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The University of Szeged is one of Hungary's leading and internationally ranked higher education institutions. The University of Szeged (SZTE), with a history dating back to 1581, is located in the sunniest city of Hungary, attracting thousands of young people due to its lively, urban lifestyle and colorful festivals. Since Hungary is a member of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), it also has EU accreditation. According to QS World University Rankings, SZTE was the best Hungarian University in 2018. Outstanding professors have worked at the University, including the Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi (1937), who was the first to isolate Vitamin C, extracting it from Szeged paprika, and the student-faculty ratio is currently 10:1. It is a research university with outstanding achievements, covering 700 research areas at 19 Doctoral Schools and 50 full-time degree programs for international students. Scholarships, such as the Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Programme, assist students from various world regions in attending the University. Our student body grew to 21000, in which the number of international students exceeds 3500. International study programs in various languages have been available at the University of Szeged for three decades. SZTE offers international degree programs at Bachelor's, Masters, and Ph.D. levels. The University of Szeged is a prestigious higher education institution, rich in traditions committed to maintaining quality education on all levels including Bachelor, Master, Doctoral programs, higher education specializations, advanced specific training, providing quality health care, basic and applied research, research & development, fine arts, and music. Following the University of Szeged's traditions, it unites the high-level theoretical foundation with a practice based on partnering as well. It considers its main objective to keep up with scientific progress, development of information technology, and social demand to develop the educational material in multi-level, multi-language education continually. The purpose of the University of Szeged is to issue quality degrees meeting labor market demands and that its graduate students would be sought both by national and international employers. It creates such educational requirements for earning its high prestige diplomas that, at the same time, facilitate the scientific development of its students. The University of Szeged plays a vital role in students' lives. It provides equal opportunities and enhances the procedure of becoming intellectuals. The mission and purpose of the University of Szeged are to cultivate science and internationally competitive research work and to advance its research university nature. Its research and creative work realized as part of national and international research programs comprise basic and applied research, creative arts, product, and service development. The University of Szeged, being the most critical institution in the Southern Great Plain region, considers its primary responsibility to play an active part in facilitating regional social, economic, and cultural development. At the same time, with its charitable activities, the University serves to influence local citizens' lives and acts in solidarity towards them. The University of Szeged, with all its activities, as mentioned above, aims to achieve the esteem and support of the local community and the general public. The researchers and physicians at the University of Szeged strive to be faithful to its healthcare mission. A tremendous amount of intellectual capital has accumulated in our institutions, and experienced physicians are followed by the coming generations of young talent year after year. The Albert Szent-Györgyi Health Centre was established as the Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical and Pharmaceutical Centre's legal successor in 2007, the patient care, thereby becoming more integrated, more transparent, and easier to organize. This was a necessary and inevitable step since the Centre is responsible for the entire health care system of Szeged and is the most significant in- and outpatient care institution in the region. Thousands of patients are treated in the Health Centre daily, but research focusing on as yet incurable diseases has additionally been performed here for decades. Our researchers, both men and women (we are incredibly proud of the latter), combine their successful research activities with their educational and clinical work as instructors and physicians among the best of their profession. We are very proud of continuing the heritage of Szent-Györgyi: besides our research results, this is demonstrated by the thousands of patients cured in the world-class, new 265-bed hospital building. Eleven patient care units are housed in this five-story complex. They include the Emergency Care Unit, equipped with the most up-to-date instruments and run by the most modern patient management system. As concerns several technological novelties, we may highlight the pneumatic tube transport system, planned to be completed in 2015, which will deliver other medical samples to the laboratory for examination within merely a few minutes. We are very proud of having produced the most modern Surgical Centre in Hungary. The unit is equipped with state-of-the-art technology, such as high-frequency surgical, ultrasound, and liver resection instrumentation. Among the outstanding professional achievements, since the academic year 2013/2014, the Faculty of Dentistry training has been conducted according to a reformed curriculum. This places great emphasis on introducing and teaching subjects specifically customized for dental training and allows specialization. As a result, it fully meets the latest European Union requirements. Nothing can illustrate our professionals' outstanding qualities better than the number of unique operations and interventions performed here first in Hungary. Mention may be made in this respect of novel hearing device implementation surgery by Professor László Rovó at our Department of OtoRhino-Laryngology and Head and Neck Surgery. A few years ago, demonstration heart surgery was performed in our Cardiology Centre: a coronary catheterization surgical procedure was broadcast live and followed by more than a hundred physicians. In 2008, Siamese twins, Melinda and Isabella from Kispereg, were successfully separated by brilliant surgery performed by Professor Kristóf Füzesi in a 7-hour operation, the event receiving worldwide media publicity. View full university