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Who are we?
Previous years In 1993 fifteen Ph.D. programs have been founded at the University, they were then re-organized and re-accredited as Doctoral (PhD) Schools in 2002. Nowadays seven Ph.D. schools are in service at the Szent István University.
The management The Office of Doctoral and Habilitation Council of the Szent István University, Gödöllő is responsible for the administrative management and organizing the defense procedure for the students.
The doctoral degree awarded by the Szent István University, Gödöllő, Hungary is an internationally recognized Ph.D degree. Our professional staff enjoys a high reputation all over the world. The Ph.D. students graduated at the University find employment in government offices, research institutions, business and educational positions, both in this country and abroad.
You won't be disappointed The PhD studies comprise tutorial classes, field and laboratory experimental work, as well as preparation and defense of theses. Degrees are awarded in seven scientific areas, including
Who can come?We respect a good degree. That's why all graduates of accredited non-Hungarian universities with a M.Sc. or internationally recognized equivalent qualification are eligible for admission to our Ph.D. schools.
Communication is the key to educational success, and thus, any foreign or Hungarian post-graduate student studying at the Szent István University is required to have proficient written and spoken foreign language skills, preferably in English, but in a few cases, German or French will do as well.
MoneyIf you're a Ph.D. student, the length of time you'll spend in a full-time post-graduate course at the SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY, GÖDÖLLŐ is three years to complete courses and the experimental work, and another year might be needed for preparing the thesis.
Ph.D. students pay tuition fees between 8,000 and 12,000 EUROs per year. The exact amount of payment depends on the research you need in your program. Your living expenses are separate from that.
Come and stay with us, or at least, let us help you find a place for yourself. There are various promising housing opportunities for post-graduate students here at the SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY GÖDÖLLŐ. The Office of Doctoral and Habilitation Council will help you in finding good-quality, reasonably-priced accommodation in a dormitory, graduate dormitory or off-campus. The prices vary, but Hungary is one of the best in Europe in affording comfortable and clean housing.
Once you get that out of the way, your application is reviewed by the Admissions Committee, and if the grade level on your final degree is that of good or above, you will get a letter stating that you have been admitted and can start your studies upon payment of the first year's tuition.
One day, it will all be over,the class work, the laboratory and field work and the rest. That's when you will need to write a thesis. First, you'll have to get what we call an „absolutorium”. This says that you have successfully finished your in-class and research training and the time is ripe to write the thesis.
After that, you can start the defense process. To do that, first you have to submit an application to the Institute of Ph.D. Studies. Your publications and the thesis are attached to his application. The defense process starts with a comprehensive exam in your broad research area. The thesis will be evaluated and judged by two reviewers, who will give a written evaluation to the candidate. It’s a transparent process, the candidate presents his or her findings and reacts to the reviewers’ comments in front of a defense committee and a public audience.
If this sounds difficult, then you understand what we’re all about here. If it sounds like the kind of challenge that you can meet, with a little help from your friends (and colleagues, and professors), get in touch. Come out to the campus. Send in an application. We know you’ll like what we do and where you can go from here. Szent István University, Office of Doctoral and Habilitation CouncilH-2103 Gödöllő Hungary, Páter Károly u. 1. Phone/Fax: +36-28-415-382 E-mail: phd-inst@tti.szie.hu Web-site: HTTP://wWW. sziU.HU
PhD Schools and branches of sciences in the Szent István University
Animal Husbandry Science PhD School Leader: Prof. Dr. Miklós Mézes DSc
The Animal Husbandry program deals with the research and development of husbandry and production of farm and game animals. Since 1989 the animal husbandry sector has undergone many changes. The changes and new challenges affect the rapidly increasing modernization in methods, and the public attitude towards animal husbandry and game biology. Animal husbandry plays significant role in the national economy, especially in the food products of animal origin, and the establishment of conditions for competitive export production. The utilization, recognition of up-to-date molecular biological-biotechnological methods, and their use in the work of students, is one of the principal objectives of the School. Besides research topics dealing with the principles of animal husbandry, another important field of the current animal husbandry research is the production of livestock species and game biology and management. The satisfaction of strict animal protection requirements, the reasonable utilization of renewable natural resources, and the development of conditions for sustainable development are all needed four our country as member state of the European Union. The EU and national R+D programs offer a wide base for the development of applicable R+D topics.
