https://english.kre.hu/

Károli Gáspár University, located in Budapest, Hungary, is a renowned institution of higher education with a rich history and a commitment to academic excellence. Named after the famous Hungarian Protestant pastor and theologian Gáspár Károli, the university offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs across various disciplines.

The university traces its roots back to 1855 when it was established as the Hungarian Reformed Theological University. Over the years, it has evolved and expanded its academic offerings to encompass fields beyond theology, including humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. Today, Karoli Gaspar University is a comprehensive institution with faculties and departments dedicated to areas such as theology, law, arts and humanities, teacher training, social sciences, economics, and information technology.

https://kme.org.ua/en/

The Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian University operates in Berehove and is the only Hungarian-language, non-state higher education institution in Ukraine. The institution was founded in 1996 by the Foundation for the Transcarpathian Hungarian College of Higher Education and has since become a key educational, scientific, and cultural center of the Hungarian community in Transcarpathia. The university holds full institutional accreditation and complies with both Ukrainian and Hungarian higher education requirements.

In the 2024–2025 academic year, the university offers bachelor’s and master’s programs across 7 fields of study, 11 majors, and 33 study programs. The total number of students is 1,698, of whom 1,014 are enrolled in full-time programs and 684 in part-time programs; in addition, more than 270 students participate in non-accredited courses. The programs are practice-oriented and student-centered, aiming to provide competitive knowledge and practical skills in response to the economic and social needs of the region.

The university’s departments – such as the Departments of Philology; History and Social Sciences; Pedagogy and Psychology; Biology and Geography; Mathematics and Informatics; and Economics – employ highly qualified academic staff holding scientific degrees. The Rákóczi University boasts outstanding scientific performance: its lecturers and researchers regularly participate in international conferences, symposia, and research collaborations, and are active partners in several European Union and Erasmus+ projects.

The institution serves as a foundation of knowledge, culture, and preservation in Transcarpathia, simultaneously supporting the goals of higher education, scientific advancement, and community strengthening.

https://ms.sapientia.ro/en

The Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania (Universitatea Sapientia din Cluj-Napoca) was established in 2001 and is the independent higher education institution of the Hungarian community in Romania, with the aim of providing tertiary education to the members of our community and performing scientific research on a high professional level. Our mission is to promote universal human and Christian values; to offer competitive, quality education and research, and to ensure the continuation of the traditions of Hungarian education in Transylvania; to maintain the transparent and consistent management of the university, and to enforce professionalism and the values of academic spirit; to develop a modern, uniform institutional framework that is able to meet regional demands; to develop a wide network of partnerships, based on openness, trustworthiness, dedication and reciprocity. The institution is promoting high-quality education and competitiveness, striving to meet international standards and aiming to prepare professionals able to assert themselves following their graduation, either at home or in any country of the European community. The University offers 35 Bachelor Programmes and 13 Master Programmes in four locations.

https://www.ujs.sk/en

J. Selye University in Komárno was established on October 23, 2003, by the National Council of the Slovak Republic under Act No. 465/2003 Coll., which entered into force on January 1, 2004. János Selye University is the only public higher education institution in Slovakia with independent legal status that provides instruction in the language of a national minority – Hungarian – and at the same time represents the highest level of the educational system spanning from kindergarten to university. The establishment of the university constitutes not only a unique and historic moment in Slovak higher education, but also in the history of the European Union.

As part of the European higher education area, J. Selye University considers it its mission to pursue high-quality educational and scientific activities at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels; to foster a knowledge-based society, moral values, harmonious personal development, and creativity; and to cultivate free thinking and scientific research. By opening opportunities for Hungarian-language higher education in Slovakia, the university aims to gradually increase the number of Hungarian young people with higher education degrees and to raise the overall level of education within the Hungarian community in Slovakia. Better qualifications can ensure equal opportunities for Hungarian youth in the labor market, potentially leading to reduced unemployment and economic development in regions inhabited by Hungarians. In this way, the institution seeks to contribute to the social and economic advancement of the region.

J. Selye University promotes the formation of a Hungarian intellectual community that can become a pillar of the national community, whose members, thanks to their language skills, are also able to succeed in an international context. The university is an open-type higher education institution in which the principles of multiculturalism, freedom of thought, independence, responsibility, humanism, democracy, creativity, originality in scientific research, and dialogue between teachers and students prevail. In addition to education, the university fosters scientific activity; it integrates the Hungarian scholarly community in Slovakia into the international academic sphere and establishes connections with international networks of scientific institutions. It serves as a regional center of scholarship and plays an active role in the social, economic, and cultural life of the region.