Mersin University Catalog

FROM RECTOR 

As Mersin University, we continue to progress, strengthen our academic, administrative and physical structure by 

bringing together the deep knowledge we have gained since 1992 with the excitement and dynamism of our new 

students who join us every year. 

We continuously aim to improve our understanding of education in line with our goal of becoming one of the 

respected universities of the world by adopting the motto of keeping the love of homeland and the interests of our 

country above all else. 

Therefore, we wish to maximize our students’ theoretical and practical education processes, and their social and 

cultural skills. We make a great effort with our academic and administrative staff in order to overcome all kinds 

of difficulties in terms of contributing to their being beneficial, participatory and productive individuals for the 

society. 

Undoubtedly, the 2020-2021 Academic Year will be a period in which this effort will gain more importance from 

different perspectives. Our main goal this year will be to realize the new educational models put into practice after 

the pandemic that is effective worldwide, and to ensure that our students can walk confidently into the future 

through both face-to-face and online education. 

In this direction, I wholeheartedly believe that the Mersin University family, with its students and staff, will cope 

with all kinds of difficult conditions, and will work harder than ever to reach a healthier and stronger future. 

I wish the new academic year to be beneficial and auspicious to all of us. 

Prof. Dr. Ahmet ÇAMSARI 

Rector

Mersin University was established with the Law No. 3837 adopted by the Turkish 

Grand National Assembly on 3 July 1992 and started its activities on 10 November 

1992. 

In the academic year of 1993-1994, Mersin University started its education by 

admitting students to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Fine Arts, 

Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, School 

of Tourism and Hotel Management , Mersin Vocational School, Gülnar Vocational 

School, Mut Vocational School, Tarsus Vocational School and Institute of Science 

and Social Sciences which will carry out postgraduate programs. 

Since its establishment, Mersin University has increased the number of its faculties 

to 16, the number of its colleges to 7, the number of its vocational schools to 11, the 

number of its institutes to 5, and the number of its research centers to 34. 

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WHY MERSİN UNIVERSITY? 

QUALITY IS OUR INDISPENSIBLE ADDRESS 

Aiming at total quality in education, training, research 

and practice, Mersin University has received TS EN 

ISO 9001: 2008 Quality Management System Certificate 

in both its academic and administrative units and has 

become one of the first universities in our country to 

have this certificate. Currently, our university holds ISO 

9001: 2015 Quality Management System Certificate. 

Our university has crowned its journey of quality since 

2007 with the “EFQM Competence in Excellence 4 Stars” 

certificate given by the European Foundation for Quality 

Management and became the first university to achieve 4 

stars in its first application. The Competence in Excellence 

4 Stars certificate, which is the second stage of EFQM’s 

Five-Stage European Journey to Excellence Program, is 

given to institutions that are successfully managed and 

progressing towards becoming an excellent institution. 

Our university, which was entitled to receive ECTS and 

DS labels in 2012, has become one of the few universities 

in our country that received ECTS labels. 

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, 

Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Medicine have 

been accredited by accreditation bodies related to their 

fields, thus the education program and quality have 

become equivalent to the education programs in Europe. 

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Mersin University

WE ARE STUDENT-ORIENTED 

Many applications have been implemented in line with 

the interests, wishes and expectations of students, one of 

the most important stakeholders of our university. 

Common Elective Course (OSD) program for sophomore 

students to improve themselves in areas of interest other 

than their departments, 

Psychological Counseling and Guidance Center that 

supports students’ individual, social, educational and 

professional development at a high level and in a versatile 

way 

Peer Guidance Program where volunteer students help 

and support new students at our university 

Student Development Application and Research Center, 

which offers qualified solutions to students’ academic, 

professional, social and personal problems with a holistic, 

preventive and developmental approach, 

Student Communities that are related to the branches 

in which students study as well as their hobbies and 

encourage them to develop their personal talents. 


WE HAVE LARGE OPPORTUNITIES ... 

A rich library with a modern and functional structure, 

High quality sports areas that provide an environment for sports 

and social activities with wide participation, 

Internet, the indispensable element of daily life, 

Full capacity health center equipped with extensive facilities for 

advanced examination and treatment, 

Entrepreneurship port that offers entrepreneurship training and 

entrepreneurship opportunities for students and young people, 

Projects and research co-ordinatorship guiding on project 

preparation and coordination, 

Non-refundable scholarship to facilitate the education process of 

needy students, 

Supervised, healthy and satisfying meals in all dining halls, 

cafeterias and restaurants, 

Social activities for students to improve themselves, 

Open and closed meeting halls with all kinds of technological 

infrastructure, 

A dormitory with a capacity of 4500 people on campus to meet the 

accommodation needs of students. 

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WE ARE IN UNIVERSITY WITHOUT DISABILITIES FOR A LIFE 

WITHOUT BARRIERS ... 

‘Accessible universities’ goals with the transportation of persons with 

disabilities, shelter, academic access to such facilities to easily reach the 

areas that make Mersin University, has received several prizes for his entire 

renovation and improvement work he did on behalf of barrier-free living 

and has been proposed as a model for other universities in Turkey. 

Efforts to remove physical barriers, 

Mersin University Accessibility Map, 

Efforts to remove academic barriers, 

Steps taken for social accessibility, 

Vocational training and vehicle support for the disabled with the social 

projects carried out, 

Accessibility Quality Incentive Award from the Ministry of Family and Social Policies, 

Barrier-Free Education Award from Turkey Barrier-Free Computing Platform. 

Our University Education Faculty Dean’s Building, Fine Arts Institute, Fine 

Arts Faculty, Social Sciences Institute, Jewelry Design School were awarded 

Orange flag in Faculty Place; Çiftlikköy Campus in Campus place category. 

Çiftlikköy Campus Campus Socio-cultural, Fine Arts Institute, Faculty of Fine Arts, 

Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Institute of Social Sciences and 

School of Jewelry Design, blue flag in the Faculty Socio-cultural category, 

Faculty of Fine Arts, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, 

Institute of Social Sciences, School of Foreign Languages and School of 

Jewelry Design were awarded a green flag in the Faculty Education category. 


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OUR MISSION 

By using education and training within universal values with its highly 

qualified academic programs, it uses its knowledge and experience 

for the benefit of all humanity, modern, creative, positive and critical 

thinking, nature, sensitive, aware of the cultural values, depending 

on the basic principles of the Republic of Turkey founded by Gazi 

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, educating participants, productive and 

high-quality individuals who will represent their country all over the 

world, to contribute to the development and sustainable development 

in the regional and national arena by presenting what they produce 

with scientific studies and researches for the benefit of the society. To 

increase international congress organizing and participation. 

OUR VISION 

To become a university that is integrated with education, 

knowledge, technology and art at national and international 

level, integrates students, graduates, employees and society with 

lifelong learning, is quality oriented, sensitive to social values, 

unobstructed and internationally recognized. 


ACADEMIC OP 

Student Counseling 

Pursuant to the 25th article of Mersin University Associate and 

Undergraduate Education and Exam Regulations, advisors are assigned 

among the faculty members of the relevant department before the 

registration period for the students who have newly registered to the 

university. As well as monitoring the administrative affairs of the student 

such as determining the course time and grade status, counselors also 

deal with other problems faced by students as much as possible. The 

advisors’ duty continues until the student leaves the university. 

Scholarship Services 

The Student Social Assistance Project is being carried out in order to 

facilitate the education process of students in need at our university. 

With the project carried out by Mersin University Alumni Association 

(MERMED), students are provided with free scholarships as a result of the 

financial support provided by our university’s academic and administrative 

staff and their graduates voluntarily each month. In addition, Breakfast 

Scholarship is given to students in need who study at our university. The 

breakfast, which is given to a total of 1500 students, is distributed every day 

on weekdays in our schools in the center and districts. In a collaboration 

with Mersin Metropolitan Municipality, some students are provided with a 

pass to be able to use the city buses free of charge. 

The procedures for the loans and scholarships granted by the General 

Directorate of the Credit and Hostels Institution and the Prime 

Ministry to the university students who want each year are carried 

out by the Student Affairs Department. 

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PORTUNITIES 

In-University Transfer 

Students who have enrolled in a training program at Mersin University 

and have succeeded in education have the opportunity to switch to an 

equivalent program that is more suited to their own wishes, abilities 

and other special situations during their education. Transfer within 

the university can be done according to the “Principles of Mersin 

University Associate and Undergraduate Degree / Transfer Programs”. 

Applications must be made to the Faculty Dean / School Directorate, 

which the student wishes to pass, at the beginning of each semester 

and at least 10 days before classes begin. In addition, the entrance 

score of the education and training program in which the student 

is registered must be equal to or higher than the lowest score of the 

program he / she wants to pass, and the score types must be the same. 

Vertical Transfer 

Acceptance procedures of graduates of vocational high schools and Open 

Education associate degree programs are regulated in accordance with 

the provisions of the Regulation on the Continuation of Graduates of the 

Vocational Schools and Open Education Associate Degree Programs. 

The Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM) prepares a guide 

each year, which shows which undergraduate programs of vocational high 

school and Open Education associate degree students can apply for vertical 

transfer, the conditions of these programs and the number of students to be 

enrolled in these programs. Candidates who meet the conditions specified 

in the relevant regulation and whose applications are accepted are placed 

according to the results of central examination held by ÖSYM. 


Distance Learning 

Distance education is an education model where education is 

carried out regardless of time and place, the computer is used as a 

learning, presentation and communication tool, and it’s carried out 

simultaneously or asynchronously depending on whether the teacher 

and student are interactive at the same time or not. It was applied for 

the first time at Mersin University in the 2002-2003 academic year, 

and in the technical programs the first online educational program in 

the country was carried out by our university. With this application, 

education opportunities are provided to larger masses who want to 

receive education. Equal opportunities are created in education. 

Information can be conveyed to those who want to learn more in 

different geographies. 

Working students can be provided as much learning opportunities as 

they want, whenever they want, regardless of time. Distance learning 

is provided in Computer Technology and Programming, Industrial 

Electronics, Electronic Communication, Industrial Automation, 

Business Management and Pharmacy Services programs, which 

are two-year associate degree programs. The distance education 

provided is equivalent to formal education programs and based 

on the monitoring of the same curriculum. The same courses 

which are offered at associate degree programs in two years and 

four semesters are offered to distance education students. It is 

sufficient to have access to a computer and internet use for Distance 

Education. Through the Distance Education Management System 

(UEYS), you can follow the lecture notes of the lectures, chat with 

lecture advisors, establish a mutual synchronous communication in 

the forum rooms, learn the exam dates, have your visa exams over 

the internet, and learn your exam or homework results. 

You can get sample questions and answers. You can send your 

questions and problems to the instructor at any time via 

UEYS. 

In the Distance Education Program, courses are delivered to 

students in two ways. 

First of all, course documents, graphics and animations prepared 

by the lecturers are made available to students through UEYS. In 

addition, lesson videos are taken in the studio, which belongs 

to distance education. These videos contain lecture summaries 

prepared by lecturers. 

Midterm exams are held “online” at the computer in a desired 

environment with home or internet access, and final exams are 

held at Mersin University Çiftlikköy Campus on Saturday and 

Sunday at the end of the semester. 

As in all Vocational Schools, internship activity is compulsory in 

Distance Education Programs. Distance learning students can do 

internship at any time. 

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e-Business Administration (e-MBA) 

MBA (Master of Business Administration) refers to graduate education in 

Business Administration. Our university accepts students for the Master 

of Business Administration (e-Business Administration) program with 

a distance education model. The Business Administration graduate 

program, which accepted its first students in the 2009-2010 academic 

year, generally includes courses such as finance, accounting, marketing, 

human resources, organization management, information management, 

and decision-making techniques. The aim of the e-Business non-thesis 

Master’s Program based on distance education technique is to provide 

students with an opportunity to specialize in basic business management, 

independent of time and space, by taking advantage of the different 

educational opportunities offered by information technologies. The 

fact that the program is independent of time and place offers a suitable 

alternative and creates demand for many people who cannot find the 

opportunity to get a graduate degree due to their work hours or work 

place. There is no interview application for student admission, and the 

graduate entrance score is calculated by taking 40% of the undergraduate 

graduation grade average (converted to an evaluation out of 100) and 60% 

of the ALES equal weight score of the applicants. Students may only need 

to come to the campus of our university for final exams (in the classes 

where an in-class exam will be applied), and all other exams, assignments 

and applications will be carried out over the internet. 

ECDL 

Our university is one of the authorized test centers of ECDL (European 

Computer Driving License). ECDL Certificate, adopted in 138 countries 

of the world and recognized as a universal criterion for computer 

competencies by public institutions, private sector and international 

organizations, is the world’s leading computer use competence certificate. 

Within the scope of ECDL courses open to the personnel of Mersin 

University as well as Mersin University students, and inhabitants of 

Mersin, a 40-hour course program is implemented. The courses organized 

for Core, CAD, Web Starter, Image Maker and Expert programs are 

conducted in ten-person classrooms. In the program consisting of 7 

sections covering theory and practice, the first section theoretically tests 

the sum of knowledge at the general level, while the other sections consist 

of a practical skill test. The candidate who successfully completes all the 

sections is entitled to receive the ECDL Basic Certificate. 

Education in Summer Semester 

It is an educational program implemented during the summer holiday 

in order to use the educational opportunities outside the fall and spring 

semesters. The aim is to enable successful students to graduate in a shorter 

period of time by taking courses from the following academic year, to 

enable students to take courses that they could not take or fail due to various 

reasons, and to increase the efficiency of education by eliminating student 

accumulation in classes. The education period of the summer semester is 

seven weeks excluding the exams. For each course opened in the summer 

semester, the total number of lessons is the same as the ones taught in the 

normal semesters. The courses to be opened in the summer semester are 

determined by the request of the lecturer who gave the course in the normal 

semester, the relevant department / department’s approval and the decision 

of the relevant Faculty / School / Institute Board. 

Minor and Double Major Program 

Students who successfully carry out Mersin University undergraduate 

programs have the opportunity to study in another branch of interest 

(Minor Program) or to get a bachelor’s degree in a second branch 

(Double Major Program). Minor and Double Major programs are 

opened upon the proposal of the relevant department and the Faculty 

/ School Board and the approval of the University Senate. Minor 

program consists of at least 18 credits and double major program 

consists of at least 36 credits. Both programs cover all the courses of 

the related major (department / program) program. 

Foreign Students 

Foreign students are admitted to our university. Foreign students who 

want to study at the undergraduate level can apply to our university 

for registration with the result of the Foreign Students Exam (YÖS) 

conducted by ÖSYM or the international examination accepted by 

the Higher Education Council as the equivalent of Yös. Students who 

want to study postgraduate should apply directly to our university. 

Foreign students who wish to enroll in our university must be high 

school or equivalent vocational school graduates and their diplomas 

must be approved by the Ministry of Education. In addition, the 

time for foreign students admitted to the programs whose language 

of instruction is Turkish to start their education after enrollment 

depends on the results obtained from the Turkish Test. 


Foreign language 

English, German or French are taught as a foreign language or a second 

foreign language in the first year of the units of our Foreign Language 

University, which are studied at the undergraduate and undergraduate 

level. Foreign Language in the departments / programs with a Foreign 

Language Preparatory Program The duration of the Preparatory Program 

is not included in the education period.In many departments and programs 

affiliated to faculties, colleges and vocational schools (one year compulsory 

(foreign language preparation program or one year (optional) foreign 

language preparation program within the quota is applied. 

Erasmus Program 

Our university signed the European Union Higher Education Agreement 

‘Erasmus Statement’ in 2004 and gained its students ‘European identity’. . 

Within the scope of the Erasmus program, 65 bilateral agreements have 

been signed so far; Since 2004, nearly 250 of our students have had the 

opportunity to study at various universities abroad as part of the Erasmus 

student exchange program. Also during this period, a large number of 

students from abroad were trained at our university; Within the scope of 

teaching staff exchange, our lecturers have taught at universities abroad. 

Farabi Exchange Program 

Since nearly 250 of our students have had the opportunity to study at 

various universities abroad as part of the Erasmus student exchange 

program. Also in this period, a large number of students from 

abroad were trained at our university; Within the scope of academic 

staff exchange, our instructors have taught at universities abroad. 

Farabi Exchange Program in Brief “Farabi Exchange Program 

called” Between Higher Education Institutions in Turkey Student 

and Faculty Exchange Program, universities and high technology 

institutes within the associate, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral level 

education that institutions of higher education among students and 

faculty is a member exchange program. Farabi Exchange Program 

aims for students or faculty members to continue their education and 

training activities in a higher education institution other than their 

own institutions for one or two semesters. The principles regarding 

the implementation of the Farabi Exchange Program are determined 

in detail by the Regulation and Principles and Procedures. Studies 

have started in our university under the Farabi Exchange Program. 

A web page has been prepared and Farabi Exchange Protocols are 

signed with various universities. 

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Social and 

Cultural Life 

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At Mersin University, besides academic activities, social activities are done in a rich 

program to promote these educational activities. Successful activities are done to create 

an atmosphere for the students to develop scientifically, culturally and in sport, to follow 

daily Professional development activities and share information with the students and 

academicians at other universities. 

Our Traditional Activities 

Graduation Ceremony: It is one of the most important and 

comprehensive activities of our university. Our graduates who 

complete the required education period successfully are sent to a 

new life with this ceremony. The students ranking the highest are 

awarded with numerous gifts. In the ceremony which our students 

attend with their families, some important names from the city 

protocol share the common enthusiasm felt by the students. In the 

ceremony which ends with the concerts given by famous singers, 

some trees are planted in memory of former graduate students as 

well; a graduation forest is created on Çiftlikköy Campus. 

Culture and Sport Festival: Culture and Sport Festial is 

traditionally organized in April and May to contribute to cultural 

and social life. In the festival where students participate actively, 

sports competitions, various lectures, panels, concerts, films and 

slide shows take place. The open stands, organized competitions, 

stand-up shows and tournaments give the students the opportunity 

of having a rest and entertainment. 

Academic Opening Ceremony: The Academic Opening 

Ceremony which is organized at the beginning of the academic year 

is done with the participation of the lecturers and the students. The 

ceremony which starts by placing wreath on Atatürk’s monument 

and standing in silence becomes more meaningful with opening 

courses given by highly respectful people of our country; it becomes 

colorful with the concert of Academic Chamber Orchestra. 

The trip to respect the martyr: The trip which is made in 

September and October consits of the students who get the highest 

grades from Atatürk’s Principles and Revolution History course 

and the top scoring students. The trip covering Ankara-Polatlı, 

Afyon, Çanakkale aims to make 

the students adopt Republic’s main philosophy and Atatürk’s 

perception within extracurricular activities. Moreover, the loyalty 

to natural values is enhanced. 

The Project Market: Any research projects in need of research 

and improvement to produce or develop products join the Project 

Market activity done with the aim of presenting projects with 

trade potential and economical benefits. In the Project Market 

where the students’ projects completed in the academic year are 

presented, oral, poster and computer presentations are given and 

exhibitions are organized. 


Student Communities 

In addition to the branches in which our students are trained, 

many student groups which are related to their hobbies and 

encourage them to develop their personal talentsare active in 

our university. Activities organized by student communities 

both activate the social life and create a chance to interact, 

share and communicate properly. 

Today, our university continues its efforts to raise multiple 

popular people, combining sports, science, art and culture 

with nearly fifty student groups. 

Academic Chamber Orchestra 

Our university, which acts to produce and spread the produced 

to the society, is in an effort to fulfill its responsibilities 

regarding the transfer of art to large masses. 

Our university, which offers every kind of support to the 

arts and artists, has institutionalized the Mersin Chamber 

Orchestra and made it a unit under our university. 

Mersin University Academic Chamber Orchestra is located 

in our city with its young and dynamic structure and richness 

of creative program, is at the forefront of artistic events. 

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The Academic Chamber Orchestra, which brings universal 

music to Mersin residents by bringing the artists who have 

reached the top of the art to our city Mersin, has given more 

than a hundred concerts in Mersin and also in different 

provinces in Turkey in the last seven years. 

Mersin University Radio 

Broadcasting 24 hours without interruption from the studios 

of the Faculty of Communication, Mersin University Radio 

broadcasts on the FM band 102.8 MHz. Broadcasting all over 

the city center, Mersin University Radio aims to maintain a 

qualified broadcasting approach and to have a wide range of 

programs, acting on public broadcasting principles. 

Broadcasts carried out by the Radio, Cinema and Television 

Department also support students to develop their creativity 

by creating application opportunities. 

Publications 

Textbooks, supplementary textbooks, lecture notes and 

periodicals written by the academic staff are published and 

offered for sale by our university Publications from Mersin 

University are offered for sale at the Book Sales Office located 

in Çiftlikköy Campus. It can also be purchased on-line order 

over the internet. 


Life on 

Campus 

Laboratories 

There are 41 computer laboratories in all the faculties and schools 

of our university and 1940 computers in these laboratories. 

Our students can benefit from the computer labs spread to all 

academic units free of charge besides the course applications. 

The laboratories used in education and research activities provide 

researchers with wide application and research opportunities in 

almost every branch. A total of 225 laboratories and 44 workshops 

are equipped with advanced technology and are constantly being 

developed both in terms of space and technical equipment. 

In the language laboratory in Mersin Vocational School, General 

English and Professional English courses are given to all 

programs. 

Library 

Our University’s Central Library serves with a 350-person seated 

area in Çiftlikköy Campus, in an area of 3000 m², by constantly 

renewing and developing. In accordance with the understanding 

of Contemporary Librarianship, by the Library; counseling and 

guidance, lending, interlibrary loan classification services are 

provided and database subscriptions that provide full text access 

to tens of thousands of sources, receiving ISBN and ISSN numbers 

for university publications, cataloging and realization. In addition, 

18 computers in the library provide information scanning services 

and access the library resources over the internet. 

Library collection; 89,600 books, 3,897,000 E-books, 44 database 

subscriptions, 80 purchased printed periodical subscriptions, 

34,134 E-journals, 3075 printed theses, 2,0000,000 E-theses and 

259 audio books it is formed. 

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IT Activities 

Internet technologies, which are indispensable elements of 

daily life and science world, are actively used in our university. 

In-house network facilities and internet are used with 3,600 

computers in all our campuses and colleges. 

Our students and faculty can benefit from ftp, e-mail, library 

document scanning system and radio services over the internet. 

Our students have the opportunity to register, update, and learn 

their grades on the internet through the Student Information 

System (OBS); Our faculty members have the opportunity to 

approve course registration and to enter grades. The Personnel 

Information System (PBS) is a program where all university 

personnel can follow their personal information and staff 

information. 

Web Kiosks, which are patented and produced by Mersin 

University, offer free internet access service indefinitely and 

include completely free software applications. Metal-enclosed 

and wall-mounted free internet access terminals have been 

installed at a total of 100 points in all our schools in the city 

center and districts. 

Sports Facilities 

Mersin University, which is committed to supporting sports and 

sportsmen as well as educational activities, has achieved many 

successes in the world and across the country. Our students and 

lecturers; They make our faces laugh in different sports such as 

taekwondo, basketball, football, volleyball, badminton, tennis, 

archery, athletics, step, salsa, and announce the name of our 

university in our country and in the world. 


obstetric surgery room and 15 in the large operating room, with 

a 50-bed emergency room, 30 adults and 20 children. together 

with 131 daily treatment beds, radiology unit, laboratory, 127 

beds in total, intensive care and reanimation unit, physical 

therapy and rehabilitation unit, IVF center, chemotherapy unit, 

angio center, eye bank, special bed services, nuclear medicine, 

organ our tissue transplantation center carries out kidney and 

liver transplants. In order to provide a better quality service 

to patients, the latest technology MR device has been put into 

service. It is at the service of the people of MERSİN and the 

whole region with a total of 722 bed capacity, consisting of 592 

service beds, 3-bed prisoner service and 127 intensive care beds, 

consisting of two and single rooms. 

Our sports fields today; It consists of indoor sports halls, 

gymnasiums, tennis courts, instrument gymnasiums, football, 

basketball and volleyball courts, athletic tracks and olympic 

stadium with a capacity of five thousand spectators, mini golf 

area, recreation areas and indoor semi-olympic swimming pool. 

In addition to our students and staff, the people of Mersin can 

benefit from our sports fields, which provide an environment for 

sports and social events with wide participation. 

Health Service 

Health Research and Practice Hospital: The Research and 

Practice Center, opened in 1999 after the Faculty of Medicine 

became operational, was renamed the Health Research and 

Application Center in 2007. The “Health Research and Practice 

Hospital” with 722 beds in Mersin University Çiftlikköy Campus, 

with an area of 100,000 m2, was completed in May 2014 and our 

hospital started to provide health services in its new building as 

of 20.05.2014 

Our New Hospital provides polyclinic services with 120 

examination and treatment rooms in 37 branches, with a total of 

18 operating rooms, 2 of which are in the delivery room, 1 in the 

The center, which is structured in light of the latest developments 

in technology and science and considering modern hospital 

requirements, has the TSE-ISO EN-9001-200 Quality 

Management System certificate. 

Dining Hall Services 

All campuses and units of the university offer lunch consisting 

of four different meals regularly every day. The meals produced 

in the central kitchen on the Çiftlikköy Campus are distributed 

to the faculties, schools and vocational schools in the districts. 

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The central kitchen and dining hall on the Çiftlikköy Campus 

provides an average of 13 thousand meals each day. The cafeteria 

with OHSAS, HACCP, ISO 9001-2000 and TSE Quality Certificate 

has 9 halls with a total of 1,079 sessions. All food production and 

distribution services are carried out by experienced cooks and 

staff under the supervision of a food engineer. 

Yenişehir Campus refectory, which provides food service to an 

average of 1.200 people every day, serves in a total area of 725 

square meters and in 3 separate halls. 

In addition to dining halls, there are various canteens and student 

cafeterias on campuses. Cafeterias and restaurants in areas such 

as shopping malls and valley facilities within Çiftlikköy Campus 

have increased the alternatives offered in nutrition. 

Accomodation 

In Mersin, there are dormitories belonging to our university, to 

the Credit and Hostels Institution and to private institutions. 

In addition to breakfast and dinner services, there is free 

transportation service to university campuses. There is a student 

dormitory with a capacity of 65 beds in Gülnar Vocational 

School. The dormitory for boys and girls affiliated with the Credit 

and Hostels Institution is located in Çiftlikköy Campus and the 

dormitory for girls is next to Çiftlikköy Campus. In addition to 

these, it is possible to rent quality and cheaply priced apartments 

or rooms in holiday and fall months. The housing needs of our 

students were significantly resolved with the opening of private 

dormitories. 

Conference Halls 

There are many conference and meeting halls in different 

capacities for scientific, social and cultural activities. In addition 

to the halls in faculties and colleges, the halls on the Çiftlikköy 

Campus meet the needs of our city as well as our university. 

Located on Çiftlikköy Campus, prof Vural Ülkü Conference Hall 

has a seating capacity of 180 people and the translation hall is 

equipped with a barcovision, central air conditioning system 

and advanced technological facilities. Prof. Uğur Oral Culture 

Center consists of a total of 4 halls. There are 1 conference 

hall for 407 people, 3 conference halls for 180 people and 2 

exhibition halls for 117 people. The cultural center, which has 

advanced technological facilities, has hosted many national and 

international events since its opening. The amphitheater with a 

2,500-seat capacity, located in the Çiftlikköy Central Campus, 

began to provide service in the 2001-2002 academic year. The 


amphitheater, which meets a great need to revive social life in 

our university and city, hosts various scientific and cultural 

activities. The Nursery and Kindergarten, which operate under 

the Health, Culture and Sports Department, create a practice 

area for students, aimed to provide preschool education to 

children aged 3-6. There are 6 classrooms, dormitory, kitchen 

and game rooms in the Nursery and Kindergarten in Çiftlikköy 

Campus and Yenişehir Campus. The Nursery and Kindergarten 

with its 150-student capasity provides contemporary education, 

primarily to Mersin University employees and the children of 

public employees. 

Psychological Counseling and Guidance Services 

It continues its activities at Çiftlikköy Campus as a student 

service within Mersin University and provides psychological 

counseling and guidance services. The aim of the center is to 

support our students to develop at the highest level and in many 

ways in terms of individual, social, educational and professional 

aspects. In parallel, it conducts preventive and developmental 

studies for various problems that may arise during the learning 

process. The center continues its activities in the fields of 

individual psychological counseling, group psychological 

counseling, group therapies by planning our studies in line with 

the priorities of our university and the needs of our students. 

Shopping 

The Çiftlikköy Campus has a shopping center that meets the 

social facility needs of students and faculty since 2000. There 

are social places for students and staff such as bookstores, 

restaurants, cafeterias, banks, barber shops, stationery, markets, 

cinema. In addition, PTT branches and ATMs of various banks 

serve in Çiftlikköy and Yenişehir campuses. 

Transportation 

Transportation to the campuses of our university is provided by 

various public transportation vehicles and university vehicles. It is 

possible to reach all campuses of the university easily at any time 

of the day. Ring services between Çiftlikköy and Yenişehir Campus 

offer free transportation to students and staff. The university 

buses, which serve at regular intervals throughout the day, provide 

transportation between both campuses and on campus. 

