Minister of State for Higher Education István Klinghammer stressed on Thursday that the number of students admitted into state-funded higher education has gone up this year compared with 2012.

This year, a total of 58,844 students have been admitted to the state-financed courses of Hungarian universities and colleges for the academic year beginning in the autumn, compared to the 56,180 students last year. He outlined the figures after the credit threshold for higher education entry was officially announced on Wednesday evening.

The minimum credit for entry was 240 points this year, while 465 points, the maximum, were required to be admitted to applied economics, international studies and economic analysis studies faculties. Most applications were admitted to the Budapest ELTE University of Humanities. The total number of applicants this year was 95,445, of which 72,159, or 75 percent, have been accepted to a higher education institution, Deputy State Secretary for Higher Education and Science Policy Zoltán Maruzsa pointed out. The most popular were the ELTE University, followed by the University of Debrecen and the Budapest Technical University, added.

(Ministry of Human Resources)