Eötvös Loránd University, widely known as ELTE, is one of Hungary’s top public research universities and a central institution in Budapest’s academic life. Founded in 1635, it is the country’s oldest continuously operating university, with nearly 400 years of teaching and research excellence behind it.

Today, ELTE educates close to 30,000 students across nine faculties and several research institutes located throughout Budapest, including campuses along the Danube. The university is internationally recognized for academic excellence and has been associated with seven Nobel Prize laureates, as well as recipients of the Wolf, Fulkerson, and Abel Prizes. One of its most recent notable affiliates is Nobel Prize–winning writer László Krasznahorkai, awarded in 2025.

Computer science education at ELTE has strong and well-established roots. The university launched Hungary’s first university-level computer science program in 1972 within the Faculty of Science. Building on decades of experience, the Faculty of Informatics was established in 2003 as an independent faculty after separating from the Faculty of Natural Sciences. Since then, it has become the main center for computer science and informatics education at ELTE.

Today, ELTE’s Faculty of Informatics is regarded as one of the strongest in the country. It is consistently ranked among Hungary’s top computer science faculties, typically placing 2nd nationally in Computer Science and Information Systems. Internationally, it is also well positioned, ranked 151–200 globally in the QS World University Rankings by Subject (2025).