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FACULTIES

FACULTY OF MARITIME 

FACULTY OF DENTISTRY 

FACULTY OF PHARMACY 

EDUCATION FACULTY 

FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND LETTERS 

FACULTY OF FINE ARTS 

FACULTY OF NURSING 

FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND 

ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES 

FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION 

ISLAMIC SCIENCES FACULTY 

FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE 

ENGINEERING FACULTY 

FACULTY OF SPORT SCIENCES 

FACULTY OF AQUACULTURE 

FACULTY OF MEDICINE 

TOURISM FACULTY

FACULTY OF MARITIME 

General Information 

The Faculty of Maritime at Mersin University was established on Mersin University Tece Campus with the 

decision of the Council of Ministers published in the Official Gazette dated 07/10/2012 and numbered 28434. The 

purpose of the establishment of the faculty is to become a center of attraction in the field of maritime education in 

its region by using the location and facilities of the city of Mersin and Mersin University and to train qualified and 

fully equipped sailors and specialist personnel for maritime businesses, who have made maritime a lifestyle and 

who knows a foreign language.


Within the Faculty of Maritime at Mersin University, there are 

Maritime Operations Management Department, Maritime 

Transportation Management Engineering Department, 

Marine Machinery Management Engineering Department and 

Basic Sciences Department. Our Faculty Maritime Business 

Administration Department has started to accept students in the 

2016-2017 academic year. In order to start education activities in 

the Marine Engineering and Marine Transportation Management 

Engineering Departments, the admission of students in the short 

and medium term is planned by completing the infrastructure and 

academic staff structuring within the framework of the relevant 

regulations and provisions of the Higher Education Council and the 

Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure “Seafarers and Maritime 

Pilots Education and Examination Directive”. It is not considered to 

take undergraduate students to the Department of Basic Sciences. 

Educational activities in our faculty have been carried out in a total 

closed area of 500 m2, including 8 classrooms of 25 m2, 12 rooms of 

25 m2 for academic and administrative staff. In addition, laboratories 

and classrooms which belong to the Maritime Vocational School 

located on Tece Campus have also been benefited from. 

In the education program carried out in the Department of Maritime 

Business Administration in our faculty, both theoretical and practical 

education approaches are prevalent, and the courses given in this 

framework include courses on Basic Business Management, Law, 

Fundamental and Vocational Maritime, Maritime Business, Logistics 

and Transportation. It is ensured that these courses are put into 

practice with homework, projects and internship studies. In addition, 

the program aims to increase knowledge and experience by supporting 

student and academician exchange through bilateral agreements with 

internationally reputable institutions. The program also undertakes 

the task of conducting effective scientific research and project studies 

in maritime discipline and related fields, and providing training and 

consultancy services for stakeholders and society in these areas. 

Students who successfully complete the training program will be 

able to serve in different areas of the maritime industry. Regarding 

the business and management activities of the maritime sector, 

our graduates can take part in various shipping companies, in 

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shipping agencies, in international transportation companies, at 

the logistics departments of Import and Export companies, in port 

administrations, and in areas like these. 

Academic and Administrative Staff Information 

In our faculty there are 6 faculty members working full time; with the title 

of 4 Associate Professors and 2 assistant professors. In addition, within 

the scope of ÖYP (Teaching Staff Training Program), there are 6 research 

assistants continuing their postgraduate education in the field of maritime 

at different universities, and the total number of academic staff is 12. 

Within our faculty a total of 9 personnel, including 7 administrative 

staff and 2 permanent workers, work actively. 

Opportunities for Students 

Opportunities provided to students within our faculty: 

• Taking lessons and counseling from expert and competent 

academic staff. 

• Optional English preparatory education for one year. 

• Educational programs updated according to the needs of the age. 

• Education in modern classrooms on Tece Campus; for 

theoretical and practical courses, tools, equipment, software and 

hardware in compliance with international maritime education 

requirements are used. In addition, there are practical training 

areas used in maritime education, other equipment and supplies 

for maritime education and a library. 

• Benefiting from the student clubs established by our faculty 

students and the activities they organize. 

• Opportunity to take one or two semesters of courses and do 

internships at national and international universities with 

Erasmus, Farabi and Mevlana Exchange Programs. 

• Our students can also benefit from cultural, sportive and artistic activities 

and related opportunities on the other campuses of our university. 

Two magazines, which started to be published in 2019 within our 

faculty, are published. The publication language of the international peerreviewed 

journal called “Mersin University Journal of Maritime Faculty” 

(https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/meujmaf) is English. The publication 

language of the international peer-reviewed journal called “Mersin 

Üniversitesi Denizcilik ve Lojistik Araştırmaları Dergisi” (https:// 

dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/denlojad ) is Turkish. In both journals published 

twice a year, generally scientific studies are published in the fields of 

maritime business management, maritime transport and maritime trade, 

maritime transport business engineering, ship machinery management 

engineering, foreign trade, logistics and supply chain management, 

logistics engineering, marine economy and marine pollution. 


FACULTY OF DENTISTRY 


Mersin University Faculty of Dentistry, as part of the 130th and the 131st items of the Constitution, which 

defines the universities and their duties and authorities within the scope of Higher Education Law No.2547, 

became valid after being published in the Official Newspaper on 6.11.1981 and numbered as 17506, it was 

established with the decision of the Council of Ministers on 20.08.2017 and numbered as 2015/8052, published in 

the Official Newspaper on 27.08.2015 and numbered as 29458.

The main goal of education, training and research activities carried out by Mersin University 

Faculty of Dentistry is to raise dentists who comply with universal and ethical values, use 

knowledge,can produce new knowledge, have a researcher, questioning and analytical mindset 

and can contribute to the development of the society they are in, and prepare themselves for 

lifelong education under competitive conditions and the speed of innovation of knowledge. 

With its physician staff, it aims to provide high-level health services to patients . In order to reach 

internationally accepted standards in their activities Mersin University Faculty of Dentistry 

adopts positive free thinking as part of academic and ethical values, believes in the superiority 

of science, is student-centered in education, cares about the happiness of its employees, gives 

priority to patient satisfaction, and adopts the understanding of working and service in harmony 

with its environment. Within the scope of the program’s mission and vision, an understanding 

towards the satisfaction of students, employees and patients, who are internal stakeholders, has 

been adopted; It is meant to serve in a working order which is compatible with the Ministry of 

Health, the Dentists Association and the Dentists Chambers. 


Departments: 

Department of Clinical Sciences Departments: 

1- Department of Endodontics 

2- Department of Orthodontics 

3- Department of Pediatric Dentistry 

4- Department of Restorative Dentistry 

5- Departments of Periodontology 

6- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology 

7- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 

8- Departments of prosthetic dentistry 

Physical Structure 

Physical structuring of Mersin University Faculty of Dentistry,the land status about the properties in which we operate and the 

information of the closed areas owned by are shown in the charts below. 

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Opportunities for Students: 

Students of our faculty can participate in cultural and 

sports activities of our University and participate in the 

spring festivals. They can benefit from gym,swimming 

pool etc. 

The Student Community of the Faculty of Dentistry 

related to the Department of Health, Culture and Sports 

has been established in order to enable the students of 

our faculty to use their extra time according to their 

interests, to enable them to get new interests, to enable 

their skills to develop in a healthy way, to gain regular, 

disciplined work together and to have entertaining 

habits. 

Postgraduate Education Opportunities: 

Specialization Education can be given in Dentistry. 

(Specialization Examination in Dentistry (DUS)) 


FACULTY OF PHARMACY 


Our faculty was established on July 13, 2000 and enrolled its first students in 2001-2002 academic year and 

produced its first graduates in 2005. Undergraduate and graduate education in our faculty is mainly carried 

out by faculty members working in the departments of three academic divisions, which are the Department 

of Pharmacy Professional Sciences (Department of Pharmacognosy, Department of Pharmacology, 

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Toxicology, Department of Clinical 

Pharmacy), Department of Pharmacy Technology (Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Department 

of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology) and Department of Basic Pharmacy Sciences (Department of Analytical 

Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology).



Our faculty has a harmonious and strong social relationship between its students and 

faculty members, and activities are carried out to improve the academic and social 

development of the students. As part of exchange programmes such as Erasmus, 

Farabi, Mevlana, undergraduate students are exchanged with countries such as Poland, 

Spain, Italy and the UK. Academic counseling, personal and career counseling services 

are provided to students. In line with their professional development, activities 

such as visits, meetings and presentation opportunities are carried out with external 

stakeholders such as pharmaceutical companies. Our building with student classrooms 

and laboratories also has an elevator and exit ramp for disabled people. 

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Within the framework of the Faculty of Pharmacy Core Curriculum, a 5-year Undergraduate program has been implemented in our 

Faculty since the academic year of 2005-2006. In our faculty, an education model in accordance with national and international norms 

is applied in line with the Bologna Process. In our faculty, besides educational activities, qualified scientific researches and projects 

are carried out by faculty members, and their results are presented in national and international scientific meetings and published in 

scientific journals. Our faculty has a total usage area of 1512 square meters, and its education and training activities are carried out with 

classrooms, student and research laboratories, meeting room, library, reading / study rooms and practice pharmacy located in Mersin 

University Yenişehir Campus B and C blocks. 

Academic and Administrative Personnel Information 

Undergraduate and postgraduate education in our faculty is carried out by 13 Professors, 2 Associate Professors, 8 Doctor Faculty 

Members, 1 Lecturer and 7 Research Assistants. The faculty staff includes 14 staff members, including faculty secretary and service 

members. 

Graduate Education Opportunities 

Our faculty has 6 master’s and 4 doctoral programs that give postgraduate level education. Our master’s and doctoral students have 

the opportunity to continue their education and research in research laboratories within our faculty, which are equipped with hightech 

research devices and equipment. Within the scope of Exchange Programmes such as Erasmus, Farabi, Mevlana, graduate students 

are exchanged with countries such as Poland, Spain, Italy and the UK. It is intended to provide our students with research, individual 

learning, and problem-solving skills as well as education. 

One of our main goals is to improve and develop education and training outcomes in our faculty and to bring up-to-date approaches to 

pharmacy education. Our faculty has received Full Accreditation by ECZAKDER for six (6) years as of 27.01.2019 in line with the goal 

of increasing the quality of students enrolled in undergraduate and associate degree programs. Graduates of our faculty are employed 

as responsible managers and managers in production units of the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industry, business development and 

pharmacovigilance departments, licensing, research and development areas, quality control laboratories. In addition, other work areas 

for our students are working as pharmacists at Turkey Medical Devices and Drug Administration, private, state and university hospitals, 

being self-employed and doing academic career. 


FACULTY OF EDUCATION 


Faculty of Education was established by Decree No. 99/12444 dated 16.02.1999. In its establishment, 5 

Departments and 3 Departments, namely Primary Education, Educational Sciences, Foreign Language Education, 

Turkish Education and Computer and Instructional Technologies Education, were opened without students. As 

a result of the studies carried out by the Council of Higher Education and the Ministry of National Education 

together, the Education Faculties were restructured to train teachers in the quality and quantity required by the 

Ministry of National Education. The number of undergraduate programs, which are open is, 9. During the Fall 

semester of the 2019 academic year, our student population has reached to 2448. 

Postgraduate education is carried out in 6 programs of our faculty. 10 departments are with thesis; 4 

departments are non-thesis; 1 of them is a distant education non-thesis program; 2 of them are night classes. The 

teaching is in the form of a master’s program in 14 departments, 2 departments with no thesis. In addition, PhD 

programs are carried out in 5 departments.

Our Mission 

The mission of the Faculty of Education is to raise highly qualified individuals who are secular, modern, creative and positive 

and committed to Atatürk’s principles and reforms. The other properties of the graduates of our faculty are experiencing 

himself/herself for the sake of humanity, being socially beneficial, thinking in the light of universal values, being participatory 

and productive, representing the country all over the world with their own created values and contributing to regional and 

national development with a sustainable progress by conducting a high level of scientific studies and research. The ultimate 

aim is to produce knowledge and technology in order to present for the benefit of society. 

Our Vision 

• The visions of the Faculty of Education are as follows: 

• To create a democratic learning environment that is centered on the individual, respectful to human rights and 

freedoms and based on social peace and reconciliation in an affectionate and tolerant way, 

• To be a respected faculty with superior academic standards in all aspects of our country. 

• Contributing to the rise of our country to the level of modern civilization in the technological, economic and social 

fields thanks to the education and teaching and scientific research it will provide in the light of science. 


FACULTY OF 

SCIENCE AND LETTERS 


Mersin University Faculty of Science and Letters, which has a 28-year history, was established in 1992 and gave its 

first graduates in 1997. In addition to the education and training services that it has been providing for 27 years, the 

projects required by modern science and technology are emphasized and researches are carried out in accordance 

with the social and technological conditions of the day. The results of the researches are published as an article or a 

book in the country and abroad, and presented as national or international papers.


Our faculty has 17 departments. Undergraduate education is conducted in 14 departments, namely Archeology, 

Biology, Biotechnology, Translation, Philosophy, Physics, English Language and Literature, Chemistry, 

Mathematics, Psychology, Art History, Sociology, History and Turkish Language and Literature. 

German Language and Literature, Arabic Language and Literature and Comparative Literature 

departments make the necessary preparations to provide undergraduate education. 

Student admission to evening education programs in Biology, Philosophy, Chemistry, Mathematics 

and History departments has been suspended and evening education programs will continue 

until the students who are still enrolled graduate. 

Student admission to evening education programs in Biology, Philosophy, Chemistry, Mathematics 

and History departments has been suspended and evening education programs will continue 

until the students who are still enrolled graduate. 

Our faculty has 30 classrooms and 32 laboratories that are used for education and research in 

accordance with the requirements of the age and have the necessary technical equipment. In addition, 

each department uses a seminar room allocated to it for lectures, presentations and seminars. 


In our faculty, there are a total of 153 faculty members, including 49 Professors, 24 Associate Professors, 

49 Doctor Instructors, 8 Lecturers, 23 Research Assistants. In addition to these, 1 lecturer 

works in the Translation Department as a foreign lecturer. In addition, in our faculty, there are 8 

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instructors in accordance with the 13 / b-4 article of the Law No. 2547, and 14 research assistants 

working in the main disciplines in our faculty, and the total number of academic staff is 175. 

In addition to 175 academic staff, a total of 208 staff, including 24 administrative staff and 9 permanent 

workers, actively work in our Faculty. 

Training Programs 

Education programs carried out in our faculty; 

Content that will arouse curiosity in students and lead them to specialize in their fields, 

It is carried out with the aim of training students as well-equipped, cultured, neutral and prudent people 

who can discuss and criticize in a contemporary sense, as well as being informed in their fields. 

Postgraduate Education Opportunities 

In our faculty, except for Comparative Literature and Arabic Language and Literature Departments, 

there are master’s programs in 15 main disciplines under the umbrella of the Institute of 

Social Sciences or the Institute of Science. 

In addition, doctoral programs in 14 major disciplines: German Language and Literature, Archeology, Biology, 

Biotechnology, Translation, Philosophy, Physics, English Language and Literature (English Linguistics), Chemistry, 

Mathematics, Psychology, Sociology, History and Turkish Language and Literature are carried out. 


FACULTY OF FINE ARTS 


Mersin University Faculty of Fine Arts was established in accordance with the law numbered 3837 and dated 

03 July 1992, and education started with the admission of 20 students to the Department of Painting in the 

1993-1994 academic year. The number of departments that enrolled students in the Department of Sculpture 

and Graphics in 1994-1995 academic year and in the Department of Performing Arts in the academic year of 

1996-1997 increased to 4 from 10 departments in the Law of Establishment. In the 1999-2000 academic year, the 

establishment of the Ceramics and Textile Departments was completed, and it was included in the 2000 OSYS 

Guide to admit students in the 2000-2001 academic year. The Department of Industrial Design included in the 

Establishment Law was excluded from the Faculty of Fine Arts.


Although Cinema-TV, Music and Photography Departments are 

included in the organization chart, they have not yet been able to 

start their educational activities because they do not have sufficient 

instructors, equipment and venues suitable for their purposes. 

The duration of education in our Faculty, which accepts students 

with the YGS + Special Ability exam, is 4 years. 

Departments continuing education activities: 

• Painting 

• Graphic ( It was changed as Graphic Arts with the decision 

taken at the Higher Education Executive Board Meeting 

dated 11.03.2020) 

• Sculpture 

• Textile (It was changed to Textile and Fashion Design with 

the decision taken at the Higher Education Executive Board 

Meeting dated 11.03.2020) 

• Ceramic 

Departments with no students: 

• Photography 

• Cinema and Television (It was changed as Radio, Television 

and Cinema with the decision taken at the Higher Education 

Executive Board Meeting dated 11.03.2020) 

• Music 

• Stage Decorations and Costume ( It was changed as 

Stage Decoration and Costume with the decision taken 

at the Higher Education Executive Board Meeting dated 

11.03.2020) 

• Basic Education Department 

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PHYSICAL OPPORTUNITIES, LABARATORY AND THE 

NUMBER OF CLASSROOMS 

Our faculty has been operating in the building located on the 

University campus since the 2010-2011 academic years. 

The situation of the Classrooms: 

There are 3 classrooms shared by all departments in the Faculty 

of Fine Arts Building. The distribution of the Workshops and 

Laboratories according to the departments is as follows. 

The situation of the Workshops: 

DEPARTMENT OF PAINTING 


Our Faculty Painting Department was established in accordance 

with the law numbered 3837, dated 03 July 1992, and education 

started by taking 20 students in the 1993-1994 academic year. 

More than 300 students have graduated from the department. 

The curriculum of the department aims to create the basic 

discipline of being an artist while developing the creativity of the 

student. During the four-year education, theoretical courses that 

will create both practical and intellectual infrastructure are given 

to develop the creative power of the student. 

Academic Staff Information: 

The Painting Department consists of 3 professors, 3 associate 

professors and 4 lecturers. 


In the department, there are Applied Painting, Pattern, Basic Art 

Education, Modeling, Original Print, Photography, Wall Painting 

and Free Material Workshops in order to reach the aims of the 


program. The workshops are for twenty people each, with eleven 

students per academic staff. Panels, seminars, conferences are 

given by experts in their fields, exhibitions and similar events are 

organized to support the program throughout the year. 

Graduates; freelance artists, painters in private and public 

institutions, art consultants, academic staff in education and 

research institutions related to fine arts, art classes officer at 

universities, and those who receive education certificates have the 

opportunity to work as art educators in educational institutions 

affiliated with the Ministry of Education. 

Post- Graduate Study Opportunities: 

Graduate courses consist of courses where students can analyze 

and increase their critical skills. Graduate students benefit from 

the facilities of the Painting Department, and there is a student 

room with a computer for their research and reading. 

DEPARTMENT OF SCULPTURE 

General Information: 

The Sculpture Department of our Faculty was established in 

accordance with the law numbered 3837, dated 03 July 1992. 

The Master’s program in the academic year of 1993-1994, the 

undergraduate program in the academic year of 1994-1995, and 

the Proficiency in Art Program in the academic year of 2015-2016 

started its activities by taking its first students. 61 students in the 

Sculpture Department undergraduate program, 12 students in the 

Master’s program and 1 student in the Proficiency in Art program 

continue their education. 

The aim of the education in the Department of Sculpture is to 

provide all the theoretical and practical knowledge and skills to the 

artist candidates who are interested in the art of sculpture. In this 

process, it is aimed to create an original art language in line with 

the student’s ability and creative personality. Students, who have 

the opportunity to learn and apply traditional and contemporary 

materials during their four-year education, prepare to become 

competent artists of the cultural and artistic life of our country by 

making designs with the art language they have acquired. 

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The Department of Sculpture consists of 2 professors, 2 associate 

professors, 1 doctor lecturer, 1 lecturer and 2 research assistants. 


Sculpture Department; It has six large workshops (Stone, Metal, 

Wood, Modeling) equipped with equipment that can respond 

to traditional and contemporary art applications, as well as a 

Computer Laboratory where the 3D program is taught, Basic Art, 

Artistic Anatomy, Free Materials and Photography Workshop. In 

addition, students; They can gain new experiences and improve 

themselves with national-international exchange programs such 

as Bologna, Erasmus, Farabi and Mevlana. 


Graduate courses consist of courses where students can analyze 

and increase their critical skills. Graduate students benefit from 

the Sculpture Department’s existing facilities, and there is a 

student room with a computer for their research and reading. 

DEPARTMENT OF GRAPHIC ARTS 


Our Faculty Department of Graphics was established in 1992 and 

the undergraduate program started in 1994-1995 academic year 

with a student quota of 20. Candidates must have a high school 

or equivalent school diploma. Candidates who have obtained 

sufficient base points from the University Student Selection 

Exam are admitted to the special talent exam. There are 3 

graphic workshops, 1 computer workshop, 1 photography studio 

belonging to the department. In addition, 1 print workshop, 1 

pattern workshop and 3 classrooms are also used by our faculty’s 

departments. 

The aim of the department is to “train designers who 

can produce creative and original solutions to visual 

communication problems”. Course contents were prepared 

in line with this goal; New courses with content according 

to the developing and changing conditions of the day have 

been included in the program.Students must successfully 


complete all of the courses given in the program in eight terms 

(equivalent to a total of 240 ECTS). The education period is 

8 terms, the language of instruction is Turkish and the mode 

of study is full time.The courses in the education program 

are for a semester. In the first year, apart from the common 

compulsory courses, workshop courses such as Basic Art 

Education, Pattern, Photography, Typography and theoretical 

courses such as General Art History and Introduction to Art 

Concepts are compulsory.The first-class education program 

is an introduction to art in general and graphic design in 

particular. In the second year, Graphic Design Workshop, 

Typography, Photography, Pattern, Elective Course (Original 

Print Painting-Illustration), Computer Education lessons, 

applied in workshop environment; Aesthetics, Art History, 

Visual Communication courses are also given theoretically. 

Students, who are made aware of the technical and content 

aspects of graphic design, take courses on graphic design in 

the third year, both supporting experimental studies, and 

theoretically and practically with the projects created. 

Especially, the projects implemented in the workshop courses 

such as Advertising Graphics, Industrial Graphics and Illustration 

and Printmaking offered in the elective course group, which are 

theoretically supported, are based on the possibilities of students’ 

approach to a design problem and creating solutions.In addition 

to the workshop courses, Graphic Production Techniques, 

History of Graphic Design and Art Philosophy, History of 

Civilization, Mythology, Art Social Science, Visual Culture 

History, Contemporary Art and Its Interpretation, Semiotics 

Concepts, Semantics, Design Management, which are included 

in 2 separate elective courses. Students are also supported 

with theoretical courses.In the Computer Education course, 

interactive and multimedia opportunities are evaluated in terms 

of technique and content along with projects. The teaching of 

computer programs such as Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Indesign, 

Illustrator, 3D Max to students is also included in these courses. 

Final year students are offered 3 group elective course suggestions. 

In the first elective courses group; Basic Workshop courses, 

Advertising Graphics, Industry Graphics, Broadcast Graphics 

and Free Graphics courses are included. In the second elective 

courses group; Digital Illustration, Advertising Photography, 

Web Design, Printmaking, Typography, Portfolio courses, in 

the third elective courses group; Among the theoretical courses, 

Advertising and Marketing, Visual Text Analysis, Design 

Management, Research Methods, Media Analysis courses take 

place. Students can choose each of these courses for only one 

semester, or both semesters. Each student who chooses the Basic 

Workshop Course prepares a “Graduation Project” with a topic 

related to the content of that course. Projects completed at the 

end of two semesters are evaluated. Students who are successful 

in this evaluation are entitled to graduate if they have also been 

successful in other courses. 

Graduates can work as graphic designers, art directors or 

consultants in private and public organizations that are within 

the scope of mass communication such as advertising, printing, 

press, web publishing, social media, cinema and television. 

By establishing their own workshops, they can continue their 

personal art and design work. They can be academicians in 

related departments of higher education. They can continue 

their graduate education with ‘Master’s’ programs in related 

fields.Students who receive education certificate can work as a 

teacher in educational institutions affiliated with the Ministry of 

National Education. 


The Graphic Department consists of 2 professors, 2 doctor 

lecturers, 3 lecturers and 3 research assistants. 


Apart from the opportunities provided in education, students 

are also supported in participating in cultural-social activities. In 

addition, all classrooms and workshops have internet access. 


Graduate education was started at the Institute of Social Sciences 

by taking 3 students in the 2004-2005 academic year as the 

Graphic Department. Graphic Department has been continuing 

its graduate education program under the Institute of Fine Arts 

since 2009 and has a quota of 6 students per year. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TEXTILE AND FASHION DESIGN 


The Textile Department was established within the Mersin 

University Faculty of Fine Arts in accordance with the law 

number 3837 dated 03.07.1992 and started to accept students 

since 2000-2001 Academic Year. 

This department; aims to train designers who are competent 

in the design and production processes of industrial and 

artistic textile products, who can produce creative and original 

designs. 

The education period of the department, which is an 

undergraduate program, is 4 years. The language of education 

is Turkish. Department teaching staff; It consists of 6 lecturers, 

3 lecturers and 3 lecturers. The department student quota is 

15. Since starting to take students, as of 2019, a total of 125 

students have graduated from the department. 

Vision of the Department: 

To be a nationally and internationally respected and preferred 

program in the field of textile and fashion design, with high 

national and international recognition, developed relations 

with the society and industry. 

Mission of the Department: 

To be a program that can direct and contribute to the 

development of the country’s textile industry at undergraduate 

and graduate levels, is universally competent, adopts creativity 

and originality as a principle, and trains designers and artists 

competent in the field of textile and fashion; Individuals who 

can grasp and interpret the age they live in, have historical 

consciousness, have adopted an interdisciplinary approach, 

have gained the ability to research and access information, are 

innovative, prone to teamwork, respectful to scientific ethical 

values, responsible and disciplined, open to development and 

learning, able to transform knowledge into production, adopt 

a culture of sustainability to raise. 


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Values: 

Justice, Scientific freedom, Rationalism, Creativity, Critical 

thinking, Scientific approach, Artistic approach, Productivity, 

Innovation, Teamwork, Learning to learn, Commitment to ethical 

principles, Topicality, Sustainability, Interdisciplinary approach, 

Transparency, Reliability, Cooperation, Social responsibility, 

Respect for people. 

Department Facilities: 

In the section; The equipment specified in Table 1 below is available 

to provide training in weaving, printing and fashion design. In 

addition to these, in the education process, there are classrooms, 

basic art workshop, photography workshop, etc. facilities are also 

used. 

Department students have to do 2 internships for 20 days during 

their education. Thus, they get the opportunity to get to know the 

textile industry and prepare for business life, and gain experience in 

the business environment in the field of study (weaving, printing, 

fashion design) that they will determine. By taking advantage 

of Erasmus, Farabi and Mevlana exchange programs, they can 

gain experience abroad, do internship abroad, and benefit from 

the educational opportunities of different universities. Students, 

national and international exhibitions, competitions, workshops, 

seminars, etc. Their participation in events, technical trips are 

organized and their professional and personal development is 

supported by actively participating in cooperation projects with 

external stakeholders. 


1 associate professor, 2 doctor lecturers and 3 lecturers work in the 

Textile Department. 

Education Plan: 

During the four-year undergraduate education, students; will 

improve their design culture and skills, facilitate their adaptation 

to the digital age, teach textile technology and production 

processes, develop their creative thinking skills, enable them to 

absorb the culture of sustainability and innovation as required 

by the age, improve their foreign language competencies, teach 

original design development practically, weaving, printing and 

They go through an education program that includes courses on 

clothing design. In addition, in order for our students to graduate, 

they are required to complete 2 internships of 20 days during their 

education. 

The education program is constantly updated with the 

contributions of internal and external stakeholders in order to be 

accredited with similar national and international departments 

and to keep up with the development of the textile industry. There 

is no postgraduate education in our department yet. 

DEPARTMENT OF CERAMIC 


This program, which started education in the 2000-2001 

academic year, aims to raise original designers with high 

aesthetic and technical qualities, bringing the cultural and 

artistic accumulations of the past to the present, bringing artistic 

creativity and personality to the fore with a contemporary 

understanding. 

During the four-year undergraduate education, students; It 

is aimed to gain knowledge and skills in subjects such as Basic 

Art Education, Pattern, Free Forming, Casting, Plaster-Mold, 

Decoration, Glazing, Firing, Technology Laboratory, Turning 

Techniques, Production-Business Accounts, including artistic, 

technological and industrial studies. 


Ceramic Department consists of 1 associate professor, 3 lecturers 

and 2 research assistants. 


Working opportunities as artistic or industrial hand and lathe 

products in gypsum-mold casting units, private and corporate 

ceramic workshops and enterprises, ceramic designer in interior 

and exterior architectural wall applications, academic staff in 

education and research institutions related to Fine Arts, as an 

art consultant in private and public institutions they have. 


FACULTY OF NURSING 


Our faculty was established by the Council of Ministers Decision No. 2017/10549 published in the Official 

Newspaper dated 17 August 2017 and numbered 30157. Student admission to theFaculty of Nursing Department 

started in the 2018-2019 academicyear.Ourfacultycontinueseducation in thesamebuilding as the School of Health 

in Çiftlikköy Campus.

Our Faculty has 8 classrooms, 2 seminar rooms and a Nursing Skill Laboratory. 

Theclassrooms in ourfaculty are equipped with a computer and projection 

systema nd ourlessons can be carried out by using these technological 

facilities.Moreover, in theNursing Skills Laboratory in our service building, 

practisesarecarriedouttoensurebetterqualityandmore cathcyeducation. 


Opportunities Provided To Students 

With the wi-fi system in our faculty, our students can connectt 

othe internet via theirown computers or phones. 

Our faculty is located in Çiftlikköy Campus of Mersin University. 

Our students can also benefit from the central cafeteria, other 

various cafeterias, canteen sand buffets located in our campus 

tomeet their needs. 

Our students can participate in manydifferent socialand sportive 

activities. The rearemanygyms on campus. Besides, thanks toour 

University Stadium, indoor swimming pool, out door basketball 

and volleyball courts and outdoor tennis courts, a widerange of 

Sports opportunities are offeredto students. 

