Gazi University

Gazi University is a public university located primarily in Ankara, Turkey.
It was established in 1926 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as Gazi Teacher Training Institute. In 1982, it was reorganized by merging with the Bolu Academy of Engineering and Architecture, Ankara Academy of Economics and Commercial Sciences, the Ankara College of Technical Careers, the Ankara Girls' College of Technical Careers, and the Ankara State Academy of Engineering and Architecture to form a large metropolitan university as part of the act which created the Board of Higher Education. Prior to 1982 when the Board of Higher Education Law came into effect, institutions of higher education in Turkey were organized under different structures as universities, academies, institutes, and schools. In 1992, the faculties and vocational schools in Bolu became Abant Izzet Baysal University.
Gazi University consists of 21 faculties, 4 schools, 11 vocational schools of higher education, 52 research centers and 7 graduate institutes. The student enrollment of Gazi University has reached approximately 77,000 in total of whom about 1,500 come from the Turkic states of Central Asia. Five thousand students are enrolled in graduate programmes. The total size of the teaching faculty exceeds 3,000 persons.
Ranking
Gazi University was ranked 6th by URAP Turkish University Rankings in 2021. URAP also ranked Gazi in the fourth place in "Engineering" and "Technology" subjects in Turkey. According to CWUR, Gazi is ranked 844 in 2022 World University Rankings. In QS Rankings Gazi was placed between 801-1000 category in 2021. In QS Rankings 2022, Gazi is ranked 21st in education subject worldwide and ranked 1st in Turkey in the same subject. In RUR 2022 Gazi is ranked 653rd in World University Rankings.
Faculties
Faculty of Architecture
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Fine Arts
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Pharmacy
Faculty of Sciences
Faculty of Technical Education
Faculty of Technology
Gazi Faculty of Education
Industrial Arts Education Faculty
Some former faculties have been separated from Gazi University. They are now operating under AHBV University.
Graduate schools
Graduate School of Educational Sciences
Graduate School of Fine Arts
Graduate School of Health Sciences
Graduate School of Informatics
Graduate School of Research and Prevention of Accidents
Graduate School of Sciences
Graduate School of Social Sciences
Schools
School of Banking and Insurance
School of Foreign Languages
School of Land Registry and Cadastre
School of Physical Education and Sport
Vocational schools
Ankara Vocational School
Atatürk Vocational School
Beypazari Technical Sciences Vocational School
Distance Education/Learning Vocational School
Gazi Vocational School
Ostim Vocational School
Polatlı Vocational School of Social Sciences
Vocational School of Health Services
Vacational School of Land Registry and Cadastre
Vocational School of Law
Vocational School of Public Finance
University governance
The rector of Gazi University is Musa Yıldız.
Campuses
Gazi University is a city-university which has a multitude of campuses around Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. Its main campus is situated in Beşevler.
The university's campuses are almost directly inside the city, which makes it easier to find houses to live and centers for shopping, for students. There are many activities at these campuses for students, such as the Spring Festival, free concerts, opening concerts, sports tournaments, theatre performances and performances by student clubs as well as scientific and cultural seminars.
Gazi University Central Library
Gazi University library has 150,000 books, 62,000 bound periodicals, and 10,000 master theses. The library subscribes to 700 periodicals in foreign languages and 600 in Turkish, and provides access to 20,000 on-line journals and 30 on-line databases. Collections are predominantly in Turkish, English and German. Library orientation programs are organized for new Gazi students.
Achievements
Turkey's third face transplant, a partial face transplant, was performed on March 17, 2012, on Hatice Nergis, a twenty-year-old woman, at the university's hospital by a team led by surgeon Selahattin Özmen. The patient from Kahramanmaraş had lost her upper jaw six years prior, including mouth, lips, palate, teeth and nasal cavity by a firearm accident, and was unable to eat. She had undergone in the past around 35 reconstructative plastic surgery operations. The donor was a 28-year-old woman in Istanbul, who committed suicide.
