University of Szeged 401-500 in the world, 124th–168th in the scientific ranking of European universities, and second in the national ranking. In 2014, the QS World University Rankings put the University of Szeged as 501-550 among universities globally. Its highest ranked subject area was Modern Languages with 101-150 globally. The University's operating budget for 2014 was US$220 million. The predecessor to the modern university was the University of Kolozsvár (University of today's Cluj-Napoca), founded in 1872 by Emperor Franz Joseph I., which had to move to Hungary after the Treaty of Trianon in 1921, and was restarted in Szeged. Among its teachers were
Third-country economic relationships with the European Union per capita to show the relative economic development level of the different countries. Reference values for the EU average, highest and lowest are included. Third-country economic relationships with the European Union The European Union has a number of relationships with nations that are not formally part of the Union. According to the European Union's official site, and a statement by Commissioner Günter Verheugen, the aim is to have a ring of countries, sharing EU's democratic ideals and joining them in further integration without necessarily becoming full member states. The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) was created to allow European countries