Furthermore, our students can also benefit fromthe Central 

Library on our campus. 

Graduate Education Opportunities 

Our faculty provides the students who graduate from nursing 

graduate and undergraduate programs with post graduate 

education opportunities of Nursing Graduate Program and 

Nursing Doctorate Program carried out by the Health Sciences 

Institute. 

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FACULTY OF 

ECONOMICS AND 

ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES 


Our faculty was established in 1992 with the law numbered 3837 and started its activities on 10 November 1992. 

A four-year undergraduate program is applied in our faculty. 

Business Department in our faculty started its activities by recruiting students in the 1993-1994 academic 

year. The language of instruction in the department is 30% English. For this reason, students admitted to our 

undergraduate program are subject ed to compulsory English preparatory program. There is a Master’s program 

with and without thesis in the department. There is also a PhD program with thesis. There is a non-thesis master’s 

program in e-Business based on distance education.


Department of Economics in our faculty started its activities by 

accepting students in the academic year of 1995-1996. The language 

of instruction in the department is 30% English. For this reason, 

students admitted to our undergraduate formal education program 

are subjected to the compulsory English preparatory program. 

There is an evening education Turkish program in the department. 

There are Master’s with Thesis and PhD with Thesis programs in the 

department. 

Our Faculty Public Administration Department started its activities 

by accepting students in 1997-1998 academic year. The language of 

instruction in the department is 30% English. For this reason, students 

admitted to our undergraduate program are subjected to compulsory 

English preparatory program. The department has Master’s with 

Thesis and Non-Thesis and Doctorate Programs with Thesis. 

The Department of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations of our 

Faculty started its activities by recruiting students in the 2010-2011 

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academic year. The department has formal and evening education 

programs. There is a Master’s program with and without thesis in the 

department. 

Our Faculty, Department of Finance started its activities by accepting 

students in the 2005-2006 academic year. There are Master’s with 

Thesis and Non-Thesis and Doctorate Programs with Thesis. 

Our Faculty’s International Relations Department started its activities 

by accepting students in the 2015-2016 academic year. In the 2020- 

2021 academic year, 30% English education will begin. There is a 

Master’s program with thesis in the department. 

There are 26 classrooms, 81 staff offices, 6 archives / warehouses in 

our faculty. 

ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF INFORMATION 

a) Academic Staff Information According to Their Titles 

b) Number of Academic Staff by Department / Programs 


FACULTY OF 

COMMUNICATION 


Mersin University Faculty of Communication was established in 2001 and received its first students in 2004. In 

the meantime, over 600 students from our undergraduate and graduate programs at our faculty have graduated 

and have accomplished successful works in different areas of the communication industry.


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Within the Faculty, there are 3 sections: 

1. Journalism 

2. Radio, Television and Cinema 

3. Advertising and Public Relations 

Journalism and Radio, Television and Cinema departments have undergraduate programs, and the Advertising and 

Public Relations department will start accepting undergraduate students in the coming years.. 

In accordance with the regulation of the Council of Higher Education, the departments available at our Faculty 

were restructured in 2018 and the following departments were opened with the decision of the Higher Education 

General Assembly dated 04/04/2018 

Within the Journalism Department there are: 

• Information and Information Technologies Department 

• Media Studies Department 

• Department of General Journalism 

Within the Advertising and Public Relations Department there are: 

• Public Relations Department 

• Department of Advertising 

Within the Radio, Television and Cinema Department there are: 

• Radio Television Department 

• Department of Cinema 

• Department of Communication Sciences 


The technical infrastructure facilities of the faculty 

are at a high level to support program education 

and training objectives and outcomes. The first 

unit established at the Faculty was the Radio 

Studio, which was implemented with professional 

equipment. Broadcasting on 102.8 FM band, Mersin 

University Radio is an important application area for 

students. Radio broadcasts on terrestrial and internet 

since 2005. In our Faculty, which moved to its new 

building in 2009, Radio Studio was further expanded. 

Students benefit from Computer Lab, Radio Studio, 

Television Studio, Film Studio, Editing Rooms, MIDI 

Studio, News Center and Production-Management 

Workshops. 

Information About Faculty and Administrative Staff 

Fakültemiz bünyesinde 2 Profesör Doktor, 1 Profesör, 

3 Doçent Doktor, 8 Doktor Öğretim Üyesi, 1 Araştırma 

Görevlisi Doktor, 5 Öğretim Görevlisi ve 5 Araştırma 

Görevlisi bulunmaktadır. 3 Araştırma Görevlisi 

ise devam eden doktora eğitimleri sebebiyle eğitim 

gördükleri üniversitelerde görevlendirilmişlerdir. 

Fakültenin idari kadrosunda ise 1 Fakülte Sekreteri, 1 

Şef, 2 Memur, 2 Bilgisayar İşletmeni, 4 Veri Hazırlama 

Kontrol İşletmeni, 1 İşyeri Hekimi, 4 Sürekli İşçi ve 2 

Hizmetli olmak üzere 17 personel görev yapmaktadır. 

Our Faculty has 2 PhD Professor, 1 Professor, 3 

Associate Professors, 8 PhD Lecturers, 1 PhDResearch 

Assistant, 5 Instructor and 5 Research Assistants. 3 

Research Assistants were assigned to universities 

where they were educated due to their ongoing 

doctorate education. 

In the administrative staff of the faculty, there are 

17 staff members including 1 Faculty Secretary, 1 

Chief, 2 Officers, 2 Computer Operators, 4 Data 

Preparation Control Operators, 1 Workplace Doctor, 

4 Continuous Workers and 2 Servants. 

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Opportunities Provided to Students 

Our TV studios, which serve with their modern technological 

infrastructure and professional equipment, and our technical 

units such as voice-over and editing rooms, as well as our radio 

news center, newspaper and photo workshops, and computer 

laboratories are available to our students. Apart from these 

technical opportunities, within the framework of the agreements 

made in our faculty, there is also student mobility within the scope 

of Erasmus, which is a student exchange program abroad, and 

Farabi, which is a domestic student exchange program. 

“Student Communities, which are established under the 

Directorate of Health, Culture and Sports, in order to evaluate the 

extra-curricular times of our students according to their interests, 

to enable them to gain new interests, to enable them to develop 

their skills in a healthy way, and to gain regular, disciplined work, 

fun habits together. “ Operates. Our faculty students can participate 

in various activities with different communities according to their 

interests. 

There is also an area in the Faculty where students can spend 

time between classes. In this section, which is open to student 

use with tables and chairs, a canteen also serves to meet student 

needs. Within the scope of the course, equipment support is also 

provided from the Faculty for the projects to be carried out by the 

students. Our Faculty, which has a large inventory such as camera, 

tripod, camera, voice recorder; supports students in this sense in 

their project processes. 

In addition, Mersin University Handicapped Life Unit provides 

equal access and support to our disabled students and staff within 

the framework of their mission of providing disabled students 

with a supportive and well-equipped environment, helping 

them improve their independence as individuals and improve 

their independence as a result of their academic success and 

education. strives to create opportunities for students and to 

raise awareness about disability in our university. As part of 

this effort, there is a ‘Disabled Student Unit Representative’ at 

the Faculty of Communication, as in every faculty, and works 

devotedly in solving the problems that students with disabilities 

may experience. 


One of the departments in our faculty is a master’s degree in 

our Journalism department; There are master’s and doctorate 

programs in our Radio, Television and Cinema department. 

Radio, Cinema and Television Master program in our faculty 

was opened with the decision of Higher Education General 

Assembly dated 21/09/2007; Journalism Master’s program will 

also start accepting students in the 2020-2021 academic year. 

Radio, Cinema and Television doctorate program was opened 

with the decision of the General Assembly of Higher Education 

dated 25/12/2014 and started to enroll students since the academic 

year of 2016-2017. 

Other Information 

Radio, Television and Cinema Department of our faculty; has 

been accredited by the “Communication Education Assessment 

Accreditation Board” by the “Communication Education 

Assessment Accreditation Board” in terms of many criteria such as 

course curriculum, physical facilities, academic staff qualification, 

and has become one of the fifteen communication undergraduate 

programs of eight universities that achieved this success. 


FACULTY OF 

ISLAMIC SCIENCES 


Our faculty was established by the decision of the Council of Ministers published in the Official Gazette dated 

December 7, 2016 and numbered 2991, upon the proposal of our Senate within Mersin University. 

Our faculty is 36th among the Faculty of Theology / Islamic Sciences of State Universities in YKS; and, among 

the 25 Faculty of Islamic Sciences, it ranked 4th after Ankara Social Sciences, Selçuk and Yıldırım Beyazıt 

Universities. 

Our faculty has started its educational activities by taking 62 students, 30 of which are female and 32 of which are 

male, in the 2019-2020 academic year. 31 of our students graduated from Anatolian Imam-Hatip High School and 

the others from different high schools.


Our faculty integrates its students, graduates, employees and 

society with lifelong learning with the education it will provide 

at national and international level, using its knowledge and 

experience for the benefit of all humanity, through its highquality 

academic programs, has a vision of quality-oriented, 

sensitive to social values, unimpeded and internationally 

recognized. It started education in 2019-2020 with its young and 

contemporary academic staff, who have a good command of the 

field, have grasped the contemporary possibilities and situations, 

are aware of young psychology, and have pedagogical formation. 

A four-year education program is implemented in our faculty 

and there is not a prep-class. In addition, the teaching system of 

the future, which teaches the lesson in the lesson and offers the 

opportunity to evaluate in the process, not just an exam indexed, 

is applied with the interactive teaching system that provides 

active participation of the student and focused on learning the 

subject. 

The goals of our faculty program; 

• To train academicians, researchers, teachers and religious 

officials who have acquired professional knowledge and 

skills with scientific and original thinking ability. 

• To raise people who are devoted to national, spiritual, 

universal moral values and cultural heritage and respect 

different values and beliefs by teaching religion from its 

basic sources. 

Departments 

Faculty of Islamic Sciences consists of 3 departments. 

• Philosophy and Religious Studies Departments 

• Department of Islamic History and Arts 

• Department of Basic Islamic Sciences 

Institutional Departments 

Departments of Philosophy and Religious Studies; 

• Department of Religious Studies 

• Department of Islamic Philosophy 

Department of Islamic History and Arts; 

Department of Islamic Arts and Religious Music 

Department of Ottoman Turkish and Islamic Turkish Literature 

Department of Siyer-i Nebi and Islamic History 

Basic Islamic Sciences Department Departments; 

• Department of Arabic Language and Rhetoric 

• Department of Fiqh 

• Department of Hadith 

• Department of Kalam and Itikadi Islamic Sects 

• Department of Quran Islamic Sects 

• Department of Sufism 

• Department of Tafsir 

Physical Facilities 

The physical structuring of the Mersin University Faculty of 

Islamic Sciences is in the 141.8 m² closed area of the building 

belonging to the Faculty of Tourism and education and training 

continues. 

With 3 classrooms and 1 library in our faculty, there are 

computers, projectors etc. in our classrooms. continues education 

with electronic support. 


We have a total of 13 Personnel Office Areas, 7 Academic Offices 

and 6 Administrative Offices, including the land situation and 

the closed areas that we operate. 

• 1 Personnel is in the staff of the Faculty Secretary; He is in 

the Incoming Appointment Class and works as the Faculty 

Secretary in our Faculty. 

• 1 Personnel is in the staff of Civil Servants; Open 

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appointment (according to 3713 S.K EK 1 MD) works in 

our Faculty. 

• 1 Personnel is in the Staff of Health, Culture and Sports 

Department as Support Personnel; He works in our 

faculty. 

• 2 Personnel are Permanent Employee in the Administrative 

Financial Affairs Department Staff; They work in our 

Faculty in accordance with the article 13 / b-4 of the Law 

No. 2547. 

• 1 Personnel is in the staff of Civil Servants; Open 

appointment (according to the Direction of 657 / Rev. 53. 

Disabled Person) staff is in the Personnel Department and 

works in our faculty. 

• 1 Personnel is from the General Administrative Services 

class, 657 S.K. 4 / B is working in our faculty by moving 

from contractual to administrative staff. 

Academical personal 

• 1 Staff, Prof. Dr. Its staff is at Necmettin Erbakan University; 

He works in our Faculty in accordance with the article 13 / 

b-4 of the Law No. 2547. 

• 4 Staff, Assoc. Dr. Is in the staff; He works in our faculty. 

• 7 staff members, Dr. Lecturer Member of the staff; He 

works in our faculty. 

• 2 Staff, Res. See. Is in the staff; Open appointment 

(2547/50-d) Art. He is working in our faculty. 



Scholarships were provided to all students who preferred our faculty. Students from 

the first 25 thousand were given a laptop computer along with scholarships. In 

addition, none of our students have dormitory and accommodation problems. 

In our faculty, the monthly rotational academic consultancy system is put into 

practice and the progress of each student is monitored periodically. 

The arts, aesthetics and intellectual and social development of our students are 

supported by DIB Theology Academy, eco-practice, text readings, thematic studies, 

music choir and classical Islamic arts workshops in relevant institutions. 

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• 1 Staff, Inst. See. Is in the staff; 2547/31 Art. He is working 

in our faculty. 

“New” Lesson Teaching, Assessment and Evaluation Methods 

Applied in Our Faculty 

e-suffe 

«e-suffe, e-luga ve e-cehd» 

-Study for Understanding and Finding Functionally and 

Effectively- 

In our faculty; 

An interactive teaching system focused on teaching and learning 

the subject, which ensures active participation of the student, is 

based on e-suffe. 

The functional education-teaching method e-suffe, which teaches 

the course in the lesson, offers the opportunity to evaluate it 

in the process, discovers, understands and makes the student 

effective, was first applied in our Faculty. 

e-luga 

-Language Use for Global Aims- 

This system was created based on the mother tongue learning 

process. 

The student easily acquires the skills of reading, writing and 

speaking in Arabic and other languages with the e-luga method. 

Our faculty offers the opportunity to learn Latin, German, 

Japanese and Macedonian along with Arabic, English, Persian 

and Ottoman Turkish. 

e-cehd 

• Critical Education for Human Development- 

In this system, exams are not the only measurement for student 

achievement measurement and evaluation, and measurement 

and evaluation are enabled in the process. 

• Scientific Meetings, Book 

• Article Reading, Evaluating; 

• Participation in studies related to language education; 

• Professional Representation and Participation in 

Professional 

Activities; 

• Participation in Environmental and Social Responsibility 

Studies; 

• Participation and attendance in classes as elements of 

success are included in the measurement and evaluation 

process. 

In addition, the necessary studies have been done by our Faculty, 

the preparations have been completed, and the applications have 

been made for the opening of the Master’s Programs with and 

without Thesis for the Department of Philosophy and Religious 

Sciences, approved by YÖK and these programs will be opened 

for the 2020-2021 Academic Year Spring Semester. 


FACULTY OF 

ARCHITECTURE 


Mersin University Faculty of Architecture was established in 1999 as a faculty consisting of three departments: 

Department of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning, and Department of Industrial Design. 

Department of Architecture first started its education in the academic year 2001-2002, and at the end of the 

academic year 2018-2019, it had its fourteenth term graduates. Department of City and Regional Planning 

admitted its first undergraduate students in 2011-2012 and started its first-grade undergraduate education in 

2012-2013. As for the third department of our faculty, the Department of Industrial Product Design, education at 

the undergraduate level is aimed to be inaugurated after the academic staff of the department is assembled.


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In the fields of Architecture, Planning and Design, our faculty is an 

institution of education and research that is recognized nationally 

and internationally and that has its originality. In this regard, our 

primary goal is to provide a qualified education in each department 

of our faculty in order to educate our students to become professionals 

who are knowledgeable in their fields, who can use their creativity, 

who can define problems by thinking rationally and inquisitive, who 

can solve problems, and who are successful in the national as well 

as international scope. In the departments of our faculty, a “studentcentered” 

educational philosophy has been adopted in undergraduate 

education which is carried out mainly in design and planning studios. 

In order to provide our students with the ability to establish relationships 

with international professional environments as our graduates, the 

undergraduate education is carried out in English at a rate of 30 percent 

in the Department of Architecture and 100 percent in the Department of 

City and Regional Planning. In our faculty, in addition to the student and 

academic staff exchange agreements made within the framework of the 

Erasmus program, special attention is paid to international collaborations 

in the fields of education and research. Moreover, international workshops 

are organized within the scope of these collaborations. 

Mersin University Faculty of Architecture, with its well-equipped and 

dynamic academic staff, carries out educational and research activities that 

aim at planning, designing and producing qualified cities, environments and 

buildings that are liveable and sustainable with high design value at a universal 

level as well as protecting cultural and natural environmental values. 

As for the physical facilities of our faculty, there are 14 Classrooms, 

15 Studios, two Computer Laboratories, three Exhibition Halls, two 

Seminar Halls and one Conference Hall with a capacity of 170 people. 

Information on Academic and Administrative Staff 

In our faculty, there are 24 academic staff, of whom five are Associate 

Professors, 11 are lecturers Ph.D. and eight are lecturers. Moreover, 

there are 11 administrative staff who carry out administrative duties. 

Information on the Department of Architecture 


Students have the opportunity to take an active part in many national 

and international studies and events in the field of architecture. 

Opportunities for Postgraduate Education 

The Master’s program in Conservation of Cultural Heritage started in 

2015 in the Institute of Science at Mersin University. The program aims 

to provide individuals from different professions with a specialization in 

the conservation of cultural heritage through interdisciplinary studies. 

The doctorate program in Media, Culture and Urban Studies is carried 

out in the Institute of Social Sciences at Mersin University. The program 

aims to train academicians and researchers who have the skills in and 

qualifications for working in the intersection areas of Radio, Television 

and Cinema, Journalism, Political Science, Public Administration, 

Architecture, City and Regional Planning, Philosophy and Sociology. 

Many national and international cooperation, projects and consultancy 

studies are carried out in the department. 

Information on the Department of City and Regional Planning 


Undergraduate and graduate education is carried out in equipped 

studios, laboratories and classrooms in the Faculty of Architecture. 

There are wide interiors and open spaces within the faculty building. 

The Amphitheatre and Exhibition Hall of the Faculty of Architecture 

can be used for international and national events and scientific 

meetings. There is a Computer Workshop in the faculty that can 

be used by students. In addition, a Laboratory of Geographical 

Information Systems was established in order to ensure the effective 

use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), whose use has become 

increasingly widespread in the field of City and Regional Planning. 

Opportunities for Postgraduate Education 

The Master’s program in City and Regional Planning started in the 

2010-2011 academic year. The program aims to become the focus 

on developing innovative strategies for research, education, policy 

development and implementation with regard to the topics related 

to the process of city and regional planning as well as the process of 

structuring space at a local, regional and country scale. 

The journal titled “Sketch: Journal of City and Regional Planning”, 

which is an international peer-reviewed journal, has been published by 

the Department of City and Regional Planning since 2019. The detailed 

information about the journal can be found at https://sketchjournal. 

org/tr/default.aspx. 


FACULTY OF 

ENGINEERING 


Our faculty is one of the 6 faculties established in 1992 within the scope of Mersin University with Law No. 

3837. Education and training activities are carried out in undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs in the 

departments of our faculty. The infrastructure and laboratories of Computer, Environment, Electrical-Electronics, 

Food, Civil, Geological, Chemistry, Machine, Geomatics, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Departments, 

of which the undergraduate education is given, have been completed significantly. In addition to the four existing 

blocks, two faculty blocks were completed in July 2012, and the Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, 

and Geomatics Engineering departments were moved to the Block F, and Computer Engineering, Electrical- 

Electronics Engineering, and Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Departments were moved to the Block E.


Students started to admit to the Chemical 

Engineering Department in the 2008- 

2009 academic year, the Civil Engineering 

Department in the 2013-2014 academic year, 

and the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 

Department in the 2014-2015 academic year. In the 

2015-2016 academic year, students were admitted 

to the Computer Engineering Department, which 

has not been admitted since 2007. With the 

decision taken at the meeting of the Council of 

Higher Education Executive Board on 24.06.2015, 

the Department of Geomatics Engineering was 

established and started to admit undergraduate 

students in the academic year 2019-2020. 

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There are internet and projection/screen systems 

in all 28 classrooms for our faculty members and 

students to benefit from visual education. 

Our goal is to train engineers who have reached 

the age with quality education and training, are 

productive, beneficial to the society they are in and 

can solve problems on the spot. It will continue to 

increase its scientific, social and cultural activities 

in the coming years to bring the engineers who 

have developed and strengthened their knowledge 

and experience, adapted to technology, and even 

contributed to the society by making international 

agreements. 

Our faculty promotional film prepared in 2018 can 

be accessed on the website http://www.mersin.edu. 

tr/academic/faculty-of-engineering/promotionfilm. 

Mersin University 

Bölümler ve Anabilim Dalları 

1- Computer Engineering 

• Department of Computer Science 

• Department of Computer Software 

• Department of Computer Hardware 

2- Environmental Engineering 

• Department of Environmental Technology 

• Department of Environmental Sciences 

3- Electrical - Electronics Engineering 

• Department of Computer Science 

• Department of Electronics 

• Department of Electrical Machinery 

• Department of Electrical Facilities 

• Department of Telecommunication 

• Department of Control and Command Systems 

4- Food Engineering 

• Department of Food Sciences 

• Department of Food Technology

5- Geomatics Engineering 

• Department of Geomatics Engineering 

6- Civil Engineering 

• Department of Mechanics 

• Department of Hydraulic 

• Department of Building 

• Department of Geotechnical 

• Department of Building Materials 

• Department of Building Management 

• Department of Transportation 

7- Geological Engineering 

• Department of Applied Geology 

• Department of Mineralogy - Petrography Department 

• Department of Mine Deposits - Geochemistry 

• Department of General Geology 

8- Chemical Engineering 

• Department of Chemical Engineering 

9- Mechanical Engineering 

• Department of Energy 

• Department of Construction and Manufacturing 

• Department of Machine Theory and Dynamics 

• Department of Mechanics 

• Department of Automotive 

• Department of Thermodynamics 

10- Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 

• Department of Materials Science 

• Department of Production Metallurgy 

Association for Evaluation and Accreditation of Engineering 

Programs (MÜDEK) is an independent association which 

carries out accreditation for engineering education programs 

to contribute to raising the quality of engineering education 

in Turkey. Five departments of our faculty (Environmental 

Engineering, Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Geological 

Engineering, Food Engineering, and Chemical Engineering) are 

accredited by MÜDEK. 



Our Faculty, located in Mersin University Çiftlikköy Main 

Campus, has a completed indoor area of 25.603 m2 in total. In 

our faculty, there is one Administrative Block which consists of 

1473 m2, two classroom blocks which consist of 6530 m2 and 

four department blocks, each consisting of 4400 m2 and research 

and application laboratories. In these areas; 28 undergraduate 

classrooms are consisting of 6681 m2, 3 postgraduate 

classrooms, 5 computer laboratories, 76 research laboratories. 

There are application laboratories and workshops in C, D, E, and 

F Blocks, each consisting of 48 administrative offices. Besides, 

double major and minor programs are implemented among the 

departments of our Faculty. 


As of 2020, our faculty has 111 academic staff. 1 Associate 

Professor, 2 Assistant Professor, and 1 Instructor work in our 

Faculty according to Article 13 / b-4 of the law numbered 2547. 

One of the Assistant Professor of our Faculty works in the Faculty 

of Education and 1 Instructor works in Foreign Relations. The 

number of academic staff working in our faculty is 108. 

There is 34 administrative personnel in our faculty, 12 of which 

are General Administrative Services, 13 of which are Technical 

Services and 9 of them are Permanent Workers. According to 

Article 13 / b-4 of the Law No. 2547, 6 staff members are in our 

faculty and are assigned to other units, 15 staff members are 

in other units and are employed in our faculty. The number of 

administrative staff working in our faculty is 43. 

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Within our Erasmus program (Poland, Lithuania, Spain, Italy, 

and the Czech Republic) with universities abroad; as part of the 

Farabi program, student exchange is carried out with universities 

in the country, and foreign students continue their education in 

our faculty. 

There are communities such as basketball, volleyball, swimming, 

tennis, football, sports facilities they can play, mountain sports, 

photography, dance, Turkish folk music, and Turkish art music 

for the socialization of our students. Also, there is a guidance and 

psychological counseling unit that serves our students. 

Student Clubs established by our students in the faculty 

1- Electrical Electronics Engineering Department: IEEE 

Community 

2- Computer Engineering Department: Cyber Security 

Community 

Turkish Journal of Engineering (https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ 

tuje) journal, which has been indexed in TR Directory has been 

published since 2017 within our faculty. 

International Cilicia International Symposium on Engineering 

and Technology (CISET) symposium was held in our faculty in 

2018 and 2019. 


FACULTY OF 

SPORT SCIENCES 


Our faculty aims to be an exemplary institution at the national and international level, with the aim to ensure that 

the society is widely involved in sports and participating in physical activities. In accordance with this purpose, 

it aims to contribute to the success of our country in the international area with the training it provides, the 

information it produces and the services it offers. Our faculty is based on total quality management principles 

such as establishing quality culture, personal and academic development, and continuous improvement.


Mersin University Faculty of Sport Sciences, since its establishment, 

has been one of Turkey’s leading academic institutions both 

undergraduate and graduate education and in scientific studies. 

In our faculty; 

• Physical Education and Sports Teaching, 

• Coaching Education, 

• Sports Management, 

• Recreation (Formal and Secondary Education) departments 

are available and students are admitted with a special talent 

exam. 

Our Faculty serves education and training services at Çiftlikköy 

Campus with its 7,000 m² service building. There are 3 laboratories 

including Performance, Motor Learning, Athlete Performance 

Analysis Laboratory, 8 classrooms, 1 seminar room (50 people 

capacity), library (20 people capacity). In addition to these; there 

are 5 sports halls, 1 stadium, 3 power development center, 10 

tennis courts, 1 table tennis hall, 1 gymnasium, 1 dance hall, 3 

football fields, 3 outdoor basketball and volleyball courts, 1 beach 

volleyball court, an indoor swimming pool. 

In our faculty complex, there are 8 classrooms,1 athlete 

performance analysis laboratory, 1 exercise physiology laboratory, 

1 massage room, 1 meeting room, 1 library, 1 seminar room, 1 

graduate study room, 3 indoor sports halls, 1gymnasium, 1 dance 

hall, 3 strength development centres, 10 tennis courts, 3 outdoor 

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asketball courts, 3 open volleyball courts, 1 table tennis hall, 2 

football fields, 1 beach volleyball field, 1 track for athletics and 1 

bocce field. 

Our faculty serves education with 643 undergraduate and 180 

graduate students. 

Our students, who graduate from the Faculty of Sports Sciences, 

are employed as teachers in public and private educational 

institutions, as gymnast, managers and coaches in the central and 

provincial organizations of the general directorate of youth and 

sports. Graduates will also be able to work as sports managers, 

recreation leaders, coaches and sports experts in private sports 

centres, sports federations, sports clubs, local governments 

tourism sector and sports-related institutions and organizations. 

In addition, many sporty and cultural recreational activities are 

organized in our city, according to the Physical Education and 

Sports Schools and Faculties of Sports Sciences in other cities it 

creates an advantage for our studying and graduate students and 

they can find the opportunity to practice in all areas of sports 

science. 


There are Master of Physical Education and Sports Doctoral 

Programs under the Institution of Educational Sciences in order 

to train science experts and faculty members that our country 

needs. 


FACULTY OF 

AQUACULTURE 


Faculty of Aquaculture was established in 1992 with the law numbered 3837 and it has started education in Çiftlikköy 

Campus with 30 students in the 1995-1996 academic year. 

It moved from Çiftlikköy Campus to Yenişehir Campus at the end of the fall semester of the 2000-2001 academic 

year and still carries out education, training, research and application activities on the same campus. 

Within the academic structuring, Faculty of Aquaculture consists of four departments as Basic Sciences, Aquaculture, 

Fishing and Processing Technology and Aquacultural Engineering. However, undergraduate level educational 

activities are carried out in a single program called as “Aquacultural Engineering”. 

The language of education in our faculty is Turkish and the Education Program is completed in 4 years. The students 

who graduate from our faculty receive the title of “Aquacultural Engineer”.


Faculty Departments And Related Basic Science Disciplines 

• Aquaculture Fishing and Processing Technology Department 

• Fishing Technology Department 

• Processing Technology Department 

• Aquaculture Basic Sciences Department 

• Fishing Basic Sciences Department 

• Department of Marine Biology 

• Department of Inland Waters Biology 

• Aquaculture Department 

• Department of Diseases 

• Department of Aquacultural Products 

• Aquacultural Engineering Department 

• Department of Fisheries 

In our faculty, there are 5 Classrooms, 18 Laboratory Application 

Units and 1 Marine Creatures Collection Center, which are used 

for education and research in accordance with the requirements of 

our age and have the necessary technical equipment. It also uses 

a meeting and a seminar room for lectures, presentations and 

seminars. 

Education programs carried out in our faculty; 

• has the content that will arouse curiosity in students and lead 

them to specialize in their fields, 

• has the aim of raising students as cultured, impartial and 

prudent people equipped to be able to discuss and criticize 

in a contemporary sense, as well as being equipped in their 

fields. 

In addition, our Faculty students have the opportunity to do minor 

and double major in the Department of Biology of the Faculty 

of Science and Letters and the Department of Environmental 

Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering, provided that they meet 

the necessary conditions. Students who successfully complete a 

minor or double major program are awarded a minor certificate that 

does not replace a diploma for a minor, and a second undergraduate 

diploma for a double major. 


In our faculty, graduate education is applied as the Aquaculture 

Department affiliated to MEU Institute of Science, as well as master’s 

and doctoral programs. 

