Marmara University (
Turkish: ''Marmara Üniversitesi'') is a public university in
Istanbul
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,
Turkey
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.
The university is named after the
Sea of Marmara
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and was founded as a university in 1982. However, it was created in 1883 under the name of ''Hamidiye Ticaret Mekteb-i Âlisi'', in a house in the center of
Istanbul
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.
It offers courses in five languages (
Turkish,
English
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* English people
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,
German
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**Ge ...
,
French,
Arabic
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), the only multilingual university in Turkey.
The university has 13 campuses, 11 institutes, 8 colleges and 28 research centers.
Prominent alumni include Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Recep may refer to:
People Surname
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* Sibel Recep (born 1987), Swedish pop singer
Given name
* Recep Adanır (born 1929), Turkish footballer
* Recep Akdağ (born 1960), Turkish physician and poli ...
, comic actor
Kemal Sunal
Ali Kemal Sunal (11 November 1944 – 3 July 2000) was a Turkish actor and comedian. With ''Hababam Sınıfı'', '' Kapıcılar Kralı'' and ''Davaro'', Sunal gained large popularity amongst Turkish cinema goers and was famed for his charact ...
and media mogul
Aydın Doğan
Aydın Doğan (born 15 April 1936) is a Turkish business magnate and investor. He is the founder of Doğan Holding, one of Turkey's largest conglomerates.
Biography
Born in 1936 as a member of a well-known family in Kelkit. Doğan went to e ...
.
Education
Marmara University has more than 3,000 faculty members and a student body reaching 60.000 over several campuses in the city of
Istanbul
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. It has been one of the leading institutions of higher education in
Turkey
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for 124 years. The university promoted itself rapidly to international stature together with the faculties of Engineering, Medicine and Dentistry where the mediums of instruction are Turkish and English. The university includes the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, which provides education in five languages: Turkish, English, French, Arabic, and German, making Marmara University the only multilingual university in Turkey. The university has been particularly successful in
Medicine
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,
Law
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and
Fine Arts. New faculties were formed with the arrival of new students from Istanbul City University with its official closing in 2020.
The university follows the
norms of enlightenment and prepares students through participatory
democratic administration in accordance with the principles set by the
constitution of Turkey. 2839 faculty members are employed, including 558 professors, 234 associate professors, 569 assistant professors, 237 lecturers, 987 research assistants, 172 instructors, 78 specialists, and 3 translators, 1 education planner along with 1354 administrative personnel. 500 faculty members are teaching at other universities.
Marmara University has 57,000 students, of whom 44,661 are undergraduate students and 7,406 graduate students. A total of 1,354 foreign students from 73 countries are studying at the institution. Female students constitute 54% of the total population.
Faculties
Atatürk Faculty of EducationFaculty of DentistryFaculty of PharmacyFaculty of Arts and SciencesFaculty of Fine ArtsFaculty of LawFaculty of Economics and Administrative SciencesFaculty of DivinityFaculty of CommunicationFaculty of EngineeringFaculty of Technical EducationFaculty of Medicine
Graduate schools
![Former_Haydarpaşa_High_School_building](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Former_Haydarpa%C5%9Fa_High_School_building.jpg)
* Institute for Graduate Studies in Pure and Applied Sciences
* European Community Institute, renamed as European Union Institute in 2007
* Institute of Banking and Insurance
* Institute of Educational Sciences
* Institute of Gastroenterology Science
* Institute of Fine Arts
* Institute of Neurological Sciences
* Institute of Medical Studies
* Institute of Social Sciences
* Institute of Turcology Research
* Institute of Mid-Eastern Studies
* Institute of Health Sciences
Vocational schools
Four-year programs
* School of Banking and Insurance
* School of Physical Education and Sports
* School of Nursing
* İstanbul Zeynep Kamil Vocational School of Health Services
* School of Foreign Languages
Two-year programs
* Vocational School of Divinity
* Vocational School of Health Related Professions
* Vocational School of Social Studies
* Vocational School of Technical Studies
International profile
The university admits international students and provides education at international standards in almost all fields. Marmara University, is a modern and international university which hosts and participates in scientific meetings, cultural activities, art exhibitions and sports along with various other national and international events. Marmara University is one of the few Turkish universities which are members of the
European University Association (EUA). Faculties of Engineering and Technical Education are also carrying out their international studies through
ABET
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. The Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and the Institute of Social Sciences are in the process of preparation for the quality assessment carried out by
EQUIS
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, an international system of accreditation in management and business administration in Europe. The Institute of Social Sciences is now an institutional member of
EFMD, European Foundation for Management Development. The Faculty of Law consistently participates in several international
moot court
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competitions such as
Phillip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition in the United States and
Willem C. Vis Moot Court Competition in Austria. The Faculty of Law along with the Department of Political Science and International Relations represents the university in several different
Model United Nations
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programs every year. Through the Socrates program the university has hosted 120 faculty members, and has sent 53 abroad in the last five years.
