The most important public universities in Istanbul, Turkey
The Turkish city of Istanbul is known today as an important destination for students wishing to study in Turkish universities, which today occupy advanced positions in the rankings of universities around the world
That is why we will talk in this article about the two most important and oldest public universities in Istanbul
Marmara University
Marmara University was founded in 1883 AD, and its name was at the time “Al-Hamidi High Trade Office.” It was affiliated with the Ottoman Ministry of Agriculture, Trade and Minerals, and its mission was to graduate qualified people to work in the field of mining, trade, agriculture and industry.
Its first graduating class consisted of 13 people, in 1887
It was linked to the Ministry of Education and declared an official educational university under the name of the Commercial and Economic Educational Academy. It was called “Marmara University” in 1982 after several modifications it underwent.
To date, more than 10 million graduates have graduated, including them
Important figures in the history of Turkish politics such as; Abdullah Gul, former President of Turkey.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is its current president.
Marmara University consists of 16 colleges
It employs more than 30,000 academics and assistants
More than 70,000 students study there.
One of the special features of Marmara University is that it contains more than one educational language other than Turkish, such as English, Arabic, French and German, and it is the only Turkish university that has this number of educational languages.
Among the faculties and departments within Marmara University:
Atatürk College of Education, College of Technology, College of Political Science, College of Engineering and College of Journalism and Media
In addition to the faculties of economics, literature, art, medical faculties, pharmacy, and many other faculties and departments.
The university also includes 19 research centres, five schools, 11 branch institutes, in addition to 50 diversified laboratories, a central library in addition to a number of branch libraries.
The university building is located in Asian Istanbul in Kadikoy district in “Göztepe
Istanbul University
Istanbul University is the largest and oldest university in Turkey, which was established in 1453 by order of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror
The first educational stages of the university began with the Hagia Sophia Church, and the Zayrek Church, which is adjacent to Hagia Sophia, and these two churches are the basic structural roots of Istanbul University.
In addition to teaching religious sciences, it used to teach some worldly sciences such as space science, sociology, mathematics, law, literature and medicine, which was taught in the largest hospital in Istanbul at that time, “Dar Al-Shafa” hospital.
The university is considered one of the top 15 Turkish universities out of 136, after being evaluated according to academic standards, and has more than 5,000 professors, and it was also included in the list of the top 500 universities in the world.
Istanbul University has many affiliated colleges, which are spread all over Istanbul. But the main campus of the university is located in the historical Bayezid Square, and near it there is the public library
There are 60,000 undergraduate and 8,000 graduate students studying at the university, and 6,000 employees work in the university.
Among the faculties of the university there are the faculties of political science, law, journalism, science, medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, arts and social sciences, science, engineering, business administration and theology.
Among its most prominent alumni are the writer Orhan Pamuk, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
And Aziz Sinjar, a Nobel laureate in chemistry, as well as Dr. Adnan Taqi El-Din, a pharmacist.
And many other important and famous political, scientific and literary figures in Turkey