In this context; theses are produced in the main areas of Fishing 

Technology, Processing Technology, Aquaculture Basic Sciences, 

Marine Biology, Inland Water Biology, Diseases, Aquaculture and 

Aquaculture Engineering and experts are trained in these fields. 

In addition, for the solutions of the problems posed by our country 

and global problems, master’s degree and doctoral dissertations 

are being written in the subjects such as water and environmental 

health, water resources management, sustainable use of stocks, 

efficiency analysis of the sector, ecotoxicology, ecological and 

holistic approaches in new fishing technologies, the effects of global 

warming and global epidemics on these resources, the importance 

of aquaculture in a balanced and healthy diet. 

In order to bring the scientific productivity to a high level 

through Fisheries Basic Sciences Research and Development and 

Postgraduate Education and Training Studies, the projects are 

supported by Scientific and Technological Research Council of 

Turkey (TUBITAK) and our University Department of Scientific 

Research and Projects (BAP) and various other national and 

international funds, especially (FAO, EU, WWF various Ministries); 

as a result, in this direction, a large number of scientific researches 

make a national and international contribution to the world of 

science. 

Our graduate students are employed in many private sector branches 

such as the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Ministry of 

Environment and Urbanization, local administrations, public 

institutions such as the coast guard command, agricultural banks, 

as well as aquaculture enterprises and fish processing facilities, feed 

factories, and analysis laboratories. 

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• First of all, each of the undergraduate students who chose 

our Faculty as a result of the Higher Education Institutions 

Exam and placed in the top 3, is granted a scholarship by 

the Higher Education Council (YÖK) within the scope of 

“YÖK Undergraduate Support Scholarship” for 4 years. 

• Taking lessons and counseling from experts and competent 

academic staff in their fields 

• Education programs updated according to the needs of the 

age 

• Education in modern classrooms, experimentation and 

research opportunities in laboratories 

• To be able to do double major and minor with appropriate 

departments 

• Being able to take courses for one or two semesters at 

contracted universities in Turkey and abroad with Erasmus, 

Farabi and Mevlana Exchange Programs. 

• Participation of student representatives in the Faculty 

administration on topics related to them. 

• To benefit from the sports, scientific, social and cultural 

activities offered by the university campuses and the city 

of Mersin. 

• In addition, in the field of aquaculture, the students of 

our Faculty are provided with internship opportunities 

covering 30 working days, with insurance premiums being 

covered by our institution in enterprises from the public 

and private sectors. 


FACULTY OF 

MEDICINE 


Mersin University Faculty of Medicine was established with the additional article 10 added to the Law on the 

Organization of Higher Education Institutions numbered 2809 with article 25 of the law number 3837 dated 

03.07.1992 and started its activities with the appointment of the founding dean on 17.04.1998 and started 

education in the 1998-1999 academic year.Our faculty, which gave its first graduates in the academic year of 2003- 

2004, has graduated more than 1600 physicians since its establishment. 

The purpose of our faculty; to train modern, investigative and questioning physicians equipped with high level 

knowledge, skills and attitudes, who practice their profession by observing ethical and deontological rules, aiming 

lifelong learning, knowing the health problems of their country. 

In addition to traditional applied medical education, our faculty maintains a system-based integrated education 

program that includes evidence-based medicine and community-based medicine practices, professional skills, 

communication skills, and active training sessions based on problem-based learning sessions in accordance with 

the changes and developments in the world. In our system, which gives importance to a holistic approach to the 

patient, the normal structure and functions of the human organism in the first two years, and the structure and 

function disorders are studied in an integrated manner in the third year.

Vizyon 

To be a qualified medical school that adopts modernity and continuous renewal as a principle, 

where ethical values are internalized, quality awareness is settled, and which is nationally and 

internationally recognized and preferred. 

Misyon 

To provide a quality service by constantly improving education, research and development and 

health service standards based on legislation and ethical values. 

Kurumsal Amaç 

The main objective of Mersin University Faculty of Medicine is to provide a modern education 

environment that is responsible, reliable, accountable to the environment and society in order to 

raise physicianswho can provide a health service, aware of continuous professional development 

programs and acquired a lifelong learning attitude, able to provide quality health services to 

individuals and society, have basic / core competence, professional skills / attitude, able to conduct 

research and practice in accordance with the principles of medical ethics, and is based on evidence 

for early diagnosis, treatment, monitoring and rehabilitation 


While helping to gain experience on models in professional skills 

laboratories, communication skills training that will maximize patient 

and physician satisfaction begins in these years.In the fourth and fifth 

years, training continues with clinical internships.In the sixth and last year 

of internship, students increase their experience in medicine by directly 

communicating with the patient and taking responsibility.The education 

program of our faculty is constantly updated and prepared in line with 

the opinions and suggestions of internal and external stakeholders, under 

the management of the relevant boards and commissions, taking into 

account the priority health problems of the country and the region. 

Since the day our faculty was founded; it has rapidly progressed in 

terms of physical facilities, faculty staff, science production, education 

and hospital services, which are its basic functions, and today it has 

become one of the leading medical faculties of our country.As of today, 

all of its buildings have been renovated and it has gained all kinds of 

technical equipment and laboratory facilities.In our faculty, there are 

3 departments as Basic, Internal and Surgical Medical Sciences, 42 

departments and 34 branches of science.In our faculty, 228 faculty 

members and 9 lecturers work in order to carry out the education and 

training process effectively.While the number changes every day, 551 

research assistants are given post-graduation specialty / minor specialty 

training and undergraduate education of nearly 1500 students. 

Our faculty was accredited by the National Medical Education 

Accreditation Board (UTEAK) of the Association for Assessment 

and Accreditation of Medical Education Programs (TEPDAD) 

for pre-graduate medical education to be valid from 01.01.2012 to 

01.01.2018.As a result of the application made for the continuation of 

the accreditation and the evaluations made by UTEAK, our faculty’s 

undergraduate medical education program was re-accredited for 6 years 

until 01.01.2025 with the decision of the TEPDAD Board of Directors. 

Our departments of General Surgery, Orthopedics and Traumatology, 

Radiology and Anesthesiology and Reanimation provide postgraduation 

training (medical specialty training) and Anesthesiology 

and Reanimation A.D. Our Algology Branch has received a qualification 

certificate from the relevant specialist associations in terms of minor 

specialty training.Anesthesiology and Reanimation A.D. also has 

international accreditation. Many of our departments also operate in 

this direction. 

Our hospital offers services in its large and modern building with all 

kinds of diagnosis and treatment facilities.The quality studies initiated 

in order to continuously improve the health service we provide in 

the Research and Application Hospital with the Medical Education 

we apply started in 2003 with the TSE Quality Management System 

Certificate in accordance with the TS-EN-ISO 9001: 2000 standard, 

the certificate has been renewed at certain intervals and as of today, 

our university has the right to use the TS-EN ISO 9001: 2015 Quality 

Management System certificate by all academic and administrative 

units until March 12, 2023.In our faculty, quality studies are given 

a high level of importance and they are carried out uninterruptedly. 

Institutional Purpose 

The main objective of Mersin University Faculty of Medicine is to provide 

a modern education environment that is responsible, reliable, accountable 

to the environment and society in order to raise physicianswho can 

provide a health service, aware of continuous professional development 

programs and acquired a lifelong learning attitude, able to provide quality 

health services to individuals and society, have basic / core competence, 

professional skills / attitude, able to conduct research and practice in 

accordance with the principles of medical ethics, and is based on evidence 

for early diagnosis, treatment, monitoring and rehabilitation 

Basic / Core Competencies to be Acquired 

In line with our institutional purpose, Mersin University Faculty 

of Medicine students are expected to gain the following 7 basic / 

core competencies until graduation. 

1. Quality Awareness 

2. Professional Values and Ethics 

3. Healthcare Provider 

4. Lifelong Learning Competence 

5. Communication Skills 

6. Research and Evidence-Based Medicine 

7. Team Understanding and Management 

Units Offering Education and Training Services 

In Mersin University Faculty of Medicine, there are 3 departments 

as Basic, Internal and Surgical Medical Sciences, and 42 

departments and 34 branches of science in these departments. 

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DEPARTMENT OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES 

• Department of Anatomy 

• Department of Biophysics 

• Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Department 

• Department of Physiology 

• Department of Histology and Embryology 

• Department of Medical Biochemistry 

• Department of Medical Biology 

• Department of Medical Microbiology 

• Department of Medical Education 

• Department of History of Medicine and Ethics 

DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICAL SCIENCES 

• Department of Family Medicine 

• Department of Emergency Medicine 

• Department of Forensic Medicine 

• Department of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Diseases 

• Department of Child Health and Diseases 

Department of Pediatric Immunology and Allergy Diseases 

Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases 

Department of Pediatric Hematology 

Department of Pediatric Oncology 

Department of Pediatric Cardiology 

Department of Pediatric Nephrology 

Department of Pediatric Neurology 

Department of Neonatology 

Department of Child Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases 

Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology 

Department of Pediatric Intensive Care 

Department of Pediatric Genetic Diseases 

Department of Pediatric Chest Diseases 

Department of Pediatric Endocrinology 

• Department of Dermatology and Venereal Diseases 

• Department of Medical Pharmacology 

• Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation 

Department of Rheumatology 

• Department of Chest Diseases 

• Department of Public Health 

• Department of Internal Diseases 

Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases 

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Department of Gastroenterology 

Department of Hematology 

Allergy and Clinical Immunology 

Department of Nephrology 

Department of Medical Oncology 

Department of Intensive Care Science 

Department of Rheumatology 

Geriatrics 

• Department of Cardiology 

• Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology 

• Department of Neurology 

• Department of Nuclear Medicine 

• Department of Mental Health and Diseases 

• Department of Radiology 

• Department of Radiation Oncology 

• Department of Medical Genetics 

DEPARTMENT OF SURGICAL MEDICAL SCIENCES 

• Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation 

Department of Pain Science 

Department of Intensive Care Science 

• Department of Pediatric Surgery 

Department of Pediatric Urology 

• Department of General Surgery 

Department of Gastroenterology Surgery 

Department of Surgical Oncology 

• Department of Thoracic Surgery 

• Department of Eye Diseases 

• Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics 

Department of Gynelological Oncology 

Department of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility 

Department of Perinatology 

• Department of Cardiovascular Surgery 

• Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases 

• Department of Brain and Nerve Surgery 

• Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology 

Department of Hand Surgery 

• Department of Pathology 

• Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery 

• Department of Urology 

Department of Pediatric Urology 



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Infrastructure Opportunities 

In Mersin University Faculty of Medicine, semester I, II and III 

students are trained in the Basic Medical Sciences Building in 

Çiftlikköy campus and semester IV, V and VI they are trained 

in Mersin University Hospital.In the Basic Medical Sciences 

building, there are currently 3 lecture halls, 5 classrooms, and a 

total of 8 laboratories, one of which is a Computer Laboratory for 

students.In addition, there are 14 Skill Laboratories and 1 Clinical 

Simulator Room for Introduction to Clinical Practices (KUG) 

courses. In addition to these, there are 51 Research Laboratories 

where researches are conducted. 

Mersin University hospital has an area of 100.000 m2. The 

hospital provides outpatient clinic services with 120 examination 

and treatment rooms in 37 branches, and 18 operating rooms, 

including 2 delivery rooms, 1 gynecology operating room and 

15 large operating rooms, and a 50-bed Emergency Service 

including 30 adults and 20 children, 131 Daily Treatment Beds, 

Radiology Unit, Diagnostic Laboratories, Intensive Care and 

Reanimation Unit serving with a total of 127 beds, Physical 

Therapy and Rehabilitation Unit and also has an Organ and Tissue 

Transplantation Center where kidney and liver transplants are 

performed with nuclear medicine. The hospital is fully equipped 

withThe Assisted Reproductive Treatment Center, a Sleep Center 

and has a total bed capacity of 722, including 592 service beds 

consisting of double and single rooms, 3-bed prisoner service and 

127 intensive care beds. 


Student Representation:In accordance with the Regulation 

of Higher Education Institutions Student Councils and the 

National Student Council of Higher Education Institutions, class 

representatives to be included in the structure of the Student 

Council are elected every year.At our university, the chairman of 

Mersin University Student Council attends the senate meetings 

of our university.The elected student representative of our 

faculty participates in the structuring of the student council 

and in the Extended Faculty Board meeting held every year. In 

our faculty, student representation is provided as an important 

stakeholder of education in all processes related to education. 

Student representation is provided by being a member of the 

MÖTE and Accreditation Commission, Program and Curriculum 

Development Commission, Faculty Board, KYK Unit Quality 

Commission and social commissions (Career Days Regulation 

Commission, Social Cultural Activities Commission) and invited 

to the Extended Faculty Board meetings.In addition, feedbacks 

are received from the Student Quality Commission, which is 

composed entirely of term representatives and is supervised by 

an assistant professor.Term coordinators regularly hold meetings 

with students and submit their educational and non-educational 

demands and suggestions in writing to the dean’s office. 

Academic and Social Opportunities:In accordance with Article 

26 of the Mersin University Associate Degree and Undergraduate 

Education and Examination Regulations and Mersin University 

Student Counseling Directive, advisors are assigned to newly 

enrolled students before the registration period.In addition, 

social counseling services are carried out effectively under the 

coordination of “Student Counseling Coordination Commission” 

in our Faculty.In our faculty, academic consultancy is carried out 

by term coordinators and department teaching staff. 

In our faculty, the Volunteer Student Participation in Academic 

Activities (AFGÖK) Committee functions in order to enable 

our volunteer students to get to know the academic fields they 

are interested in more closely and to ensure their participation 

in academic activities without disrupting the functioning of the 

relevant units.Under the title of participation in experimental / 

clinical studies, the Commission provides many opportunities for 

our students to take part in the scientific studies of our faculty 

members and to motivate our students to research. 

Psychological Counseling Service:Psychological counseling 

services are provided by the Psychological Counseling and 

Guidance Center at Çiftlikköy Campus for all students of our 

university.The aim of the center is to support the development of 

our students individually, socially, educationally and professionally 

at a high level and in a versatile way.In addition, preventive and 

developmental studies for various problems that may arise during 

the learning process are carried out by the center. 


Career Information Event:The “Career Days Organization 

Commission” functions in our faculty to plan, organize and run 

the Career Days event.The task of this commission is to organize 

career days events for our students and graduates at regular intervals 

during the year, where physicians with careers in different fields 

are invited. In addition to our relevant term coordinators, advisor 

faculty members also guide our students in academic consultancy. 

When our students want to learn more about education abroad 

and about postgraduate education, they are directed to the Foreign 

Relations and Projects Coordinator and the Institute of Health 

Sciences.Our students are informed about the programs by Farabi 

and Erasmus coordinators of our faculty and they are encouraged 

to participate in exchange programs.Our students from different 

terms voluntarily participate in some of the studies planned by 

our faculty members, and in these studies, our faculty members 

provide consultancy to our students in scientific research. 

Universities with Exchange and Cooperation Agreements under the 

Erasmus Program: 

• Universita Degli Studi di Foggia 

• Universita Degli Studi di Genova 

• Seconda Universita Degli Studi di Napoli 

• University of Pisa 

• Sapienza Üniversita di Roma 

• Justus Liebig Universitat Giessen 

• Tyumen State Medical Academy 

• Trakia University 

• Avicenna Tajik Satae Medical University 

• University “Dunarea de Jos” of Galati 

Social, Cultural, Artistic and Sportive Opportunities:In 

addition to the fields in which our students study, many student 

communities that are related to their hobbies and encourage them 

to develop their personal talents actively operate at our university. 

The activities organized by student communities both stimulate 

social life and create a chance for them to interact, share and 

communicate correctly. 

With the elective courses in the curriculum of our faculty, social, 

cultural and sports opportunities are provided to our students in 

various fields.Mersin University Faculty of Medicine Scientific 

Research Society (MÜTBAT) organizes scientific studies and 

meetings under the consultancy of a faculty member.Our faculty 

students participate in social responsibility projects through young 

TEMA and Blood Donation Volunteers, TürkMSIC, MÜTBAT, 

MEÜTF Art Club and Leyla’dan Sonra student communities. 

In our faculty, “Social and Cultural Activities Commission” is 

serving. The commission provides consultancy to our students 

in the planning of social, cultural and sports activities of our 

students and in the work of publishing Streskop, which is our 

students’ culture, art and humor magazine.Culture and Sports 

Festival is traditionally held at Mersin University between April 

and May every year to contribute to cultural and social life. In 

the festivals organized with the active participation of students, 

various conferences, panels, theater and dance performances, 

concerts, films and slide shows take place; stands, competitions, 

stand-up shows and tournaments help students to relax and have 

fun. 

In the library located in the Basic Medical Sciences building of our 

faculty, there are reading rooms for our students and a hall that 

they can use as a social area.Some of the books and periodicals 

from medical and non-medical fields suitable for the use of 

students in the Central Library of our university are located in our 

faculty library.In addition, there is a computer room in the Dean’s 

building serving our students. 


Specialization in medicine and minor specialty training in 

medicine carried out within the scope of the Regulation on 

Specialization Training in Medicine and Dentistry. 

Under the Graduate Education Regulation, undergraduate 

and doctorate education carried out with the programs of the 

departments of the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Basic 

Medical Sciences, affiliated with the Institute of Health Sciences. 

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FACULTY OF 

TOURISM 


There are 17 classrooms, 2 computer laboratories, 2 seminar halls and 2 cafeterias within the scope of Mersin 

University Tourism Faculty. 

Academic Staff 

In our faculty, 4 professors, 8 associate professors, 6 doctor lecturers, 3 lecturers, 8 research assistants and a total 

of 10 administrative and contracted staff work.

AIMS AND GOALS 

Educate executive candidates qualified to answer the needs of the tourism industry both in the world and in Turkey, 

Ranking first among state universities according to university entrance score and to provide practical training, 

To increase the number of publications at national and international level, 

To benefit from contemporary education and training tools and techniques, 

To strengthen, develop and activate relations with Mersin Tourism Alumni Association, 

To increase and activate the number of student communities in our faculty, 

To improve relations with national and international Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), 

To organize career days in cooperation with tourism enterprises every year, 

To participate in and contribute to the tourism-related activities of local governments, 

To help them grow as individuals who are Ataturkist, scientific thinkers, creative, sensitive to the country’s problems, 

interrogative and productive. 


COLLEGESS

APPLIED TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT SCHOOL OF ANAMUR 

STATE CONSERVATORY 

APPLIED TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT SCHOOL OF ERDEMLİ 

SCHOOL OF HEALTH 

SİLİFKE APPLIED TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT HİGH SCHOOL 

JEWELERY TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN SCHOOL 

FOREİGN LANGUAGES SCHOOL

APPLIED TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT SCHOOL OF ANAMUR 

Applied Technology and Management School of Anamur, which 

was established in Mersin University in 2016, conducts its 

education and training activities on the campus called Prof. Dr. 

Ali Ayhan, which occupies 160 acre of land, in the neighborhood 

of Ören in Anamur.There is 1 department in total in our school.. 

Applied Technology and Management School of Anamur has not 

accepted any students yet. Applied Technology and Management 

School of Anamur and Anamur Vacational School use a common 

campus and our school has 3 academic staff and 3administrave 

staff, All our 3 academic staff members are doctor lecturer 

Our program with active student recruitment are as follows: 

Hospitality Management 

Our campus has computer laboratories. There is a dormitory for 

girls and boys affiliated with the Credit and Hostels Institution 

in our campus. In addition, our school has a canteen, a cafeteria 

and a lunch room. In addition to all these, the construction of 

the university mosque and the police station is continuing on the 

campus land. 

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APPLIED TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT SCHOOL OF ERDEMLİ 


Having the feature of being the first college among public universities, our 

vocational school started its education in 2005 in “Business Information 

Management” and “Computer Technology and Information Systems” 

departments, and gave its first graduates in 2010. 

In Business Information Management Department, it is aimed to train 

manager candidates who have business management and management 

skills, equipped with professional, technical and practical information, and 

who can use information and communication technologies effectively. 

The aim of Computer Technology and Information Systems department 

is to educate individuals with the skills and knowledge of designing, 

managing and developing the computer-based systems and programs. 

In our departments, it is aimed to provide a practical training in 

cooperation with the industry based on the principles of creating “social 

benefit” and “local development”. 

We have 545 students, including 266 students enrolled in the Business 

Information Management Department, 240 students enrolled in the 

Computer Technology and Information Systems Department, and 39 

students in the Business Information Management Department. 


We have 12 teaching staff. 1 Professor doctor, 4 Associate Professor 

Doctor, 4 Dr. Lecturer Member, 3 Lecturer. 4 of them are assigned to 

other units according to article 13 / b-4 of the Higher Education Law 

No. 2547. In addition, according to article 13 / b-4 of Higher Education 

Law No. 2547 A lecturer has been appointed in our school from other 

units. We have 12 administrative staff, 1 Chief, 2 Computer Operators, 

1 VHKI, 1 Health Technician, 2 janitor, 5 Permanent Workers. 


Our graduates do not have any difficulties in establishing their own 

businesses and finding a job both in private and public institutions, as 

they are equipped with sufficient knowledge and skills 

Every year, “Business and Technology Summit” is organised to provide 

students the opportunities to find academic, professional and market 

developments as well as to find jobs. 

In addition, panels, seminars and conferences are also organized. There 

are physical facilities for our students to spend time in 2800m2 garden 

and 150m2 canteen. 

For the students, it is aimed to benefit from all social and cultural 

facilities within the campus. They can also benefit from the laboratories 

and the library in our college in their free times. 

Students are informed about the announcements, and developments 

via student affairs information system and boards. 

Students are informed at the beginning of each semester about regulations and 

internship practices. Students with a course conflict are given the opportunity 

to take courses from other departments so their graduations are provided 


Our School of Business Information Management started its Master’s 

degree in 2010 and 31 students have graduated so far. Currently, 39 

students continue their education. 



The main aim of the conservatory is to raise awareness of the 

need for cultural and sensory experience of the society, by guiding 

personal and artistic life through education, training and research. 

Thus, our conservatory focuses on carrying music to an effective 

point in our country in time as music diffuses into human life itself 

and contributes to the cultural and artistic development of the 

countries. 

Departments and Major Art Branches 

MUSIC DEPARTMENT 

• String Instruments Major Art Branch 

• Violin Art Branch 

• Viola Art Branch 

• Cello Art Branch 

• Contrabass Art Branch 

• Composition and Conducting Major Art Branch 

• Piano Art Branch 

• Guitar Art Branch 

• Harp Art Branch 

• Wind and Percussion Instruments Major Art Branch 

• Flute Art Branch 

• Oboe Art Branch 

• Clarinet Art Branch 

• Horn Art Branch 

• Trombone Art Branch 

• Trumpet Art Branch 

• Percussion Instruments Art Branch 

DEPARTMENT OF PERFORMING ARTS 

• Opera Major Branch 

• Vocal Training Art Branch 

• Ballet Major Art Branch 

MUSICOLOGY DEPARTMENT 

• General Musicology Major Branch 

• Ethnomusicology And Folklore Major Branch 

• Traditional and Modal Music Major Branch 

Facilities, Laboratories and Classrooms 

In our conservatory there are 34 classrooms, 51 academic offices, 

8 administrative offices, 1 library, 1 teachers’ room, 2 concert halls, 

3 ballet halls, 2 workshops, 1 meeting room, 1 parents’ association 

office, 1 archive, 3 warehouse and 1 waiting room. It has a total area 

of 1445 m2 including 1 cafeteria. 

Academic and Administrative Staff 

Academic staff appointed by the other units in accordance with 13 

/ b: 6 Lecturers 

Academic staff appointed by our unit in another unit in accordance 

with 13/b : 1 Lecturer 

Contracted artist (Turkish): 3 Lecturers 

Contracted artist (Foreigner): 8 Lecturers 

Administrative Staff: 17 Officers 


Music Department: State Conservatory Music Department offers 

its students the opportunity to start musical instrument education 

at an early age. The part-time education model offered in our 

conservatory creates a model that is carried out with seriousness and 

achieves international success. This model, which adopts concerts, 

competitions and soloist selections as the most important tools 

for the development of students in the field of performance, offers 

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important opportunities in areas that will support performanceoriented 

applications. Established with the support of the University, 

Nevit Kodallı Chamber Music Research Center, the hall, has one of 

the best acoustics in Turkey. Students gain orchestra experience by 

actively participating in the Conservatory Student Orchestra and 

Academic Orchestra. As a result of these experiences, the students 

audition for the Turkey Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and Doğuş 

Children Orchestra and achieve high success rates. These rates 

pave the way for them to take part in concerts. Students regularly 

participate in the auditions of İzmir, Eskişehir and İstanbul 

Symphony orchestras as part of their soloist works and they give 

concerts in big orchestras and important halls every year. Our 

students gain experience in this field through national competitions 

organized by our conservatory. These studies are also a major 

factor in students’ achieving significant success by participating in 

national and international prestigious competitions. Students have 

a number of degrees, including first place in major international 

competitions such as Anton Henryk Wieniawski, Tchaikovsky, 

Rubinstein, Grumiaux. With this perspective, it is aimed for our 

students to gain experience in the field of chamber music in national 

competitions and concerts. They have the opportunity to work with 

important artists in their fields in master classes held every year. 

In addition, the Erasmus student exchange program focuses on the 

most efficient use of the program by the conservatory students, thus 

the agreements with the targeted schools are constantly renewed by 

considering the different needs for each art branch accordingly. 

The works produced by the Composition Department academic 

staff are recorded under different projects. The CD recording 

project, which includes works by Turkish Composers, is among the 

artistic productions of our conservatory. Archiving and performing 

original works of art with this method is among the pioneering 

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works in the field of music art in our country. 

Department of Performing Arts 


Students of Department of Performing Arts in the Conservatory 

have choir, dance and stage training halls, a concert hall for 100 

people, a viewing classroom with video and DVD technologies, 

individual study rooms and collective classrooms, a make-up room, 

a decor-costume room, a library and a canteen. 

Department of Performing Arts has been giving class concerts and 

performing opera and ballet performances every year since the 

day it started education. Graduated students can work in national 

and international institutions in the field as opera and ballet soloist 

artists, choir artists and educators, expert researchers, music and 

performing arts educators, as well as art directors. 


Students of the Department of Music and Performing Arts have 

the opportunity to continue their graduate studies at the Fine Arts 

Institute, Department of Music. In this program, opportunities are 

offered to enable them to improve their skills in the academic field 

as well as in the performance field. 

After high school and undergraduate programs, Department of 

Music students are accepted to important schools in Europe. Among 

them are the most important conservatories of the world such as 

Munich Hochschule für Music, Baremboim-Said Academy Berlin, 

Royal Conservatory The Hague and Ecole Normale de Musique de 

Paris. 

Department of Performing Arts, with its Opera and Ballet Main Art 

Branches, is one of the most important institutions where young 

people who want to study opera and ballet coming from Anatolia 

outside of Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir can get education. The 

Department also aims to train academicians in this field by opening 

master’s and doctoral programs with its well-qualified academic 

staff. 



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Our school; opened in 1996 - 1997 academic year with Midwifery 

and Nursing Departments. No students were admitted to our 

school in the year following its opening, and after academic 

staffing, it started education in 1998-1999 academic year. In 

2010, the departments of Healthcare Management and Social 

Services were also opened. Since the academic year of 2010-2011 

we have been continuing education on Çiftlikköy Campus. 

Our school has 8 classrooms, 2 seminar rooms, Nursing Skill 

Laboratory and Midwifery Skill Laboratory. All class rooms of 

our High School are provided with computer and projection 

systems and all classes can be taught by making use of these 

facilities. Additionally, perfomances are carried out in nursing 

skills and midwifery laboratories in order to make theoretical 

knowledgelessons more qualified and catchy for the students. 

School Administration: 

Director 

Assistant Director 

School Secretary 

School Departments: 

Midwifery Department: 

: Prof. Dr. Ayda ÇELEBİOĞLU 

: Doç. Dr. Duygu VEFİKULUÇAY YILMAZ 

: İbrahim KOÇ 

Head of Department : Doç. Dr. Gözde GÖKÇE İSBİR 

The students who will graduate from the program get the title of 

“Midwife”. 

Graduates of the program can work as midwives at Ministry 

of Health (state), university and private hospitals, outpatient 

clinics, community health centers, centers for maternal and 

infant health and family planning, family practice and also they 

continue their careers as self-employed midwives by setting up 

their own private health cabinets. 

Health Management Department: 

Head of Department: Doç. Dr. Sabahattin TEKİNGÜNDÜZ 

Students who will graduate from the program are given the title 

of “Health Institutions Manager”. 

Health Services Management has a widerange of employment 

opportunities. Laborforce that will be created by this program is 

highly needed by both public and private institu tions operating 

in the sector. The graduates have opportunities to work in 

organizations such as central or provincial institutions of the 

Ministry of Health, public and private health organizations, 

Social Security Institution, private and non-profit organizations 

performing in the several levels of health services, universities’ 

departments with similar academic disciplines or departments 

including health management courses in their curriculums, health 

related departments of media organizations, Turkish Armed 

Forces, institutions for medicine and medical consumables and 

insurance companies. 

Opportunities Provided To Students 

Thanks to the wi-fi system in our building, our students are able 

to get easily connected to the Internet via their computers or 

cellphones. 

Our school is located on Çiftlikköy Campus of Mersin University, 

so our students are able to benefit from the central cafeteria, a 

variety of cafés, canteens and snack bars. 

Our students are also able to use different facilities for social and 

sportive activities. There are a gym, an indoor pool ,outdoor and 

indoor basketball and volleyball pitches as well as outdoor tennis 

courts available for the students to use. 