The main topics are:
Contact us:
Animal Husbandry PhD School Szent István University, Department of Nutrition Phone: 00 36 28-410-735 Fax: 00 36 28-410-804 E-mail: Mezes.Miklos@mkk.szie.hu Address: H-2103 Gödöllő, Páter K. u. 1. Hungary
Biological Sciences PhD School Leader: Prof. Dr. Gábor Bakonyi DSc
The aim of the Biological Sciences PhD School (BS) to lead, organize and supervise scientific training (including education and research) and provide the basis for getting PhD degree and habilitation on different fields of basic and applied biological researches, from molecular to supra-individual level of organisms (micro-organisms, plants, animals, ecosystems and humans). The mission of BS is training the qualified, top tutors and researchers for the future. The BS desires to train professionals, who can meet the future economical and social requirements on the field of basic and applied biology. The prominent ways of our researches are the biotechnology, genetics and ecology together with the effects of global climate changes, and the various fields of applied biology in relation to the agricultural development, with the connections of environment protection and conservation. The main disciplines of our research topics are: Botany:
Zoology:
Molecular biology:
Microbiology:
Contact us: Biological Sciences PhD School Szent István University, Institute of Botany and Plant Ecophysiology Phone: 00 36 28-522-075 Fax: 00 36 28-410-804 E-mail: bakonyi.gabor@mkk.szie.hu Address: H-2103 Gödöllő, Páter K. U. 1. Hungary Crop Science PhD School School Leader: Prof. Dr. László Heszky
The School has been established by unifying three former PhD programs aimed at providing the students with up-to-date knowledge in the disciplines such as soil management, crop production, grassland management, seed production, plant genetics, breeding and biotechnology, plant pathology and agricultural entomology, weed control and integrated pest control. Candidates are taught and supervised by internationally acceptable professors and researchers mainly from the Szent István University, as well as from other research institutes belonging to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, respectively. Research facilities required for the PhD studies are available from the above mentioned institutions.
The major PhD Program areas are:
Contact persons: Prof. Dr. Ferenc Virányi, DSc Head of School and of Plant Protection Programme: viranyi.ferenc@mkk.szie.hu Prof. Dr. László Heszky, MHA Head of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology Programme: heszky.laszlo@mkk.szie.hu Prof. Dr. Márton Jolankai, DSc, Head of Crop Production Programme: jolankai.marton@mkk.szie.hu
Mechanical Engineering PhD School Leader: Prof. Dr. István Farkas DSc
During establishing the goals of the Mechanical Engineering PhD School of Szent István University, the following principles were taken into consideration: The predictable requirement based on developing tendency of the technical background in the agriculture and food industry is that the production and application of the machines and tools should be environment-friendly, material-and energy-save. On the other hand it is important to organize the existing equipments to logistical system and arrange ecological operation and recycling in the strategy of the research. In the strategy of the research some promoted new topics should be emphasized, which ones serve same up to-date production technologies having less contact with the living world. The global increase of agricultural production has to be realized in an ecological balance having decreased volume of the applied chemicals and energies. For sustainable development it has a basic interest to decrease the polluting materials getting into the environment and to economize with the resources. The PhD school is divided into two main orientation. Some typical research topic of the orientations are given below:
1. Basic of Agriculture Machine Engineering orientation
2. Energetics of Agriculture and Environmental Technology orientation
Contact us: Mechanical Engineering PhD School Szent István University, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Sciences Institute of Machinery and Mechanics Phone: 00 36 28-522-915 Fax: 00 36 28-522-916 E-mail: farkas.istvan@gek.szie.hu Address: H-2103 Gödöllő, Páter K. U. 1. Hungary Environmental Sciences PhD School Deputy leader: Dr. György Heltai DSc
The Environmental Sciences Doctoral School (ESDS) offers research topics and postgraduate courses in the trans-disciplinary field of environmental sciences. The following disciplinary research subfields are offered by ESDS:
Disciplinary Research Subfields
1. Soil Science, Agrochemistry, Environmental Chemistry This discipline covers three major areas: soil science as a traditional field of environmental sciences; agrochemistry that focuses on plant nutrient supply; and environmental chemistry that plays a major role in research related to natural resources, including physicochemical modelling of anthropogenic environmental pressures of biogeochemical cycles and the development of environmental analytical and ecotoxicological methodologies.
2. Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology and Soil Biotechnology Agricultural microbiology, environmental microbiology and soil biotechnology cover a wide spectrum of subject matters that are important in agronomics and in practical agriculture, horticulture and forestry. Research topics include agriculture, soil science, water, air, food, ecology, environmental protection, phytopathology, microbiology, soil biotechnology, bio-hydrometallurgy.
3. Agrobiodiversity and Genetic Resources Conservation This discipline includes agrobiocoenoses (agricultural activity on fields), varieties and varietas of cultivated plants and other plant species (weeds, fungi, algas, etc.) living on agricultural areas, as well as genetic resources (varieties, landscape species, ecotypes and wild relative species of cultivated plants). It covers changes, follow-up, resource exploration and documentation of genetic variability of cultivated plants that were transported in prehistoric and historic time into the Carpathian Basin.
4. Ecological Farming This scientific subfield covers research and development of complex agricultural systems that preserve natural resources where production is based on local resources and each section of the production process is guided by a biological, ecological approach. Its objective is to develop an up-to-date ecological agricultural system based on traditional farming and experiences, both in crop production and animal husbandry.
5. Environmental Management This educational and research disciplinary subfield serves the objectives of long-term, sustainable utilisation, planned development and effective protection of natural and man-made environment. Resulting from these three objectives, environmental management is understood as a synthesizing, trans-disciplinary field of research, integrating natural and social sciences. This subfield aims at establishing integrative planning methods, analyses, assessment and operative programs in the fields of ecology, economics, sociology, political science, spatial planning and physics. Research topics preferably address the co-evolutionary dynamics of nature, society and economy.
6. Landscape Ecology, Nature Conservation, Landscape Protection Postgraduate students have opportunities to do research on topics that are related to the analysis, protection and utilisation of biotic and abiotic environmental elements and also to the better understanding of natural and human impacted processes. There is an emphasis on research related to conservation biology and restoration ecology that cover complex, landscape scaled planning (including aspects of soil protection and hydrology), plant and animal species and their association, as well as the protection of biodiversity.
7. Environmental Protection, Environmental Health and Environmental Safety This discipline aims to educate students who will have the ability of solving theoretical and practical problems and challenges on the field of environmental protection and environmental safety, while applying natural science based, biological approach and high standards of engineering knowledge. This subfield puts an emphasis on the relationship between environmental problems and human health. The risks of public health, stemming from recent intensive agricultural methods and environmental pollution, and the ways of prevention and elimination are defined through the analysis of agriculture, rural development and medical science.
Contact person: Ákos Bodnár Phone: 00 36 28/522-000/2262 Fax: 00 36 28-415-383 E-mail: bodnar.akos@mkk.szie.hu Address: H-2103 Gödöllő, Páter K. u. 1. Hungary
Management and Business Administration PhD School Leader: Prof. Dr. István Szűcs
The basic objective of the doctoral school is to organise the macro-economic, management, and marketing tasks of the food industry into a uniform system, so that the research tasks performed by the doctorands serve effectively for the realisation of the objectives of agricultural development. It requires management skills to the experts operating at the different levels of economic control, which helps to recognise the significance and complexity of the system necessary to solve the problems. The objective of the Ph.D. school:
The themes of the Management and Business PhD School are the following:
Macro-economics of food economy History and macro-economic questions of agricultural development, World food economy Agricultural financing Agricultural challenges of EU accession Methods of economic analysis, agricultural information technology International compatibility
Agribusiness management Enterprise management Strategic planning and organisation development Controlling and management of enterprises Financing of agricultural enterprises Models for sustainable development Management and business studies Management, organisation Management theory and methodology System of labour relationships Information society and management System of manager training and further training, forms and methods Management of small and medium sized enterprises
Marketing The consumer, buyer and organisational market, purchasing behaviour Analysis of marketing at the production and service, product/brand, company and sector activities Usage and development of marketing tools (product, price, distribution, promotion) Market orientation, marketing strategies, strategic groups, market competition capabilities Development of marketing information systems and knowledge management Adaptation and development of marketing research methods and models
Contact us: Szent István University Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences Institute of Econometrics H-2103 Gödöllő, Páter K. u. 1. Phone: (36)-28-522-902 E-mail: gszd@gtk.szie.hu
Veterinary Sciences PhD SchoolLeader: Prof. Dr. Miklós Rusvai DSc
The PhD program for Veterinary Science, at the University of Veterinary Science, was accredited in 1993. It was re-organized and re-accredited as Postgraduate School of Veterinary Science (PSVS) in 2002. The PSVS, as the single postgraduate school in the veterinary field in Hungary offers education and research activities, acting as a research coordinator, too.
