ELTE retains its leading position

ELTE is still ranked as first on the cumulative list of teacher excellence: our university has the largest number of teachers holding the highest level of academic degree or the title Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (9.33%). In terms of teacher excellence, the ELTE Faculty of Science is at the top on the list of faculties in Hungary, since it has the highest proportion of professors who are Doctors of the Academy (22.46%). ELTE also continues to rank as first on the list of student excellence: our university has the highest number of applicants (7972) who apply here at the first place, and the best students of secondary schools normally choose one of the faculties of ELTE. In Hungary, six faculties of ELTE – the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Humanities, the Bárczi Gusztáv Faculty of Special Education, the Faculty of Education and Psychology, the Faculty of Social Sciences, and the Faculty of Science – have been able to keep the minimum score for admission to the university above 400.

The following aspects were taken into consideration when compiling the ranking lists of institutions: the number of applicants to full-time and undivided higher education programmes at the first place, the average score of applicants, the average number of successful applicants holding language certificates at levels B2 and C1, the number of first-year students who won prizes at secondary school competitions, the number and proportion of teachers holding a PhD degree, the number of full-time students per teacher (with a doctorate), as well as the proportion of teachers holding the title Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Compared to former years, the teachers’ ranking list was subjected to fine-tuning, and the weighting was modified. This year, in contrast with the 50 percent weighting applied previously, the number of students per teacher with a doctorate was taken into account at the same weight as the ratio of such teachers to the total number of teachers and the proportion of professors holding the title Doctor of the Academy.

The special issue titled ‘HVG Diploma 2019’ comprises rankings for 14 study areas, and we selected data from the statistics.

In the field of humanities, the ELTE Faculty of Humanities has been at the top of the cumulative ranking list for many years now. The rate of teachers holding a PhD degree is the highest here. Additionally, this was the first choice of the most applicants (1414) in the previous application period, and the number of applicants who won a prize at secondary school competitions (59) is also the highest here. In terms of the average score of successful applicants (443.7), the ELTE Faculty of Education and Psychology ranks as first on the list of student excellence. The ELTE Faculty of Humanities is at the top on the sub-ranking list of BA programmes in Hungarian Language and Literature, while the sub-ranking list of Psychology BA programmes is led by the Faculty of Education and Psychology: this is the first choice of the greatest number of applicants (786), the average score of applicants is the highest here (460.6), and also the most brilliant secondary school students apply to here. The ELTE Faculty of Humanities also ranks as first on the list of History BA programmes: the number of first-choice applications (137) and the average score of applicants (393.9) are outstanding. (The HVG ranking list assigns Psychology to the humanities study area.)

In the field of legal studies, the ELTE Faculty of Law is at the top of the sub-ranking list of student excellence in every category: the largest number of applications at the first place are submitted to here (588), the average score of applicants is the highest here (434.7), over 97% of applicants already hold language certificates, and the number of students winning prizes at secondary school competitions is also the highest here (37). In addition to student excellence, the ELTE Faculty of Law has the largest number of teachers with a PhD degree, and in the sub-ranking list of undivided legal training the faculty of our university is also in the lead.

In the field of teacher training, ELTE has also retained its leading position. The ranking list of student excellence is led by the Bárczi Gusztáv Faculty of Special Education, while the Teacher Training Centre is at the second place. The most first-choice applications are still submitted to this latter institution (784). Similarly to last year, the ranking list of undergraduate training in special education is still led by the Bárczi Gusztáv Faculty of Special Education in every category: most of the students have applied to here at the first place, the average score of successful applicants is the highest here, and the percentage of students with language certificates is nearly 95%. In the category of infant and early childhood education training, the ELTE Faculty of Primary and Pre-School Education ranks as first: the number of first-choice applications and the average score of successful applications are the highest here. The Faculty of Primary and Pre-School Education is also in leading position in the field of pre-school teachers’ training.

In the field of sports science, the ELTE Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology is ranked as the second best institution in Hungary, and the average score of successful applicants is the highest here (385.5). On the ranking list of student excellence, our Faculty of Informatics is the second in the field of informatics, and the Faculty of Social Sciences is also ranked as second in the field of social sciences.

In the field of natural sciences, the ELTE Faculty of Science retains its leading position in terms of the number of teachers holding a doctoral degree or the title Doctor of the Academy. They represent more than 90% of the total number of teachers. Most of the students submitted their application forms to here at the first place. Over two and a half times more students (827) applied to the ELTE Faculty of Science than to the Faculty of Science and Informatics of the University of Szeged that won second place in the same study area.