Ankara University

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Ankara University
Ankara Üniversitesi

Established	1946
Type	Public
Rector	Nusret Aras, M.D.
Faculty	15
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 institute founded in the Turkish Republic and is the oldest in Ankara.

Currently, the university has about 40 vocational programs, 114 undergraduate programs and 110 graduate programs.

1 History
2 Organization
3 Notable alumni
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] History

Ankara University was founded by Atatürk himself in order to set the foundation for his teachings and revolutions on which they would get stronger and spread wider, and to make sure that the principles that are the expressions of a modern society, such as science and enlightenment, are held dear and protected.

The first and most impressive performance of the young Republic in the field of higher education was to establish the following higher education institutions: The School of Law, to train judiciaries who were to realize the new order of law in the secular and democratic Republic (1925); the Institute of Technology for Agriculture, to lead the modernization of Turkish agriculture (1933);the School of Language, History and Geography, to establish a bridge of language and culture between Turkey and the rest of the world and to conduct research on the rich culture of Anatolia (1935); and the School of Political Sciences, which had been training top level 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. We should also mention the schools of which the preparation stage was started by Atatürk, yet whose establishment was postponed until the beginning of 1940’s due to the Second World War. Among those schools, were the Schools of Medicine and Science.

Ankara University comprising Faculty of Law (1925), Faculty of Language, History and Geography (1935), Faculty of Science (1943), and Faculty of Medicine (1945) was established officially in 1946. The University acquired the Faculties of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine previously belonged to the Institute of Technology for Agriculture in 1948. School of Divinity was founded in 1949; Faculty of Political Sciences in 1950, then came the School of Pharmacy in 1960, and in 1963 School of Dentistry which later became a faculty in 1977, Faculty of Educational Sciences in 1965, and Faculty of Communication in 1965. Çankırı Faculty of Forestry and Health Education Faculties were opened to education in 1996.