Welcoming the 3000th international student at the UP
16 November 2016
A special diploma was also conferred at the ceremonial Doctor honoris causa meeting of the Senate of the University of Pécs, the 3000th international student, Mohamed Omar Youssef Shaaban Mahmoud was greeted, who comes from Egypt and is in international relations at the Faculty of Humanities. As he said he loves the city of Pécs and considers it a really good decision to choose the UP.
Photo: Szabolcs Csortos, UnivPécs
The University of Pécs, which celebrates the 650th jubilee year of its foundation plans to achieve significant improvements within the framework of the Modern Cities Programme in the near future. The goal is to improve the national and international competitiveness of the university and increase the number of international students. In the latter case it is visible that the UP reached an important milestone with the 3000th number, because the ultimate goal is to achieve number 5000 by 2020.
József Bódis, rector of the UP said in connection with the award of the diploma:
"Every day we can see that the city of Pécs becomes culturally richer and more diverse through our international students. We will do our best to implement development by means of the Modern Cities Programmes, which can help and support their staying here and increase the feeling of comfort. At the same time it is important to emphasize that from these improvements the Hungarian students can also benefit a lot."
Interview with Mohamed Omar Youssef Shaaban Mahmoud, the 3000th international student at the UP »
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