For the first time in its history, Széchenyi István University has been included in the Times Higher Education's World University Rankings 2024 by Subject. The latest success in the engineering category confirms that the institution is among the international leaders.

Each autumn, Times Higher Education (THE), one of the leading international higher education ranking organisations, publishes its annual world ranking of the world's best universities in their field. The rankings for 2024, published on 26 October, analyse universities in 11 disciplines according to five indicators - teaching, research, academic publications, internationalisation and industry income. In the engineering category, more than 1,400 universities were ranked, including, for the first time, Széchenyi István University, which means that the institution is among the world leaders in this field.

Zoltán Alföldi, a lecturer at Széchenyi István University, is taking part in a one-year coaching training course of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the University of Delaware, in the framework of which he spent almost a month in the United States. The professional, who has been voted Coach of the Year in Hungary eight times, has been in contact with renowned figures in sports science, with whom he is planning to conduct joint researches.