Dokuz Eylül University ( tr, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi) (DEÜ) is a university in
İzmir
İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban agglo ...
,
Turkey
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. It was founded in 1982 and is organized in 15 faculties. DEU is the first university which applied the
problem-based learning
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method in Turkey, beginning in the School of Medicine in 1997.
Several components of Dokuz Eylül University have attained a goal of continuous development in education, research and practice through the
ISO 9001
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2000 Quality Management System certificate: Social Sciences Institute and School of Maritime Business and Management (2001), University Presidency (2003) and Medical Faculty and Health Sciences Institute (2004).
History
Founded on 20 July 1982, the university's name ("September 9th") refers to 9 September 1922, the date of the
Liberation of İzmir from the
Greek
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occupation of the city, one of the final events of the
Turkish War of Independence
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. Seventeen previously established schools, including some of the faculties of
Ege University
Ege University or Aegean University ( tr, Ege Üniversitesi) is a public research university in Bornova, İzmir. It was founded in 1955 with the faculties of Medicine and Agriculture. It is the first university to start courses in İzmir and the ...
and other institutions of higher education, were affiliated with the university the same year. The university has fifteen faculties, five schools, six vocational schools, five graduate schools, and five research institutes.
Organization
There are 16 faculties into which the university is divided:
*Faculty of Education
*Faculty of Literature
*Faculty of Science
*Faculty of Fine Arts
*Maritime Faculty
*Faculty of Engineering
*Faculty of Law
*Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences
*Faculty of Theology
*Faculty of Business
*Faculty of Architecture
*Faculty of Medicine
*Faculty of Dental Medicine
*Faculty of Nursing
*Faculty of Tourism
*Faculty of Health Sciences
Campus sites
*İnciraltı (Faculty of Medicine; University Hospital; Facult of Dental Medicine; School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation; School of Nursing; Institute of Health Science; Vocational School of Health Services; International Biomedicine and Genome Institute (iBG-Izmir); Institute of Oncology)
*Alsancak (Administrative building, lifelong education facility)
*Buca-Efeler (Faculty of Education, Izmir Vocational School)
*Buca-Dokuzceşmeler (Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences; Faculty of Law; Vocational School of Judicial Practices; Buca Faculty of Education; İzmir Vocational School; Institute of Educational Sciences; School of Foreign Languages)
*Buca-Tınaztepe (Faculty of Sciences; Faculty of Business; Institute of Social Sciences; Faculty of Architecture; Faculty of Engineering; Maritime Faculty; Faculty of Fine Arts; School of State Conservatory Institute of Fine Arts)
*Hatay (Faculty of Theology; Vocational School of Religion; Institute of Religious Studies)
*Torbalı (Torbalı Vocational School)
*Urla (Maritime Faculty)
*Seferihisar (Faculty of Engineering; Department of Geophysics and Geological Engineering)
*Foça (Reha Midilli Tourism School)
Notable alumni
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Didem and Sinem Balık, (State conservatory) identical twin opera singers
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Vahide Perçin
Vahide Perçin (born 13 June 1965) is a Turkish actress and television personality. She was credited for a number of years by her married name Vahide Gördüm, but after divorcing, she went back to her birth name.
Early life
Perçin was born on ...
, actress
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Emre Aydın
Emre Aydın (born 2 February 1981) is a Turkish rock singer-songwriter. The singer won the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008 in the "Europe's Favourite Act" category. He is also the former lead singer for the Turkish rock band 6. Cadde.
Biography
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, rock singer
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Engin Altan Düzyatan
Engin Altan Düzyatan (; born 26 July 1979) is a Turkish film and television actor. Born in Karşıyaka, İzmir Province, Turkey, Düzyatan studied theatre at the Dokuz Eylül University in his home province before making his acting debut with '' ...
, actor
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Öner Erkan
Öner Erkan (born 4 January 1980) is a Turkish actor.
Biography
Öner Erkan was born on 4 January 1980 in İzmir, Turkey. He began acting at the age of 15 and graduated from Department of Theatre, Dokuz Eylül University. He received a master' ...
, actor
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Şenay Gürler
Şenay Gürler (born 28 June 1966) is a Turkish actress.
She was graduated from Dokuz Eylül University in Fine Arts. She performed at the İzmir Art Theatre and worked at TRT as a presenter. After working as a dubbing artist, she began actin ...
, actress
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Zafer İlken, academic and rector of
İzmir Institute of Technology
İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban agglo ...
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Bülent İnal, actor
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Cengiz Küçükayvaz, actor
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Semih Kaplanoğlu
Semih Kaplanoğlu (born 4 April 1963) is a Turkish screenwriter, film director and producer.
Life and career
In 1984, Kaplanoğlu moved to Istanbul and worked for a couple of years as a copywriter for advertising companies like Güzel Sanatlar ...
, screenwriter, film director and producer
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Betül Cemre Yıldız
Betül Cemre Yıldız Kadıoğlu (born 16 May 1989) is a top female chess player from Turkey. She is a Woman Grandmaster (WGM), and won the Turkish women's championship eleven times in total.
She became in 2004 Woman International Master (WIM), ...
, female chess player
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İbrahim Karagül
İbrahim Karagül (born 1969 in Sinlice, Salpazari, Trabzon) is a Turkish journalist and a former editor in chief of the newspaper ''Yeni Safak''.
Education and early life
He attended primary school in Sinlice, secondary education he received ...
, Turkish journalist
See also
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Balkan Universities Network
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List of universities in İzmir
This list of universities in İzmir lists the universities within the city limits of İzmir
Public universities
Private universities
Former universities
See also
* List of universities in Istanbul
* List of universities in Ankara
* ...
References
External links
Dokuz Eylül University WebsiteEnglishSayılarla Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi
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Universities and colleges in İzmir
Educational institutions established in 1982
1982 establishments in Turkey