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Óbuda University

Our institution, with a history of 130 years of industrial education and 40 years of tertiary education, over the past several years has executed a programme of dynamic development, with the result being, in accordance with the institutional development, that we have succeeded in fulfilling the requirements for university status laid out in the Higher Education Act.

On 7 September 2009, the College Senate formally stated that Budapest Tech Polytechnical Institution had fulfilled the statutory requirements for using the title of University in its name. I consequently sent the Senate proposition to Mr László Bakonyi, President of the Educational Authority, and to Dr István Hiller, Minister of Education and Culture.

The management of Budapest Tech Polytechnical Institution, based on the above-mentioned facts and with the support of the College Senate and Economic Council, initiated the college’s formal declaration of university status to the Hungarian Parliament via the Ministry of Education and Culture, based on Hea. §18. Furthermore, we initiated, witht he amendment of Hea. Annex 1, the registration of our institution’s new name as Óbuda University, following the tradition of the first university founding in the capital by King Zsigmond in 1395, and subsequently refounded in 1410.

On 23 November 2009, the Hungarian Parliament adopted amendment T/10877 to the 2005 act CXXXIX on higher education, which was subsequently signed by the President of the Republic of Hungary on 11 December 2009 (published in the Hungarian Gazette, issue 181, 2009). The following citation from the text is in force as of 1 January 2010:

§ 45
”In Annex 1 of the Hea., the ’State Universities’ subheading shall be completed with “Óbuda University, Budapest”; further, the ’Non-public schools” subheading shall be completed with “Calvary Chapel Bible College Europe, Vajta” according to Hungarian alphabetical order.

Óbuda University is the legal successor of Budapest Tech Polytechnical Institution, and its legal predecessors, Donát Bánki Polytechnic, Kálmán Kandó Polytechnic and the Technical College of Light Industry.

Prof. Dr. Rudas Imre