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Several foreigners live in Hungary, who have contributed to the country’s development with their mental and financial capital. The “Study In Hungary” education service made an interview with Katalin Gyöngyössy, the Head of the International Relations Office at the College of Dunaújváros.
Study in Hungary: Please introduce yourself to our readers.
Katalin Gyöngyössy: Hello and Welcome from the College of Dunaújváros, Hungary! My name is Katalin Gyöngyössy and I am the head of the International Relations Office at our university. The priority in my work is to help our foreign students to find themselves home here in Dunaújváros, even if they are far away from their real home. Me and my colleagues are continuously working on the well-being of our international students regarding their educational programs, cultural integration or daily problems, as well!
A fully self-sustained building from the campus – it is using only solar and geothermal energy
Study in Hungary: How would you briefly define College of Dunaújváros in 3-4 sentences?
Katalin Gyöngyössy: The College of Dunaújváros is a University of Applied Sciences with a modern, European level campus, with vivid student life and high quality educational programs. Our school is focusing mainly on Engineering and offering (one of) the best Mechanical Engineering programs and Material Engineering programs in English language in Hungary! In the last year we had more than 150 international students from all around the world through our different English language programs.
Study in Hungary: What are the competitive advantages of your college compared to other Hungarian and European colleges?
Katalin Gyöngyössy: This one is my favorite questionsas in my opinion we have so many features which could be considered as an advantage. Let’s start with the geography: we are 60 kilometers away from Budapest which is 1 hour with bus or train. This means that both the capital and the airport are easy to reach. Budapest is a great city – some people even say that it is the best city for young people. Dunaújváros is a middle-sized town in Hungary on the bank of the Danube, with so many calm and green places for relaxing and studying. In Budapest, you can always find a place for more party, in Dunaújváros you can always find a place for comfortable study – which does not mean that the student cannot find parties here – and when we are talking about fee paying educational programs, I think the second one is more important.
The entrance of the library
We are not a big institution – with so many teachers and even more students – which means, our teachers know their students – especially the international students – personally! In the big Hungarian universities the students are usually just names or even just Neptun codes (an identification code for the official electronic study system). In our school we have a view, that the professors and the students have a more personal relationship – students usually accepted as colleagues in different research projects – and they can solve their problems within a friendlier atmosphere.
About our student life: we are one of the four proud keepers of the Selmecbánya heritage in Hungary. Selmecbánya is a city now located in Slovakia however before the World Wars it was the part Hungary for a thousand years. Selmecbánya was a famous and rich city with hundreds-year- old mining and metallurgy traditions. After the World Wars, Hungary lost Selmecbánya however the teachers and professors from there moved to the new, small Hungary and they established new schools – one of them in Dunaújváros – on the base of the Selmecbánya traditions. This heritage is a living cultural tradition: our students have groups based on their study programs and every group has their official ceremonies, uniforms for celebrations, songs and poems, competitions, parties and life-long memberships. Our foreign students can join these groups with the willingness of learning some basic Hungarian language.
However theseare not the only features we are proud of. The College of Dunaújváros has great laboratories, as well. In cooperation with the Bosch Company, we have a life-term examination laboratory, one of the four in whole Europe! Another laboratory of ours working with the NASA and the ESA creating and testing materials for spacecrafts. Some of our language laboratories equipped fully with Apple Macintosh computers and we have a fully equipped TV studio – an exact copy about second largest commercial TV company’s studio of Hungary – where our students can practice every aspects of the media profession.
The main park and the main building of the campus at night
The main entrance of a building from the campus