Besides, our students can also benefit from the central library on 

the campus. 


SİLİFKE APPLIED TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT HİGH SCHOOL 


Applied Technology and Management School of Silifke was founded 

with two departments as “Business Information Management” and 

“Computer Technology and Information Systems” with the cabinet 

decision that was proclaimed in the 30th September, 2006 dated and 

numbered 26305 Official Gazette. It started to offer education in 2007- 

2008 Academic Year. In addition, in 2017 Department of Organic 

Agricultural Management was founded as well. Neither Department 

of Computer Technology and Information Systems nor Department 

of Organic Agricultural Management has accepted students yet. 

The name of the Business Information Department was changed as 

“Management Information Systems” in 2020-2021 Academic Year. 

The study period is 5 years including the English language learning 

preparatory class. However, the preparatory class is an elective class. 

At the end of the education period the students get a bachelor’s 

degree. Besides, Department of Organic Agricultural Management 

has accepted master’s students since 2019-2020 Academic Year. 

Applied Technology and Management School of Silifke still 

continues its activities with Mersin University Silifke Vocational 

School in a building located 7 km away from the town center. The 

total area of our building is 4,500 m2. The school continues its 

education on the 3rd and 4th floors of the building, having a total 

area of 2.000 m2. There are a 100-person cafeteria and a library 

which are used by the students of both schools. There is an office 

area of 292 m2, of which 227 m2 is equipped and in use. 

A total of 8 academic staff, including 2 professors, 1 associate 

professor, 4 doctor lecturers, and 1 lecturer, and 2 administrative 

staff work in the school. 

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FOREIGN LANGUAGES SCHOOL 


As an important part of Mersin University, 

Foreign Languages School has been working to 

contribute the quality aims of the foundation 

giving foreign languages education with scientific 

and modern methods. 

There are 28 classrooms and a CALL lab in its 

school building. 

Currently, there are 81 academic staff, namely 2 

assistant professors and 79 lecturers, at Foreign 

Languages School. Among them, 23 lecturers 

are officially assigned other departments of the 

university. Foreign Languages School gives prep 

class education to 8 faculties and 2 vocational 

schools. Besides, compulsory language subjects 

are given to 6 faculties and 3 vocational schools 

within the university. Also, 12 personnel work as 

administrative staff in the school. 

Students can utilize various teachers’ knowledge 

and experiences as a classroom has several 

teachers. Modern textbooks and supplementary 

resources as well as technological ones are 

effectively used in order to achieve goals in the 

school. 


JEWELRY TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN SCHOOL 


Mersin University Jewelry Technology 

September 3, 2002, on the letter of the M 

according to the different annex article 

of Ministers in 08/06/2002 and in the 

Jewelry Design, Jewelry and Gemology 

Educational Council held on 03.31.20 

admit students as a Department of Jew 

The main concerns of the school we have to 

and what what criteria and conditions turn 

an environment tha the future’s studio jewe 

background they borrowed. The Jewelry Tec 

art understanding of the new age with the hi 

and designers, who have their roots in cultur 

and problem solving skills into new areas su 

technology and material dimensions of the j 

Facilities For Students 

Graduates are able to work as freelance design 

of art and design world can take a part in acad 

roles in different levels of manifacturing in Jew 

workshop as a Studio-Jewelr and to take role i 

Postgraduate Education Opportun 

In the spring semester of the 2019-2020 

places within the Institute of Science. O 

or Science Institute according to their fi 

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JEWELRY TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN SCHOOL 

and Design Department School; published in the Official Gazette on 

inistry of National Education dated 07/31/2002 and numbered 19920, 

30 of the Law No. 2809 dated 03/28/1983, established by the Council 

academic year of 2002-2003, it started education in Department of 

by taking 60 vertical transfer students. At the meeting of the Higher 

08, 3 departments were combined and it was decided to continue to 

elry Technology and Design since in the academic year of 2008-2009. 

answer within an academic sense is “how a jewelry piece becomes an art object 

jeweler’s workbench to an art studio”. The school’s perennial aim is to develop 

lers will be able to grow their artistic capabilities together with the traditional 

hnology and Design School has a structure and a program that compounds the 

ghest jewelry techonolgy. The aim of the school is to train the futur jewelry artists 

e of the jewelry tradition, to help them improve their artistic tendencies, intuition 

ch as “artistic jewelry” and/or “design jewelry”. In addition to emphasizing the 

ewelry field, our school offers a program that concentrates on art. 

ers. Students completing further academic studies in their field or related disciplines 

emic environment as teachers, instructors, professors. Graduates can take optimal 

elry Industry. Graduates have the opportunity to build a contemporary small-scale 

n such facilities as designer, goldsmith, mould-maker, pattern-maker, etc. 

ities 

Academic Year, the Department of Gemology was opened with eight 

ur students can do their master’s education in the Fine Arts Institute 

elds of interest. 


VOCATIONAL 

SCHOOL

ANAMUR VOCATIONAL SCHOOL 

AYDINCIK VOCATIONAL SCHOOL 

MARITIME VOCATIONAL SCHOOL 

ERDEMLİ VOCATIONAL SCHOOL 

GULNAR VOCATIONAL SCHOOL 

MERSİN VOCATIONAL SCHOOL (DISTANCE EDUCATION) 

MUT VOCATIONAL SCHOOL 

HEALTH SERVICES VOCATIONAL SCHOOL 

SİLİFKE VOCATIONAL SCHOOL 

VOCATIONAL SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES 

VOCATIONAL SCHOOL OF TECHNICAL SCIENCES


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Anamur Vocational School, which was established in Mersin 

University in 1995, conducts its education and training activities 

on the campus called Prof. Dr. Ali Ayhan, which occupies 160 

acre of land, in the neighborhood of Ören in Anamur. There 

are 9 departments and 12 programs in total in our vocational 

school.Anamur Vocational School has started the 2019-2020 

academic year with 8 programs that actively recruit students 

and 847 students. Anamur Vocational School has 18 academic 

staff, 1 of which is an associate professor, 2 of which are doctor 

lecturers, 15 of which are lecturers and 26 administrative staff. 

Our programs with active student recruitment are as follows: 

1. Cookery 

2. Gardening 

3. Office Management and Executive Assistant Training 

4. Public Relations and Publicity 

5. Business Management 

6. Marketing 

7. Tourism and Hotel Management 

8. Tourism and Travel Services 

Anamur Vocational School will continue its education activities 

with new programs that will start active student admissions 

in the 2020-2021 academic year. These new programs are 

Private Protection and Security, Management of Healthcare 

Organizations and Child Development. Our vocational school 

will increase the number of active programs to 11 with these 

three programs to be activated. In many programs at Anamur 

Vocational School, our educational activities are carried 

out based on practice. For this purpose, there are 2.5 acres 

of greenhouse of banana, 12 acres of garden of avocado, a 

practice laboratory of cookery program (kitchen), 2 computer 

laboratories anda practice area of food and beverage services 

in our vocational school. In addition, a banana garden and 

an applied guest house, which are planned to be built on 10 

acres of land, are among our projects that we are continuing to 

work on to add value to our vocational school and to increase 

our education quality. Our vocational school gives great 

importance to social, cultural and sports activities as well as 

educational activities. For this purpose, our various student 

clubs are actively working. 

1. Our student clubs that are actively working are as follows: 

2. Atatürk’s Thought Community 

3. Cultural and Artistic Activities Community 

4. Sports Activities and Events Club 

5. Nature, Mountaineering and Travel Club 

6. Career Club 

There is a dormitory for girls and boys affiliated with the 

Credit and Hostels Institution in our campus. In addition, our 

vocational school has a canteen, a cafeteria and a lunch room. 

In addition to all these, the construction of the university 

mosque and the police station is continuing on the campus of 

Anamur Vocational School. 

Our vocational school was awarded with the Orange Flag by 

being entitled to the Access at the Place Award within 2019 

YÖK Barrier-Free University Awards. 

Our vocational school has been successfully working as a 

district exam coordinator of ÖSYM since 1997. 


AYDINCIK VOCATIONAL SCHOOL 


Aydıncık Vocational School was established in Mersin University 

in 1998. Aydıncık Vocational school has not accepted students yet. 

Aydıncık Vocational school campus building construction will be 

completed in 2020-2021. There are 4 department in total in our 

school. 

Our program with active student recruitment are as follows: 

1. Cookery 

2. Organic Agriculture 

3. Occupational Health and Safety 

4. Catering Services 

MARITIME VOCATIONAL SCHOOL 


Maritime Vocational School has started its educational 

activities in 2009, Tece Campus, Mersin University. There are 

three educational programmes at Maritime Vocational School, 

Maritime Transportation and Management, Ship Machinery 

Management and Maritime and Port Management. They are all 

two year educational programmes. One year of English course 

education is optional on demand. Educational and training 

programmes and other administrative activities are carried out 

by academic and administrative staff expert in field. 

Graduates of Maritime Transportation and Management, 

are qualified to work as deck (watchkeeping) officer after 

completing 12 months on board training and examinations 

successfully. Graduates of Ship Machinery Management, 

are qualified to work as engineer officern after completing 6 

months on board training and 6 months workshop training 

and examinations. 

Graduates of Maritime and Port Management are qualified 

to work as yachtmaster after completing 3 months on board 

training and examinations successfully*. Graduates of this 

educational programme can also work in maritime and logistic 

companies. (*Related terms can be changed according to 

legislation rules.) 

Within the scope of the opportunities provided to students, 

equipments and softwares that are in accordance with the 

international maritime educational requirements are used in 

theoretical and practical courses. Moreover, areas of Lifesaving 

Appliences Training Platform, Fire Training Platform, Bridge 

Operation and Engine Room Simulators are among the facilities 

offered to students. 

There are classrooms, laboratories, a computer lab, brigde 

operation and engine room simulators, other equipments 

and devices used in maritime education and a library in Tece 

Campus building. And also social and other activity areas exist 

for the common use of students and Maritime Student Society. 

Students can also participate in activities of various cultural, 

sports and arts events organized by the student groups. 

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Our School of Management was established under the name of 

Business Administration Program in 1994, it was restructured 

under the name of Ministry of Education (MEB) - Council 

of Higher Education (YÖK) Vocational Schools Program 

Development Project in 2003-2004 academic year, and it 

was renamed and reconstituted as Business Administration 

Program in 2009-2010 academic season. 

Computer Programming Programs started its education 

and training activities which was inaugurated in 1994 and 

restructured within the MEB-YOK project in 2003-2004 

academic years and renamed as Computer Technology and 

Programming and changed its name by the decision of YOK 

(Council of Higher Education) since 2009-2010 academic year. 



The number of programmes increased to four with Accounting 

and Tax Application Programme in 1995, the Banking and 

Insurance Program, which started its education under the 

name of Banking Program as a formal education in 1997 and 

whose name and content was expanded in 2008. 

Business Administration, Accounting and Tax Application, 

Computer Programming, Banking and Insurance Program 

Secondary Schools were opened in 2008-2009 Academic 

year and the same year under the name of the Department 

of Economics and Business Practices, Tourism Animation 

Program’s education and training activities initiated, its 

name was changed as Tourism Animation Program in the 

Department of Entertainment and Entertainment by the 

decision of Council of Higher Education (YÖK) in 2010- 

2011. By the result of these augmentations the number of 

programmes increased to 9. 

The school currently continues its education activities with 

six programs, these are Business Management, Accounting 

and Tax Applications , Computer Programming, Banking and 

Insurance, Tourism Animation Programs Formal Education 

and Banking and Insurance Program Secondary Education. 

As of THE May 2020, the total number of students enrolled 

in our school is 1080, and when we look at the distribution 

of students according to the programs; total number of 

students: management and organization department 179, 

accounting and tax applications department total students 

203, finance-banking and insurance department formal 

education students 192 and secondary education students 

175 total number of students 367, travel-tourism and 

entertainment services department The total number of 

students is 135 and the computer technology department is 

196 . 

Erdemli Vocational School continues its education and 

training activities in the building belonging to Erdemli 

Municipality together with Erdemli School of Applied 

Technology and Business Administration. In our Vocational 

School, which is 35 km away from the central campus, there 

are 10 classrooms, 1 application class, 2 laboratories with an 

uninterrupted internet infrastructure and 121 computers 

in total, as well as amphitheater and library facilities with a 

capacity of 100 people. 

Academic And Administrative Staff 

By the year 2020, Our Vocational School has 2 phd lecturers, 14 

lecturers, 3 waged lecturers, 3 of them are employed by Article 

13 / b-4, and 8 of them are employed by Article 13 / b-4. . A 

total of 30 academic staff work in other units. In addition, the 

details of the academic staff of our department are published 

on our website. 

As of the year 2020, the total number of administrative staff 

working in our school is 20; 4 are Data Preparation Control 

Operators, 5 are Computer Operators, 1 is Technician, 1 is 

Technician, 3 is Service / Support Staff, 6 are permanent 

workers. 

Social areas such as an indoor gym with basketball and 

volleyball courts, dance and aerobics hall, photocopy and 

stationery services unit, outdoor recreation areas, camellias 

and various outdoor seating equipment are also available on 

our campus. In the cafeteria of the campus, a healthy and 

reasonable price, fixed menu meal is served every afternoon. 

There is also a student canteen. 

Due to the location of city, the region is aimed at domestic 

tourism in the summer, students have accommodation 

opportunities in the summer resorts during the winter. There 

is a student dormitory affiliated with KYK. There is easy access 

to the city (Mersin) center. 

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GULNAR VOCATIONAL SCHOOL 

Management Programs became a separate directorate as Aydıncık 

Vocational School. Carpet Weaving and Rug Making Program was 

opened in 2001-2002 academic year. In the 2002-2003 academic 

year, the Department of Economics and Administrative Programs 

was opened and the Accounting and Tax Applications Program 

was opened within the same department. 


Our Vocational School was established with the decision of the 

Executive Board of the Higher Education Council on April 2, 1990, 

affiliated to Selçuk University and in the academic year of 1990- 

1991, with 40 students to the Map Cadastre Program within the 

Department of Technical Programs, and in 1992 it was affiliated to 

Mersin University with the law numbered 3837. 

In the academic year of 1993-1994, students were taken to 

Greenhouse (Büyükeceli), Tourism and Hotel Management 

(Aydıncık) Milk and Products Programs. 

In the 1995-1996 academic year, the Milk and Products program 

was connected to Mut Vocational School, and the Greenhouse 

Program was transferred to Aydıncık in the same year. In 1997, the 

Greenhouse Program was attached to the Silifke Vocational School. 

In the 1994-1995 academic year, Construction, Furniture 

Decoration Programs were opened and students were accepted. In 

the 1995-1996 academic year, the Travel Management (Aydıncık) 

Program was opened and students were admitted. In the 1998- 

1999 academic year, Tourism and Hotel Management and Travel 

Since 2004-2005 academic year, no students are accepted to Map 

Cadastre and Construction Programs. In 2011, the Department of 

Materials and Materials Processing Technologies and its Furniture 

and Decoration program were changed to the Forestry Department 

of Forestry and Forestry Products. In addition, no students have 

been accepted to the Carpet Weaving and Rug Making Program 

since the 2011-2012 academic year. In the 2013-2014 academic year, 

the Plant and Animal Production Department was opened and a 

Sapling Growing Program was opened within the same department. 

Our school continues its education in its own service building 

with a total of three programs: Accounting and Tax Applications 

Program within the current Department / Program Accounting 

and Tax Department, Forestry and Forest Products Program 

within the Forestry Department, and Sapling Growing Program 

within the Department of Plant and Animal Production. The 

name of our school was changed to Mersin University Mustafa 

Baysan Vocational School in 2013. 

It serves with a service building with a closed area of 8,000 m2 

on an area of 13,084 m2. There are 7 Classrooms, 1 Computer 

Laboratory, 20-person Library, Kitchen, Food Service Hall, 

Application Garden and Multi-Purpose Open and Closed Sports 

Hall in the 3-storey central heating building. 

In our Academic and Administrative Staff of our School, 1 Faculty 

Member, 1 Dr. Lecturer.There are 14 Instructors, 6 Civil Servants 

and 10 Permanent Workers. 

In our school, students are provided with opportunities such as 

food service, cultural and technical trips, and spring festivals. 



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Mersin Vocational School, National Education in 1976 YAYKUR 

(Non-formal Higher Education Institution) under its Ministry. 

The school moved to Gazi High School building in 1978, Petro- 

Chemistry Program was closed and restructured by opening 

Chemistry, Machinery-Engine and Business Accounting 

Programs andIt was named as Mersin Vocational School.Mersin 

Education Institute with the addition of the Hotel Management 

Program moved to its building; In 1982, with the law number 41, 

ÇukurovaConnected to the University. 

Mersin Vocational School, in 1988, YÖK / World Bank’s Industrial 

Training Project.Under the names of Programs and Economic 

and Administrative Programs,has been configured. Electrical, 

Industrial in Technical Programs Electronics, Telecommunications, 

Construction, Air Conditioning-Refrigeration,Control Systems 

and Chemistry Programs; Economic and administrative In the 

programs, Business, Accounting, Tourism-Hotel Management 

and Office Management Programs opened. 

Affiliated to Mersin University in 1992 by Law No. 3837 in the 

school in 1996 within the Silifke Vocational School Stone-Metal 

Management Program, Applied JewelryTechnology is structured 

under the name of Technical Programs added. Electrical and 

Industrial in 1997-1998 academic year. Dual education started in 

Electronic Programs. Glass and Ceramic Technology Program, 

2002-2003 education. In, Map and Cadastre Program was opened. 

METEB project in the school, which also received TS-ENISO: 

9001-2000 Quality Certificate in the same year .Mechanical and 

Machine Drafting in Technical Programs,Automotive, Furniture 

and Decoration Programs; Economic and administrative 

Hairdressing and Skin Care Programs were opened in the 

programs. 

Industrial Automation to the Distance Education Program in 

2003,Electronic Communications, Computer Technology and 

Programming Programs have also been added, Machine Drafting 

Program, Machine Combined with the program. 

For Automotive Laboratory and Distance Education Unit in 

2005 new residential areas were created. In the same year, within 

the school Social Sciences by separating the Economics and 

Administrative Programs. It was turned into a new school with 

the name of Vocational School. 

Mersin Vocational School Distance Education on October 11, 200. 

It was transformed into a new Vocational School with the name of 

its unit. Myrtle In 2002, within the body of the University Mersin 

Vocational School Distance Education Unit has been established 

and internet-supported education in the academic year of 2002- 

2003 It started with the Electronics (Electronics Technology) 

program.In 2003, Computer Technologies andProgramming 

(Computer Programming), Electronic CommunicationProgram 

(Electronic Communication Technology), IndustrialAutomation 

Program (Control and Automation Technology), 2009Business 

Management and Pharmacy Services Programs,Health Institutions 

Management, Medical Promotion in 2010and Marketing, in 2011, 

Public Relations and PublicityWith the addition of undergraduate 

programs, the number of programs increased to nine.has been 

upgraded. Forestry in the 2012-2013 academic year, 

Cosmetics Technology and Real Estate and Property Management 

programsOpened, Property protection in the 2016-2017 academic 

year and Occupational Health and Safety With the opening of the 

program, the number of programs reached thirteen. 

Computer program 

Computer Programming in the world and rapidly growing in 

Turkey and it is a profession that can be applied to many business 

lines. Our university, education and training in the field of 

computer, sought after in the market makes. Our students are 

equipped with hardware, software, database management systems, 

information and is grown with skill. The courses supported by the 



software He has the opportunity to apply with his own PC in his 

home, which has a laboratory. 

In addition to the basic courses such as mathematics and 

physics, which are necessary for Computer Programmers to 

develop software applications in every field; basic electronics, 

microprocessors, basic programming languages, office automation 

package programs, database programs, object oriented visual 

programming languages, internet applications, business culture, 

quality culture and internet based programming software are 

taught. The fact that information technologies are an indispensable 

part of almost all sectors today provides our graduates with the 

opportunity to find jobs in almost every sector. 

Electronic Communication Technologies Program 

Our university closely follows the developing communication 

technologies.by gaining knowledge of popular communication 

techniquesintermediate manpower trained with communication 

technology educates.In our Electronic Communication Program, 

our students; Digital -Analog Communication concepts, 

Operation of Telephone Switches,Making subscriber connections, 

Fax and Modem devices 

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Computer communication, Antenna theory andapplication, 

Repair of communication devices, Digital - Illustrative electronic 

components and circuits, Microelectronics Basic concepts of 

circuits, Oscillator-Amplifiers and Feedbackcircuit systems, 

telecommunication signals and datainformation on circuits and 

systems used for transferring andthey become skilled. 

Our graduates can work in all public and private institutions in 

the field of communication has job opportunities 

Electronic Technology Program 

The use of electronics in industry has become more and 

more common. TechnicalAs progresses, recognizing devices 

in the industrial field and developing newhave the skills and 

knowledge to follow technologiesthe need for intermediate staff 

arises. Our University, Industrial Searched in the market for 

Electronics and Electronics Technology especially education 

and training.Our students; Electronic Measurement Technique 

and Safety, AccurateCurrent and Alternating Current circuit 

analysis, Computer AidedDesign (CAD), Digital Circuit 

Design, Power Electronics,Instrumentation, Electrical Projects, 

ProgrammableControllers, Hydraulics and Pneumatics, System 

Analysis and Design,Processor Programming and Electronic 

Technology like thisThey graduate with knowledge of many 

subjects in their field. 

Graduated from our Electronic Technology Programour students; 

Public institutions and organizations (Telecom, PTT,TRT .. etc), 

Electricity and Industrial Electronics.at any stage of production 

in private organizationsworking in all private organizations using 

electronic systemshas the possibility 

Control and Automation Technology Program 

In this program, electrical and control systems as a wholeare taken 

into consideration and solutions related to design and application 

are produced.Need in control systems in industrial application 

areas intermediate manpower is trained. 

Students; installation, maintenance and repair of mechanical, 

electrical and electronic equipment, such as level, pressure, 

temperature, flow, humidity and Phmeasurement and control 

methods of variables, PLC systemsuse in automation, remote and 

local control of the process,Various micro controls used in process 

control applications of Promatik and hydraulic power systemsgain 

knowledge and skills in their fields.Our graduates are interested 

in controlling the manufacturing processes of factories.They can 

find the opportunity to work in various processes. Industrial 

productionand automation technologies are used. 

Pharmacy Services Program 

Pharmacy Services Program in our country “Pharmacy 

Technician”It is the program that provides the training 

of the business field also named as.All business involving 

pharmaceuticals, especially in pharmacies have sufficient 

knowledge and skills needed in their fieldsTraining the staff is 

the main goal of the program.Pharmacy Services Program, in 

different units of the pharmaceutical industry candidates who 

want to take place in a scientific environmenttrained, acquired 

professional skills, all necessary knowledge andto be qualified and 

certified health workers has been put into practice.Our program 

is a new program carried out with the distance education system. 

program. Increasing scientific developments in the field of 

education,increase in demand for education, increase in education 

costs andtechnological developments bring the necessity of 

distance education all over the world.as well as in our country. 

Todaynow, every subject iscan be learned. People who cannot 

benefit from traditional educationDistance Education System, 

which is indispensable for; 

Time and place restriction for all university candidates ensure the 

right to be educated without 

• Change their economic and social structures for various 

reasons To provide education opportunities to unwilling 

students 



• Whatever students want regardless of timetime to be able to 

learn as much as they want 

• Continuing active education life for health reasonsTo offer 

education opportunities to students who cannot 

• Still working in the pharmaceutical industry without a 

diplomaindividuals to this program without leaving their 

workplaces It has the advantages of being able to participate. 

Therefore from afar 

education system in our Pharmacy Services ProgramIt has been 

concluded that the application is the most accurate method. 

With our university Mersin Vocational School, mainly 

PharmacyIncluding our faculty, Faculty of Medicine and other 

faculties andThe successful Pharmacy of the future with the 

joint contribution of our collegesA private lesson to train service 

personel program has been prepared for you. 

Pharmaceuticals and non-pharmaceutical products, primarily 

in pharmaciesIn all services offered, this program graduatesIt is 

possible to find. Especially in our country, 24,000pharmacy and 

various points of the pharmaceutical service industry (public and 

hospital pharmacies, pharmaceuticals and health products in the 

private sectordistribution channels, pharmaceutical factories, etc. 

job opportunityGraduates of the Pharmacy Services Program who 

may find will be able to work as a trained employee at workplaces. 

Our Pharmacy Services Program is a new education for our 

youth and while creating job opportunities, scientifically trained 

staffIn addition to being the service provided in the pharmacy and 

pharmaceutical industry,that they will improve the quality and 

the production of the drug, correct anda great contribution to the 

whole process until its rational usewe believe they will provide. 

Our Pharmacy Services Program is for 2 years and a total of 

4consists of semesters. Our program is in the 2009-2010 academic 

year with a student quota of 200 students started. 

Pharmacy Services Staff with European Union harmonization 

frameworksat the level of knowledge and skills to maintain the 

appropriate serviceOur program, which will ensure that you are 

educatedIn addition to being educated as individuals who can take 

care of themselves with confidence,to be the assistant healthcare 

professionals who will guide your futuregives intense efforts for. 

Education and diploma in Pharmacy Servicesa university that 

wants to continue its professional life in this field without leaving 

their other pursuits and environments to their candidatesProviding 

an educational opportunity for Mersin University familyIt is a 

great source of happiness. 

Medical Promotion and Marketing Program 

Tasks in the health sector, such as promotion, sales and marketing 

Those who do so are called “Medical Representatives”.Healthcare 

sector (pharmaceutical, medical and cosmetic) is a rapidly 

growing and futureis a promising industry. This is an important 

and rapid developmentWith the sector, the need for trained and 

expert staffhas gained importance. Mersin University Mersin 

Vocational HighOpened this year within the School of Health 

ProgramsMedical Promotion and Marketing Program isto raise 

individuals who have sufficient knowledge and skillsaims.Medical 

representation, primarily pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical 

productsis responsible for the promotion of this professionhave 

up-to-date information and evidence-based, transparentand they 

are expected to perform their duties ethically.Another important 

point is the most important point about Medical Representatives’ 

products.is that they can convey the correct information. The best 

way to do this is professionalIt passes from getting appropriate 

and quality education in the company of trainers. 

For this purpose, as Mersin University Mersin Vocational School, 

with a strong staff consisting of academic staff working in the 

Faculty of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Economics 

and Administrative Sciences and various colleges, this program, 

which includes courses on both health and marketing, It has been 

meticulously prepared for. So the future professional MedicalIt is 

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aimed to train its representatives.Having completed the Medical 

Promotion and Marketing programthrough trial-and-error or 

master-apprentice relationshipsystematic use of drugs, medical 

supplies andcosmetics.with the support of professional trainers. 

will find a chance to raise. This program is both workforce 

andremote access to our students without loss of time.A distinctive 

and pioneering program that offers training opportunitiesbears. In 

addition, he has been trained in different branches andIndividuals 

who are still working as representatives are also students who are 

new, different and importantthey will gain a perspective. 

Training to be provided within the scope of the Medical Promotion 

and Marketing Program not only those who transmit information 

to healthcare professionals, but alsoand raising individuals who 

absorb and own their workplanned.Our students who graduated 

from the program, Medical Promotion Representativeoperating 

in pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical productscompanies 

that produce or import medical equipment and devicesThey will 

easily have the opportunity to find a job in companies. Healththe 

rapid growth of the sector and will continue to grow,Individuals 

who are trained in this field will have a wide job opportunity in the 

future.It is an important indicator of what they can have. 

Public Relations and Publicity Program 

The transformation of the world into a global village in the century 

we live in,In this global village, a new variety is introduced to the 

product and service market every day.participation leads to a rapid 

increase in competition. This rapid development bringing along 

change, produced for institutions and organizations the obligation 



to introduce their services and products more effectively makes it 

necessary. In the competitive environment in the global market 

performing the best public relations and promotional activities 

organizations can survive and target audiences. can be integrated 

with. For this reason, the services to be provided should be 

structured and coordinated within the framework of information 

science andIt is of great importance that it is carried out with 

trained and equipped personel bears. 

Information and service, information-communication on the 

planet transforming into a global village It spreads with the speed 

of light due to the development of its technologies.Organizations 

that produce products and services in this village areto realize 

and manage their communication with the masses at the same 

speedthey have to. Therefore, it will carry out these activities.have 

to have effective and sufficient personnelthey are aware that they 

are. In addition, knowledge and innovation.The media sector, 

which rapidly spreads all over the world, is the same.By employing 

competent and conscious staff,It acts on the principle of addition. 

In parallel with all these developments, in the media sector, with 

the public relations and promotion companies, institutions that 

produce products and services and qualified in public relations 

and advertising departments of organizations and the need for 

competent professionals is increasing day by day.Our school 

can meet this need,“Public Relations and PublicityProgram ”. 

Competent and effective staff to the private sector or public 

institutionsboth “Mersin Vocational School” andIt is the primary 

goal of the “Public Relations and Publicity Program”.”Public 

Relations and Publicity Program” 

Individuals who will respond, are principled and provide 

social added valueaims to educate.In this context, the content 

of the “Public Relations and Promotion Program”It has been 

prepared in line with the needs of the sector. Syllabuswith 

students the theoretical dimension of public relations, history of 

communicationand legal dimension of communication, details 

of mass communication, informationuse of communication 

technologies, in marketing communicationstrategies to be 

implemented, consumers’ behavioranalysis and guidance of 

the electronic environment in these activities.the most effective 

use of visual and auditory methods creating and managing the 

media effectively,managing brands, creating and managing 

brands,determination and realization etc. knowledge and skills in 

scopeto transfer these issues to their professional lives effectively 

will be provided. 

