The Szent István University was established in 2000 with the merger of several former independent universities and colleges. The university provides education and training in several fields of life sciences, engineering, humanities as well as social sciences.

Although some of the schools within the university have up to 220 years of teaching experience, the Szent István university as a whole has gained nationwide and international recognition in just one decade.

Szent István University comprises of 10 Faculties, with more than 23,000 students and 3,000 academic staff.

• Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
• Faculty of Applied and Professional Arts
• Faculty of Economics
• Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Mechanical Enginnering
• Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
• Faculty of Water and Enviromental Management
• Institute of Health Care and Enviromental Sanitation Studies
• Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering

The wide variety of Departments greatly helps the academic staff to keep pace with the rapid developments in technology and information processing in our times, and has the potential to create graduates with knowledge that can be effectively used all over the world.

Szent István University is dedicated to ensuring top quality teaching and living conditions for its students, and has undertaken an extensive programme of refurblishment: opening a fully refurbished new student hostel for 464 in Gödöllő; multimedia laboratories at the Veterinary Faculty, the Ybl Miklós School of Architecture in Budapest and the School of Liberal Arts in Jászberény; a new student information center has been created in Gödöllő; and student hostels are being renovated both in Jászberény and Gödöllő. In addition to these recent improvements to the universities facilities, Szent István University is planning to expand lecture halls and seminar rooms at the Ybl Miklós School and the entire reconstrution of the education buildings in Gödöllő as part of their ongoing development.