole institution was renamed as The Janus Pannonius University.  The training college became the new Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Sciences (1992). After the Pollack Mihály Technical College was merged with the Janus Pannonius University (1995), and The Faculty of Visual Arts and Music (1996) was established, the Janus Pannonus University, the Medical University of Pécs and the Illyés Gyula Teacher Training College of Szekszárd were united under the name of the University of Pécs (2000). The number of foreign students is increasing year by year: UP has 3686 foreigners from which 1306 are currently in an English and 919 are in a German programme.

Medical School

According to the statistics of 2017, it is not hard to guess that the most popular faculty at the University of Pécs is the Medical School, where as much as 2112 of students studied last year, and it is among the best in the whole country as well. Students can study General Medicine and Dentistry in English here. The General Medicine programme takes 6 years (12 semesters) and deep pockets, as the tuition fee is EUR 13 750/year. This programme provides complete theoretical and practical training in medicine. Dentistry takes 5 years and even deeper pockets since it costs a student EUR 15197/year.