He will graduate from the “Public Relations and Publicity 

Program”public relations companies, advertising agencies, 

mediaplanning and purchasing companies, sales marketing and 

promotion companies, production companies, media industry, 

media monitoring agencies,public research companies, various 

institutions and organizationsThey have job opportunities in the 

relations and advertising departments.As the “Public Relations 

and Promotion Program”, our aim is toit is not to train the wanted 

staff. 

Forestry and Forest Products Program 

In our forests that have a large area in our country’s soil Protection 

of forests and ability to do forestry activities Qualified manpower is 

needed. The business area is wide and Forestry and Forest Products 

activities in the global market It is an indispensable requirement. 

Our country in the global arena professionals and practices on 

this subject.must be carried out by trained professionals so that it 

can be successful and permanence can be achieved. 

Our Forestry and Forest products Program is qualified 

people-semester associate degree higher education aimed at 

trainingprogram. It is conducted with a distance education 

model.Distance learning abroad is active and intensive today.is 

implemented. Turkey also spread and the education of the massesIt 

is of great importance that it is received by the wider masses.Target, 

especially the Forestry and Forest Products Programestablished in 

the distance education model of a wide program 

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It is important in this respect.In addition to accepting students 

from vocational high schools without examination,It is also 

possible to admit students from plain high schools with high scores. 

Graduated from Forestry and Forest Products Programstudents; 

Central and provincial under the Ministry of Forestry and 

Water Affairsorganizations and the General Directorate of State 

Hydraulic Works, General Directorate of HighwaysDirectorate, 

State Planning Organization, etc.they perform administrative 

duties. In the private sector, forestry-related business andprivate 

institutions and private forest nurseriescan work as a technical 

staff. 

considered as a necessity for our country.and property management 

practices will gain legal dimensionsis considered. 

The aim of the Property Management Distance Education 

Program is toa theoretical and practical education application in 

line with professional standardsstudents who will enroll in this 

Cosmetic Technology Program 

Cosmetic Technology program as “Cosmetic Technician”It is the 

program that educates the business field. EspeciallyTo train the 

intermediate staff needed in the cosmetics industryis the main 

goal of the program. Mersin University Mersin ProfessionSchool 

of Chemistry and Chemical Processing Technologieswithin the 

Cosmetics Technology Program,a university that wants to take 

part in different units of its sectorusing distance education and 

training advantages of the candidates training in a scientific 

environment and professional skills2012-2013 Education and 

TrainingIt started to provide education in the fall semester of the 

year. 

Real Estate and Property Management Program 

Housing, building, site, shopping centers in the world and in our 

countryin investments; Rapid developments in the real estate 

sector, which is the subject of the purchase of land-residentialcommercial 

and service buildings is experienced. Due to these 

developments, real estate and property managementindustry, 

well-trained, marketing, management, real estatethe need for 

personnel trained in valuation issuesincreasing. In addition, real 

estate valuation reports 

Compliance with international valuation standards in regulationis 

programIn the light of professional and academic information, 

national andprofessional responsibility required by international 

organizationsowner, business ethics awareness, real estate sales 

and techniques to train people who are qualified intermediate staff. 

Also, real estatewill provide service consultancy on marketing and 

management It is aimed to train the elements. 

Housing, building, site, shopping mall investments in our countryin 

financing; Rapid developments in the real estate sector, which is the 

subject of the purchase of land-residential-commercial and service 

buildingsis experienced. Due to these developments, property 

managementMore experts are needed.As a result, employment 

opportunities in this field are quiteit will gain a large dimension.


In light of all this information, thisacademicians and educated 

people who will have a profession in the fieldIt needs to be trained 

through professional staff.The distance education model is an 

effective and intensiveIt is practiced.dissemination and education 

to a wider audience in TurkeyIt is of great importance. All thisFor 

reasons, the real estate and property management program of our 

country 

It fits well with the general policy and strategic plans.In addition, 

our students have a workplace for 30 working days at the end 

of each year.By participating in the application training, the 

theoretical knowledge they have receivedtheir future work 

areas andThey meet people at the student stage.Graduates; They 

will take the title of Real Estate Marketing Manager.They can 

open real estate offices, Land Office, Agrarian ReformGeneral 

Directorate, National Real Estate Directorate, Land Registry and 

CadastreDirectorate, Real Estate Directorate of Municipalities and 

similar publicinstitutions and organizations, private companies, 

organized real estatecompanies, management of large buildings 

and business centersThey can work. 

Business Management Program 

In recent years, rapid developments in the industryIt has 

increased its importance one more time. Labor, capital, nature 

andeconomic developments affecting managerial elements in 

our countrylead to significant changes in management and 

management practices.has opened. Thus, increasing and changing 

duties and powers of managersand its responsibilities make the 

“Business Management” branch a separate specialization.has 

made the field.In parallel with the developments in recent years, 

the upper level in the businessthe need for a mid-level manager 

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between managers and subordinateshas emerged. Our school will 

be able to answer this need,“Business Management The program 

has opened.In our “Business Management” Program, our 

students; BusinessManagement, Human Resources, Organization 

Management, Accounting, InternetTechnologies, Quality, 

Marketing and Productivity, andthey become skilled.Employees 

trained in both the private sector and the public sphereis the 

primary goal of Mersin Vocational School.Our graduates work in 

all public and private business managementhas job opportunities 

in organizations. 

Health Institutions Management Program 

The number of hospitals and hospitals in our country in 

recent yearsIntense effort to increase the quality of the service 

providedis spent. In a sense, these developments in the health 

sectorIt is also an indicator of the country’s development. But 

in the past yearsmanagers in health institutions and affiliated 

with these managers the training that employees need in 

business administration Unfortunately, it is known that there are 

insufficiencies in their recruitment.Published in Copenhagen in 

1996 by the World Health OrganizationIn the Health Reform 

report: “From in-depth management trainingincreasing the 

number of people who have passed and appropriate health 

information effective and successful implementation of 

healthcare reforms.It plays the most important role in making it 

happen ”.Institution conducting research on health and hospital 

systemand people’s common finding, that the health and hospital 

systemIt is a necessity for it to be operated in a perfect way. 

Rapidly growingand enough information and knowledge that 

this promising sector needsIn order to educate individuals who 

are equipped, our universityMersin Vocational School Health 

Programs DepartmentOur Health Institutions Management 

Programeducation will start this year. 

Health Institutions Management Programto train employees to 

work at all levels of institutions 

aims. Our students who will take part in this programthinking, 

problem solving, influencing others andhave developed 

orientation skills, able to establish good mutual relationsbesides 

being individuals, patient referral chain, management 

problems,organization, personnel and service delivery problems, 

information system,performance evaluation, finance, hardware 

diagnosis 

will be equipped with the ability to produce solutions. All thisWith 

a training program aiming to gain skillsWe have prepared 

meticulously together with a strong training staff.Graduated from 

Health Institutions Management Programour students Public, 

University, Foundation Hospitals, Private 

Beside institutions such as Hospitals, Rehabilitation Centershealth 

insurance companies, private insurance companies,Health 

Research in industrial organizations producing pharmaceuticals 

and medical devicesThey have the opportunity to work in their 

centers.He also studied in different fields and is stillWith the 

remote access system of individuals who undertake various 

dutiesTaking part in our program that offers educationtake a new, 

different and effective approach to their profession 

They are arranged to provide.Health Institutions within Mersin 

UniversiManagement ”program with a student quota of 100 

students, 2010-Since the 2011 academic year, the whole sector and 

student We believe that it will make very important contributions 

to its candidates. 

Occupational Health and Safety Program 

Mersin University Mersin Vocational School OwnershipProtection 

and Security Division Occupational Health and Safety 

(RemoteTeaching) Associate Degree Program;In our country, 

the Official No.283391 dated 30 June 20126331 Numbered 

Occupational Health andWith the Law on Security, regardless 

of the public and private sectorof personnel concerned with 

occupational health and safety in all workplaces (occupational 



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safety specialist, workplace doctor and other health personnel) 

Making employment compulsory, Labor and Social Security 

Our Ministry in the field of occupational health and safety in 

recent yearsAs a result of legislative changes and continuous 

developments,the need for educated and qualified individuals 

trained in this field 

Considering, 

1. Work accidents that may be exposed in working life andlegal 

regulations and technology related to occupational diseases 

can follow the developments, 

2. Depending on the changing legislation in the field of 

work,risk assessment and emergency action can prepare 

plans, 

3. Adequate knowledge in teamwork and effective 

communication and skilled, 

4. Acting in accordance with professional ethical rules, 

5. Responsibility awareness and analytical thinking power 

developed It aims to raise individuals. 

Occupational accidents and diseases in the world and in our 

country Efforts are made to reduce it. Technological In parallel 

with the developments, new legal regulations and in this area 

The need for qualified professionals who have completed their 

education is heard. This need is given to the field of occupational 

health and safety.increases the importance even more.Practices in 

the field of occupational health and safety in our country through 

professionals and trained professionals 

must be carried out. Thus, occupational health and safety in the 

field of success, continuity and permanence can be achieved is 

considered.Occupational health and safety for graduates who 

successfully complete the program a diploma is awarded in the 

field. Occupational Health 

and they obtain the title of Safety Technician. Occupational health 

and Safety Our students who graduate from the program and 

businesses, commercial centers, high-rise buildings,universities 

and campus-shaped schools, shopping centers and public centers, 

fire brigades, civil defense and similar emergenciesas “Occupational 

Health and Safety Technician” in state organizationsthey can take 

part. 

In addition, by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security To 

be successful in the C class Occupational Safety Specialist 

exam”Occupational Safety Specialist” in all institutions and 

organizations, can serve as.The implementation of the program 

through distance educationto continue formal education 

depending on various reasons.It provides the following advantages 

for individuals who cannot: 

1. In the institution or institutions working in the public 

sectorIndividuals who want to work as an occupational 

safety specialist, 

2. Who want to have a diploma while in active business lifeto 

individuals, 

3. Public officials who want to raise their seniority, 

4. He is late for formal and dual education at the universityfor 

those who think, 

5. Having two diplomas while completing his university 

educationto students who want to be, 

6. To benefit from the right to pass without examination and 

work after high school students who want to enter their lives, 

7. Re-university education after completing university 

education individuals who want to buy, 

8. Individuals in prisons, 

9. For mothers and fathers who want to set an example for 

their children, 

10. Individuals with physical disabilities 


MUT VOCATIONAL SCHOOL 

school. Garden Agriculture Program 

under the Department of Plant and 

Animal Production, Computer 

Programming under the Department 

of Computer Technology, Accounting 

and Tax Applications Program under 

the Department of Accounting and 

Tax, Food Technology Program under 

the Department of Food Processing 

are open to students’ recruitment. 

Our school is based on a plot of 

20001m2. It has a 4 storey heating 

building with 5397m2 indoor area. 

There are 8 classrooms, 2 computer 

laboratories, computer hardware 

laboratories, food technology 

laboratories, 153 conference rooms,40 

Seminar Rooms, 30 Library, Kitchen, 

Food Service Hall, Practice Garden 

and Multi-Purpose Indoor Gym. 


Vocational School of Mut was established in 1990 by Selçuk 

University with the articles of the presidency of the Council of 

Higher Education dated 17.04.1990 and numbered 8154. It was 

adjected to Mersin University in 1992 by law number 3837. 

Vocational School of Mut began its educational activities by 

taking students to the cadastral map program in the 1990-1991 

academic year. Currently, there are 4 departments active in the 

Administrative affairs of our college; in 

accordance with Article 20/b of the law 

No. 2547, the Directorate of School is 

conducted by Lecturer Kasım PINAR, 

Assistant Director Lecturer; Eser ALP, 

Lecturer Bestami Recep ERGÜN and 

School Secretary Ömer Lütfü EMRAHOĞLU. 

Our academic and administrative staff of our school has 1 assistant 

professor, 13 Lecturers, 1 School Secretary, 9 Officers, 3 servants, 1 

4/b contract staff and 4 permanent workers. 

In our school, our students are provided with facilities which are 

food service, cultural and technical trips, Spring festivities. 

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HEALTH SERVICES VOCATIONAL SCHOOL 

Genel Bilgiler 

Our school continues its education at Mersin University, Yenişehir 

campus. 

There are 2 departments in our school. These are Medical Services 

and Techniques Department and Health and Care Services 

Department. In addition to this, education is continued in 7 

programs in the associate degree level. These programs are First 

and Emergency Aid Medical Laboratory Techniques Medical 

Imaging, Anesthesia, Operating Room Services, Elderly Care and 

Medical Documentation and Secretary. 

Academic and Administrative Personal Information 

In accordance with Article 13 b-4 of the Higher Education Law No. 

2547; in our school, there are 18 lecturers, 1 instructor including 1 

school director in the Faculty of Nursing. Our school has 1 lecturer. 

Some of the lectures are given primarily at Mersin University 

Faculty of Medicine and are provided by instructors assigned 

in other units. Our school are responsible for 10 administrative 

staffs, including 1 College Secretary, 6 civil servants, 3 permanent 

workers. 

Facilities Provided To Students 

Our departments contniue education in 8 classrooms, 1 Computer 

Laboratory, 2 Medical Laboratories,and 2 workshops practice 

classrooms. Our students benefit from the common dining hall 

and social areas located on the Yenisehir campus. 


SİLİFKE VOCATIONAL SCHOOL 

Departments 

1- Department of Plant and Animal Production 

• Organic Agriculture Programme 

• Horticulture Programme 

• Greenhouse Programme 

• Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Programme 

• Mushroom Programme 

2- Department of Motor Vehicles and Transport Technologies 

• Underwater Technology Programme 

3- Department of Forestry 

• Hunting and Wild Life Programme 

4- Department of Fisheries 

• Fisheries Programme 

5- Department of Marketing and Advertising 

• Public Relations and Publicity Programme 

• Marketing Programme 

6- Department of Management and Organization 

• Management of Healthcare Organizations Programme 

• Local Administrations Programme 

• Business Administration Programme 

Physical Conditions 

• 10 classrooms 

• 1 laboratory 

• 1 library 

• 1 conference hall for 200 people 

• 1 computer labs are available 

Application Area 

For the applications of agriculture programs, we have 500 m2 glass 

greenhouse, 150 m2 soilless greenhouse and 41000 m2 open area 

for the application areas. Vegetables such as tomatoes, melons, 

eggplant, cucumber and pepper are grown in greenhouses; olive and 

pomegranate are grown in the open field. In addition, seedlings are 

grown. Our students practice cultural processes such as planting, 

harvest, fertilization, irrigation and pruning practically 


14 Academic Staff 

15 Administrative Staff 

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Vocational School of Social Sciences has been opened in 1975, 

dependent to the Ministry of Education under the name of Mersin 

Vocational School. In 1982, with the Decree Law No. 41 it was 

included in the scope of Çukurova University. In 1992, it was 

affiliated to Mersin University with Law No. 3837 and continued 

education and training under the name of Mersin Vocational 

School Economics and Administrative Programs until 2005. 

Upon the decision of the senate dated 08.02.2005 and numbered 

2005/14, The Higher Education Board and at The Higher 

Education General Assembly meeting with the decision of Law 

No. 2547, Law No. 2880, in accordance with the amended article 

7 / d-2, with the acceptance of the proposal on 06.05.2005, Social 

Sciences Vocational School provides training on 9 (nine) formal, 

9 (nine) evening education in a total of 18 programs. Considering 

the Vocational and Technical Secondary Education programs by 

the Council of Higher Education, and by editing the Vocational 

and Technical Secondary Education programs by the Council 

of Higher Education, programs in our Vocational School such 

as ISCED’97 and ISCO’88 have been renamed according to the 

international education field and occupation classifications. 

Departments and Programs 

Office Services and Secretarial Department 

Office Management and Executive Assistant (Daytime 

Education - Evening Education) 

Office Services and Secretarial Department Office Management 

and Executive Assistant Program started formal education 

under the name of Office Management and Secretariat Program 

in Mersin Vocational School, Department of Economics and 

Administrative Programs in the 1993-1994 Academic Year, and in 

2006-2007 academic year, it started evening education by taking 

students with additional quota. Since the 2010-2011 academic 

year, it continues its activities under the name of Office Services 

and Secretariat Department. 

The aim of the program is to train Office Management and Executive 

Assistant Professional Staff who can use effective communication 

techniques and time effectively and help managers to fulfill their 

duties and responsibilities. The courses that have the qualifications 

to fulfill the professional qualification criteria in our program were 

determined and put in four semesters. Considering the change 



requests from external stakeholders and internal stakeholders, 

necessary changes are made on the lesson plans in order to meet 

the needs of the day. 

Department of Foreign Trade (First Education-Evening Education) 

Foreign Trade (First Education-Evening Education) Foreign Trade 

Department Foreign Trade Program, in the 1993-1994 Academic 

Year, started formal education in Mersin Vocational School, 

Department of Economics and Administrative Programs, under 

the name of Customs Business Program, and in the 2006-2007 

academic year, it started evening education by taking students with 

additional quota. Since the 2010-2011 academic year, it continues 

its activities under the name of Foreign Trade Department. 

The aim of the program is to train Foreign Trade Professional 

Staff in the fields they need who can use effective communication 

techniques in foreign trade, export, import, foreign trade 

accounting, foreign exchange and customs clearance of enterprises 

operating at national and international level etc. Considering 

the change requests from external stakeholders and internal 

stakeholders, necessary changes are made on lesson plans in order 

to meet the needs of the day. 

Our graduates are employed as in charge of import operations, 

in charge of export operations, in charge of customs clearance, 

etc. in foreign trade companies. They can take part in customs 

clearance departments of Customs Consultancy firms. They can 

work in logistics companies. With the KPSS exam they can work 

as a Customs Enforcement Officer and Customs Inspection officer 

in Customs Directorates. 

Accounting and Tax 

Accounting and Tax Applications (Daytime and Evening Education) 

Accounting and Tax Applications Program started formal 

education and later secondary education under the name of 

Accounting Program in Mersin Vocational School Department 

of Economics and Administrative Programs in 1978. In the same 

period, our school got separated from Mersin Vocational School 

under the name of Social Sciences Vocational School. Since the 

2010-2011 Academic Year, the Accounting and Tax Department 

has been continuing its education activities under the name of 

Accounting and Tax Applications Program. 

The purpose of the Accounting and Tax Applications program 

is to record the transactions that occur in businesses that can be 

expressed in money, and to ensure that the results are determined 

and interpreted. 

The graduates of the program work in Certified Public Accountant 

and Certified Public Accountant offices. In addition, they can 

work as accounting staff in many businesses such as insurance 

companies, tourism, construction and industrial enterprises. 

Our graduates have the right to complete a license in related fields 

by taking the Vertical Transfer Exam. 

Hotel, Restaurant and Catering Services 

Tourism and Hotel Management (Primary Education-Evening 

Education) 

Tourism Hotel Management Program has been accepting students 

since 1978. Students are admitted to Formal and Evening Education 

programs during the ÖSYM examination system. Candidates 

who have completed their associate degree education have the 

right to enroll in undergraduate programs or AÖF undergraduate 

programs, provided that they get a valid grade in the DGS exam. 

Program students attend professional practice courses and 

administrative courses during their education. The students of the 

Tourism and Hotel Management Department become effective 

of hospitality management, human resources management, 

marketing and international marketing, hotel accounting, tourism 

law, knowledge about project marketing issues, and makes them 

effective in principled professional issues and interdisciplinary 

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studies. In addition, our students receive preparatory education 

upon request. In the optional preparatory program, they receive 

intensive English language training for one academic year. 

Travel-Tourism and Entertainment Services 

Tourism and Travel (Primary Education-Secondary Education) M 

e r s i n University has started Education and Training as a Tourism 

and Travel Management program since 1992 under Mersin 

Vocational School. Since the 2010-2011 academic year, the Tourism 

and Travel Services Program has been continuing its educational 

activities, including formal and evening education, under the 

name of the Department of Travel-Tourism and Entertainment 

Services. In our program, courses with qualifications that can 

meet the professional competence criteria have been determined. 

Considering the change requests from external stakeholders and 

internal stakeholders, necessary changes are made on the lesson 

plans in order to meet the needs of the day. In the department, 

besides academic courses such as business, economics, marketing, 

operational field courses such as front office, travel management, 

law, tourist guidance, technical courses such as Galileo, Amadeus 

and ticketing, and English foreign language courses are offered. 

The programs for GALİLEO, AMADEUS and SEJOUR, Ticketing 

certificates, which are extremely important in the travel sector, 

are installed in the laboratories, and our students, who achieve 

sufficient success in the relevant courses, are entitled to receive 

these certificates through protocols with THY, AMADEUS and 

SEJOUR. 



Marketing and Advertising 

Marketing (Primary Education-Evening Education) 

Mersin University Mersin Vocational School has started to admit 

students to the Marketing program since 1992. Since 06.05.2005, 

the Marketing Program continues its activities within the Social 

Sciences Vocational School. The aim of the program is to train 

the Marketing Professionals they need in the fields like marketing, 

communication, advertising, sales, research, etc. primarily 

in the regional area and then at the country level operating 

businesses, who are open to development and learning, with 

consumer-oriented thinking skills. Our graduates, as a result of 

the widespread use of supermarkets in these establishments, are 

employed in the fields of store marketing manager, product group 

manager, customer relations officer, shelf and store arrangement 

etc. In the service sector; They especially take an active role in 

marketing of insurance services. With the importance of one-toone 

marketing, they work as personal salespeople in businesses 

operating in this field. They can work in advertising and promotion 

companies, marketing research institutions, and in the marketing 

departments of businesses. Our graduates can continue their 

4-year undergraduate education related to their field as a result of 

the Vertical Transfer Exam they will take after 2 years of associate 

degree education. 

Management and Organization 

Business Management (Daytime Education and Evening Education) 

The aim of the program, regarding business life, is to train 

companies, public institutions, universities, non-governmental 

organizations and other similar organizations, or to train suitably 

qualified Business Management Professional Staff who can 

open and run businesses on their behalf. Business Management 

Program is a four semi-annual higher education program. The goal 

of the program is that the courses that have the qualifications to 

meet the professional competence criteria are determined in four 

semesters. The goal of the program is that the courses that have 

the qualifications to meet the professional competence criteria are 

determined in four semesters. 

Logistics (Day Education - Evening Education) 

The aim of the program is to provide the expert intermediate 

elements required by the sector to the service of the sector. As well 

as logistics transportation, many services such as storage, foreign 

trade, customs, packaging, distribution require an integrated and 

coordinated implementation, it enables the training of logistics 

personnel in accordance with scientific developments. The 

Logistics Program is a four-semester higher education program. 

The aim of the program is that the courses that have the 

qualifications to meet the professional competence criteria are 

determined in four semesters. In line with the demands from 

external and internal stakeholders, necessary changes are made in 

the curriculum from time to time. 

Local Administrations 

No students were admitted 

Social Services and Consultancy 

Social Services (Primary Education-Evening Education) 

Social Services program has received its first students in the 2018- 

2019 academic year. Social Services Associate Degree Program 

provides the opportunity to specialize in their fields for those 

who want to develop solutions to social problems and provide 

services to individuals who experience social problems in various 

dimensions. It aims to provide the development of individuals 

who want to specialize in the field in theory and practice and 

are sensitive to social problems in educational terms. Individuals 

who receive social work training work as intermediate staff with 

organizational, planning, implementing, effective communication 

and leadership qualities in rural and urban areas, public, private 

sector and non-governmental organizations. These intermediate 

staff assist individuals with their professional knowledge and 

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skills in solving the problems of various groups such as children 

in need of protection, the elderly, the disabled, criminals, the poor, 

the sick, the unemployed; It carries out its works by making use 

of social resources and institutions in order to prevent and solve 

these problems socially. Graduates of the Social Work Associate 

Degree program can work in related institutions like In hospitals 

affiliated to the Ministry of Health, guidance and research centers 

affiliated to the Ministry of National Education, the Ministry of 

Labor and Social Security, the Social Services and Child Protection 

Agency, SSI, Labor and Employment Agency, DPT, provincial 

social service directorates, rehabilitation centers in schools for 

the blind and the deaf, kindergartens, orphanages, kindergartens 

and day-care centers, nursing homes, detention centers, prisons, 

population planning. 

Physical Space Information 

There are 6 classrooms, 2 computer labs, 1 conference hall, 2 

practice classrooms, dining hall and canteen in our school. 


Number of Academic Staff 

In our Vocational School, 1 associate 

professor, 31 lecturers actually work. 5 

lecturers are from different departments 

of our university, and have been assigned 

in our Vocational School in accordance 

with Article 13 / b of Law No. 2547. 

Number of Administrative Staff 

13 administrative personnel work in 

our Vocational School. Among these 

personnel, 9 administrative personnel 

work in the staff of our Vocational 

School, and 4 administrative personnel 

are employed in accordance with Article 

13 / b4 of the Law No. 


Our Vocational School of Social Sciences 

has 14 classrooms with projection, 2 

Computer Laboratories, Hotel, Restaurant and Catering Services 

Department Application Class, Office Services and Secretariat 

Department Application Class, 30 student study area and 1 

Conference Hall. In addition, there is a cafeteria to meet the 

lunch needs of the students and a canteen to meet other food and 

beverage needs. 


VOCATIONAL SCHOOL OF TECHNICAL SCIENCES 

Our school was first opened to do night training in 1976 as Petro- 

Chemistry- Vocational School within the Scope of the YAYKUR 

(Non-formal Higher Education Institution) project under the 

Ministry of National Education. The school, which was moved 

to the Gazi High School building in 1978, was restructured after 

the Petro-Chemistry Program was closed, and the Chemistry, 

Machinery and Engine, Business and Accounting Programs were 

opened, and got the name of Mersin Vocational School. In 1980, 

with the addition of the Tourism Hotel Management Program, it 

moved to the Mersin Education Institute building. In 1982, it was 

connected to Çukurova University. Mersin Vocational School was 

included in the scope of YÖK (The Council of Higher Education) / 

World Bank Industrial Education Project in 1988 and restructured 

under the names of Technical Programs and Economic 

Administrative Programs. Electricity, Industrial Electronics, 

Telecommunications, Construction, Air Conditioning-Cooling, 

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Control Systems, Chemistry Programs in Technical Programs and 

Business, Accounting, Tourism-Hospitality Office Management 

Programs in Economic Administrative Programs were opened. 

School graduates achieved 85% success in the teaching exam 

held in 1990 in order to be assigned to the Industrial Vocational 

High Schools and Apprenticeship Training Centers affiliated 

with the Ministry of National Education. In the school, which 

was affiliated to Mersin University with the Law Number 3837 

in 1992, the Stone-Metal Processing Program, which was found 

in Silifke Vocational School, was structured under the name of 

Applied Jewelry Technology and added to the Technical Programs 

in 1996. In the 1997-1998 cademic year, dual education was 

initiated in Electric and Industrial Electronics Programs. In 1998, 

Glass Ceramic Technology program and in 2002-2003 Academic 

Year,Map Cadastre Program were opened. Distance Education 

Unit was established in 2002 in Mersin Vocational School and 

began training in the Industrial Electronics program. In the school, 

which also received the ISO EN 9001: 2000 Quality Certificate 

in the same year, within the scope of METEP project, Machine, 

Machinery Drafting & Design technology, Automotive, Furniture 

and Decoration Programs in Technical Programs and Hairdressing 

and Skin Care Programs in Economic and Administrative Programs 

were opened. Industrial Automation, Electronic Communication, 

Computer Technology and Programming Programs were also 

added to the Distance Education System in 2003, the Machinery 

Drafting & Design technology program was combined with the 

Machine Program. In 2005, new residential areas were created for 

the Automotive Laboratory and Distance Education Unit. In the 

same year, the Economics and Administrative Programs within the 

school were separated and turned into a new school named Social 

Sciences Vocational School. With the decision of the General 

Council of Higher Education dated 26.06.2006, in accordance 

with the article 7 / D-2 of the Law numbered 2547 amended by 

the Law numbered 2880, it left Mersin Vocational School and 

still continues its activities under the name of Technical Sciences 

Vocational School. 

1. Computer Technologies Department 

a. Computer programming 

b. Computer Programming (2nd Education) 

• Brief History Computer Programming was opened under 

the Department of Technical Programs in the 1996-1997 

academic year, and the first student enrollment was made 

in the same period. The name of the program has evolved 

into its current form in later years. Second education has 

started since 1998. Three faculty members are working 

in this program with 55 students. The program is used in 

conjunction with the other programs of our School of 20 

computerized i5 PC labs. 

• Purpose of Establishment In parallel with the rapid 

developments in the information sector in recent years, the 

use of computer technology has increased rapidly in business 

and daily life. Computer technology and programming; 

computer usage, software production (for PC, network 

environment and internet), hardware, maintenance, repair 

and installation and management of computer networks. 

Students who graduate as computer technicians are trained 

to specialize in both theory and practice. 

• Main Courses Taught in the Program In this program, 

Basic Electronics, Programming fundamentals, graphics 

and animation, computer hardware, office software, visual 

programming, database, fundamentals of web design, 

internet programming, object-oriented programming, 

network fundamentals, server operating systems, business 

management, quality assurance and standards. , research 

techniques and seminar courses are included in the main 

courses for professional competence. 

• Qualifications and Fields of Study Graduates Acquire 

Students who graduate from the program in line with the 

competencies they have gained; They are employed in 



the computer industry, technical services and businesses. 

Program graduates can make their own initiatives as well; 

will be able to fill the IT personnel deficit needed in the 

information technology, software, hardware, communication 

networks or maintenance and repair services of public and 

private sector organizations. 

