The Óbuda University ( hu, Óbudai Egyetem, la, Universitas Budensis), named after

Óbuda Óbuda was a town in Hungary that was merged with Buda and Pest on 17 November 1873; it now forms part of District III-Óbuda-Békásmegyer of Budapest. The name means ''Old Buda'' in Hungarian (in German, ''Alt-Ofen''). The name in Bosnian, ...

, a part of Budapest, is a technical university in

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population o ...

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Cr ...

. It was founded in 2000 as ''Budapest Tech'' () with the merging of three polytechnical institutes (''Bánki Donát Technical College'', ''Kandó Kálmán Technical College'', ''Light Industry Technical College''). With more than 15,000 students it is one of the largest technical universities in the country. Having complied with the requirements, the institution was promoted to university status on 1 January 2010 under the name of ''Óbuda University''.

Faculties

The university with the merger of former polytechnic institutions has founded the following faculties: * Alba Regia Technical Faculty (

Székesfehérvár Székesfehérvár (; german: Stuhlweißenburg ), known colloquially as Fehérvár ("white castle"), is a city in central Hungary, and the country's ninth-largest city. It is the regional capital of Central Transdanubia, and the centre of Fej� ...

) * Bánki Donát Faculty of Mechanical and Safety Engineering * Kandó Kálmán Faculty of Electrical Engineering * Keleti Károly Faculty of Business and Management *

John von Neumann John von Neumann (; hu, Neumann János Lajos, ; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. He was regarded as having perhaps the widest c ...

Faculty of Informatics * Rejtő Sándor Faculty of Light Industry and Environmental Engineering * Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering

Doctoral schools

* Applied Informatics and Applied Mathematics * Safety and Security Sciences * Materials Sciences and Technologies

Notable alumni

* Joseph Galamb - Designer of Ford Model T
Charles Balough
- President of the Hercules Motor Manufacturing Company, designer of Ford T-model *

Júlia Sebestyén Júlia Sebestyén (; born 14 May 1981) is a Hungarian former competitive figure skater. She is the 2004 European Champion and 2002–2010 Hungarian national champion. At the 2004 European Figure Skating Championships, she became the first Hun ...

- European

figure skating Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...

champion * Attila Ferjáncz - Hungarian rally driver, Hungarian champion, sports director *

Imre Gedővári Imre Gedővári (1 July 1951 – 22 May 2014) was a Hungarian fencer and Olympic gold medalist. He won his first World Championship medal, a silver, in 1975 and made his Olympic debut in 1976. He won his first World Championship gold me ...

- Hungarian fencer and Olympic gold medalist, sports director * Lajos Boros - radio presenter, journalist, author and singer * Rudolf Emil Kálmán - electrical engineer, mathematician, inventor of Kálmán filter *

George Andrew Olah George Andrew Olah (born Oláh András György; May 22, 1927 – March 8, 2017) was a Hungarian-American chemist. His research involved the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids. For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Pri ...

- chemist
Anita Benes
- designer, founder o
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Péter Márki-Zay Péter "MZP" Márki-Zay (, born 9 May 1972) is a Hungarian politician, marketer, economist, electrical engineer and historian. He has served as mayor of Hódmezővásárhely since 2018, and is the co-founder of the Everybody's Hungary Movement ...

- politician, marketer, economist, electrical engineer, historian * Konrád Nagy -

speed skater Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating. ...

and former short track speed skater * Péter Galambos - rower * Anita Köböl - television presenter

External links

The official website of Óbuda University
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Obuda University Universities in Budapest Óbuda Educational institutions established in 1879 1870s establishments in Hungary