According to the international ranking in the field of medicine Semmelweis University ranked first among the Hungarian universities.

Semmelweis University in the recently released QS World University Rankings 2016 listed among the world's best 151-200 universities in the categories of medicine and pharmacy. ELTE is affiliated with 5 Nobel laureates, as well as winners of the Wolf Prize, Fulkerson Prize and Abel Prize, the latest of which was Abel Prize winner Endre Szemerédi in 2012. The 28,000 students at ELTE are organized into eight faculties, and into research institutes located throughout Budapest. Īmong Hungary's numerous research universities, the Eötvös Loránd University, founded in 1635, is one of the largest and the most prestigious public higher education institutions in Hungary. It was the first institute in Europe to train engineers at university level. Its legal successor is the University of Miskolc and the University of Sopron in Hungary.īME University is considered the world's oldest institute of technology which has university rank and structure. Research universities and institutions įurther information: List of universities and colleges in Hungary, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Education in HungaryĪ mining school called 'Berg Schola', the world's first institute of technology was founded in Selmecbánya, Kingdom of Hungary (today Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia), in 1735. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences and its research network is another key player in Hungarian R&D and it is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary, with the main responsibilities of the cultivation of science, dissemination of scientific findings, supporting research and development and representing Hungarian science domestically and around the world. Its role is to develop RDI policy and ensure that Hungary adequately invest in RDI by funding excellent research and supporting innovation to increase competitiveness and to prepare the RDI strategy of the Hungarian Government, to handle the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, and represents the Hungarian Government and a Hungarian RDI community in international organizations. The key actor of research and development in Hungary is the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NRDI Office), which is a national strategic and funding agency for scientific research, development and innovation, the primary source of advice on RDI policy for the Hungarian government, and the primary RDI funding agency. Hungary also has one of the highest rates of filed patents, the 6th highest ratio of high-tech and medium high-tech output in the total industrial output, the 12th-highest research FDI inflow, placed 14th in research talent in business enterprise and has the 17th-best overall innovation efficiency ratio in the world. Hungary's high technology industry has benefited from both the country's skilled workforce and the strong presence of foreign high-tech firms and research centres. In 2014, Hungary counted 2,651 full-time-equivalent researchers per million inhabitants, steadily increasing from 2,131 in 2010 and compares with 3,984 in the US or 4,380 in Germany. Hungary was ranked 35th in the Global Innovation Index in 2023.

Hungary ranks 32nd among the most innovative countries in the Bloomberg Innovation Index, standing before Hong Kong, Iceland or Malta. The country spent 1.4% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on civil research and development in 2015, which is the 25th-highest ratio in the world. Science and technology is one of Hungary's most developed sectors. Albert Szent-Györgyi a Nobel Laureate in Medicine for discovery of Vitamin C John von Neumann, one of the greatest mathematicians in modern history Holography was invented by Hungarian Dennis Gabor, a Nobel Laureate in Physics. Leó Szilárd, invented and patented the nuclear reactor, hypothesized the nuclear chain reaction (therefore he was the first who realized the feasibility of an atomic bomb), invented the electron microscope and the first particle accelerator and later invented the cyclotron. In March 2009, aboard Soyuz TMA-14, he made a second trip to the International Space Station. In April 2007, aboard Soyuz TMA-10, he became the fifth space tourist and the second Hungarian in space. Charles Simonyi, the chief-architect of Microsoft Office. Previously he served as the president of International Mathematical Union. in Budapest, one of the largest biotechnology company in Central and Eastern Europe László Lovász was awarded the Wolf Prize and the Knuth Prize in 1999, and the Kyoto Prize in 2010 he is the current president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Main Building of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, it is the oldest Institute of technology in the world, founded in 1782 Research and development centre of Gedeon Richter Plc.

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