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- Doctoral schools of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
- Doctoral schools of Faculty of Law and Political Sciences
- Doctoral schools of Faculty of Medicine
- Doctoral schools of Faculty of Pharmacy
- Doctoral schools of Faculty of Science and Informatics
Faculty of Arts
Educational sciences show the most dynamic progress among social sciences, primarily because knowledge has become the dominant factor of economic competitiveness and social development in recent decades, in a process in which the reproduction of knowledge attracts growing attention. In the most advanced regions of the world, resources, infrastructure and human capital allocated for research on learning and instruction are increasing. The dynamic progress creates a need for experts in research on learning and instruction in Europe as well.
The Doctoral School of History held the title of “Place of Excellence” from 2006 for three years.
Educational Programmes: Altaic Studies, English Applied Linguistics, French Linguistics, German Linguistics, Hungarian Linguistics, Russian Linguistics, Slavic Historical Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics, Uralis Studies
The School was founded in 1994, by Professor Lajos Csetri, Department of Classical Hungarian Literature. Integrating contemporary Hungarian and international trends, Professor Csetri erected the School on the finest traditions of literary scholarship in Szeged. The diverse theoretical traditions have been engaded in a productive cooperation within the organisational framework of the School ever since.
The School was founded in 2007 by Professor Dezső Csejtei, Department of Philosophy. Our program is an integral development of nearly a century’s tradition of philosophical research at the University of Szeged with its focus on the history of Continental philosophy from the Greeks to 20th century currents of philosophy such as hermeneutics and phenomenology.
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Due to specialisation and optional classes, students can select the subjects and fields of research (workshops) as the training field of their PhD education that best fit their individual research topics and habits. The PhD School operates the following research workshops.
Faculty of Law and Political Sciences
Our doctoral school aims to give the opportunity for graduate students to deepen their knowledge in legal research methodology and to gain more experience in the theoretical background and the practical issues according to their special professional interests. The education in the Doctoral School consists of two parts: uniform lectures throughout six semesters and research work conducted by the students’ advisor at the host department. The best experts of our faculty and visiting professors from abroad hold the lectures and the advisory sessions.
Faculty of Medicine
Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute of Biochemistry; Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute of Biophysics; Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute of Genetics; Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute of Plant Biology; Bay Zoltán Foundation for Applied Research Institute for Plant Genomics Human Biotechnology and Bioenergy.
The School offers a PhD program to graduate students and focuses its research and training on the role of health-threatening microorganisms and dangerous environmental effects. Both epidemiologic and experimental studies are necessary to identify physical and chemical effects that cause health problems. The courses of the Medical Microbiology and Preventive Medicine programs are combined in this Doctoral School and offer a wide variety of research.
The program is dedicated to providing high quality educational and research opportunities for young scientists. The program offers a PhD course in Neuroscience to students having graduated from medical universities or faculties of natural sciences.
The program is dedicated to providing high quality educational and research opportunities for young scientists.
Faculty of Pharmacy
The especially advanced possibilities of complex pharmaceutical research are offered at the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Szeged since its different institutes represent the whole area of pharmaceutical research from the synthesis or isolation of biologically active compounds through their pharmacological or biopharmaceutical investigations to their formulation.
Faculty of Science and Informatics
PhD in Biology is a six to eight semester program depending on the advance of the research project selected by the student. Students are required to take a limited number of classroom courses, but their main activity is doing research in a team.
Chemistry PhD is a six-semester program that involves, on one hand, taking some graduate-level, highly personalised courses and, on the other hand, conducting research in various areas of chemistry or at the boundaries of chemistry, e.g., with biology, materials science, environmental sciences, etc.
Environmental education and research at the University of Szeged has long‑standing and internationally acknowledged traditions. The regular education in environmental sciences at the graduate and postgraduate levels has been started at the early years of the last decade.
Founders of the Graduate School of Geosciences:Prof. József Becsei, Dr. Bálint Csatári, Prof. László Jakucs(†), Prof. Ilona Bárány-Kevei, Prof. Gábor Mezősi, Prof. Rezső Mészáros MHAS, Prof. Béla Molnár, Prof. György Pantó, Assoc. Prof. Pál Sümegi, Prof. Tibor Szederkényi
The Doctoral School of Physics was established in 1994, based on four traditional research fields of physics at the University of Szeged: atomic physics, optics and laser physics, solid state physics and biophysics.
Founders of the Graduate School of Geosciences:Prof. József Becsei, Dr. Bálint Csatári, Prof. László Jakucs(†), Prof. Ilona Bárány-Kevei, Prof. Gábor Mezősi, Prof. Rezső Mészáros MHAS, Prof. Béla Molnár, Prof. György Pantó, Assoc. Prof. Pál Sümegi, Prof. Tibor Szederkényi. In average, the lecturers of the School publish 2-3 books, 30 articles in Hungarian, and 40 in foreign scientific journals per year. The School was partly financed by several successful Hungarian (PFP, FKFP, MÖB-DAAD) and European (FP6 and FP7 – e.g. Millenium, Quantify) projects. The financial results of these projects from 1993 (establishing the School) were used in the teaching process for example: invitation of foreign guest professors, new courses and PhD research topics and places for the students. Moreover, several projects connected to the main governmental foundation.
Systemic education in computer sciences was launched within the Mathematical Institute by László Kalmár in 1957. The first major computer science programme started in 1963. An important date in the history of computer science at the University of Szeged is 1967, when the Department of Computer Science was established. The first head of the department was László Kalmár.
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