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.
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