Top 10 Universities in Turkey | Turkish Culture

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Herkese merhaba, ben Seda!

Hi everybody!

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Today I will be talking about the top 10 universities in Turkey.

First one is Hacettepe University.

Hacettepe University was founded in 1967 in the fields of science, technology and art with 16

faculties, 15 institutes, 4 vocational schools and 2 colleges, 1 conservatory,

98 research and application centers.

It is located in our capital Ankara.

One of the most demanded majors in Hacettepe is medicine.

And you have to get a very high score in university exam to be able to get into

medicine in Hacettepe.

So you gotta be good.

Another top university is Ortadoğu Teknik Üniversitesi, the way we call it ODTÜ.

It's one of the best universities in Turkey.

The Middle Eastern Technical University is founded under the name of "Orta Doğu Yüksek Teknoloji Enstitüsü" (Middle East High Technology Institute) in 1956 to contribute to the development

of Turkey and Middle East countries and especially to train people so as to

create a skilled workforce in the fields of natural and social sciences.

And it's also located in Ankara.

It has 41 under-graduate programs with 5 faculties.

Additionally, there are 5 graduate schools with 105 masters and 70 doctorate programs

and a school of foreign language which includes the English Preparatory Department.

And 15 undergraduate programs and 5 graduate programs are offered at the

Northern Cyprus campus.

So that's a lot of information I know and let me check the other one.

And yeah, its engineering programs are very popular among students and we have another

technical university on the list which is, let me see, Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi.

We call it ITÜ.

It's located in Istanbul and founded in 1773 actually.

It's one of the oldest technical universities in the world and was established with the

name of Mühendisane-i Bahre-i Hümayun by Sultan Mustafa III.

And ITÜ, the first technical university in Turkey, is identified with its engineering

and architectural programs.

It has 99 undergraduate, 179 graduate programs and they are mostly tech, science,

and engineering programs.

The next one in my list is Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi.

This university is in the Aegean region.

It has 17 faculties involving education, science, marine time, fine arts, nursing,

administrative sciences, theology, law, architecture, engineering, and so on.

And it has 10 graduate schools and institutes, 1 conservatory, 3 schools, 6 vocational schools,

and 15 research and application centers.

And their programs are very diverse and their academic stuff is also diverse.

So you should check them out.

The next one in my list is İstanbul Üniversitesi.

You know, the history of Istanbul Üniversitesi goes back to 1453.

The Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II started as a madrasa school,

as a school of philosophy, medicine, law, and letters.

And this school has changed in time, of course, and come today.

And so it has a very rich history.

You should read about it.

And its main campus is in Istanbul, in the middle of Beyazıt Square,

since the palace was located there and the school was kind of extension to that palace.

And there are 22 faculties, 767 programs currently.

And two Turkish Nobel Prize winners were graduated from Istanbul Üniversitesi.

Aziz Sancar, the scientist, Orhan Pamuk, the writer, and also me.

The other university is Koç University.

It's relatively new.

Koç University was founded in 1993 as a non-profit private university in Istanbul.

And despite the brief history, it became one of the best universities in Turkey.

The school offers scholarships as well.

It is located in the hills of Sarıyer, Istanbul.

And Koç University is 20 minutes from the Black Sea region,

surrounded by charming villages and natural landscapes.

And its medicine program is highly preferred among students.

And another one is Boğaziçi University.

Boğaziçi University is one of the highly demanded universities in Turkey.

And it is located in Bosphorus area of Istanbul, which explains the name Boğaziçi.

Robert College was founded in Istanbul,Turkey, by Dr.Cyrus Hamlin,an educator, inventor, technician, architect and builder, and Mr. Christopher Robert, a well-known philanthropist and a wealthy merchant from New York in 19th century…After a lot happened, in 1971, Bogazici University was officially established on what had been the Robert College campus for over one hundred years. It has 4 Faculties, 2 Schools, 6 Institutes covering 29 undergraduate, 67 Graduate and 33 PhD Programs. It also has157 Research Laboratory and 32 research center.

And the next one is also a technical university.

It's Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi.

Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi is located in Istanbul.

It is also the third oldest university of Turkey, with its history dating back to 1911.

It has 11 faculties, 2 institutes, the vocational schools for national palaces,

historical buildings, and vocational school for foreign languages, and

have more than 30,000 students.

And the popular majors in its school are mostly engineering majors.

Marmara University is one of the oldest educational institutions in Turkey. It started in 1883 under the name of

Hamidiye Ticaret Mekteb-i lisi.

It has 16 faculties, 9 schools, 11 institutes and more than 70000 thousand students.

Education is provided in five different languages, Turkish, English, French, German and Arabic.

This makes Marmara the only multilingual university in Turkey.

And İstanbul Üniversitesi Cerrahpaşa is the last one.

Its name was Cerrahpaşa University but in 2018 this university became part of Istanbul University. It is a medical school, a research center and a hospital. Cerrah Paşa actually means Surgeon Pasha. The name comes from Cerrah Mehmed Pasha who was a grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1598 to 1599.

The school has nine faculties, six Institutes, one college, five Vocational schools and ten research centers.

And that's it.

That's, I think, all I want to say.

That was a lot of information, I think, and I hope you found it useful.

And if you want to attend these schools, check out their websites.

Generally, they do have Turkish and English websites, and you can check out their programs

and see if they fit what you want, or just learn it as a cultural information.

I don't know.

I hope you liked it, and if you'd like to learn more about Turkey or Turkish, you can

And for more videos and audio lessons, we have a lot inside.

So till then, görüşmek üzere, görüşürüz, kendinize iyi bakın, hoşça kalın.

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