Department of Philology
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The Ferenc Rakoczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian University began operating as an independent institution in 1996 under the name Transcarpathian Hungarian Teacher Training College. Since 2003, the institution has borne the name of Ferenc Rakoczi II, and in 2025 it became a university.
The Department of Philology is one of the institution’s oldest units. It was established in 1995 as the Department of Linguistics. The department was responsible for teaching Hungarian, English, Ukrainian, German and French across all study programmes at the institution. English teacher training has been offered at Rakoczi University since its establishment. Hungarian and Ukrainian teacher training began in 2004 in paired-subject programmes, in accordance with the options permitted at the time.
Between 2004 and 2006, as the range of programmes expanded, the Hungarian Departmental Group, the Ukrainian Departmental Group and the English Departmental Group were established as subdivisions of the Department of Linguistics. Since 2005, the department has operated under the name Department of Philology.
Between 2004 and 2012, the Department served as the degree-awarding department for paired programmes in Hungarian–English, Hungarian–Ukrainian, Hungarian–History, English–Hungarian, English–History and Ukrainian–Hungarian. Since 2012, it has trained BA-level teachers specialising in Hungarian Language and Literature, Ukrainian Language and Literature, and English Language and Literature. Master’s-level study has been part of the Department’s programme portfolio since 2017. MA programmes in Hungarian and Ukrainian Language and Literature have been offered since 2017, and an MA programme in English Language and Literature since 2019.
In January 2023, the campus that houses the Department was named after István Kótyuk, its founding head.
From the 2022/2023 academic year, the Department of Philology of the Ferenc Rakoczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian University, in cooperation with the University of Miskolc, launched dual-degree programmes. Applications are currently invited for three programmes: a BA in Hungarian Language and Literature, a BA in English Language and Literature, and an MA in Hungarian Philology; consultations on additional programmes have also begun. Students enrolled in the dual-degree programmes study at the University of Miskolc alongside their studies at Rakoczi University.
In the 2024/2025 academic year, the Department of Philology launched three new bachelor’s programmes, including Philology: English–Hungarian Translation and Interpreting; Philology: English–German Translation and Interpreting; and Philology: Ukrainian–Hungarian Translation and Interpreting. In the 2025/2026 academic year, the bachelor’s programme Philology: Hungarian Language, Literature and Communication was also launched.
In the 2025/2026 academic year, our Department oversees 10 degree programmes as the responsible academic unit, some of which are available in both full-time and part-time formats. In the second semester of the 2025/2026 academic year, the Department of Philology has 507 students: 431 in bachelor’s programmes and 76 in master’s programmes; by mode of study, 285 are full-time and 222 are part-time students. A total of 40 students are enrolled in the dual-degree programme run jointly with the University of Miskolc.
The Department regards the training of the next generation of scholars as a key priority, as evidenced by the fact that more than 25 per cent of its current teaching staff are graduates of the institution.
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Our Department actively cooperates with higher education institutions in Ukraine and abroad, including:
- Institute for Linguistics and Minority Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Department of Hungarian Linguistics, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
- Hungarian Linguistics Departmental Group, Eötvös Loránd University
- University of Nyíregyháza
- Department of English Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pécs
- University of Prešov
- Department of Ukrainian Philology, Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University
- Gramma Language Office in Slovakia
- Faculty of Central European Studies, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra
- J. Selye University
- National Pedagogical Dragomanov University of Kyiv
- Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Uzhhorod National University
- University of Miskolc
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