University of Debrecen Hungary --Applications are Open--Sept 2025

Welcome to the University of Debrecen!

The University of Debrecen is proud to offer more than 100 degree programs fully taught in English: including Foundation Programs, Undergraduate Programs, Graduate Programs, and Phd/Doctoral Programs.

About the University of Debrecen

With a student body of about 28,000, the University of Debrecen is one of Hungary's largest institutions of higher education today.

Hungary is a relatively small country of 10 million people. It has seven neighbors and one of the longest histories of European nations, with a statehood of over 1100 years. As a member of the European Union and at the crossroads of East and West, it is a very accessible location and an ideal base to explore all of Europe.

Debrecen is the largest city outside Budapest and has over 200,000 inhabitants. Located 250 km East of the capital, it is a cultural, economic, and scientific center of the region and a renowned university town.

The cooperation of fourteen faculties ensures a multidisciplinary background, guaranteeing the University a leading role as a research and education institution and the intellectual center of Eastern Hungary.

In 2007 our institution was the first to receive the highest degree of the Higher Education Qualification Prize awarded to the most reputable Hungarian higher education institutions.

The University conducts its programs according to the European Qualifications Framework of the Bologna Process.

Campuses, Eligibility Criteria, and Faculties

·        A multi-campus university

The University of Debrecen has more campuses - even in nearby cities.

·        Debrecen

The university has four major campuses in Debrecen. Most of the courses of our programs are taking place in Debrecen. Those that belong to campuses in other cities are marked on the webpage of the course description.

The Debrecen Campuses are the following:

ü  The oldest one is the Main Campus, which is home to the majority of the faculties like Science and Technology, Humanities, Music and Medicine.

ü  The Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management and the Faculty of Economics and Business are on a smaller campus on Böszörményi Street.

ü  The third campus is on Ótemető Street, where the Faculty of Engineering can be found.

ü  The youngest campus is based on Kassai Street where the Faculties of Law, Informatics, and the School of Public Health (as part of the Faculty of Health Sciences) are located.

The University of Debrecen campuses offer amazing green areas with free entrance, available for students, staff, and the general public wishing to have a walk or study in the green parks.

Pedestrian access and using University bikes are also widely available on and between most of the campuses.

·        Nyíregyháza

The Faculty of Health Sciences has a campus in Nyíregyháza. The following programs belong to the Nyíregyháza Campus:

ü  Nursing and Patient Care (Nurse), BSc

ü  Social Work in Health Care, MSc

ü  Social Work and Social Economy, MA

·        Hajdúböszörmény

The Faculty of Education for Children and Special Educational Needs is located in Hajdúböszörmény. The following program belongs to the Hajdúböszörmény Campus:

ü  Kindergarten Education, BA

Szolnok

Only Hungarian programs are running on the Szolnok Campus.

·        Eligibility Criteria

ü  60+% can apply

ü  IELTS 5.5 / 6.0 / MOI

 

·         Faculties

1.      Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management

The aim of the educational, research, and development activities at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management is to satisfy the present and medium-term requirements of Hungary, the agricultural sector, and the society. The Faculty trains experts at the BSc, MSc, and PhD levels in numerous fields of agricultural sciences: classical fields (animal husbandry, crop production, and horticulture), environmental management, food processing, game management, nature conservation, and crop protection are included in the diverse educational programs.

 

2.      Faculty of Dentistry

Education

·         The faculty provides internationally recognized education of high standard and aims at training professional dentists confident to work all over the world

·         The faculty meets the requirements of the European Union and the degree received is accepted in all EU countries and several other countries around the globe

·         After establishing the departments of Prosthetics, Periodontics, and Anatomy, the Faculty introduced the fields of Dental Biochemistry and Dental Medicine

·         In 2000, the disciplines of Restorative Dentistry, Surgery, Physiology, Pharmacy, Microbiology, and Pathology became parts of the Curriculum of dental studies

·         The Dentistry Program for English Program Students was established in 2003, and by now, the Faculty of Dentistry has over 700 international students.

