The Óbuda University named after Óbuda

Óbuda

Óbuda was a historical city in Hungary. United with Buda and Pest in 1873 it now forms part of District III-Óbuda-Békásmegyer of Budapest. The name means Old Buda in Hungarian...

, a part of Budapest, is a technical university in Budapest

Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

, Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

. It was originally founded in 2000 as Technical Institute of Budapest with the merging of 3 polytechnical institutes (Donát Bánki Technical Institute, Kandó Kálmán Politechnical College, Light Industry Technical College). With over 12 000 students it is one of the largest technical universities in the country. Having complied with the necessary requirements, the institution was promoted to university status on 1 January 2010 under the name of Óbuda University.

Faculties of the University

The university with the merger of former polytechnic institutions has founded the following faculties:

• Donát Bánki
  Donát Bánki
  Donát Bánki was a Hungarian mechanical engineer, inventor of the carburetor, togetherwith János Csonka, in 1893, as the Bánki-Csonka engine....
  
   Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Security Technology
• Kálmán Kandó
  Kálmán Kandó
  Kálmán Kandó de Egerfarmos et Sztregova was a Hungarian engineer, and a pioneer in the development of electric railway traction.-Education:...
  
    Faculty of Electrical Engineering
• Keleti Károly Faculty of Business and Management
• John von Neumann
  John von Neumann
  John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath who made major contributions to a vast number of fields, including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechanics, ergodic theory, geometry, fluid dynamics, economics and game theory, computer science, numerical analysis,...
  
  Faculty of Information Technology
• Rejtő Sándor Faculty of Light Industry and Environmental Engineering
• Transportation Informatics and Telematics Knowledge Center