Student life

Yes, all foreign students are entitled to accommodation in one of our dormitories, if they pay the required accommodation fee and fill out the dormitory registration form sent in advance. In the case of non-payment of the accommodation fee or failing to fill out the registration form, the university does not guarantee accommodation in the dormitory.

Yes, however, you must indicate this intention at least two weeks before the registration week at the beginning of each academic year. In the official email, please include the names of the students who want to live in the same dormitory room. 

You will have an assigned mentor and a mentor coordinator who will be happy to help you. You can also count on the colleagues of the International Relations Office in administrative matters as well as the faculty coordinators and your lecturers in academic matters. 

You can find more information about the opportunities at the following link.

• If you are a student coming from an EEA state (member states of the EU and Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, and Lichtenstein), there is no limitation regarding working hours, but you need to hold a registration card.
• If you are a citizen of a country that is not part of the European Economic Area (non-EEA state), you can be employed during your studies with a residence permit for study purposes and work 30 hours a week during your study period, or 90 days or 66 working days outside your study period.

14 tennis courts, an athletics track, basketball and streetball courts, a football pitch, a sports hall, and a swimming pool can be found on campus. There are fitness rooms and gyms in the Sports Hall (the round building opposite the Uni-Hotel). 

The campus also has a restaurant, a cafe, a bar and a nightclub. 

Many hiking trails start from the area into the Bükk Mountains. 

Yes, it is possible to have meals according to special needs in the restaurants available on campus.

Yes, the university, the dormitories and the campus area have free internet access and wifi service available. 

Foreign students with disabilities must submit a certificate of disability from their home country to ELTE National Pedagogical Service.  

ELTE GYOPSZ will certify the existence of the disability based on the certified translation of the document without any additional examination. A brief cover letter in English or Hungarian is sufficient. 

Accommodations students with disabilities are entitled to at the University of Miskolc: 

• Interchangeability of oral and written tasks/exams  
• Increased time to perform tasks or pass exams (30% more) 
• Use of PC or other supportive tools or specific materials  
• Break during a lesson  
• Authorised break in an exam  
• Extra consultation hours with teachers  
• Spelling mistakes not taken into account  
• Shorter time for class attendance  
• Learning over a longer time frame  
• A helper who can take lecture notes  
• Dedicated room exclusively for disabled students  

Important

According to the Hungarian Higher Education Act disability covers persons with: 

• visual impairment (blindness, low vision, partial sight), 
• hearing impairment (deafness, hard of hearing, cochlea implant), 
• physical disability, 
• specific learning difficulties and neurodevelopmental disorders (dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, ADHD), 
• speech impairment or language disorders, 
• autism-spectrum disorder. 

If you have specific questions or need other special help, please contact us at the following email address: sandor.fekete@uni-miskolc.hu