Pázmány Péter Catholic University

Infobox University
name=Pázmány Péter Catholic University
native_name=Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem

latin_name=
established=1635. May 12
rector=Ft. dr. Fodor György
faculty=5
students=>8865
city=Budapest, Esztergom, Piliscsaba
country=Hungary
website= [http://www.ppke.hu/index_eng.html www.ppke.hu/]

: "For other universities with similar names, see Pázmáneum (disambiguation)"

Pázmány Péter Catholic University is a public university of the Catholic Church in Hungary, recognized by the State.

Faculties

The university has four faculties and two institutes. The "Faculty of Theology" is the oldest of these, founded back in 1635. 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).

Pázmáneum

The "Faculty of Theology" is the legal successor of the Faculty of Theology of the university founded by the archbishop Péter Pázmány in Nagyszombat, the Kingdom of Hungary (today Trnava) in 1635. 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.

Location

Its four faculties and the other institute are located in Budapest, except for the Faculty of Humanities, which is at Piliscsaba, Hungary (14 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.

tudents

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. 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.

External links

* [http://www.ppke.hu/ Website] (only in Hungarian)
** [http://www.btk.ppke.hu/English_index.php Faculty of Humanities] (in English),
*** [http://keu.btk.ppke.hu Central European Studies (in English) at the Faculty of Humanities] ,
** [http://www.jak.ppke.hu/angol/index.html Faculty of Law and Political Sciences] ,
** [http://2006.itk.ppke.hu/eng/index.html Faculty of Information Technology] (all in English)
** [http://www.itk.ppke.hu/eng/index.html Faculty of Information Technology]
* [http://www.btk.ppke.hu/cikk.php?cikk=100 Pictures of the buildings at Piliscsaba campus]
* [http://www.rendezvenyhelyszinek.hu/mutat_hely.php?id=2209 Further pictures of the Piliscsaba campus]
* [http://www.piliscsaba.hu/piliscsaba/kozseg/kozseg_en.htm Introduction of Piliscsaba town]
* [http://www.usfca.edu/international/hungary/index.html Joint study abroad program with the University of San Francisco]