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8. Turkey's premier state-financed university

9. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY Founded in 1956 METU was founded to serve not only Turkey but also the region

10. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY Medium of instruction is English at all levels

11. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY METU is an international research university seeking the excellence to serve the country and the region

12. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY ACADEMIC INFO

13. Architecture M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY 40 undergraduate programs within 5 faculties Arts and Sciences Economics and Administrative Sciences Education Engineering

14. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY 158 graduate programs within 5 graduate schools Natural and Applied Sciences Social Sciences Informatics Marine Sciences Applied Mathematics

15. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY 1,200 full-time academic staff (60% have studied abroad) and 1,350 research assistants

16. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY STUDENTS

17. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY METU accepts only the top 1% of the 1,500,000 students taking the National University Entrance Examination each year

18. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY Enrolment of 15,800 undergraduate and 6,500 graduate students

19. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY More than 80 student clubs ranging from archaeology to bird-watching and ballroom dancing to astronomy

20. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY 90,000 graduates contribute to the industry, research, politics and economy of the country and the region at top levels

21. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY RESEARCH

22. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY METU has 20 multidisciplinary research centers attached to the President's Office Applied Ethics Research Center (UYETAM) Audio-Visual Research and Production Center (GISAM) Center for Black Sea and Central Asia (KORA) CAD/CAM/Robotics Application and Research Center (BILTIR) Center for Research and Assessment of Historic Environment (TAÇDAM) Central Laboratory Confucius Research and Application Center R&D-Training Center Molecular Biology-Biyotechnology R&D Center Construction Industry Training and Research Center (ISEM) Continuing Education Center (SEM) Disaster Management Implementation and Research Center (AFET) Entrepreneurship Research Center (GIMER) International Human Rights and Security Research Center METU-Southeast Anatolia Project Research Center (GAP) Modeling and Simulation Research Center (MODSIM) Petroleum Research Center (PAL) Research Center for Science and Technology Policies (TEKPOL) Welding Technology and Non-Destructive Testing Research Center (KAYNAK) METU MEMS Research Center

23. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY METU has set aside 113 hectares for the first Technopolis in Turkey

24. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY With 240 companies, METU Technopolis provides the means for cooperative research between the faculty and industry

25. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY Intends to increase the collaboration in EU projects

26. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

27. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY About 1,500 foreign students coming from 68 different countries

28. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY Office of EU Affairs coordinates METU’s international research relationship with the EU countries

29. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY METU participated in 20 projects in the 6th Framework Program, coordinating 3 of them

30. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY All engineering departments have been evaluated and approved by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)

31. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY LIBRARY

32. Covering an area of 12,000 m 2 with its eight reading and two show halls, the library can serve 1,144 sitting readers at a time 171,000 bound periodicals 52,000 journals M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY

34. THE CAMPUS

35. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY METU has a modern campus, laid on 11,000 acres area, equipped with the most advanced scientific and technical facilities

36. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY richly forested area

37. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY 18 dormitories can accommodate 6,700 students

38. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY Cultural and Convention Center hosts congresses, seminars, meetings, conferences, and cultural activities throughout the year

39. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY Archaeological Museum Materials discovered on its own grounds date back to the Early Bronze Age including findings from the late Phrygian, Hellenistic, Galatian, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic periods

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41. Science-Technology Museum

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44. INTERNET M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY

45. The first Internet connection in Turkey M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY

46. Shopping center, banks and post office

47. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY Indoor and outdoor tennis courts SPORTS FACILITIES

48. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY Stadium with a seating capacity of 10,000 Outdoor basketball and volleyball courts, soccer fields

49. M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY Three gymnasiums, indoor and outdoor olympic swimming pools

50. Lake Eymir on METU’s area is for rowing, fishing, picnicking and general recreational activities M IDDLE E AST T ECHNICAL U NIVERSITY

51. ART in METU

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59. METUODTÜ A N K A R A – T U R K E Y www.metu.edu.tr MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY Presentation design by Aydın Tiryaki Photographs by: Aydın Tiryaki Serkan Alkan Gül Hasan Yılmaz Talat Doğan Turgut Polat Erol Sayın December 2001, February 2002, April 2002, September 2002, January 2003, August 2003, October 2004, February 2005, April 2005, January 2006, May 2006, March 2007, April 2007, February 2008, November 2008, March 2009, April 2009 METU - Ankara - TURKEY