The University of Szeged (SZTE) is is located in Szeged at the Southern border of Hungary. It is said to be the safest city in Hungary and a popular university town in Europe.

The University of Szeged traces its origins back to the 16th century, and it is one of Hungary’s most prestigious and competitive universities, regularly listed as one of the best national institutions by the QS World University Rankings. Our educational and research activities related to natural sciences also have an excellent global reputation, and the university is regularly ranked among the top 500 institutions for physical and life sciences by the QS University Subject Rankings.

Health and Life Sciences have a long-standing tradition at the University of Szeged with Albert Szent-Györgyi, winner of Nobel Prize 1937 and Katalin Karikó, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2023 - just to mention two of our most prominent scientists.

The University offers more than 70 full-time international degree programmes at Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral level in English as well as in German and French.  There are students from all over the world and the number of international students reaches 4,500 from about 130 countries.