Dennis Gabor University (DGU) () is a private

education Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education als ...

al institution in

Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

. It was established in 1992 as a college, and named after the Hungarian physicist

Dennis Gabor Dennis Gabor ( ; ; 5 June 1900 – 9 February 1979) was a Hungarian-British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971 for his invention of holography. He obtained British citizenship in 1946 and spent most of his life in Engla ...

(). It attained the rank of university in 2023. Since its foundation the

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has been operating programs that teach IT-themed courses. Currently the

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offers three different BSc courses, five post-secondary

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courses and four

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courses to Hungarian applicants. Since 1992 more than 15,000 students have graduated at Dennis Gabor University. Dennis Gabor University was among the first few

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institutions which introduced

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, and certain

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methods. Both of the College's education courses (full-time and distance) are supported with online study content.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dennis Gabor University Universities and colleges in Hungary Educational institutions established in 1992 1992 establishments in Hungary