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The university combines the traditions of Reformed education and an openness to professional innovation. Our students enjoy a friendly environment in which they acquire up-to-date knowledge that is based on a solid, value-driven Christian ethos. Furthermore, we place considerable emphasis on community-oriented education, the personal relationship between professors and students as well as on the support of student initiatives.
Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church is among the 10 best universities in Hungary in 2024.
Our more than 9000 students can conduct their studies at the Faculty of Law, Faculty of Economics, Health Sciences and Social Studies, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Theology and the Faculty of Pedagogy. The central location of most of the university buildings in Budapest provides students with an exciting cultural environment that enjoys an international reputation.
Facts and figures – Why Károli?
Károli Gáspár University is a church university, founded by the Reformed Church in Hungary. This fact is reflected in the official name of the institution: Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary.
Our faculties
Degree programmes offered in foreign languages
• Arts and Humanities
• Economic Science
• Legal Science
• Social Science
• Pedagogy
English, German, Hungarian
Student life and services
Student life at our university is extremely active and colorful. Students find the locations of our campuses very attractive; they offer the short of cultural environment that the faculties are able to benefit from in diverse ways. Our students pursue an active social and academic life.
Typipcal activities include but not limited to:
Student Sport Circle
In 2014, as a result of long and close cooperation between the Hungarian University Sports Federation and Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, the university sports office and the Károli Student Sports Circle were established, which serve to coordinate sports events and sport life at our university. The sport office is available for students every day of the week in person, by telephone or via e-mail. It offers several different sports activities both at competitive and at hobby level. Students are always welcome to join the excellent KRE football, handball, volleyball, basketball or water polo teams during study term. They may take part in inter-university competitions and even put together their own team for tounaments and championships.
Housing and accommodation
International students are offered a place in one of our dormitories located in Budapest:
Buddy programme
We also maintain a so called buddy programme that is basically a mentor system, where we aim to pair international students with one of the Hungarian students studying at the same faculty so all of our international students can have a fellow Hungarian student during their studies to help them.