·         The faculty participates in the Erasmus Program, thus students have the chance to spend a semester or a full academic year at a foreign university in Europe

·         In 1996, the Faculty was awarded the title of “Center of Excellence” by the Hungarian Accreditation Committee for its educational, research, and remedial achievements

 

3.      Faculty of Economics and Business

The Faculty of Economics and Business is currently the largest faculty of the University of Debrecen with about 4000 students and more than 120 staff members. The Faculty has been created by the merger of two former faculties of the university: the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and the Faculty of Applied Economics and Rural Development. 

 

The Faculty has a very wide scope of education dominated by economics and business administration; however, it has a significant variety of programs in agribusiness and rural development. We are proud of the large number of our international students currently in the BA in Business Administration and Management and the MA in International Economy and Business. The attractiveness of our education is indicated by the popularity of the Faculty in terms of incoming Erasmus students as well. 

 

4.      Faculty of Education for Children and Special Educational Needs

·         The Campus in Hajdúböszörmény was established in 1971

·         The mission of the Faculty is to equip the students with valuable and up-to-date knowledge that will enable them to excel professionally and realize themselves personally in several fields of the educational and social sphere.

·         The faculty offers broad professional perspectives as well as keeping the traditions, offering diversity and the opportunity to become a successful intellectual.

·         Training kindergarten attached to the Faculty is running at the Campus where students can gain valuable experience in caring for and teaching children aged 3-6. Practical training in kindergartens is a major integral part of the Kindergarten Educator BA program.

 

5.      Faculty of Engineering

The Faculty of Engineering of the University of Debrecen is at the forefront of the education and training of engineers in the Northern Lowland Region of Hungary. It is a dynamically developing Faculty with over 3000 students and a highly qualified and enthusiastic teaching staff of 104 members. The Faculty offers a great variety of BSc, and MSc courses and post-graduate training courses tailored to suit the rapidly changing world of engineering and focusing on European and international trends. 

To optimize the quality of training the Faculty continuously strives to expand the number of industry and educational partners at home and abroad. Students are provided with practical knowledge, training, and field practice with the help of the numerous prestigious domestic and multi-national industry partners. Debrecen is the industrial center of the Eastern-Hungarian region providing excellent internship and job opportunities at a growing number of companies such as Thyssenkrupp, Schaeffler, Aventics, and Diehl Aviation; and the city is going to be home to a BMW Group plant soon. Internship periods are excellent opportunities for students to experience theory put into practice at the most renowned industry representatives and to become more successful in the labor market in this highly competitive sector.

The Faculty was awarded the Quality Prize in 2011 by the Ministry of Education as a recognition of its efforts in this field.

 

6.      Faculty of Health Sciences

·         The Faculty of Health Sciences in its present form was created in 2022, as the former Faculty of Public Health was integrated into the former Faculty of Health.

·         The Faculty of Health Sciences operates on 3 different campuses, in 3 different cities: Nyíregyháza, Debrecen, and Szolnok.

·         Its educational structure remains the same as it was before the merge. Even though being a recently established institution, the Faculty of Health Sciences has a long history through its predecessor institutions.

·         The Faculty offers education in Hungarian and English for its approximately 3,000 students, with a staff of 150 people who are committed to a high level of university training.   

·         The Faculty offers bachelor and master programs fully taught in English on its Nyíregyháza and Debrecen campuses.

To ensure the professional quality of its training programs and to maintain the social integration of the predecessor faculties in its host cities, the Faculty of Health Sciences operates extensive and effective partnerships.

Students can learn from the physicians and researchers of the clinics and hospitals located in the cities of the campuses. These long-existing co-operations provide the highest quality of professional training to the students studying at the faculty.

The Faculty of Health Sciences aims to provide up-to-date and extensive theoretical and practical knowledge to the students that enables them to perform well in their future jobs.

 

7.      Faculty of Humanities

The Faculty primarily serves the task of training university-level scholars and teachers from the region. For decades, the Faculty has been one of the highest-ranked units of higher education in Hungary. A major asset of the Faculty is its versatility: traditional, classic university degree courses exist alongside the more recently created programs. Another major forte is languages: in addition to bachelor’s courses in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, and Russian, students may also study Bulgarian, Chinese, Finnish, Japanese, Spanish, and Ukrainian.

