Pázmány Péter Catholic University
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Pázmány Péter Catholic University is a public university of the Catholic Church in Hungary, recognized by the State.
It has four faculties and two institutes. The Faculty of Theology is the legal successor of the Faculty of Theology of the university founded by the archbishop Péter Pázmány in Nagyszombat in 1635. (Note: 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.) 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).
Its four faculties and the other institute are located in Budapest, except for the Faculty of Humanities, which is at Piliscsaba, Hungary (24 km northwest from Budapest). 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.
Approximately 8,000 students attend the University, including corresponding students and students studying from abroad. For example, the University of San Francisco and the Pázmány Péter Catholic University operate a joint study abroad program. [1] 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 (only in Hungarian)
- Pictures of the buildings at Piliscsaba campus
- Further pictures of the Piliscsaba campus
- Introduction of Piliscsaba town
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Eötvös Loránd University | Budapest University of Technology and Economics | Corvinus University of Budapest | Central European University | Andrássy Gyula German Language University of Budapest | Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music | Semmelweis University | Pázmány Péter Catholic University | Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church | Evangelical-Lutheran Theological University | Jewish Theological Seminary – University of Jewish Studies | Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design | Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest | Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts | Zrínyi Miklós National Defence University Reformed Theological Academy of Debrecen | Szent István University | Széchenyi István University | University of Debrecen | University of Kaposvár | University of Miskolc | University of Pécs | University of Szeged | Pannon University | University of West Hungary |
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