Budapest University of Technology and Economics
| Budapest University of Technology and Economics | |
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| founding | 1782 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Budapest , Hungary |
| Rector | Józsa János |
| Students | 21738 |
| Employee | 974 |
| Networks | TIME |
| Website | www.bme.hu |
The Technical and Economic University of Budapest ( Hungarian : Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem , BME for short , now also often in English TUB ) is the most important technical university in Hungary .
history
The university was founded in 1782 by Emperor Joseph II as the Institutum Geometrico-Hydrotechnicum in Budapest . In 1871 it was renamed the Royal Hungarian Joseph University for Technology and Economics and thus recognized as a university . In 1934 there was another restructuring and renaming to Palatin-Josef University for Technology and Economics, which played a decisive role in the industrialization of Hungary in the 20s and 30s.
In 1955 the university was renamed the Technical University of Budapest . After the failed Hungarian popular uprising , it was expanded to a total of 6 faculties in 1956. In 2000 the name was finally changed to its current name.
Faculties
The Budapest University of Technology and Economics has around 24,000 students, 1,200 professors and academic staff and consists of eight faculties:
- Architecture ,
- Civil engineering
- Chemical and bioengineering,
- Electrical engineering and information technology ,
- Mechanical engineering ,
- Natural sciences ,
- Transport ,
- Economics and Social Sciences
University partnerships
The university maintains numerous partnerships, including with the following universities (selection of German-speaking countries):
- in Germany
- RWTH Aachen
- University of Bamberg
- Technical University Berlin
- Darmstadt University of Technology
- Technical university Dortmund
- Technical University Dresden
- HTW Dresden
- University of Hanover
- technical university Ilmenau
- Karlsruher Institute for Technology
- Technical University of Kaiserslautern
- Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
- Technical University of Munich
- University of Stuttgart
- University of Cologne
- in Austria
- in Switzerland
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://epito.bme.hu/jozsa-janos?language=en
- ↑ BME: University agreements with foreign universities ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Institute for Digital Humanities. Accessed February 3, 2018 (German).
State universities: Academy of Drama and Film Budapest | Andrássy University Budapest | Central European University | Corvinus University Budapest | Eötvös Loránd University | Evangelical Lutheran Theological University of Budapest | Franz Liszt Music Academy | István Széchenyi University | Károli Gáspár University | Péter Pázmány Catholic University | Miklós Zrínyi University of National Defense | Moholy Nagy University of Crafts and Design | Óbuda University | Pannonian University | Rabbinical Seminary Budapest | Reformed Theological University of Debrecen | Semmelweis University | Szent István University | Budapest University of Technology and Economics | Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts | University of Debrecen | University of Kaposvár | University of Miskolc | University of Science Szeged | University of Pécs | West Hungarian University
Coordinates: 47 ° 28 ′ 54 ″ N , 19 ° 3 ′ 22 ″ E