Marmara University

Marmara University (Turkish: Marmara Üniversitesi) is a public research university in Istanbul, Turkey. The university, named after the Sea of Marmara, was founded as a university in 1982. However, its origins date back to 1883, when it was established as Hamidiye Ticaret Mekteb-i Âlisi in a house in central Istanbul. The university offers courses in five languages: Turkish, English, German, French, and Arabic, making it the only multilingual university in Turkey. It operates 13 campuses, 11 institutes, 8 colleges, and 28 research centers. Prominent alumni include Turkish comic actor Kemal Sunal, and former media mogul Aydın Doğan.

Organisation

Marmara University has several campuses in Istanbul and offers education in five languages: Turkish, English, German, French, and Arabic. The university employs 2,839 faculty members and has 57,000 students, including 44,661 undergraduate students and 7,406 graduate students. A total of 1,354 international students from 73 countries are enrolled at the institution. Female students make up 54% of the total student population. The broadcasting services at the campuses include Marmara University TV and Radio Marmara. Marmara University has 12 campuses, with one of them serving as a hospital, widespread to the city of Istanbul.

Campuses

• Göztepe Main Campus
• Acıbadem Campus
• Anadoluhisarı Campus
• Bağlarbaşı Campus
• Kartal Campus
• Mehmet Genç Campus (Formerly Istanbul Şehir University)
• Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Maltepe Campus
• Sultanahmet Campus
• Pendik Marmara University Hospital

Faculties

• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Dentistry
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences
• Atatürk Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Pharmacy
• Faculty of Arts and Sciences
• Faculty of Fine Arts
• Faculty of Theology
• Faculty of Communication
• Faculty of Engineering
• Faculty of Technology
• Faculty of Health Education

Vocational Schools

• 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
• Vocational School of Divinity
• Vocational School of Health Related Professions
• Vocational School of Social Studies
• Vocational School of Technical Studies

Graduate Schools

• Institute for Graduate Studies in Pure and Applied Sciences
• Institute of European Studies
• Institute of Banking and Insurance
• Institute of Educational Sciences
• Institute of Gastroenterology
• Institute of Fine Arts
• Institute of Neurological Sciences
• Institute of Medical Studies
• Institute of Social Sciences
• Institute of Turkic Studies
• Institute of Middle Eastern Studies
• Institute of Health Sciences

Sports

Sport and leisure activities at the university are officially organized by the Directorate of Health, Culture, and Sports and are available to both students and university personnel. The facilities support a variety of sports, including basketball, volleyball, chess, table tennis, dancing, fitness, tae-bo, and mountaineering.

At the Göztepe Campus, there is a sports hall with a capacity of 850, which can be expanded to 2,000. In addition to the main hall, there are three smaller multi-purpose halls, three classrooms, a fitness center, a billiards saloon, and a darkroom for the Photography Club and photography courses. The campus also features open courts for tennis, volleyball, and basketball.

International profile

Marmara University is an institution that hosts and participates in scientific meetings, cultural activities, art exhibitions, sports, and various other national and international events. Marmara University is a member of the European University Association (EUA). Faculties of Engineering and Technical Education are also carrying out their international studies through ABET. 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, 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 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 programs every year.

The university serves students from 73 countries and has focused on developing and expanding 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 and lecturer exchanges within the framework of the Erasmus and Socrates programmes offered by the European Commission. Within the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, the Department of Political Science and International Relations alone has developed Erasmus Agreements with the Center for European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Poland; Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden; Faculty of Preservation of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Italy; Faculty of Political and Social Science, University of Antwerp, Belgium; Institute for Political Science, University of Regensburg, Germany and the Institute for Political Science, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany; College of Social Pedagogy, Alice Salomon Vocational College Hannover, Germany. While the Faculty of Law has its links with University of Münster, Free University of Berlin, Bielefeld University, University of Cologne from Germany, University of Athens from Greece, University of Linz from Austria, Paris Descartes University from France and University of Siena from Italy.

Alumni

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — President of Turkey, have graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in 1981, but the university was established in 1982.

• Aydın Doğan — Turkish businessman and industrialist
• Nihat Ergün — Turkish minister
• Kemal Sunal — Turkish actor graduated from the Television Studies Department of Marmara University's Institute of Social Sciences
• Ismail Acar — Turkish artist
• Betül Kaçar — Turkish astrobiologist
• Nazlı Tolga — Turkish journalist
• Nesrin Nas — Turkish academic, politician and the former leader of the Motherland Party
• Ali Kurumahmut — Former Member of the Council of State of Turkey
• Sevil Sabancı — Turkish businesswoman and member of the Sabancı family
• Setenay Özbek — Turkish writer, artist and documentary maker
• Mustafa Sarıgül — Member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and former mayor of Şişli
• Hakan Utangaç — Musician
• Şebnem Paker — Turkish guitarist and singer
• Hakan Utangaç — Guitarist and vocalist of Mezarkabul

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