A Hajdú-Bihar Megyei Levéltár évkönyve 31. 2006–2009 (Debrecen, 2009)
Tanulmányok - Tóth Agnes: Pillanatképek a debreceni M. Kir. Középiskolai Tanárképző Intézet történetéből /1925-1949/
362 Király Sándor: Az egyetemi hallgatók létszámának alakulása... Development of the number of university students between the two World Wars Sándor Király The significant development in the number of university and college students after the Great War was well known to the researchers dealing with the Horthy era. However there were some points that were not highlighted enough in the studies such as: how long the development lasted exactly, how the students’ number of certain universities were broken down and how that development was divided between the different branches of sciences. This paper studies the four universities / with the university of Pozsony and Kolozsvár, altogether six ones/ plus the Technical University. The paper, besides giving the total data of the country, related to the muster-roll of the above mentioned institutions of higher education, published the data related to the whole era in facultybreaking down, too. This method made a comparative and complex examination possible, which compered not only the universities one by one but the students’ divisions among the faculties, as well. With the help of the figures and charts being in the work, the study can show which have been unknown up to the present, or the processes, which have never been examined before such a thorough and expressive way. Considering that the sources of the recent published data were based on the government’s reports up to 1941, the author could examine the phenomena and tendencies thoroughly taking the least changes into consideration. This study approaches the changes of the numbers of university students from social-historical point of view and with its own methods. It is to be hoped that the study serves some novelties for experts dealing with the history of Hungarian higher education between the two World Wars and for the wider range of readers who are interested in this era.
