the doctoral degree, "Doctor Rerum Technicarum." 1910 – The university moved to its current site near Gellért square (next to the Art Nouveau Hotel Gellért). 1925 – First women students enroll. 1934 – The university was reorganized again as Palatine Joseph University of Technology and Economics and it played a dominant role in the interwar industrialization process, together with engineering and economist training in Hungary. 1939 – The Institute for Continuing Education opens its gates. 1949 – The name "Technical University of Budapest" becomes official. At this time the university consists of the faculties of: Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Architecture, Chemical Engineering and Electrical Engineering (in historical order). 1955 – Faculty of Transportation Engineering is established. 1956 – The 1956 Hungarian Revolution was partly launched by students at the university, followed by many professors. 1967 – The two technical universities seated in Budapest were merged to form the Technical University of Budapest, with six faculties. 1984 – Instruction is offered in English as well as Hungarian. 1994 – The Technical University of Budapest is among the first universities in Hungary to introduce the credit system. The university applies the credit assignment according to the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) in its accredited academic programs. 1998 – Faculty of Natural Sciences and Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences are established. 2000 – The official name changes to Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Faculties At present the university has eight Faculties (founding date in parentheses): Faculty of Civil Engineering (1782) Civil engineering Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (1871) Mechanical engineering Mechatronics engineering Energy engineering Industrial design engineering Industrial Command Engineering Faculty of Architecture (1873) Architecture Faculty of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology (1873) Chemical engineering Biochemical engineering Environmental engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (1949) Electrical Engineering Computer Science Engineering Faculty of Transportation Engineering and Vehicle Engineering (1955) Transportation engineering Vehicle engineering Logistics engineering Faculty of Natural Sciences (1998*) Mathematics Physics Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences (1998*) Technical Engineering management Technical education Economic Applied economics Business and management International business Regional and environmental economics Social Communication and media studies The Faculty of Natural and Social Sciences was founded in 1987 and separated in 1998. The organizational structure The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) is a public higher education institute operating as a central budgetary institution. Its founding regulation has been issued by the Minister of