ANKARA YILDIRIM BEYAZIT UNIVERSITESI

Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University (AYBU) is established with the purpose of training well equipped individuals to contribute to science and technology with research activities answering to the needs of our age under the light of scientific data as the 97th university in our country and 5th state university in Ankara with 7 faculties, 1 vocational school, 4 graduate schools and 1 conservatory. (In accordance with the decision with Law no 27648 published on Official Gazette enacted on July 21st, 2010). Since the year 2019 onwards, the university is offering education with 15 faculties, 1 school, 1 state conservatory, 3 vocational schools, 5 graduate schools and 24 application and research centers. The primary goals of the university are to be in the service of our country and humanity, to direct the future of science and humanity to be concerned with current problems and to lead society. As it happened last year, the university will continue to offer bachelor’s education in the fields of Medicine, Dentistry, Law, Political Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Business Administration, Engineering and Natural Sciences, Architecture, Health Sciences and Islamic Sciences whereas it will continue to offer associate degree programs at Vocational School and Vocational School of Health Services and Şereflikoçhisar Berat Cömertoğlu Vocational School in 2019-2020 Academic Year. In 2019-2020 Academic Year, Faculty of Fine Arts, Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Translation and Interpreting (in English), Faculty of Health Sciences Department of Speech and Language Therapy are going to start offering bachelor education while associate degree programs such as Horse Breeding and Coaching, Civil Defence and Firefighting, Three-Dimensional Modelling and Animation will start to offer education. In addition to the bachelor’s education, master’s programs, non-thesis master’s programs and doctoral programs are offered at each faculty. The university, that positions itself as a research university since its establishment, has been taking significant steps towards its adjective with 23.50% graduate programs, many graduate programs and national and international projects. With 10,52% international bachelor students, (2008 students out of 109 countries) bilateral agreements signed with 203 international universities, student, academic and administrative staff mobility programs, joint diploma programs and a large number of international academic staff, the university has positioned itself as an international university. With its international bachelor student rate, AYBU is experiencing the right proud of being placed on the top among the universities in Turkey. Although Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University is a newly established institution, it has managed to be a center of attraction for the academicians who are true professionals in their fields and has attracted the attention of successful students. The experienced, active and dynamic academic staff of Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University mostly consists of academicians who have obtained their undergraduate/graduate degrees from the pioneer universities of the USA, Europe and Turkey. With almost 500 faculty members and more than 1100 academic staff in total, the university has managed to advance its academic human resources perfectly. The university attracts the attention of the students of high quality by offering English education that has international validity with the protocols signed with international accredited institutions in the capital Ankara such as oxford, TOEFL, PEARSON, CITY&GUILD. The university has been taking significant steps to position itself among the pioneer universities. The undergraduate placement examinations results show that AYBU is placed within the first 5 in the university preferences among the Turkish universities. As Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University whose primary objective is to bring a breath of fresh