Serving students among 73 countries, the university has always been proactive in forming and extending its international relations. Most recently Marmara University acts to forge links with other European universities and also with the institutions outside the EU that will allow students and researchers to access a wide range of opportunities. Many academic units within the university have been successful in developing student/lecturer exchanges within the framework of the
LLP
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,
Erasmus/Socrates programmes offered by the
European Commission
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. Within the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, the Department of Political Science and International Relations alone has developed Erasmus Agreements with the Centre for European Studies,
Jagiellonian University,
Poland
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; Department of Political Science,
Stockholm University
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,
Sweden
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; Faculty of Preservation of Cultural Heritage,
University of Bologna
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,
Italy
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; Faculty of Political and Social Science,
University of Antwerp
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,
Belgium
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; Institute for Political Science,
University of Regensburg
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,
Germany
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and the Institute for Political Science,
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
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, Germany; College of Social Pedagogy, Alice Salomon Vocational College Hannover, Germany. While the Faculty of Law has its links with
University of Münster
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With more than 43,000 students and over ...
,
Free University of Berlin
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,
University of Bielefeld
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,
University of Cologne
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from
Germany
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,
University of Athens
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from
Greece
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,
University of Linz
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from
Austria
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,
Paris Descartes University from
France
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and
University of Siena
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from
Italy
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.
The International Office of Marmara University and the student-oriented
ESN Marmara organisation provide support to the foreigner students among the university. Every year the students of Marmara University Management Club organize an 'International Week' to promote the social standings of the international community of Marmara University along with offering a wide-ranged cultural program to the international guest-students invited to the event.
Efficiency in Erasmus Programme
Between the 2003-2004 and 2009-2010 educational terms the university sent 1097 students abroad by Erasmus Programme. The students who admitted to program had chances to study 1-2 terms in one of the 230 partner universities of 22 European Countries. 95% of the admitted students applied to the undergraduate and graduate programs while other 5% had the chance of admitting to the foreign internship programs. Mentioned students financially supported in their time abroad by the university and
European Commission
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. In the same time sequence Marmara University hosted 839 European students with the same programme. Due to the statistics published by the EU Education and Youth Programmes Center, Marmara University is one of the top 3 choices among the foreigner students who have applied to the exchange programs offered in Turkey.
Marmara University offers free intensive language courses(EILC) in Turkish for foreign students since 2006. By this program university had the honour of winning th
European Language Label an award offered from
European Commission
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.
Rankings
In 2018,
Times Higher Education
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Ownership
TPG Capital acquired TSL Education ...
ranked Marmara University within the 801-1000 band globally.
Alumni
![Tayyip Erdoğan](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Tayyip_Erdo%C4%9Fan.JPG)
*
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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,
Turkish President
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, shall have graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in 1981,
but the University was established in 1982.
*
Aydın Doğan
Aydın Doğan (born 15 April 1936) is a Turkish business magnate and investor. He is the founder of Doğan Holding, one of Turkey's largest conglomerates.
Biography
Born in 1936 as a member of a well-known family in Kelkit. Doğan went to e ...
