University of Miskolc

The University of Miskolc, known before 1990 as the Technical University of Heavy Industry, is the largest university of Northern Hungary. Most of its buildings stand in Egyetemváros, the University Town, a part of the city of Miskolc covering about 850,000 square metres. It was established by act of parliament in 1949 as the successor of the University of Mining and Metallurgy of Selmecbánya, established in 1735 and one of the first schools in the Habsburg Empire under non-ecclesiastical control. Formerly only subjects of heavy industry were taught, but a faculty of law was formed in 1981 and a faculty of economy in 1987, and the Béla Bartók Music Institute became a faculty in 1997.