History of the Faculty

The mean milestiones

• 1990 the first economist bachelor degree program started
• 1991 Institute of Economics, than  in 1993 Faculty of Econimics was established
• 1998 Széchenyi István College was the first business school where the Minister of Public Education -with the assistance of the Accreditation Committee and the Scientific Council of Higher Education- gave permission to start the Master’s programme in economics
• 1999 the four year International Relations BSc programme started
• 2002 the International Communication bachelor programme began
• 2002 Széchenyi István College was granted the rank of university. On this particular occasion two faculties – the Faculty of Engineering Sciences and the Faculty of Law and Economics - were formed.
• 2003 succesfull accreditation of the Multidisciplinary Doctoral School for Social Sciences
• 2006 Bologna-system was introduced with 4 new bachelor courses
• 2007 Kautz Gyula Faculty of Economics began operate -when Faculty of Economics and Faculty of Law were separated -, with 5 departments and the Center of Foreign Languages
• 2008 Doctoral School of Regional and Economic Sciences operate in its own right, Faculty of Law left the Doctoral School
• 2008 3 new master courses started in this year, one more in 2009 and one more in 2010
• 2009 the European Credit Transfer System will be introduced and used in all Bachelor and Master’s courses
• 2010 the first master programme in English language started (Marketing MSc)
• 2015 executive MBA programme started
• 2016 the whole University and within the Faculty was reorganised, social sciences and economic sciences was separated, Kautz Gyula Faculty of Economics has 6 department  which are responsible for the education and research of different field of economic sciences
• 2016 the first English language PhD programme in Management in Hungary started within the Doctoral School
• 2017 internalization got a focus, new master programme started in English (Supply Chain Management), in 2019 one more master and a bachelor programme start in English (International Economy and Business MSc and Business Administration and Management BSc)
• 2018 new master programme got accreditation also in English language (Tourism Management MSc)

The recent structure of the faculty is introduced at the following website: https://kgk.sze.hu/en_GB/departments

The dean of the faculty is Sándor Remsei PhD. 

Previous leaders of our faculty