• Departments to be Applied with the Vertical Transfer 

Exam (DGS) Those who have completed this two-year 

program can continue to computer engineering, software 

engineering, computer teaching, computer and instructional 

technology teaching, information technology, physics, 

statistics, information technologies, and space engineering 

departments at the end of the vertical transfer exam 

conducted by ÖSYM. In addition, all graduates have the 

opportunity to attend Open Education Faculty economics 

or business departments as of the third year and to complete 

their undergraduate degree. 

2. Handicraft Department 

a. Industrial Glass and Ceramics 

b. Jewelery and Jewelry Design 

c. Jewelery and Jewelry Design (2nd Education) 

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This program, which was previously opened under the name 

of Stone Metal Management in Silifke Vocational School, has 

continued under the name of Mersin Vocational School Applied 

Jewelry Technology since 1997. Nowadays, it continues its 

education and training as the Department of Jewelery and Jewelry 

Design at the Technical Sciences Vocational School. jewelry 

vocational courses that students who graduate from this program 

in Turkey in gemology and design courses are provided in parallel 

to developing technology with the necessary knowledge and skills. 

When they graduate, they have the opportunity to find a job in the 

application and design departments of factories and workshops 

serving in the jewelry industry. There is also the opportunity to 

continue their academic education through the first 4 years of 

education, which opened in Mersin University Jewelry Technology 

and vertical transition exam and skills test to School Design in 

Turkey. 

3. Electricity and Energy Division 

a. Electricity 

b. Electricity (2nd Education) 

c. Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Technology 

d. Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Technology (2nd 

Education) Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Technology 



Program and Electricity Program was opened in 1988 within the 

body of Çukurova University Mersin Vocational School. Then 

respectively; Mersin University Mersin Vocational School in 1992 

and continued its education and training activities in Mersin 

University Technical Sciences Vocational School in 2006. In 2009, 

it was merged under the name of the Department of Electricity 

and Energy with the structuring created according to the 

ISCED 97 system. In the Department of Electricity and Energy, 

Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Technology Program and 

Electricity Program continue education in Formal and Evening 

Education. İKMEP is applied in our department’s programs. 

The Development of Human Resources through Vocational 

Education Project (IKMEP) aims to develop training programs 

for employment among the labor market, vocational schools and 

vocational and technical secondary education institutions, based 

on fifth level vocational standards. In this context; Our programs 

under the Department of Electricity and Energy, which provides a 

wide range of employment opportunities for the energy sector in 

industrialized countries, have been developed taking into account 

the needs of the sector. Our department; It has the facilities of 

Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Technology Laboratory and 

Electricity Laboratory. 

lecturers working in the program were educated abroad in their 

fields. Evening education has been opened in our program since 

the academic year 1997-1998. Electronic Technology Our program 

was opened in 1987. In 1992, YÖK-World Bank II. Included in the 

Industrial Education Project. Within the scope of this project, 3 

fully equipped laboratories of 30 people each were established and 

lecturers working in the program were educated abroad in their 

fields. Evening education has been opened in our program since 

1997-1998 academic year. Control and Automation Technology 

The program was completed in 1992 by YÖK-World Bank II. It 

4. Electronics and Automation Department 

a. Electronic Communication Technology 

b. Electronic Communication Technology (2nd Education) 

c. Electronic Technology 

d. Electronic Technology (2nd Education 

e. Control and Automation Technology 

f. Control and Automation Technology (2nd Education) 

Electronic Communication Technology Our program was opened 

in 1987. In 1992, YÖK-World Bank II. Included in the Industrial 

Education Project. Within the scope of this project, 3 fully 

equipped laboratories of 30 people each were established and the 

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was opened within the framework of the Industrial Education 

Project, and due to problems such as physical facilities and the 

creation of a laboratory, it received students as formal education 

under the name of Control Systems Technology in the 1994-1995 

academic year, and laboratories were established within the scope 

of the YÖK-World Bank Project in the same year. In the 1998-1999 

academic year, students were accepted to the evening education of 

this department. In 2000, a joint study was carried out with the 

cooperation of MoNE and YÖK, curriculum was changed in line 

with the developing technology and at the same time, the name 

of the department was changed to Industrial Automation. Since 

2010, it has been continuing its education and training under the 

title of Electronics and Automation Department under the name 

of Control and Automation Technology Program. 

5. Food Processing Department 

a. Food Technology Food Processing Department was established 

in 2008 as a part of Technical Sciences Vocational School. It 

started education in the 2008-2009 academic year. Students who 

graduate from the Food Technology program with an Associate 

Degree gain the title of “Food Technician”. Registration to the 

Food Technology Program is made without an examination 

from the relevant departments of vocational high schools and 

with MF score in the “Measurement, Selection and Placement 

Center” (ÖSYM) exam. In this program, theoretical and practical 

education is given at the level of two-year associate degree. In 

small, medium and large scale enterprises that produce all kinds 

of food, necessary intermediate technical personnel are trained to 

work at every stage of production and quality control, from raw 

materials to final products. Students who successfully complete 

all of the courses available in the program (equivalent to a total 

of 120 ECTS) and who have at least 2.0 weighted average over 

4.00 can graduate. In addition, they can make horizontal and 

vertical transfers in line with the relevant legislation of the Higher 

Education Council (YÖK). Graduates of the program can find 

job opportunities in different fields of public institutions and 

organizations and food industry such as production, marketing, 

research-development and management. 

6. Construction Division 

a. Construction Technology 

b. Construction Technology (2nd Education) 

Organization Information 

In 1988, it was included within the scope of YÖK / World Bank 



Industrial Education Project and Mersin Vocational School was 

established under the Department of Technical Programs and student 

recruitment started. It still continues to recruit students within the 

Technical Sciences Vocational School, Department of Construction. 

Degree Earned 

Construction technician 

Level of the Degree 

Undergraduate 

Admission and Registration Requirements 

1. High school or equivalent school diploma, Sufficient score from 

the 

2. Undergraduate Placement Exam (LYS) Rules on Recognition of 

Prior Learning (formal, non-formal, non-formal) Recognition of 

prior education in Turkish Higher Education Institutions is at the 

beginning stage. For this reason, the recognition of prior education 

has not been fully initiated in all programs of Mersin University. 

However, English, etc. which are included in the compulsory 

curriculum of the departments. An exemption exam is held at the 

beginning of each semester for courses. Students who complete 

the learning process on their own from these courses or who think 

that they have achieved the learning outcomes in these courses in 

different ways have the right to take these exams. Those who pass 

the exam are exempted from the relevant courses in the curriculum. 

Qualification Requirements and Rules 

In order to obtain an associate degree in the field of construction 

technology (to gain the title of Construction Technician), the 

requirements that students must meet; 

a) Passing all courses in the curriculum with at least DD grade, 

b) To have at least 2.0 weighted average out of 4.0, 

c) Completing the 40 work-day compulsory internship period 

and getting a passing grade from the reports prepared for this 

internship. 

Program Profile 

The Construction Technology Program is a program that provides 

pre-education on the construction and operation of all kinds of 

buildings that people use in their daily life. Construction Technology 

is a technical discipline based on mathematics and physics education 

followed by general knowledge in major engineering sciences such as 

building, mechanics, hydraulics, building materials, transportation, 

geotechnics and building management. The main goal of the program 

is; To train technical staff who follow science and technology, equipped 

with the necessary knowledge and skills to transfer this knowledge to 

practice in parallel with the developing technology. For this purpose, 

in our program, besides theoretical knowledge, practical information 

to be used in the field of application and licensed training of many 

computer programs (such as SAP2000, IDESTATİK, AUTOCAD) 

related to the department are provided. Students who graduate from 

the construction technology program, the construction industry; 

private engineering, architectural offices, construction companies, 

building inspection companies and the public sector are trained as 

the necessary intermediate staff (professional staff) with sufficient 

knowledge and business skills. 

Occupational Profiles of Graduates 

Construction technicians; It constitutes the professional group 

working as technical staff in the natural resources, transportation 

/ road, building departments and material testing laboratories of 

the public or local administrations and companies that actively 

take part in the construction of buildings such as dams, roads, 

airports, houses, etc. They play an important role as technical staff 

in the planning, project, construction and control stages of all 

structures from highways, bridges, dams, airports, water supply / 

distribution systems and residences to commercial centers. 

Transition to Higher Degree Programs 

Graduates and those who are in their last year and have fulfilled the graduation 

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equirements other than internship can be placed in undergraduate programs 

in their field with the Vertical Transfer Exam (DGS). 

Exams, Measurement and Evaluation 


Students are subjected to midterm exam, mid-term study (project, 

seminar, quiz, homework or a second midterm) and final exam for 

each course. There is a contribution of 40% of midterm exams, if 

any, of mid-term studies and 60% of the final exam to the success 

grade. All exams are evaluated with an absolute grade over 100 

points. There is a requirement to get at least 50 points from the 

final exam. Final grades are translated into letter notes in the 

relative grading system. Students who get one of the letter grades 

(AA), (BA), (BB), (CB) and (CC) from a course are considered 

successful in that course. At the end of each semester, students can 

take a make-up exam from the courses they failed that semester. 

Graduation Requirements 

Students who successfully complete all of the courses available in 

the program (equivalent to a total of 120 ECTS), obtaining a grade 

point average of at least 2.0 out of 4.00 and completing 40 working 

days of professional internship, are awarded an associate degree in 

Construction Technology. 

Department Opportunities: 

In the Construction Department, outside the classes where 

students are educated, by using technology classes; basic computer 

applications, CAD applications and all kinds of presentations 

are available. Important computer software for Construction 

Technology (such as SAP2000, IDESTATİK, AUTOCAD) are 

offered to students in Computer Laboratories. In the laboratories 

established for the Construction Technology Program, there 

are experimental environments on basic subjects such as floor, 

building material and concrete technology. 

1. Chemistry and Chemical Processing Technologies 

Department 

a. Chemical Technology 

b. Chemical Technology (Evening Education) 

Foundation Purpose of the Program: 

To train intermediate staff for Chemical Technology. 

Working Areas of the Chemistry Technician: 

In factories, Chemistry Laboratories, product processing facilities, 

research and experiment centers and educational institutions. 

The Chemistry Program is currently open to 3 different classes, 

1 class for formal education and 2 classes for evening education. 

The 1st and 2nd year courses of the Chemistry Program are 

generally based on Basic Chemistry and Chemical Engineering 

basic courses. 

There are two Laboratories, the Basic Chemistry and Technology 

Laboratory. 

2. Mechanics and Metal Technologies Department 

a. Mechanics 

b. Mechanics (Evening Education) 



Organization Information: 

The Mechanical Program was established in the 2002-2003 

academic year under the Technical Programs Department within 

the Technical Sciences Vocational School. The education activity 

in the Machine Program started by taking students to evening 

education in the 2002-2003 academic year. Since 2010, it has been 

continuing its education and training under the title of Machine 

and Metal Technologies Department under the name of Machine 

Program. 

Degree Earned: 

Mechanics technician 

Level of the Degree: 

Undergraduate 

Admission and Registration Requirements: 

To have a high school diploma. 

Recognition of Prior Learning (formal, non-formal, non-formal) Rules: 

Recognition of prior education in Turkish higher education 

institutions is at the beginning stage. For this reason, recognition 

of prior education has not been fully initiated in all programs of 

Mersin University. However, an exemption exam is held at the 

beginning of each semester for courses such as English in the 

compulsory curriculum of departments. Students who complete 

the learning process on their own from these courses or who 

think that they provide the learning outcomes in these courses in 

different ways have the right to take these exams. Those who pass 

the exam are exempted from the relevant course in the curriculum. 

Qualification Requirements and Rules: 

The conditions required by the students to gain the Mechanical 

Technician title from the machine program; a) To pass all the 

courses in the curriculum successfully, b) To have at least 2.0 

weighted average out of 4.0, c) To have completed the 40-day 

compulsory professional experience program 

Program Profile: 

The Machine Program is a program that provides theoretical and 

practical education specific to the field of machinery such as design, 

production, materials and measurement, as well as courses for 

basic sciences. The main goal of the program is to train technicians 

who have the knowledge required by rapidly developing science 

and technology, the skills to transfer this knowledge to practice, 

and also to analyze and synthesize. 

Occupational Profiles of Graduates: 

The graduates of the Machine Program can find employment 

opportunities in many areas related to their profession in the public 

and private sectors and can also establish their own businesses. 

Transition to Higher Degree Programs: 

It is possible for our graduates to transfer to undergraduate 

programs with the DGS exam. 

Exams and Evaluation: 

Students are subjected to midterm exam, mid-term study (project, 

seminar, quiz, homework or a second midterm) and final exam for 

each course. There is a contribution of 40% of midterm exams, if 

any, of mid-term studies and 60% of the final exam to the success 

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grade. All exams are evaluated with an absolute grade over 100 

points. There is a requirement to get at least 50 points from the 

final exam. Final grades are translated into letter notes in the 

relative grading system. Students who get one of the letter grades 

(AA), (BA), (BB), (CB) and (CC) from a course are considered 

successful in that course. At the end of each semester, students can 

take a make-up exam from the courses they failed that semester. 

Graduation Requirements: 

Completing 120 credits in the ECTS system from the education 

department of the Vocational School. To have a minimum grade 

point average of 2.00. To fulfill the internship obligation. 

How it works: 

Full time 


CAD lab, CNC milling lab, Welding Lab. 

3. Material and Material Processing Technologies Department 

a. Furniture and Decoration 

b. Furniture and Decoration (Evening Education) 



Our school was first opened in 1976 as a Petro-Chemistry School 

within the scope of the YAYKUR (Widespread Higher Education 

Institution) project affiliated to the Ministry of National Education. 

Vocational High Schools Ceramics and Glass Technology, 

Chemical Technology, Glass Processing, Tile Design, Tile Design 

(Ornament), Tile Design and Ceramics, Tile and Ceramics 

(Decoration), Tile and Ceramic (Shaping), Graphic / Graphic 

Arts, Graphic Design, Sculpture, Graduates of Plastic Arts, 

Ceramics, Ceramic Art, Shaping and Patterning, Design and 

Technology / Design Technology, Chemistry, Mining can apply 

to the “Industrial Glass and Ceramics” associate degree program 

without examination. They can be fitted if they have the required 

conditions. Those who graduate / will graduate from departments 

other than those whose names are written above or from general 

high schools determined for the pass without examination of 

vocational high schools, if there is a vacancy at the end of the 

placement without examination, they will be able to be placed in 

the open programs according to their wishes and OSS scores. For 

this, these people must take the Student Selection Exam (ÖSS) 

administered by ÖSYM and get enough numerical score. 

The Industrial Glass and Ceramics Program provides training 

in formal education. Numerical courses are predominant in the 

program. According to the curriculum of the program, students 

reinforce the basic courses they take in secondary education and get 

their background information. The aim is to enable the student to 

compare the theoretical knowledge with practice while teaching the 

theory of the profession, and to strengthen handcraft and teamwork. 

Students who wish to enroll in the Industrial Glass and Ceramics 

Program must complete the secondary education program. In 

order for vocational high school graduates to be able to transfer 

without an examination, they must be graduates of a secondary 

education program determined by the Council of Higher 

Education. Apart from this, students can only be placed in the 

program with the university selection exam. The valid field to be 

placed in the program is determined numerically. 

Students studying in the Industrial Glass and Ceramics Program 

take theory and practice courses in the classrooms and workshops 

of the Vocational School of Technical Sciences. 50% of the student 

profile is vocational high school and 50% is straight high school 

graduates. The student quota of the program is 30 students in 

formal education. Employment areas of program graduates; glass 

and ceramic, brick, cement factories and workshops related to this 

area. Graduates can be employed in public and private sectors as 

well as open their own businesses. Program graduates can transfer 

to Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Ceramic Engineering, 

Fine Arts Ceramics departments with the Vertical Transfer Exam. 

While studying in these departments, she can also enroll in 

Anadolu University Open Education Faculty. 

Graduates of the program receive the title of Industrial Glass and 

Ceramic Technician. 

In order to graduate from the program, students must attend all 

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the courses they take and be successful and have a GANO of at 

least 2.0. In addition, our students must complete the compulsory 

40 working days of business internships during their education 

and pass the internship exam. 

4. Department of Architecture and Urban Planning 

a. Map and Cadastre 

b. Map and Cadastre (Evening Education) 

The Map and Cadastre Program was opened in 2002 under the 

Technical Programs Department of Mersin Vocational School. 

The first student enrollment was made in the 2002-2003 academic 

year and the first graduates were given in 2004. After 2004, 

education and training continued under the Technical Programs 

Department of the Technical Sciences Vocational School. In 2009, 

it was included in the Department of Architecture and Urban 

Planning with the newly created structure to the ISCED 97 system. 

The program has a quota of 50 students. Students who successfully 

complete all of the courses available in the program (a total of 120 

ECTS) and achieve a grade point average of at least 2.00 out of 

4.00, and who have completed their vocational internship, are 

awarded an associate degree in the field of Mapping and Cadastre. 

This diploma degree corresponds to the fifth level of education 

within the scope of the European Qualifications Framework. 

Registration and acceptance conditions for this program are made 

within the scope of Turkish Higher Education Legislation. Graduates 

of vocational high schools are accepted to the program within the 

quota without an examination. Standard high school graduates are 

placed in the vacant quotas according to the results of the Higher 

Education Entrance Exam. Map Technician, which creates and 

implements the map and map information of many engineering 

projects, has critical tasks in all public works projects, especially in 

urban and rural areas. constitute their field of duty. The department 

is educating expert technical staff in fields such as land and industry 

measurements needed by the public and private sector, assessment 

and location determination, setting up and querying information 

system, applying location information instead, evaluating legal and 

technical information about real estate ownership by using modern 

technologies in every period is targeted. 

5.Department of Motor Vehicles and Transport Technologies 

a. Automotive Technology 

b. Automotive Technology (Evening Education) 

The Automotive Technology Program was established in 2002 and 

has a total of 80 quotas, 40 in formal education and 40 in evening 

education. The program aims to train qualified intermediate 

technical staff that the automotive industry needs in both 

production and after-sales service levels in accordance with the 

quality and service philosophy that will meet the expectations of 

the age. 

Graduates who have completed the program and received the title 

of Automotive Technician can become a technical staff between 

the manager / engineer and the worker in the production and aftersales 

service sector, or an employee who has the qualifications to 

open and work on their behalf. 



6. Department of Hair and Beauty Services 

a. Hair Care and Beauty Services (Evening Education) 

Organization Information: 

The training of professional staff working in hair and skin care in 

our country with formal education started at the end of the 1980s 

with the opening of the Hairdressing and skin care programs in 

vocational high schools and the Gazi University Hairdressing 

Teaching Undergraduate Program within YÖK to train teachers 

for these programs. As a result of joint efforts between the 

Ministry of National Education and the Higher Education Board, 

Hairdressing and Skin care programs have been opened in 

vocational schools since 2002 within the scope of the system of 

transition from vocational high schools to vocational high schools 

with the law numbered 4702, which was accepted on 10-07-2001. 

Mersin University Hair Care and Beauty Services Program was 

opened as Hairdressing and Skin Care and Beauty Programs in 

the 2003-2004 academic year. In the 2009-2010 academic year, 

the programs were combined under the name of “Hair Care and 

Beauty Services Program” with the decision of YÖK. 

Program Profile: 

Evening education is a 4-semester associate degree higher 

education program. Its quota is 50. 

Purpose of the Program: 

It is to train qualified professionals who are contemporary, 

entrepreneurial, who have adopted the idea of continuous learning 

in production, have blended art and science, have the technical 

knowledge and skills sought in the sector, can guide employees in 

the sector, are responsible and act in accordance with professional 

ethics. 


There are skin care, body care and hairdressing application 

workshops. The hairdressing workshop also serves the staff 

and students of our university. Theoretical lessons are taught in 

projection classrooms. 

Employment: 

When our students graduate, according to the area they prefer; 

-Beauty salons and centers; cosmetologist / body care professional 

/ esthetician 

-Hairdresser in women’s and men’s hairdressing salons 

-Massage salons, thermal hotels, SPA and sports centers; masseur 

/ masseuse, body care professional 

-TV channels, Theater halls and Cinema studios; make-up artist 

-Cosmetic sales points; They can work as a cosmetic product sales 

specialist or establish their own business. 

7.Department of Medical Services and Techniques 

a. Opticianry 

Program Information 

opticianry in Turkey, the spectacle under the title, 1940, No. 3958 

Law on the legal profession has gained Opticians identity. In 1992, 

the Higher Education Council (HEC) of pre-license training 

programs in universities in the decision Optician that Turkey has 

decided to open. This process, which started as a scientific optician, 

enabled the graduates of the Optician program to open an optician 

with the title of “Optician” with the Law No.5193 on Opticians, 

which entered into force in 2004. Until 2013, the transfer of students 

without an examination was made in the Higher Education General 

Assembly meeting dated 10.04.2012, and it was decided to admit 

students to Optician programs by exam starting from the 2013- 

2014 academic year. After this date, with a serious increase in the 

number of students placed in the Optician program, the number of 

Optician programs has increased rapidly with the initiative of state 

universities and especially foundation universities, and the number 

of programs in universities continues to increase. 

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Mersin University Opticianry Program was opened in 2015 and 

started its activities with student admission in the 2018-2019 

academic year. Our department continues its education activities 

with a total of 4 teaching staff, including 1 Professor Doctor and 3 

Doctor Instructors. 

Program Education Profile: 

Normal education is an associate degree higher education program 

for 4 semesters. 

Purpose of the Program: 

The Opticianry Program aims to bring qualified health technicians, 

who are graduates of high schools, to our country, who are trained 

to provide optical instruments designed for the correction and 

removal of visual impairments and to be able to apply to the 

patient. 

Mission, Vision, Values and Goals of the Program: 

Our program aims to train the main staff to work in the field of 

opticians, have basic optician knowledge, know and apply the 

operation of optician-related systems, use optician’s package 

programs, know eye and human anatomy, plan the operation 

and management of an enterprise, recognize and use optical 

instruments, choose frame and glass. The mission is to train health 

technicians who can perform the assembly in accordance with 

their data, make cost calculations and work schedules, market the 

product, and have general public health knowledge. 

The vision and goal of our program is to train qualified Opticians 

who are entrepreneurial and self-renewing, who have adopted 

a total quality philosophy and can support relevant corporate 

processes, know ethical problems and their responsibilities, and 

observe health and safety measures related to their profession. 

Program Opportunities: 

There is an optician practice laboratory. Theoretical lessons are 

carried out in our laboratory and in the classrooms of our school 

using the current projection. 

Programme Employment Opportunities 

As the number of Optician establishments increased, the 

need for Optician also increased. An optician is a person who 

prepares optical devices (glasses, contact lenses, etc.) used for 



the elimination or reduction of visual impairments for patients 

whose visual defects are determined and prescribed by the 

ophthalmologist. Eye conditions directly related to human health 

and their solutions make opticianry valid and mandatory. 

The inadequacy of technological innovations that acn replace 

glasses and the fact that those which come out as an alternative 

to glasses (such as contact lenses) are not better in terms of both 

health and use indicate that the profession will be an important 

field of employment in the future. 

When our students graduate; 

- They can open an optician institution and establish their own 

businesses. 

- They can work as a responsible manager in existing opticianry 

establishments. 

- If they wish, after completing this program, they can continue 

their studies in 4-year undergraduate Physics and Health Education 

departments thanks to vertical transfer exam (Dikey Geçiş Sınavı, DGS). 

Department of Transportation Services 

Scientific and technological developments in our age have affected the 

society and human life in a multidimensional way, and increased the 

living standards with new technologies and tools. Transport vehicles; It 

has been effective in providing economic, social and cultural benefits 

and has come to the fore. The fact that we are intertwined with traffic 

at every stage of our daily life and the increase in the number of motor 

vehicles and drivers has brought to light the concept of “Traffic Safety”. 

The “Traffic Safety” problem, which manifests itself in all countries of the 

world, is the death, injury, disability, socio-economic loss, psychologicalsocial 

impact on the relatives and families of the deceased and injured, 

and environmental pollution. Traffic accidents that occur regardless 

of time, person and place, affect and concern the whole public due to 

their characteristics. In countries that have completed their development 

processes to a large extent; There is also a great emphasis on traffic safety 

studies, training is given in various institutions on road transport and 

traffic, experts are trained, various researches are carried out, measures 

are taken as a result of these researches, social campaigns are organized, 

and in short, investment is made in traffic. In addition to the increase in 

the number of motor vehicles and drivers, the fact that our country is 

in progress towards development, the rapid increase of the population, 

irregular construction and inadequate follow-up of technological 

developments increase traffic accidents and make it difficult to solve the 

traffic safety problem. Traffic Safety; In addition to providing full and 

continuous infrastructure services, it can be achieved by generalizing 

traffic education. With the Transport and Traffic Traffic Services 

Program opened within the Technical Sciences Vocational School of 

our university, it is aimed to make a great contribution to the training 

of manpower, which is necessary in the field of highways transportation 

and traffic and whose great gap is felt at all times in our country. 

The Transport and Traffic Services Program was established in the 

2008-2009 academic year within the Technical Sciences Vocational 

School. Formal education is carried out in the department that 

gave its first graduates in 2010. 

Department of Veterinary 

a. Laborant and Veterinary Health Programme 

b. Laborant and Veterinary Health Programme (evening classes) 

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROGRAMME 

1. Name of the Programme: Laborant and Veterinary Health 

Programme 

2. Laborant and Veterinary Health Programme; will be conducted 

under Mersin University Vocational School of Technical Sciences. 

3. The language of the education is Turkish and there won’t be 

any preparatory class. 

4. The continuity of the student source-which province students 

come from 

Mersin province is number 1 in cattle and sheep (especially goat) 

breeding in Turkey. As a result of their being intensive animal 

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breeding places,on the first place students are expected to come from 

Mersin,Hatay, Niğde, Adana, Osmaniye, Konya, Karaman, Aksaray, 

Kahramanmaraş and from other provinces. Another advantage of 

this programme is that it is possible for those who work in health 

sector to get the title of ‘Laboratory Technician’ and be promoted. 

5. EMPLOYMENT OF GRADUATED STUDENTS 

Livestock businesses, animal feed factories, agriculture businesses, 

private veterinary clinics that are placed in this area will provide 

opportunities for employment. There are still many livestock 

businesses that are active in Mersin. Most of these are focused on 

the dairy farming. As it is well known, dairy farming is a labor 

intensive field and it requires veterinary services. Sometimes, 

businesses that are operating in Mersin are requesting graduated 

students from our Vocational School of Technical Sciences that are 

eligible to work on their field and we cannot meet their demands. 

It is obvious that veterinarian technician is needed in the field. 

6. Graduated students from this programme will be named as 

“Laborant and Veterinary Health Technician” 

7. They can work in field of preventive medicine where there 

are no veterinarians. They work with veterinarians in the field of 

animal health, breeding, production and improvement. The also 

work with agricultural engineers in animal breeding, production 

and improvement. They are employed in Provincial Agricultural 

Directorates, municipalities,slaughterhouses, Meat and Fish 

Establihment, establishments of the General Directorate of Agricultural 

Enterprises, private veterinary clinics and consultancy institutions. 

They can build their own animal farms.There is a need for qualified 

staff in this sector, and sector organizations demend staff in this field. 

8. A) Programme Proficiencies 

a. To ensure the regular operation of the laboratory equipment 

and to use it effectively, 

b. To apply laboratory hygiene and safety consciously, 

c. Taking microbiological, biochemical, parasitological, pathological 

and feed samples, processing and applying necessary tests, 

d. To apply hygiene, care and health services as veterinary assistants 

in animal hospitals, private veterinary clinics and farms, 

e. To apply measures related to prevention from epidemics, 

infectious and zoonotic diseases, 

f. To be able to determine the mating time of animals and to carry 

out artificial insemination under the responsibility of overage and 

veterinarian, to recognize and follow normal and pregnancy and 

birth processes, 

g. To bring the efficiency of the operator to the highest level by 

providing the necessities of animal welfare, 

h. Taking preventive measures and informing the veterinarian on time 

about the important problems of animals, fertility, breast and foot health, 

I. To ensure proper care and feeding of animals, 

j. To be able to apply the treatment protocols recommended by the 

veterinarian, 

k. To use the registration and archiving system in laboratory and 

veterinary health field, 

l. To be able to have scientific formation and team work on 

professional and social ethical values. 

B) Number of credits and training course 

Students who want to graduate from this program must complete 

120 AKTS within 2 and 4 periods of time. And, The internship 

period is 40 (fourty) business days. 

9. Internship period is is obligatory in this programme. Students 

don’t have problems in finding places to accomplish their 

intership period,and studies on this issue are alos being carried 

on. We are in cooperation with enterprises engaged in agricultural 

and animal husbandry in our city, with the Chamber of Mersin 

Veterinary Surgeons, with private veterinary clinics ,and with 

Mersin Breeding cattle Association. Also students may complete 

this period in their hometowns. 


INSTITUTES

INSTITUTE OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES 

INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES 

INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS 

ADVERTISING INFORMATION OF THE INSTITUTE OF HEALTH 

INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES


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The Institute was established in 2010 and started 

education in 2011. 

Within the scope of the Institute, there are 41 

postgraduate programs including 18 master’s 

with thesis, 16 non-thesis master’s and 7 doctoral 

programs in total. 

It aims to train researchers and experts with 

academic competence by increasing the quality of 

postgraduate education in all departments within 

the scope of the Institute. In this direction, it aims 

to contribute to national development through 

education and research activities and to able to 

become an institute with national / international 

reputability at postgraduate level. 