, Turkish businessman and industrialist in 1960
*
Nihat Ergün, Turkish minister of Industry and Commerce since May 2009
*
Kemal Sunal
Ali Kemal Sunal (11 November 1944 – 3 July 2000) was a Turkish actor and comedian. With ''Hababam Sınıfı'', '' Kapıcılar Kralı'' and ''Davaro'', Sunal gained large popularity amongst Turkish cinema goers and was famed for his charact ...
, Turkish actor known particularly for his role in film comedies, graduated with a master's degree from the Television Studies Department of Marmara University's Institute of Social Sciences
*
Ismail Acar, Turkish artist
*
Betül Kaçar
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, Turkish astrobiologist
*
Nazlı Tolga
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Nazlı Tolga was born in ...
, Turkish journalist
*
Nesrin Nas
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She was born in the Central Anatolian town of Bünyan in Kayseri Province. Her father's name ...
, Turkish academic, politician and the former leader of the
Motherland Party
*
Ali Kurumahmut, former Member of the Turkish Council of State
*
Sevil Sabancı
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Biography
She was born on January 4, 1973, in Istanbul, Turkey as the third child of Sakıp Sabancı, the founder of Saban ...
, member of the
Sabancı family
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in third generation, a Turkish businesswoman
*
Setenay Özbek, Turkish writer, artist and documentary maker
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Mustafa Sarıgül
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, former Member of the Turkish Parliament and
mayor
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of the
Istanbul
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district of
Şişli
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since 1999
*
Hakan Utangaç
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, musician
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Şebnem Paker
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Biography
Early life
Yıldo was born in Konya, Turkey. He studied high sch ...]
, showman, retired football player
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Edibe Sözen, Prof. Dr., academician and politician
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Bengü, musician
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Kıraç, musician
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Aysel Özakın, Turkish-British writer
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Kaan Urgancıoğlu, Turkish actor
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Hussein A Mwinyi, Zanzibar President
E-campus for students
E-Campus of Marmara University
Campus
Marmara University has 12 campuses, with one of them serving as a hospital, widespread to the city of Istanbul.
Göztepe Campus (Main Campus)Haydarpaşa CampusAnadolu Hisarı CampusAcıbadem CampusNişantaşı CampusBağlarbaşı CampusBahçelievler CampusKartal CampusBeyazıt CampusTarabya CampusMarmara University HospitalSultanahmet Campus
The broadcasting around campuses are listed below:
Marmara University TVRadio Marmara
Sports
![MarmaraÜniversitesiSpor 20140112](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Marmara%C3%9CniversitesiSpor_20140112.JPG)
Sport and leisure activities are officially organized by the Directorate of Health Culture and Sports for the student body, and are offered to students and university personnel. The facilities are provided for many different kinds of sports such as basketball, volleyball, chess, table-tennis, dancing, fitness, tae-bo and mountaineering.
On the Göztepe Campus, there is a sports hall with a capacity of 850 that can be expanded to 2000. In addition to the larger hall, there are three smaller multi-purpose halls, three classrooms, a fitness center, a billiards saloon, and a dark room for the members of the Photography Club and for those who take photography courses. On the campus there are open courts for tennis, volleyball and basketball.
The students are encouraged to take part in men's and women's school teams for volleyball, basketball and soccer at the Rectorate Cup, in the tournaments for chess and table tennis and in the inter-university games.
On the Anadoluhisarı Campus where the School for Physical Education and Sports is situated, there is a multi-purpose sports hall, areas of indoor and outdoor sports activity (such as tennis, volleyball), field sports (such as football and soccer), and other sports (such as gymnastics, fitness and wrestling). There is an indoor olympic swimming pool, a mini golf course, a boathouse and an athletics track.
See also
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List of universities in Turkey
This is a list of universities in Turkey. There are 209 universities and academies in total: 129 state universities (eleven technical universities, one institutes of technology, and two fine arts university, one special national defense universit ...
Notes
References
External links
Marmara University Homepage (English)Marmara University Faculty of Engineering (English)E-Campus of Marmara University (Turkish)Marmara Üniversitesi Öğrenci Portalı(Turkish)
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