Nation-Building and Contested Identities - MEK

The Dislocated Transylvanian Hungarian Student BodyTABLE 3. Students of the Budapest and Kolozsvár University at the End of1913-1914.FacultyBudapestUniversityKolozsvárUniversityTotal in thefacultiesPercentage ofKolozsvár studentsrelatedto BudapestfacultiesLaw 3,046 1,202 4,248 39.46Medical 2,994 530 3,524 17.70Arts 1,115 178 1,293 15.96Natural Science — 84 84 —Pharmacology 252 125 377 49.60TOTAL 7,407 2,119 9,526 28.60Source: Magyar statisztikai évkönyv, 1914, p. 290.stay away from their homes and merge with those students who wereforced out of the nationalized institutions. The term “refugee student”may, as a matter of convenience, be used until 1924, when the first andmost numerous contingent of dislocated students had either completedtheir studies or had been integrated into the educational institutions in“Trianon Hungary.” Those coming to study in Hungary in the second halfof the twenties should not therefore be identified with the refugees of theearly 1920s.Aiming at a somewhat more accurate differentiation, the literature(mostly statistical surveys) of the period resorts to several separate categorieswhen referring to students coming from the lost territories: actualcitizenship, place of birth, and the residence of parents. 23 For obvious reasons,estimating the number of “students from the lost territories” byusing these different criteria will give different results, that is, lower figuresfor Transylvanians when taken according to citizenship, and a somewhathigher number when referring to their parents’ regional affiliation.As citizenship is a misleading category in determining the size of the“refugee” student body, it is cited only in cases where other criteria (suchas relating to parents) are not available.187