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The Dislocated Transylvanian Hungarian Student BodyTABLE 4. Distribution of the Kolozsvár and Budapest Student Bodies AmongFaculties in the 1913-1914 Academic Year (Except for Theology in Budapestand the Natural Sciences Faculty in Kolozsvár).University Faculty Number of studentsPercentage of facultyin the totalof UniversityKolozsvár, 1913-1914Budapest, 1920-1921Law 1,202 59.0Medicine 530 26.0Arts 178 8.7Pharmacology 125 6.1Law 3,046 41.2Medicine 2,994 40.5Arts 1,100 14.8Pharmacology 252 3.4Source: Magyar statisztikai évkönyv, 1914, p. 290.ing, almost twice as large than that in the arts, and a much lower preferencefor economics than the average of refugees.The absolute numbers taken separately, the 1,997 students listed in1920-1921 as refugees from Transylvania present the following distributionamong branches of study: 6.7% (135) studied economics, while 60.5%(1,249) were students of “classical” departments. Of the latter, 62.3% (779)studied medicine, 26.5% (331) studied law, and 11.1% (139) were arts students.Compared to the 1913-1914 Kolozsvár contingent, the proportionalshare of law students was less than one-half, while that of medical studentsmore than doubled. Adding the 30.3% (606) of students listed in the technicaldepartments, and the 6.7% (135) of economy-students (out of the totalof 1,997), it is evident that the academic orientation of the 1920-1921 Transylvanianrefugee contingent was somewhat lagging behind the averageHungarian academic market of the period. 27The academic retrenchment of the dislocated students did alter thesocial composition of the student body to the detriment of those witha social background other than the “historic middle class.” (In 1914, 16%189