MEducation About the Courses

THE MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL

UNIVERSITY

Middle East Technical University (METU), currently (in 2008) has about 23,000 students of which 4,100 are in masters and 2,400 are in doctorate programs. METU hosts about 1,430 international students from nearly 68 different countries tudying
toward myriad of academic degrees. METU, with 137 Erasmus agreements and 156 bilateral exchange and cooperation agreements with universities in third countries annually sends 350 students and hosts 250 students and 60 teaching staff/researchers. As of 2008, the university employs 2500 faculty (professors, associates professors etc.), 500 academic instructors, and over 2,000 research assistants. The number of the alumni exceeds 500,000 (about 350,000 having completed undergraduate programs).METU has 40 undergraduate programs within the faculties of Engineering, Architecture, Arts and Sciences, Economic and Administrative Sciences, and Education, and there are 93 masters and 51 doctorate programs available in the graduate schools of Natural and Applied academic program studies on the Mediterranean coast in Erdemli, near Mersin.
Most of the engineering departments at METU are periodically reviewed and deemed "substantially equivalent to similarly titled and accredited programs in the U.S.A." by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, the recognized U.S. accreditor of college and university programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and technology.
METU is one of Turkey's most competitive universities. Each year, among the students taking the National University Entrance Examination, over 1/3 of the 1000 applicants with the highest scores attends METU. Due to the high demand towards METU is so great, most of our departments accept only the top 1% of the approximately 1.5 million applicants taking the National University Entrance Examination. Over 40% of METU's students go on to graduate school.
The language of instruction at METU is English. All enrolled students are required to have a degree of proficiency in English for academic purposes, and this is assured by a proficiency examination before the commence of studies. Students with unsatisfactory knowledge of English follow a preparatory English education for one year, given by the METU School of Foreign Languages.