It has tradionally good cooperation with both national and international institutes, like the Research Institute of Veterinary Medicine, National Institute of Veterinary Healt, etc., and veterinary medical departments of the universities in Utrecht, Vienna, Hannover, Munich, Uppsala and overseas. Substantial co-operation based on mutual benefit ensures that students of the PSVS get education at the highest level, and are supported by the best infrastructure serving their research interest.
Part of the quality management system of the PSVS is a well-defined, professional system, and client-centred protocols for minimizing the administrative work; and, insuring proper follow-up. The programs are under the continuous control and development of the Steering Committee of the PSVS. We offer about 40 research topics for new applicants in our School.
Lecturers of the School are highly qualified scientists and professors having PhD degree. Some of them have the degree of Doctor of Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Science (DSc) and others are Member of the Hungarian Academy of Science. The language of the training is Hungarian and / or English.
Szent István University Faculty of Veterinary Sciences H-1078 Budapest István u. 2. Hungary
Phone: 36 1 478-4229 Fax: 36 1 478-4230 E-mail: phd@univet.hu
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS FO ROR PhD ADMISSION
APPLICATION FORMS Two application forms have been included in the post-graduate prospectus. One may be kept for the candidate’s reference, the other original copy must be submitted with all application materials to the Office Doctoral and Habilitation Council.
RESEARCH PROGRAM It is a specimen sheet wich you have to fill in and based on that do your research program (max. 4-5 pages).
REFERENCES All candidates must provide two letter of academic references, signed and sealed by faculty members or relevant scientist who are familiar with the candidate’s work and character. The university strongly advises candidates to include the letters in their application materials, in order to avoid delay and possible rejection of application due to incompleteness.
TRANSCRIPTS An official copy of the transcripts from all higher-education institutions previousla attended by the candidate must be submitted, either in the application, or by mail directly from the originating institution.
INTERVIEWS Candidates of foreign origin may request a formal interview.
CONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE Candidates will be sent a tentative acceptance if the university whiseh them to continue their studies there. This acceptance becomes formal upon receipt of yearly fees.
PAYMANT OF FEES Payment of yerly fees must be submitted before starting the studies. This can be done in person by cashier’s check or travellers’ check, or from abroad by international cashier’s check or bank transfer. Cheecks should be made out to the Institute of Post-Graduate Studies, and shoul include and indication of their purpose, i.e., tuition fees. A bank-to-bank transfer can be made to the followin account at the Hungarian Treasury (in Hungarian – Magyar Államkincstár) to the following account number: 10032000-00282826-00000000 Confirmation of receipt will be provided upon the clearance of the transfere or check.
AGREEMENT TO CONDITIONS By accepting placement into the university and registering for classes, each student thereby accepts the conditions and rules set down by the university. Violation of these rules and/or conditions may cause disciplinary action leading to suspencion and/or expulsion form the university
The Szent István University Office of Doctoral and Habilitation Council H-2103 Gödöllő, Páter K. u. 1. Hungary Phone/Fax: 36 28 415-382 E-mail: phd-inst@tti.szie.hu
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