Notable people
Alumni (including graduates of former colleges)
Abbas Güçlü - Journalist, writer, TV programmer, educator
Abdullatif Sener - Associate Professor of Finance, former Parliament deputy, former Deputy Prime Minister, Finance Minister and former founder of Turkey Party
Adnan Binyazar - Author, critic, educator
Ahmet Telli - Writer and educator
Ali Palabıyık - Football referee and teacher
Aziz Yıldırım - Businessman, civil engineer and former president of Fenerbahçe Sports Club
Bekir Küçükay, guitar player
Beşir Göğüş - M.E.B. Chief Inspector, critic
Biket İlhan - Cinema producer, director, founder of Sinevizyon film company, director
Bülent Bezdüz - State Opera and Ballet lead soloist, 2 Grammy award-winning musician
Cemil Demirbakan Musician, former soloist of the Yüksek Sadakat group
Coşkun Ertepınar - Poet, M.E.B. inspector and counselor
Çiğdem Batur - Actor, voice actor, presenter
Devlet Bahçeli - Politician, economist, Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi leader and former deputy prime minister
Emin Özdemir - Academic, linguist and literary researcher
Erman Toroğlu - Former football player, football commentator
Fakir Baykurt - Author, trade unionist
Fatih Uraz - Manager, former professional football player
Ferman Akgül - Rock artist, soloist of the MaNga band
Fikret Bila - Journalist, presenter, former TCA auditor
Hasan Hüseyin Korkmazgil - Poet and humorous story writer
İbrahim Melih Gökçek - Former Ankara Mayor, journalist
İlhan Berk - Poet, translator, writer, teacher
İnci Aral - Story and novel writer
İsmail Altınok - Painter, writer, instructor
İsmail Küçükkaya - Journalist, news presenter, writer
Kamer Genç - Deputy of Republican People's Party, former Council of State Investigation Judge and Council of State Prosecutor
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu - Bureaucrat, Chairman of the Republican People's Party
Kemal Unakıtan - Former Minister of Finance
Kenan Işık - Actor, presenter, main news presenter, former journalist
Metin Yurdanur - Sculptor
Mustafa Balel - translator, story and novel writer
Mustafa Erdoğan - Artistic director, journalist
M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu - President of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey
Naim Süleymanoğlu - Professional weightlifter
Nihat Özdemir - Turkish businessman, Former president of the Turkish Football Federation, Limak Holding CEO
Nurcan Taylan - Olympic Champion weightlifter
Ömer Çelik - Politicians, journalists, former Minister of Turkey and the European Union, former Culture and Tourism Minister
Özdemir İnce - Poet, writer, journalist
Rıfat Ilgaz - Poet, novelist, story writer
Sina Koloğlu - Keyboardist of Bulutsuzluk Özlemi, critic
Sinan Şamil Sam - Professional boxer
Süleyman Saim Tekcan - Painter, film actor, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, engraver and academician
Şeref Eroğlu - Professional wrestler
Tahsin Saraç - Poet, one of the Teachers' Union of Turkey founder
Tarık Daşgün - Manager and former national football player
Tuncay Özkan - (Republican People's Party) Deputy Chairperson, journalist, writer, broadcaster
Zafer Çağlayan - Former Industry and Trade Minister, former Foreign Trade Minister, former Minister of Economy, former ASO and former TOBB vice president.
Zekai Tunca - Turkish Classical Music artist
See also
List of universities in Ankara
List of universities in Turkey
References
External links
Gazi Central Library
Gazi University Foundation
Gazi University Center for Turkish Teaching
Gazi University Center for Foreign Language Teaching
Gazi University Alumni Organization
Radio Gazi Fm
Gazi University Faculty of Engineering
Gazi University Faculty of Architecture
Gazi University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences
Universities and colleges established in 1926
1926 establishments in Turkey