 

8.      Faculty of Informatics

The Faculty of Informatics boasts the only accredited university-level educational program for IT specialists in Eastern Hungary. The six professors, 19 associate professors (senior staff), 29 assistant professors (staff), 16 teaching assistants, and 5 graduate computer scientists working at the faculty’s seven departments, represent a formidable pool of intellectual potential, which has earned recognition even at the international level.

The aim of the Faculty is the training of professionals with complex theoretical knowledge, who are also capable of solving everyday problems in their profession. Practice is given an increasingly significant role in the training. Main research topics include cryptography and computer algebra, information technology, the modeling of information systems and networks, probability theory and stochastic processes, digital image processing, computer graphics, library and information science, and new computational paradigms.

 

9.      Faculty of Law

The roots of legal education in Debrecen go back to 1742. Today the Faculty is a dynamic, student-oriented, and friendly institution that gained several academic excellence awards throughout recent years. This school puts a significant emphasis on high-quality interdisciplinary teaching and research involving legal practitioners and respected academics from the region. The Faculty offers Hungarian and English language programs to students interested in legal and public administration sciences.

The international study and research network of the faculty is extensive mainly in Europe and North America.

Cooperation with more than 40 foreign institutions worldwide. The 54 full-time faculty members and around 20 adjunct professors teach and research various aspects of legal and political sciences under 12 departments.

 

10.  Faculty of Medicine

 

·         The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Debrecen was Central Europe's first campus medical school

·         The university was officially inaugurated on October 23, 1918, and at that time consisted of four faculties: Arts, Science, Theology and Medicine

·         The Faculty of Medicine became an independent University Medical School under the supervision of the Ministry of Health in 1951

 

11.  Faculty of Music

The Faculty of Music at the University of Debrecen has a history of nearly 50 years. The faculty aims to educate musicians who, with their performing skills, theoretical knowledge, and highly developed musical abilities, enrich and spread Hungarian and International music culture. They can enrich the repertory of musical knowledge with their sophisticated musical taste and can work in musical institutions, professional performing ensembles, religious ensembles, and other occupations that require a musical education.

Apart from demanding high-level classes of well-known professors and artists, the Faculty provides a great number of extracurricular activities such as master classes, national and international meetings, and competitions, but also remembers to organize entertainment programs.

 

12.  Faculty of Pharmacy

The faculty's mission:

The faculty is committed to the high-quality cultivation of the pharmaceutical profession and considers the incorporation of new scientific results into graduate and postgraduate training to be a priority task. Its goal is to provide up-to-date, international-level knowledge in lifelong learning. Our multidisciplinary international research focuses on creative innovation and sustainability.

We are committed to preserving and healing the health of society, and helping those in need, we do all this in solidarity and humanely.

During our dedicated third mission activity, we cooperate with national and international partners to develop methods, technologies, and results applicable to society.

13.  Faculty of Science and Technology

The Faculty was established in 1949 and now plays a leading role in training professionals, teachers, and experts in science and technology in the Northern Lowland Region of Hungary. It cultivates, mediates, and teaches many fields of biology, physics, geography, chemistry, environmental science, and mathematics at an advanced level. The Faculty enables students to acquire a complex knowledge of natural phenomena in a practice-oriented way.

The Faculty has a teaching and research staff numbering over 200, who are engaged in significant research activities both in Hungarian and international teams and actively participate in various professional organizations. The institutes of the Faculty have continuously expanded relationships with the corporate world in the fields of education, applied research, and innovation.

 

Hungary and the city of Debrecen

·         Hungary is a European Union member country located in Central Europe

·         The country has borders with Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia

·         population ca. 10 million

City info:

·         With 220 thousand inhabitants Debrecen is the second-largest city in the country

·         It is a cultural, educational, and economic center of Eastern Hungary

·         Seat of Hungarian Protestantism

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