The University of West Hungary, which is at the forefront of the Hungarian higher educational institutions, has the fifth largest number of students in the country. Its campuses in five historical West Hungarian cities offer up-to-date knowledge for almost twenty thousand students, who benefit from the high standard of education and advanced infrastructure. The university’s ten faculties are located in Sopron, a jewel city situated at the meeting point of Fert? Region (part of the world heritage) and the start of the Lower Alps, a historic and festival city which won the Europa Nostra prize, in Mosonmagyaróvár, wedged in between Szigetköz and Hanság, which is famous for its medicinal water (acknowledged as one of the five most effective mineral waters of Europe), in Székesfehérvár, the coronation town of our mediaeval kings and in Szombathely with its 2,000 year history, the birthplace of Saint Martin, home town of Europe’s biggest historical carnival, the cultural and educational