Institute of Natural Sciences of Mersin University launched 

graduate degree programs in the academic year 1993-1994 and 

has 20 Thesis Graduate Programs, 14 Doctorate Programs and 

2 Non-Thesis Graduate Programs (Evening Education) in 20 

Departments. As of the Spring Semester of Academic Year 2019- 

2020, 974 students including 756 graduate program students and 

218 doctorate students attend these programs. 

Our Institute is guided by our vision of further advancing the 

quality criteria for both our faculty members and students, 

enhancing university – industry cooperation, aligning the 

educational and teaching activities and goals of our Institute and 

with the Bologna process, creating an internationally competitive 

research environment facilitating the follow-up of scientific 

developments and technologies, and providing our students with 

an understanding and feeling of responsibility that will help them 

become modern, highly-qualified individuals who care about the 

problems of our country, address the needs of the society and 

practice what they have learnt for the welfare and benefit of our 

country. 

DEPARTMENTS AND PROGRAMS 

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING 

Thesis Graduate Program on Computer Engineering 

Doctorate Program on Computer Engineering 

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY 

Thesis Graduate Program on Biology 

Doctorate Program on Biology 

DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY 

Thesis Graduate Program on Biotechnology 

Doctorate Program on Biotechnology 

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING 

Thesis Graduate Program on Environmental Engineering 

Doctorate Program on Environmental Engineering 

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS 

ENGINEERING 

Thesis Graduate Program on Electrical and Electronics Engineering 

Doctorate Program on Electrical and Electronics Engineering 

Non-Thesis Graduate Program on Electrical and Electronics 

Engineering (Evening Education) 

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS 

Thesis Graduate Program on Physics 

Doctorate Program on Physics 

DEPARTMENT OF GEMOLOGY 

Thesis Graduate Program on Gemology 

DEPARTMENT OF FOOD ENGINEERING 

Thesis Graduate Program on Food Engineering 

Doctorate Program on Food Engineering 

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING 

Thesis Graduate Program on Civil Engineering 

Doctorate Program on Civil Engineering 

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING 

Thesis Graduate Program on Geological Engineering 

Doctorate Program on Geological Engineering 

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY 

Thesis Graduate Program on Chemistry 

Doctorate Program on Chemistry 

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 

Thesis Graduate Program on Chemical Engineering 

Doctorate Program on Chemical Engineering 

DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION OF CULTURAL 

ASSETS (MULTIDISCIPLINARY) 

Thesis Graduate Program on Conservation of Cultural assets 

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 

Thesis Graduate Program on Mechanical Engineering 

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Non-Thesis Graduate Program on Mechanical Engineering 

(Evening Education) 

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS 

Thesis Graduate Program on Mathematics 

Doctorate Program on Mathematics 

DEPARTMENT OF METALLURGICAL AND MATERIALS 

ENGINEERING 

Thesis Graduate Program on Metallurgy and Materials 

DEPARTMENT OF NANOTECHNOLOGY AND ADVANCED 

MATERIALS (MULTIDISCIPLINARY) 

Thesis Graduate Program on Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials 

Doctorate Program on Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials 

DEPARTMENT OF AQUACULTURE 

Thesis Graduate Program on Aquaculture 

Doctorate Program on Aquaculture 

DEPARTMENT OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING 

Thesis Graduate Program on Urban and Regional Planning 

DEPARTMENT OF REMOTE SENSING AND GEOGRAPHICAL 

INFORMATION SYSTEMS (MULTIDISCIPLINARY) 

Thesis Graduate Program on Remote Sensing and Geographical 

Information Systems 

ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF 

The academic and administrative staff of our Institute consists of; 

Academic Staff: 

1 Institute Director, 2 Assistant Institute Directors, 3 Faculty Staff 

with PhD Degree, 23 Research Assistants 

Administrative Staff: 

1 Institute Secretary, 2 Data Preparation and Control Operators, 1 

Computer Operators, 2 Civil Servant, 3 Permanent Workers, 1 Janitor 


INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS 


Institute of Fine Arts of Mersin University started operation 

during the academic year 2010-2011 pursuant to Law 

No. 2547, as the fine arts branches earlier attached to the 

Institute of Social Sciences were transferred to our Institute. 

There are six Main Arts Branches covered by our Institute, 

namely Graphics, Sculpture, Painting, Music, Composition 

and Conductorship, and Sceneries and Costumes. There 

are no students within “Composition and Conductorship” 

and “Sceneries and Costumes” branches. The students 

of our Institute continue with their education at the 

classrooms and workshops within their main art branches. 

Our Institute has an office area of 69 m2, of which 28.5 

m2 consists of academic office and 40.5 m2 administrative 

office. 


The staff off our Institute consists of an Institute Director 

and Assistant Directors, four administrative staff members 

including an Institute Secretary and 3 Computer Operators, 

and one Research Assistant. 

Facilities Available to Students 

Our students attend their applied education at the Faculty 

of Fine Arts Workshops and State Conservatory Studios, 

where students are provided with the environment and 

materials required for their education and training, under 

the guidance of faculty members. 

Graduate Education 

Our Institute offers graduate degree programs in 4 main 

arts branches, including Graphics, Sculpture, Painting and 

Music. Furthermore, Proficiency in Arts programs are 

offered in the main arts branches of Painting and Sculpture. 

Mission 

To raise highly-qualified individuals who are committed 

to the principles and revolutions of Atatürk, who do not 

compromise on the principles of secularism and republic, 

who are hardworking and use their knowledge and 

experience for the benefit of the whole humanity, who are 

useful individuals for the community, who think creatively 

and positively in the light of universal values, who are 

participative, productive and who represent their country 

in the whole world with the values that they create; to 

conduct scientific studies and researches at the high level; 

to produce knowledge and technology, and to contribute 

to regional and national development and sustainable 

development by offering their products to the society. 

Vision 

To become a quality-focused, handicap-free and 

internationally recognized university that integrates 

its students, staff and society through lifelong learning, 

building on the education services it offers at the national 

and international levels as well as the knowledge, technology 

and works of arts it will produce. 

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ADVERTISING INFORMATION OF THE INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES 


The Institute of Health Sciences is located on the 3rd floor at Basic Medical Sciences Building of 

Mersin University Çiftlikköy Campus. Our institute has started graduate education activities 

since 1999. Graduate programs are conducted in 26 departments with a total of 116 

faculty members in our Institute. 6 administrative staff in our institute provides 

support to faculty members and students during the educational process. 

22 graduate, 3 interdisciplinary joint master’s and 17 doctoral programs 

that Turkish and foreign students can apply are open at our institute. In 

May 2020, there are 317 students, 205 of which are masters and 112 are 

doctorates. 18 of these are foreign students. Since its establishment, a total of 

1130 students, 933 masters and 197 doctorates, have successfully completed 

their postgraduate courses and thesis studies. 

Our students can turn to their own interests because of the rich elective courses 

available in postgraduate programs in their education and training processes. Our 

students can benefit from collaborative student mobility programs such as Erasmus, 

Farabi and Mevlana in their educational processes. In addition, they have open access to 

many databases that our university is a member of. Master’s and doctoral theses supported 

by Scientific Research Projects unit of Mersin University, Higher Education Institution 

scholarship etc. Moreover, graduate students can gain research competence by 

taking part in projects supported by national and international institutions and 

organizations run by thesis advisors. 

The office building of our institute’s is suitable for the use of students with 

disabilities, and can provide support to students who require a special approach 

through the Disabled Life Unit. In addition, thanks to 

the distance education platform of our university, all 

postgraduate programs are continued without disruption 

during the outbreak of new Coronavirus disease, 

including our country. 


INSTITUDE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES 

History 

MEU Institute of Social Sciences was established in 1992 under the law 

numbered 3837 and has been providing graduate and post-graduate 

education with or without thesis since the academic year of 1993-1994. There 

are 25 Master’s with Thesis, 2 Non-Thesis Master’s, 5 Non-Thesis Online 

Education Master’s Programs, 7 Evening Education Non-Thesis Master’s 

Programs, 13 Doctorate Programs of a total of 30 departments in our Institute. 

Mission 

The mission of the Institute of Social Sciences is to educate 

researchers and experts who know the needs of our country, 

are aware of the requirements of the age, have problem-based 

and analytical thinking skills, can apply knowledge generation 

processes in their field in the best way, and contribute to the 

universal knowledge at national and international level. 

Vision 

The main vision of our Institute is to educate academicians, 

researchers and specialist personnel needed other research 

and service institutions in the basic areas of social, human and 

administrative sciences within the framework of accepted 

international standards. 

Duties, Authorities and Responsibilities of the Director of the 

Institute: 

Manager; is ultimately responsible to the Rector in the rational 

use and development of the education capacity of the Institute and 

its affiliated units, in taking security measures when necessary, in 

providing the necessary social services to students, in execution of 

education, scientific research and publication activities regularly 

and in monitoring and controlling all activities. 

Administrative Organization of the Institute and Their Duties: 

Administrative Organization of the Institute; consists of the Institute 

Secretary and the Secretariat Office and the units to be established 

according to the need. The administrative unit (Personnel Affairs, 

Movable Operations, Financial Affairs, Student Affairs, Online Education 

Unit, Administrative Affairs, Editorial Office and Staff), which consists of 

the staff affiliated to the Institute Secretariat, carries out the administrative 

works of the Institute, which is located in Çiftlikköy Central Campus. 

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The Institute Secretary and affiliated units are responsible for the 

administration of our institute’s administrative works. 

Graduate programs of our Institute are listed below. The Institute 

of Social Sciences is located on the 2nd floor of the Tourism 

Faculty building of the Mersin University Çiftlikköy Campus. 

GRADUATE PROGRAMS of INSTITUDE of SOCIAL SCIENCES 

1- Department of German Language and Literature 

• Graduate Program of German Language and Literature with Thesis 

• Post-graduate Program of German Language and Literature 

2- Department of Archeology 

• Graduate Program of Archeology with Thesis 

• Post-graduate Program of Archeology 

3- Department of Translation Studies 

• Graduate Program of Translation Studies with Thesis 

• Post-graduate Program of Translation Studies 

4- Department of Philosophy 

• Graduate Program of Philosophy with Thesis 

• Post-graduate Program of Philosophy 

• Non-Thesis Graduate Program of Philosophy, Evening Education 

5- Department of French Language and Literature 

• Graduate Program of French Language and Literature with Thesis 

6- Department of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts 

• Graduate Program of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts with Thesis 

7- Department of Economics 

• Graduate Program of Economics with Thesis 

• Post-graduate Program of Economics 

8- Department of Business Administration 

• Graduate Program of Business Administration with Thesis 

• Post-graduate Program of Business Administration 

• Non-Thesis Graduate Program of Business Administration 

• Non-Thesis Graduate Program of Business Administration 

• Non-Thesis Graduate Program of Business Administration for 

Professionals 

9- Department of Business Information Management 

• Graduate Program of Business Information Management with Thesis 

10- Department of English Language and Literature 

• Graduate Program of English Language and Literature with Thesis 

• Post-graduate Program of English Language and Literature 

11- Department of Human Resources Management and Career Counseling 

• Non-Thesis Online Graduate Program of Human Resources 

Management and Career Counseling 

12- Department of Public Administration 

• Graduate Program of Public Administration with Thesis 

• Post-graduate Program of Political Science and Public 

Administration 

• Graduate Program of Politics and Management, Evening Education 

13- Department of Women Studies 

• Graduate Program of Women Studies with Thesis 

• Non-Thesis Online Graduate Program of Women Studies 

• Post-graduate Program of Gender Studies 

14- Department of Quality Management 

• Non-Thesis Online Graduate Program of Quality Management 

15- Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management 

• Non-Thesis Online Graduate Program of Logistics and Supply 

Chain Management 

16- Department of Finance 

• Graduate Program of Finance with Thesis 

• Post-graduate Program of Finance 

• Non-Thesis Graduate Program of Finance, Evening Education 

17- Department of Media, Culture and Urban Studies 

• Interdisciplinary Post-graduate Program of Media, Culture 



and Urban Studies 

18- Department of Psychology 

• Graduate Program of Psychology with Thesis 

• Post-graduate Program of Psychology 

19- Department of Radio, Cinema and Television 

• Graduate Program of Radio, Cinema and Television with Thesis 

• Post-graduate Program of Radio, Cinema and Television 

20- Department of History of Art 

• Graduate Program of History of Art with Thesis 

• Non-Thesis Graduate Program of History of Art, Evening Education 

21- Department of Sociology 

• Graduate Program of Sociology with Thesis 

• Post-graduate Program of Sociology 

22- Department of History 

• Graduate Program of History with Thesis 

• Post-graduate Program of History 

23- Department of Tourism Management 

• Graduate Program of Tourism Management with Thesis 

• Post-graduate Program of Tourism Management 

• Non-Thesis Graduate Program of Management and Leadership 

in Tourism Management, Evening Education 

24- Department of Turkish Language and Literature 

• Graduate Program of Turkish Language and Literature with Thesis 

• Post-graduate Program of Turkish Language and Literature 

25- Department of Tourism Guidance 

• Graduate Program of Tourism Guidance with Thesis 

26- Department of International Relations 

• Graduate Program of International Relations with Thesis 

27- Department of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations 

• Graduate Program of Labor Economics and Industrial 

Relations with Thesis 

• Non-Thesis Graduate Program of Social Policy and Social 

Work, Evening Education 

28- Department of Organic Agriculture Management 

• Graduate Program of Organic Agriculture Management with Thesis 

29- Department of Journalism 

• Graduate Program of Journalism with Thesis 

30- Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies 

• Graduate Program of Philosophy and Religious Studies with Thesis 

• Non-Thesis Graduate Program of Philosophy and Religious Studies 

2. Opportunities for Students 

In addition to educational activities such as conferences and 

seminars organized by the Department Heads of our Institute, 

our university also organizes academic and social activities such 

as symposiums, workshops, exhibitions, interviews, in which the 

students of our institute can participate. 

By means of the “Live Support” application on the web page of our 

institute (http://sbe.mersin.edu.tr/sbe/index.php), students can 

easily submit all their questions, suggestions and complaints about 

education and academic processes to the Institute Directorate. 

In addition, students are provided with easy access to all processes 

and written documents such as procedures, forms, regulations, 

principles and basics that they will need in all processes via the 

renewed website of the Institute. 

3. Postgraduate Education Opportunities 

Graduate and post-graduate education continues in master’s, 

doctorate, evening and online education programs with and 

without thesis in our Institute. 

You can access the website of the institute at http://sbe.mersin. 

edu.tr. 

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MERSIN UNIVERSITY 

HOSPITAL 

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The construction of the “Mersin University Hospital” with 7 

an area of 100.000 m2 located in Mersin University Çiftlikköy 

completely completed in May 2014 and our hospital started 

health services in its new building as of 20.05.2014. 

Our new hospital provides polyclinic services with 120 e 

and treatment rooms in 37 branches and it has a total of 1 

rooms, 2 of which are delivery rooms, 1 gynaecology oper 

and 15 large operating rooms. In addition, there is an emer 

with 50 beds, including 30 adults and 20 children, 131 dail 

beds, a radiology unit, a laboratory, intensive care units with a 

beds and a reanimation unit, a physical therapy and rehabil 

nuclear medicine. Besides, organ tissue transplant centre perfo 

and liver transplants. Our hospital is fully equipped with a r 

treatment centre, sleep centre, 592 service beds consisting of 

single rooms, 3-bed prisoner service and 127 intensive care 

total bed capacity of 722 and it is at the service of the people 

and the whole region. 

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22 beds and 

campus was 

to provide 

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8 operating 

ating room 

gency room 

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total of 127 

itation unit, 

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eproductive 

double and 

beds, with a 

of MERSIN 



ONCOLOGY HOSPITAL 

The opening of our University Oncology Hospital was held on Friday, March 6, 2020, with the 

honor of our Vice President Fuat Oktay. 

Our 150-bed capacity Oncology Hospital, built on a closed area of 14,500 square meters, has been 

put into service not only to meet the needs of Mersin but also the surrounding provinces. 

Mersin University Oncology Hospital has a 14-bed intensive care unit, a 40-person Chemotherapy 

and Day Treatment Unit, separate hematology and oncology units for adults and children, related 

laboratories and other treatment units, and a 20-room patient relatives guesthouse. 

Our Oncology Hospital, where all units, including the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, actively 

operate, enables our patients to perform all treatment procedures under one roof. 

Our Rector Prof. Dr. Ahmet Çamsarı in his opening speech, emphasized the importance of 

Mersin University Oncology Hospital in terms of our city and region and said, “In our hospital, our 

citizens in Mersin and its surroundings will be provided with the best and latest devices in a location 

closest to them. In addition, Mersin University Oncology Hospital will become an important health 

center for patients coming from other regions and neighboring countries.” 

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Mersin Teknopark 

TECHNOSCOPE 

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Mersin Technology Development Zone Institution and Operator Trade 

Corporation, which is the legal entity responsible for the management and 

operation of the Mersin Technology Development Zone, which was established 

in 2005, started its operations on 23/02/2006. 

Technoscope; It was established in Mersin to produce new technologies that 

will contribute to the competitive power of Mersin at national and international 

level and transfer it to industrial production of research and development (R 

& D) studies carried out by universities, industry and other organizations. 

Technoscope, which aims to attract international software and technology 

giants to the region together with national companies working in the field of 

software and high / high technology, has been structured in a way that enables 

companies with high technology generation potential to be established and 

developed. 

It is structured in a way that enables entrepreneurs with high technology 

generation potential to be formed and companies to develop. It has played a 

very important role in the development of innovation and advanced technology 

production in the region it is located in. In order to be one of the actors in the 

technological development of the region, it desires to be both supporter and 

creator of innovation and entrepreneurship projects carried out in the region. 

Mission 

Mersin Technology Development Zone (Technoscope) is to bring together local 

and international companies working in the field of innovative technology and 

knowledge development and to create a synergy in regional development in 

line with the cooperation with the university. 

Vision 

The vision of the Mersin Technology Development Zone (Technoscope) 

is to ensure the development of innovative information and technologies 

in the global arena and to be a focus on regional development and country 

development. 


Mersin University Young Entrepreneur 

Application and Research Center 

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in line with their needs and business idea. Mersin University Young 

Entrepreneur Application and Research Center can benefit from the 

training and services provided free of charge and find new teammates. 

In addition, at the Mersin University Young Entrepreneur Application 

and Research Center, entrepreneurs will be guided by the feasibility 

studies needed in the process of establishing a company and mentoring 

service is provided to draw a road map. 

Mersin University Young Entrepreneur Application and Research 

Center is a structure that provides mentoring support, office space, 

infrastructure services and meeting rooms to entrepreneurs, introduces 

them to investor networks and supports them to establish and grow 

their businesses. Mersin University Young Entrepreneur Application 

and Research Center is leading entrepreneur candidates and students in 

the fields of business development, Intellectual and Industrial Property 

Rights, strategy, management and networking, in order for enterprises to 

come together with investors to present their ideas. 

Mersin University Young Entrepreneur Application and Research Center 

has pre-incubation, training and activity area, administrative management 

offices, business development area, food development laboratory, 

machine development laboratory, social area and meeting rooms. In this 

context, with Mersin University Young Entrepreneur Application and 

Research Center, it is aimed that the entrepreneur candidates who do not 

even have a business idea yet can produce technology-oriented business 

ideas thanks to the trainings and mentoring support to develop a business 

idea suitable for their interests and abilities. In Mersin University Young 

Entrepreneur Application and Research Center, the entrepreneur can 

turn his already existing technological and verified idea or the business 

idea into a product in laboratories, and accelerate the steps towards 

becoming an entrepreneur. In Mersin University Young Entrepreneur 

Application and Research Center, entrepreneurs can produce prototypes 

in order to commercialize their ideas and projects in the application areas 

with sufficient equipment, which are allocated to them in hourly periods 

Mersin University Young Entrepreneur Application and Research Center 

offers entrepreneurs an environment where they can meet with investors 

after developing their prototypes and access the financing they need to 

establish and grow their company. Mersin University Young Entrepreneur 

Application and Research Center enables entrepreneurs, mentors, and 

investors to come together by organizing start-up weekend events, where 

the business ideas will be presented to the jury and transformed into a 

business model with the support of experienced mentors, Idea Bus and 

R&D Project Market events. Thus, the entrepreneurship ecosystem is 

strengthened by establishing synergy by bringing together actors related 

to entrepreneurship at both regional and national levels. 

In Mersin University Young Entrepreneur Application and Research 

Center, in order to protect the rights of technological enterprises, patent 

preliminary research and application support is also provided at this stage. 

In addition, in Mersin University Young Entrepreneur Application and 

Research Center, during the process of commercialization of ideas and 

incorporation, which is the main objective, a road map for entrepreneurs 

is drawn by informing about the grant support that can be obtained from 


institutions such as KOSGEB and TÜBİTAK. In line with the demands of 

the entrepreneurs, Mersin University Young Entrepreneurs Application 

and Research Center mediates their communication with institutions 

and organizations throughout the province at every stage of the projects. 

In Mersin University Young Entrepreneur Application and Research 

Center, entrepreneurs, students and graduates are provided with 

opportunities such as an open office environment, internet, fax, printer 

and photocopy.. 

In the field of business development at Mersin University Young 

Entrepreneur Application and Research Center, the entrepreneur who 

has established his company is provided with different options, a private 

working area, a locker, a telephone box where they can make their private 

calls inaudible, internet, fax, printer and photocopy for a specified price. 

Within the scope of mentorship, mentorship services are provided in 

return for a fee in the marketing and sales issues necessary for entrepreneurs 

who establish companies to be successful and to ensure sustainability, and 

support is provided for the efforts to establish corporate infrastructure. In 

this way, entrepreneurs can enter the market quickly and safely, and feel 

safe with the support that will ensure that the customers are reached in 

the right way. 

All entrepreneurs, students and graduates are given the right to benefit 

from the social area within the Mersin University Young Entrepreneur 

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Application and Research Center. 

The Purpose of Mersin University Young Entrepreneur Application 

and Research Center 

The main purpose of Mersin University Young Entrepreneur 

Application and Research Center is to make Mersin a center 

of attraction, to contribute to the execution and support of 

entrepreneurship activities both at regional and national levels, and to 

raise the young generation employers rather than job seekers. 

Other Purposes 

• Improving the entrepreneurship environment of the region, 

• To spread the entrepreneurship culture in Mersin Province, 

• Encouraging university graduates, students and academicians 

to engage in innovation and technology-based initiatives, 

• Developing the skills and competencies of young entrepreneur 

candidates and providing the necessary connections for their 

ventures to be successful, 

• To lead researches that will improve the limits of knowledge in 

entrepreneurship and innovation. 

• Mersin University Young Entrepreneur Application and 

Research Center; 

• It takes measures to facilitate and encourage university 

and private sector cooperation, and acts as a bridge by 

creating interfaces. In this context, Mersin University Young 

Entrepreneur Application and Research Center pays attention 

to the restructuring of higher education, encouraging the R&D 

and entrepreneurship activities of academicians and students. 

• It increases the institutional capacities and cooperation levels of 

all institutions and organizations that provide services and 

support in the entrepreneurship ecosystem. 

• In providing entrepreneurship supports, it prioritizes women, 

young entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship, as well 

as criteria such as innovation, productivity and employment 

increase, growth, joint business. 


MERSİN UNIVERSITY 

CONTINUING EDUCATION 

APPLICATION AND 

RESEARCH CENTER 

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Mersin University Continuing Application and Research Center started its activities with the enactment 

of the regulation published in the Official Newspaper dated 3/5/2002 and numbered 24763 in 

accordance with the Higher Education Law numbered 2547. 

Our center, which aims to provide world-class education in parallel with the understanding of lifelong 

learning in fields other than associate, undergraduate and graduate education programs at Mersin 

University, offers educational activities in social, cultural, scientific, economic and technological fields. 

It is also responsible for offering the knowledge, knowledge and experience to the people of the region 

in individual and institutional dimensions by opening continuing education programs within the 

framework of lifelong education. 

While providing training, it is obliged to maintain the quality and standards of Mersin University in all 

its works while aiming to provide the participants with the necessary knowledge and skills by combining 

theoretical training with practical training. In this context; Certified and Participation Certificate 

trainings, Theoretical, Technical and Applied trainings, In-service trainings, Courses, Hobby training. 

Seminars, Conferences, Foreign language education, Consultancy services, Institutional collaborations, 

Professional competence trainings, Projects and activities such as social responsibility activities are 

continuing in our center. 

Students, adults, real and legal persons, public institutions and organizations, private sector and 

international organizations, regardless of age constitute our target group. MEUSEM, with the academic 

staff of Mersin University, who are experts in their fields, carries out its education, examination and 

certification activities both on-site of the institutions and by using the classrooms, laboratories and 

workshops of the University, while providing guidance and leadership to other organizations, especially 

the continuing education centers, within the framework of social responsibility. It enables the university 

to develop cooperation with the public, private sector and international organizations. 


CONGRESS AND CULTURE CENTERS 

CONFERENCE HALLS 

Mediterranean Cultures Research and Congress Center 

In Block A of the Mediterranean Cultures Research and 

Congress Center located in Çiftlikköy Campus, there is 

Young Entrepreneur Application and Research Center. 

In A and B blocks, there are two small conference and 

meeting halls, each with a capacity of 166 people, 1 specialpurpose 

hall, in H Block; Main Congress Center is located. 

Our main congress center will soon be able to host events 

in Mersin with its 1620-seat congress hall, rotating and side 

stages, orchestra pit, light control room, and simultaneous 

rooms. 

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Prof. Dr. Uğur Oral Cultural Center 

Located in Çiftlikköy Campus and consisting 

of a total of 5 halls, Prof. Dr. Uğur Oral Cultural 

Center has 1 407-person capacity, 3 200-person 

conference halls and 2 exhibition halls for 

117 people. The cultural center, which has 

advanced technological facilities, has hosted 

many national and international events since 

the day it was opened. 

Prof. Dr. Vural Ülkü Conference Hall 

Located in Çiftlikköy Campus, Prof. Dr. Vural 

Ülkü Conference Hall has a seating capacity of 

200 people and is equipped for both events and 

various lesson activities. 

Prof. Dr. Ahmet Çamsarı Conference Hall 

Prof. Dr. Ahmet Çamsarı Conference Hall, 

which is located at Çiftlikköy Campus Faculty 

of Education, has a seating capacity of 194 

people and is arranged as an amphitheater. 

The current technical equipment includes a 

sound system, projection device, projection 

screen and central air conditioning system. 



GUEST HOUSE 

The Guest House, located in Çiftlikköy 

Campus, has a total accommodation capacity 

of 24 people with 10 rooms and 2 suite rooms. 

In the completed Annex Building, a total 

of 56 people can stay with 20 rooms, four of 

which are suites. Our University Guest House 

serves all public personnel as well as academic, 

administrative and students. 

For Information: 

GSM : 0538 082 08 93 

misafirhane@mersin.edu.tr 

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Mersin, eski adıyla İçel, Türkiye’nin bir ili ve bu ilin merkezdeki dört 

ilçesinden oluşan şehirdir. Ülkenin en kalabalık onuncu ili olan Mersin, 

2019 itibarıyla 1.840.425 nüfusa sahiptir. 

Merkezdeki ilçeleri Akdeniz, Mezitli, Yenişehir, Toroslar, diğer ilçeleri ise 

Anamur, Aydıncık, Bozyazı, Silifke, Tarsus, Çamlıyayla, Erdemli, Gülnar ve 

Mut’tur. Toplam on üç tane ilçesi bulunmaktadır.[2] Büyükşehir belediyesi 

statüsü bulunmaktadır. Türkiye’nin güneyinde bulunan bir liman kentidir. 

Mersin Limanı Türkiye’nin en büyük limanları arasındadır. 

Kentin kuzeyindeki Yumuktepe höyüğünde yapılan kazılarda birçok katman ortaya 

çıkarılmıştır. Bunların en eskisi, MÖ 6300’lere, en yenisi ise Selçuklu dönemine tarihleniyor. 

Kazılardan çıkarılan eserler, Adana Arkeoloji Müzesi ve Mersin Arkeoloji Müzesi’nde sergileniyor. 

Helenistik dönemde kentin ismi Zephyrion’du. Bugün kentin sınırları içinde kalan Mezitli’nin adı 

ise Soli’ydi. Ancak Arap akınları döneminde kent boşaldı. Mersin’in tarih sahnesine çıkışı 19. yüzyılın 

ortalarına rastlamaktadır. Bu dönemde henüz bir köy olan bölge, konar göçer bir Türkmen aşiretine 

ev sahipliği yapmış ve adını da bu aşiretten almıştır. Ayrıca Kapadokya bölgesinden gelen Rumlar 

kent nüfusuna hakim hale gelmişler ve 1850’de kentte 5.250 Ortodoks Rum’a karşılık 1.600 Müslüman 

yaşamaktaydı. Kentin kaderi özellikle Amerikan İç Savaşı sırasında dünyadaki pamuk kıtlığını gidermek 

amacıyla Çukurova’da gelişen pamuk üretimi ve bölgenin 1866’da demiryolu ağına bağlanması ile değişmiştir. 

Bu dönemde Mersin hızla, Çukurova’nın tarım ürünlerinin ihraç edildiği bir liman ve ticaret merkezi haline 

gelmiştir. Şehrin bugünkü durumuna gelmesinde, şu anda azınlık olsalar da Hristiyan Levantenlerin önemi 

yadsınamaz. Şehirde hâlen Levantenlere ait iki katedral bulunmaktadır, Latin-İtalyan Katedrali ve Arap- 

Ortodoks Katedrali. Ayrıca şehrin kuzeyine Rumlar için bir kilise yapılması da gündemdedir. 


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