Akdeniz University

Akdeniz University was established in the city center of Antalya in 1982 and has a long history of 40 years. The university is a large family with approximately 67 thousand students, academic and administrative staff. In addition, approximately 2500 international students study at the university.

Adopting a student-centered approach as a principle, Akdeniz University supports the active work of student clubs. Akdeniz University organizes cooperation protocols with private sector organizations in order to provide rapid orientation to the career life of the students. Apart from academic education, it is aimed that students develop their skills and express their ideas through conferences and seminars.

Why Akdeniz University?

The main campus stands out with its large and green predominance. The campus is approximately 3-4 km away from Konyaaltı Beach, one of the most famous beaches of Antalya.

There are many opportunities available to students on campus. Yakut Bazaar has a variety of stuff to meet almost every need of students.

In the "Green Campus 2019" evaluation organized by UI Green Metric, it was ranked 290th in the world and 11th in Turkey.

International student diversity is quite high as Erasmus Plus, Free Mover, Mevlana and IAESTE exchange programs are implemented.

It was ranked 17th among all universities in the 2021 best universities Turkey rankings prepared by METU Informatics Institute (URAP). It has succeeded in ranking well in 7 branches of the evaluations made in 11 different branches among world universities.

It has managed to enter the top 1000 for 2 consecutive years (2018, 2019) in THE (Times Higher Education) World Universities Ranking.

It has managed to enter the top 800 in the 2019 World Universities Academic Ranking organized by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. It was ranked 7th among Turkish universities in the top 800.

According to the 2017 Foreign Student Satisfaction Survey conducted for international students in Turkey; it ranked 5th among state universities and 10th among all universities. According to the research in 2018, it was ranked 6th among state universities and 12th among all universities.

In the 2019 World Universities Ranking (Webometrics) research, it was among the top 1000 world universities in the categories of academic research presence on the internet and accessibility of academic publications.

It is the university where the first face transplant and the first double arm transplant in Turkey, and the first cadaver donor uterus transplant in the world was made.

It has a strong research infrastructure and competent academic staff.