With its modern facilities and diversity of fields of study, the University provides a broad- ranging contemporary education aimed at developingindependence and originality of mind and spirit, encouraging individuals to realize their full potential, and training competent professionals who will play significant roles in today's rapidly changing society. The campus is only a short distance away from numerous historcal sites, ranging from Crusader castles, and Byzantine churches, to a museum containing the worlds oldest commercial shipwreck, the prison of the poet Namik Kemal, the tombs of the whirling dervishes, and mosques built during the period of Ottoman rule. The wealth of cultural resources at the University and its surrounding creates a unique educational environment and an unparalleled e xperience, both personally rewarding and intellectually stimulating, of the historical and cultural heritage of the world. The common language of instruction in all courses at Eastern Mediterranean University is English -an essential orientation in an era of global information exchange, where English is the international medium of communication. EMU offers a wide range of undergraduate programs leading to a B.A. or B.Sc. degree, in engineering, the natual sciences, computer science, business studies, international relations, architecture, and English language and literature.
Most departments also offer programs of advanced study leading to Masters and Ph.D. degrees.
Eastern Mediterranean University and its various departments are affiliated with numerous professional academic associations, such as the Community of Mediterranean Universities, the European Association for Engineering Education, the International Center for Theoretical Physics, and the Association of Departments of English of the Modern Language Association. The University is also continuing to expand and develop its protocols for mutual cooperation and collaboration, including joint research projects and exchanges of faculty and students with research institutions in Turkey, Europe, Canada, the United States, and Kazakhstan. As in any modern institution of learning and scholarly activity, faculty and students can expect to find at EMU fast growing library collections of books and periodicals for research in all international fields of study. Many university departments also have their own collections of specialized reference material in their area of study. In addition to the Universitys administrative computer links, which utilize the latest Novell Netware on an array of powerful servers connecting the Registry, the Accounting Office, and the Rectorate, there are terminas located in the various University departments, and in four PC labratories equipped with 80286 Pcs, located in the Computer Center, the departments of Civil Engineering, and Electrical and Electronics Engineering, the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, and the English Preparatory School.