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The protestant school was founded in 1557 by Hungarian Queen Isabella Jagelló and is functioning in this building since 1602.
The prestige and reputation of the educational institution developed and strengthened starting in 1804, when Bolyai Farkas accepted the invitation tenure as Professor of Mathematics.
The son of the known mathematician, Bolyai János, has also studied here.
The artwork by Izsák István Márton and Csorvássy István was unveiled in the Bolyai square in front of the school, on the occasion of 400 years anniversary of the founding of the school, on September 8, 1957. The statue represents the school's former mathematics teacher Bolyai Farkas and his son Bolyai János, reformer of geometry and mathematical thinking. Since then the collegium was named after Bolyai Farkas.
Marosvásárhely / Târgu Mureş lies at the junction of three geographical regions (Mezőség / Câmpia Transilvaniei, Maros Valley and Nyárádmente) at about 220 meters above sea level. The city extends onto both banks of the Maros / Mures river, however, the downtown area and the greater part of the districts are located on the left bank. The Somos-high is the city's highest point (465m above sea level, GPS co-ordinates: width N 46° 33,1840'; lenght E 24° 35,9050' ) The city's climate is moderately continental.The city is surrounded by the following townships: Marosszentgyörgy (Sîngeorgiu), Jedd (Livezeni), Marosszentanna, Marosszentkirály, Koronka (Corunca) and Maroskeresztúr.Distances between Târgu Mureş / Marosvásárhely and some of the major cities in Romania: * Bucharest: by rail 448 km, by road 346 km * Brasov / Brassó / Kronstadt: by rail 282 km, by road 171 km * Cluj-Napoca / Kolozsvár 127 km by rail, by road 105 km * Sibiu / Nagyszeben / Hermannstadt by rail 189 km, by road 124 km
