In September 2011, the Ferenc Kölcsey Teacher Training College of the Reformed Church was integrated into the University.

Theology was taught in the Debrecen Reformed College (Debreceni Református Kollégium in Hungarian) right from its foundation in 1538.

In a document from the general synod of the Reformed Church is talking about the high expectations to theological training in the institute: "As the schools are gardens of the church (seminarium ecclesiae)... the languages, Latin and Greek grammar (as well as Hebrew, if possible), dialectics, rhetorics, and the free arts should be taught, these are necessary for theological studies.

Then theology and the Scriptures are also to be presented to the students..."[1] The college educated generations of ministers to the Calvinist parishes in Hungary and Transylvania in the last almost five centuries.

[3] Therefore, currently the university has two campuses, four institutes, eighteen departments and 1,200 students studying in its Bachelor, Master and Doctorate programs.

It is located very close to the Main Building, only a few yards away from Calvin Square, named after the street it faces: Péterfia.