Hungarian university among the world’s best

According to the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE) is among the world’s 100 best universities in the Zero Hunger category, the United Nation’s campaign against global famine.

With that result, the university is sharing the list with such outstanding institutions of higher education as the University of Wageningen and the 72nd Tokyo University of Agriculture. All are among the world’s leading universities in the agriculture sector, magro.hu, a Hungarian agriculture-focused media outlet, wrote.

The ranking was published on 1 June, and it is unique since it ranks universities following the UN’s 17 sustainable development requirements. There are 1,591 institutions on the list from 112 countries. MATE’s aggregated place is between 401st and 600th. That list rates an institution’s educational excellence, its commitment to tackling global challenges and how it transforms the results of innovative development for the advantage of society. MATE owed its outstanding results to their research in fields like growing cultivated and more nutritious plants, the safety of food support, sustainable water management and preserving biodiversity.

97th place in the globe

MATE is in 97th place concerning the Zero Hunger category meaning the struggle of famine, Dr Csaba Gyuricza, the institution’s rector said. That place means the university has fallen into the world’s best 15%.

In the aggregated list considering all factors, the University of Debrecen finished in the 301-400th place, while the University of Szeged and ELTE University of Budapest were between the 401st and 600th. In QS’s most acknowledged universities list, MATE finished in the 151-200th place, meaning a 50-place advance. HERE is our article about the QS ranking of the Hungarian universities. Meanwhile, in THIS article you can read about the best Hungarian universities according to the CWUR ranking.

Gulyás addresses MCC graduation ceremony

One positive development of the past decade is that the correctness of the idea of a unified Hungarian nation is no longer disputed, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office told at the graduation ceremony of Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) in Budapest on Saturday.

“This is a thesis that is now beyond dispute in Hungarian public life,” Gergely Gulyás told the graduates of the Transylvanian political school and the Transcarpathian leadership academy. Gulyás said Hungarians were facing difficult times. “Whichever part of the nation we look at, we can identify the main difficulties faced by the Hungarian communities beyond the border,” he said. Concerning the Transcarpathia region in western Ukraine, Gulyás said the local Hungarian community was affected by all the horrors and suffering caused by the war. He criticised the Ukrainian state for “repaying the support it gets” by infringing on the rights of its minorities.

Hungary does not see the neglect of national minority rights as a path to Europe, Gulyás said. Hungary demonstrates solidarity with Transcarpathia as well as Ukraine, he said, adding that all Hungarians could count on the motherland.

Meanwhile, Gulyás said the Hungarian community in Romania was set to face even more struggles now that the ethnic Hungarian RMDSZ party was no longer part of the government. He said what mattered the most is that young people both in Transcarpathia and Transylvania considered the fate of their community important.