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1921: Four faculties – Faculty of Law, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Arts, Language and History and the Faculty of Mathematics and Science – of the Ferencz József University of Kolozsvár moved to Szeged.
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The history of the University of Szeged
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1581: István Báthory establishes an academia with an arts and a theological faculty in Cluj.
1872: The Hungarian royal university is established that claims to be the spiritual successor of Báthory’s academia.
1881: The University of Cluj takes the name of Franz Joseph.
1924 –1930: The clinics and the buildings of the Faculty of Science located at Dóm Square were opened.
1928: The College of Teacher Training moved to Szeged, and in 1973 it became the Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College.
1940: After the passing of a law, the Ferencz József University was moved back to Kolozsvár and the remaining parts of the university in Szeged were amalgamated and named the Hungarian Royal Horthy Miklós University.
1945: The university here assumed the name University of Szeged.
1951: Secession of the Faculty of Medicine from the main institutional body, and from that year on it has functioned as a university in its own right.
1957: The independent Faculty of Pharmacy was set up.
1962: Undergraduate training was launched at the Technicum of Food Engineering in Szeged.
1962: The University of Szeged was named after Attila József.
1987: The University of Medicine was named after Albert Szent-Györgyi.
1989: The Faculty of Health Sciences, which once used to provide off-site training, was integrated into the Szent-Györgyi Albert University of Medicine.
1999: The independent Faculty of Economics and Business Administration was established within the József Attila University.
2000: As a result of the integration of the Szent-Györgyi Albert University of Medicine, the Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College, the College of Food Processing and Engineering, the Music Conservatory and the College of Agriculture in Hódmezôvásárhely, the current University of Szeged was founded.
2003: Since its successful accreditation, the Music Conservatory in Szeged has been operating as the Faculty of Music.
2006: The successful accreditation of the training programmes of the University of Szeged based on the Bologna Process.
