HONLAP 3. TÖRTÉNET

History

 

The State Ballet Institute, opened in September 1950, renamed to Hungarian Dance Academy on 1st July 1991 has been called the Hungarian Dance University since 1st February 2017. The institution was reor- ganised as part of higher education in 1983 and has operated a primary school (later a secondary school for eight grades) right from its establishment. As the school had a dormitory too, we could introduce a unique model in Hungarian arts higher education. Qualifications to be obtained were constantly rising to a higher level: from 1950, the institution functioned as a school of an intermediate level, from 1975 as one similar to those in higher education, from 1983 with a narrower profile in higher education, from 2006 as an academy of higher education with BA and MA programmes and finally,from 2017 as a university running BA and MA programmes.