Dennis Gabor University (DGU) () is a private

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al institution 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 ...

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

. It was established in 1992 as a college, and named after the Hungarian physicist

Dennis Gabor Dennis Gabor ( ; hu, Gábor Dénes, ; 5 June 1900 – 9 February 1979) was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics. He obtained ...

( hu, Gábor Dénes). It attained the rank of university in 2023.https://web.archive.org/web/20230208102551/https://gdf.hu/hirek/egyetem-leszunk/ Since its foundation the

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has been operating programs of IT-themed courses. Currently the

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offers three different

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courses, five post-secondary

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courses and four

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courses to Hungarian applicants. Since 1992 more than 15,000 students have graduated at Dennis Gabor University. Dennis Gabor University was among the first few

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institutions which introduced

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, and certain

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methods. Both of the College's education courses (full-time and distance) are supported with online study content.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dennis Gabor University Universities and colleges in Hungary Educational institutions established in 1992 1992 establishments in Hungary