Get to know the University of Dunaújváros, where you can always find a place for comfortable study

The “Study in Hungary” (www.studyinhungary.eu) education service made an interview with Dr. Mónika Rajcsányi-Molnár, the Vice-Rector of Academic and General Affairs at the University of Dunaújváros.

Study in Hungary: Please introduce yourself to our readers.

Dr. Mónika Rajcsányi-Molnár: I would like to greet and welcome every reader in the name of the University of Dunaújváros, Hungary! My name is Dr. Mónika Rajcsányi-Molnár and I am the Vice-Rector of Academic and General Affairs at our university. Before I got the responsibilities of being a Vice Rector I worked as the Head of the International Relations Department of our university for many years, and ever since the internationalization of our university campus, the education of a growing number of courses of more and more study programs in English, the needs of our international students have always been at my heart.

Study in Hungary: Which programs does the University of Dunaújváros offer for foreign students and what are the languages of instruction?

We offer 6 first cycle degree programs and 2 second cycle degree programs taught completely in English language.

These are the:

• Business Administration BA
• Communication and Media BA
• Computer Engineering BSc
• Technical Management BSc (this one due to its educational content was known before as Engineering Business Management)
• Material Engineering BSc (in Hungary we are one of the 3 schools that offers this program but we have the greatest tradition and experience)
• Mechanical Engineering BSc
• Mechanical Engineering MSc
• Teacher of Engineering MA

For our English language programs we offer a 1 year preparatory program for those students whose English language level is under the requirements (below IELTS 5.5).

Due to their educational programs English is the language that our international students coming from many countries use to communicate with each other and with the teaching and administrative staff of the university, as well.

Study in Hungary: Could you give information about your campus, dormitory, facilities and life quality of the international students to us?

The University of Dunaújváros is a University of Applied Sciences with a modern, European level campus, with vivid student life and high quality educational programs. Our higher educational institution is focusing mainly on Engineering and offering (one of) the best Mechanical Engineering programs and Material Engineering programs in English language in Hungary! The total number of our international students is more than 170 international students, who come to study in our different English language programs from 32 countries, actually from all over the world.

We are not a big institution – with so many teachers and even more students – which means, our teachers know their students – especially the international students – personally!

As it is said at our university “The student is not only a Neptune code at our institution.” (Neptun code is an identification code for the official electronic study system in Hungary.)

In our school we have a view, that the professors and the students have a more personal relationship – students usually accepted as colleagues in different research projects – and they can solve their problems within a friendlier atmosphere. In this academic year two of the international students were involved by their teachers in the researches of the Institute of Engineering Sciences and another 2 international students in the research project of the Secudit IT security.

Talking about our student life: we are one of the four proud keepers of the Selmecbánya heritage in Hungary. Selmecbánya is a city now located in Slovakia however before the I. World War in the time of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy and even before it was the part Hungary for a thousand years. Selmecbánya was a famous and rich city with hundreds-year- old mining and metallurgy traditions. After the World Wars, Hungary lost Selmecbánya, however the teachers and professors from there moved to the new, small Hungary and they established new schools – one of them in Dunaújváros – on the base of the Selmecbánya traditions. The academic heritage of Selmecbánya is a living cultural tradition: our students have groups based on their study programs and every group has their official ceremonies, uniforms for celebrations, songs and poems, competitions, parties and life-long memberships.

Our foreign students can join these groups with the willingness of learning some basic Hungarian language.

It is also important to mention that we are really proud of the modern educational infrastructure of our campus. The University of Dunaújváros has great laboratories, as well, a part of which serves the practical needs of our education, and quite a few of them are devoted to research & development in cooperation with the significant industrial companies of our region. In collaboration with the Bosch Company, we have a life-term examination laboratory, one of the very few with the same function in whole Europe! Another laboratory of ours working with the NASA and the ESA creating and testing materials for spacecrafts. Some of our language laboratories equipped fully with Apple Macintosh computers and we have a fully equipped TV studio – an exact copy about second largest commercial TV company’s studio of Hungary – where our students can practice every aspects of the media profession.

We provide accommodation to every international student in our dormitory buildings at a reasonable price. We have got room for the students with 2 or 3 beds, each room has got a bathroom. And in the community rooms on every floor of the dormitory there are community rooms: a kitchen for cooking and a room for washing and drying the clothes.

Study in Hungary: What are the tuition fees, dormitory costs and other living expenses of your students?

The tuition fee for an undergraduate program is EUR 3.950,- for two semesters, for a complete academic year at our university. It is EUR 4.400,- for one academic year of a master program.