Education
Marmara University with more than 3000 distinguished faculty members and a student body reaching 60.000 is located in several different campuses scattered throughout the cosmopolitan city of Istanbul. It has been one of the leading institutions of higher education in Turkey for 124 years. The university promoted itself rapidly to international stature together with the Faculties of Engineering, Medicine and Dentistry where the medium of instruction is in Turkish and English. The university also includes the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, which provide education in four different languages: Turkish, English, French and German, thus making Marmara University the only “multi-lingual” university in Turkey. Having a remarkable success especially in the areas of Medicine, Law and Fine arts both the faculty members and the students compete in their participation and dedication to academic work to enhance the educational quality and the effective implementation of scientific studies in Marmara University.
Marmara University not only provides up-to-date contemporary education, fulfilling the requirements of today’s modern society with the guidance of the norms of enlightenment, but also prepares students for the future through participatory democratic administration in accordance with the principles set by the constitution of Turkey. In pursuit of these goals, 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 working at various units. About a siginificiant number of 500 faculty members also teaching at other universities, thus sharing their knowledge and experience of Marmara tradition.
Marmara University currently 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 currently studying at the institution. Female students constitute 54% of the total student population.
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