The University of Pécs with its 20 000 students, with more than 4 500 international students, with 1 400 lecturers and researchers, with its 10 faculties is one of the largest higher education institutions in Hungary and the centre of knowledge within the Transdanubian region. Its roots date back to 1367. Even the Turkish sultan Suleiman called the city of Pécs as such when he arrived to conquer in 1543; the city where King Louis the Great founded the university in 1367. 

Hundreds of years of university past, futuristic developments, history, nature, cultural diversity and innovation meet in the treasured heart of Europe and Baranya, home of an internationally acclaimed medical course for over a hundred years. 

The list of world-famous Pécs medical researchers and educators include Pál Heim, Béla Entz, István Környey, Ödön Kerpel-Fronius, Kálmán Lissák, László Cholnoky, Szilárd Donhoffer, János Szentágothai, György Romhányi and Endre Grastyán, to only name a few. 3500 students of 67 nationalities study here in Hungarian, German and English programmes. Our English programme is 37, the German 17 years old. 

The faculty has 19 theoretical departments and 28 clinics with 500 educators, researchers and professionals, 74 academic doctors and 5 academics. Aside from general medicine and dentistry gradual courses, we offer Master’s degrees, biotechnology and PhD courses, and vocational trainings for our students in 33 fields of study. There are 389 elective courses on top of the mandatory subjects, with opportunities in 768 scientific undergraduate research topics. 

Our newly renovated clinical centre provides students with bedside practical education in small groups, but we also boost excellent local and international teaching hospital networks and exchange programmes. The practical clinical education is prepared and supported by one of Hungary’s excellent Simulation Education Centre. You can take a look at the transformative world of 3D printing in the 3D Printing Centre, at our supermicroscopes in the Szentágothai Research Centre, or at the National Virology Laboratory, one of the most modern research facilities in Central Europe. 

The course of the future might await you: the brand new biomedical engineering course. The history of our university and School At the headquarters of our university, the Pannonian Celtic peoples built a castle surrounded by walls and a moat. The city, founded in Roman times during the reign of Trajan (98-117), was called Sopianae, which, under the reign of Diocletian (284-305), was the provincial capital of Valeria in Lower Pannonia. The excavated Roman remains indicate a large and beautiful city. The underground tombs date back to the Christian Roman era, in the 3rd century Pannonia (borders: Danube-Sava-Alps) was among the 8 localities that had a church, and under Constantine (306-337) it was an episcopal city. 

In the first centuries of Christianity, Sopianae was an important station, guard post of this worldwide teaching. Attila’s Huns and the armies of at least half a dozen peoples had swept through it until Christian South Slavs settled in the area as well. At the end of the 8th century, Emperor Charles the Great (768-814) defeated the Avars, and around 865, Salzburg archbishop Liupramm consecrated a church at the foot of the Mecsek. The term "ad Quinque (martirum) basilicas" appears in the notes on this subject, which, according to some assumptions, later became the name Quinque Ecclesiae, which in the language of German-speaking medieval citizens is Fünfkirchen, in Hungarian it is Pécs (perhaps from the Slavic word “pety” meaning five). 

The activities of the Medical School of the University of Pecs were audited in the spring of 2017 by the CERTOP institute; and according to their study, the institute is ISO 9001:2015 compatible. The independent experts confirmed that Medical School meets the domestic and international standards, and with the involvement of affected colleagues the work and efficiency of the Institution is regularly reviewed and developed. This certificate allows the improvement of internal and external assessment of the Medical School, increases the efficiency and effectiveness of the work, and confirms the reliability of the services on the international market. 

The Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Lóránd University is ranked 1st, followed by the Medical School of the University of Pécs and the Medical School of the Semmelweis University. These faculties are the top three among all Hungarian higher education institutions. The ranking is made up every year based on the accomplishments of students and tutors respectively. According to this year’s data, based on the excellency in education the Medical School of the University of Pécs, the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and the University of West Hungary, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences are the best three.