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When introducing Szeged it is simply impossible not to mention the university. Think of that: Szeged has 170 000 inhabitants (many of them working for the university or one of the research institutes) and the university has 30 000 students (from several countries)! Any kind of culture (here world music as I remember) on streets, in pubs and everywhere is quite usual in Szeged.
The University of Szeged is one of the most distinguished universities in Hungary and in Central Europe. According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2003, 2004, 2005), it was ranked 203-300th in the complete list and 1st in national ranking. Historians find its predecessor in the Academia of Kolozsvár, founded 1581 by Stephen Báthory, duke of Transsylvania and king of Poland which then served as base for the Kolozsvári Egyetem (University of today's Cluj-Napoca), that had to be moved to Hungary in 1921, and was restarted in Szeged. This move was occasioned by the conclusion of World War I when the Trianon Peace Treaty changed the rule in Transsylvania and ceded that province to Romania. Among its professors was Albert Szent-Györgyi, one of the founders of the Faculty of Science, who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 for his discoveries in connection with vitamin C. The main strenghts of the university are mathematics, the natural sciences and medicine.

As for the picture: I know the crop is quite tight but the facade of the rector's residence was in a depressing condition - obviously the university had spent all his fortune in the new library. (Forgive me, I was student here and I don't want to show any bad of my university.)

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