J. Selye University (, ) is the only Hungarian-language

university A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly ...

Slovakia Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's m ...

. It was established in 2004 in

Komárno Komárno (, , ), colloquially also called ''Révkomárom'', ''Öregkomárom'', ''Észak-Komárom'' in Hungarian language, Hungarian, is a town in Slovakia at the confluence of the Danube and the Váh rivers. Historically it was formed by the "old ...

(Hungarian: ''(Rév)Komárom'') and it has three faculties. It is named after

Hans Selye János Hugo Bruno "Hans" Selye (; ; January 26, 1907 – October 16, 1982) was a Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist who conducted important scientific work on the hypothetical non-specific response of an organism to stressors. Although he did ...

(), a 20th-century Hungarian

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(see: Education in Slovakia). The number of students attending the university has increased from 1731 in 2015 to 1894 in 2020.

Faculties

*Faculty of Economics and Informatics *Faculty of Education *Faculty of Theology

Gallery

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References

External links

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