History
In 1635, right after the foundation of the University, the Faculty of Arts began its educational work and except for wartime periods it has been operating with an increase in the number of students. The number of regular students including PhD candidates is around 10 000.
The objective of the Faculty is to teach special subjects that deal with the evolution of human culture, its content and intellectual essence.
Training
The Faculty of Arts offers an extremely wide choice of degree courses both at BA and MA level. Many of the disciplines are provided only at the Faculty of Arts at ELTE in Hungary and Central Europe.
BA studies
English and American Studies
English Studies
American Studies
Music
Choral Conducting
Solfege
Ethnomusicology
Church Music
Germanic Studies
German Studies
German Minority Studies
Dutch Studies
Scandinavian Studies
Library and Information Science (LIS)
EU Information
Information and Knowledge Management
History of books, libraries, printing, publishing
Oriental Languages and Cultures
Arabic Studies
Hebrew Studies
Indology
Iranian Studies
Japanese Studies
Chinese Studies
Mongolian Studies
Turkish Studies
Modern Greek Studies
Communication and Media Studies
Journalism
Media Studies
Hungarian Studies
Estonian Studies
Finnish Studies
Finno-Ugric Studies
Folkloristics
Cultural Studies
Language Mentor
Language Technology
Office Management
Ethnography
Ancient Languages and Cultures
Assyriology
Egytpology
Classical Philology
Romance Studies
French Studies
Italian Studies
Portuguese Studies
Romanian Studies
Spanish Studies
Liberal Arts
Philosophy
Aesthetics
Film Theory and Film History
Communication and Media Studies
History of Art
Slavonic Studies
Bulgarian Studies
Czech Studies
Croatian Studies
Polish Studies
Russian Studies
Serbian Studies
Slovakian Studies
Slovenian Studies
Ukrainian Studies
History
Museology
Archives Studies
Archaeology
MA studies
Aesthetics
American Studies
Ancient Greek
Arabic Studies
Archaelogy
Archives
Assiriology
Bulgarian Language and Literature
Chinese Studies
Chinese Studies
Communication and Media Studies
Croatian Language and Literature
Dutch Language and Literature
Egyptology
English Language and Literature
Ethics
European Ethnology and Folkloristics
Film Studies
Finno-Ugric Studies
French Language and Culture
German as a Minority Language and Literature
German Language and Literature
Hebrew Studies
Historical Museology
History
History of Art
Hungarian Language and Literature
Indo-German Studies
Indology
Iranian Studies
Italian Language and Culture
Japanese Studies
Latin
Linguistics
Literary Criticism/Cultural Studies
Medieval Cultures
Mongolian Studies
Philosophy
Polish Language and Literature
Portugese Language and Culture
Romanian Language and Culture
Russian Language and Literature
Scandinavian Studies
Science of Religion
Serbian Language and Literature
Slovakian Language and Literature
Slovenian Language and Literature
Spanish Language and Culture
Tibetan Studies
Translation and Interpreting
Turkic Studies
Ukrainian Language and Literature
MA Teacher Courses
Teacher of Bulgarian and Ethnic Bulgarian Language and Culture
Chinese Language and Culture
Cinematography and Media
Communication
Croatian and Ethnic Croatian Language and Culture
English Language and Culture
Aesthetics
Ethics
French Language and Culture
German and Ethnic German Language and Culture
Greek and Ethnic Greek Language and Literature
History
History of Arts
Hungarian as a Foreign Language
Hungarian Language and Literature
Italian Language and Culture
Japanese Language and Culture
Language and Speech Development
Latin Language and Culture
Hungarian Culture and Civilisation
Music
Philosophy
Polish Language and Culture
Portugese Language and Culture
Romanian Language and Culture
Russian Language and Culture
Slovakian and Ethnic Slovakian Language and Culture
Slovenian and Ethnic Slovenian Language and Culture
Spanish Language and Culture
Ukrainian and Ethnic Ukrainian Language and Culture
Doctoral schools
There are almost 1000 students enrolled in various PhD. programmes at the Faculty. High standards are guaranteed by highly qualified instructors, many of whom are Academic Doctors and often Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Doctoral Schools of the Faculty
PhD School of Ethnography
PhD School of History
PhD School of History of Arts
PhD School of Linguistics
PhD School of Literature
PhD School of Philosophy
Institutes of the Faculty
Institute of Ancient History
Institute of Archeology
Institute of Art History
Institute of Art Theory and Media Research
Institute of English and American Studies
Institute of Ethnography
Institute of German Philology
Institute of History
Istitute of Hungarian Language and of Finno–Ugrian Studies
Institute of Hungarian Literature
Institute of Informatics and Library Studies
Institute of Oriental Studies
Institute of Philosophy
Institute of Romance Philology
Institute of Slavic and Baltic Philology