Ankara University
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Ankara University
A public university in the capital of Turkey.
Founded in 1946, Ankara University includes faculties of letters, pharmacy, education, science, law, divinity, political science, medicine, veterinary science, agriculture, and dentistry, as well as schools of home economics, journalism, justice, and health sciences, and vocational schools in neighboring Çankiri, Kastamonu, and Kirikkale provinces. In the 2002 - 2003 academic year, the university had about 2,600 teaching staff and 42,400 students (40 percent female).
Ankara University came into being with the incorporation of three existing colleges. The first to be established in Ankara, the new capital of the Republic of Turkey, was the Faculty of Law, founded in 1925. The Faculty of Language, History, and Geography was established in 1936. In the same year, the Faculty of Political Science, originally established in Istanbul in 1859 to train civil servants for the Ottoman Empire, was moved to Ankara. These were merged as Ankara University in 1946, and new faculties were subsequently added.
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Ankara University
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| Ankara Üniversitesi | |
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| Established | 1946 |
| Type | Public University |
| Rector | Cemal Taluğ, M.D. |
| Academic staff | 15 |
| Admin. staff | 3,720 |
| Students | 44,906 |
| Location | Ankara, Turkey |
| Website | www.ankara.edu.tr/ |
Ankara University (Turkish: Ankara Üniversitesi) is a public university in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. It was the first higher education institution founded in the Turkish Republic.
The university has about 40 vocational programs, 114 undergraduate programs and 110 graduate programs. In total it has about 264 programs.
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History
Ankara University was founded by Atatürk. The School of Law was established in 1925 to train judiciaries, the Institute of Technology for Agriculture in 1933, the School of Language, History and Geography in 1935 and the already existing School of Political Sciences (that trained public administrators under the name of Mekteb-i Mülkiye since 1859, and which was later on moved to Ankara) in 1936 upon the directive of Atatürk. The Schools of Medicine and of Science were established in the 1940s.
Ankara University, comprising the Faculty of Law (1925), the Faculty of Language, History and Geography (1935), the Faculty of Science (1943), and the Faculty of Medicine (1945), was established officially in 1946. The University acquired the Faculties of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine which previously belonged to the Institute of Technology for Agriculture. The School of Divinity was founded in 1949 and the Faculty of Political Sciences in 1950, then came the School of Pharmacy in 1960, and in 1963 the School of Dentistry which later became a Faculty in 1977, the Faculty of Educational Sciences in 1965, and the Faculty of Communication in 1965. The Çankırı Faculty of Forestry and the Health Education Faculty were opened to education in 1996.
Organization
The 14 faculties are:
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Dental Medicine
- Faculty of Pharmacy
- Faculty of Health Education
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- Faculty of Political Sciences (Mekteb-i Mülkiye)
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Communication
- Faculty of Educational Sciences
- Faculty of Languages, History and Geography
- Faculty of Theology
- Faculty of Agriculture
Notable alumni
Main category: Ankara University alumni
- Adullatif Sener - Lider of political party -former deputy primeminister - former minister of finance
- Bülent Arınç - politician and former speaker of the parliament
- İsmail Hakkı Duru- Theoritical Physicist
- Deniz Baykal - politician and party leader
- Ataol Behramoglu - poet and university lecturer
- Osman Birsen - former CEO of Istanbul Stock Exchange
- Cengiz Çandar - journalist
- Hikmet Çetin - former speaker of the parliament
- Can Dündar - journalist
- Adnan Sezgin - former soccer player and current businessman
- Muammer Güler - Governor of Istanbul
- Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu - Secretary-General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference
- Erdal İnönü -academic and politician
- Mustafa Kalemli - Physician and politician
- Ahmet Taner Kışlalı - intellectual and former government minister
- Hayri Kozakçıoğlu - Province governor and politician
- Ferit Melen - former prime minister
- Adnan Menderes - former prime minister
- Murathan Mungan - author
- Tahsin Özgüç - archaeologist
- Engin Tuzun Paksoy - Professor of Plant Genetics
- Ismail Faruk Paksoy - Director, ESHOT, Izmir
- Ahmet Necdet Sezer - President of Turkey (2000-2007)
- Cemal Süreya - poetv
- Tülay Tuğcu - Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Turkey
- Mehmet Keçeciler - former minister, politician
- Murat Karayalçın - former Minister for Foreign Affairs; former Deputy Prime Minister and former Mayor of Ankara
- Sedat Laçiner - IR lecturer and Director of International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)
- Hasan Celal Güzel - former Minister of National Education
- Mehmet Hakkı Suçin - arabist
See also
External links
- Ankara University website (Turkish) (English)
- Ankara University Alternative Energy Team (Turkish)
- Mekteb-i Mülkiye (Turkish)
- Ankara University Distance Education Center (Turkish)
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