During the past couple of years, the number of international students at Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Debrecen (DE ETK), both in Debrecen and Nyíregyháza, has been steadily increasing. By the 2025/2026 academic year, the number of students coming from outside Hungary to enroll at the faculty has reached almost six hundred. According to the deputy dean for academic affairs and education at DE ETK, most young foreigners choose the programs offered by the faculty because of the wide range of courses inherent in them in addition to the professional experience opportunities available and international embeddedness of our institution.
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The participants attending a conference in Oradea, Romania, could watch a live broadcast of catheter procedures performed at the Cardiology and Heart Surgery Clinic of the Clinical Center of the University of Debrecen. It was the most recent solutions for a minimally invasive treatment of complete coronary artery occlusion that were presented at this Romanian-Hungarian professional forum as well as during the training course preceding it.
The University of Debrecen has made it to the thematic ranking of institutions by interdisciplinary science compiled by Times Higher Education, occupying a place in the 401-500 category. The recently published Interdisciplinary Science Ranking ranks a total of 911 institutions from 94 countries or territories.
Thoracic Surgery Department (TSD) of the Surgical Clinic of the University of Debrecen has once again received accreditation from the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS), confirming that this institution provides European-level care to patients. TSD first earned this prestigious international certification back in 2012, becoming the first such institution in Eastern Europe to do so. Since then, the certificate has had to be reearned every five years based on strict criteria.
The University of Debrecen continues to maintain its leading position among Hungarian institutions of higher education in the QS sustainability rankings. It was ranked 322nd in the Sustainability 2026 world rankings published on Tuesday by the British ranking agency Quacquarelli Symonds, which makes it the best Hungarian institution. In the latest Shanghai Ranking Subject list, also published on Tuesday, UD was ranked in the 301-400 category in the field of ecology, again finishing as the best Hungarian university.
The number of foreign students at the University of Debrecen has continued to grow, with almost 7,800 students studying at UD in the 2025/2026 academic year. Attila Jenei, Director of the Coordinating Center for International Education, advocates the continuous development of the English-language training system to maintain the popularity of the institution in the international student market and to increase competitiveness.
The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Debrecen awarded this year’s Debrecen Prize for Molecular Medicine to molecular geneticist Jeffrey M. Friedman, a medical researcher at the Rockefeller University of New York. The professor and his colleagues identified leptin, a hormone produced by adipose tissue, which plays a role in regulating body weight. Professor Jeffrey M. Friedman received the award at a ceremony held at the University of Debrecen on Tuesday, after which he gave a lecture on the causes and treatment options of obesity.
The University of Debrecen has become a full member of the Turkic Universities Union. The decision on the membership was passed recently at the 8th general assembly of the Union, held at Tashkent International University. The alliance creates opportunities for higher education cooperation, and from now consists of as many as 170 institutions, including the newly joined countries.
The University of Debrecen has published its new image film presenting the philosophy of the stronghold of Hungarian higher education. Commitments, aims, failures, successes, life stories.
Rector Zoltán Szilvássy has awarded a two-year research scholarship to the three foreign students who represented the University of Debrecen at this year's Hackatom world competition in nuclear medicine. After winning the Hungarian round, two of them took part in the world finals, where they achieved great success, finishing in third place.