Abdullah Gül University

Abdullah Gül University
motto	"To become the pioneer of third generation universities"
founding	July 21, 2010
Sponsorship	state ( PPP hybrid)
place	Kayseri
country	Turkey
Rector	İhsan Sabuncuoğlu
Students	121 (2013-2014)
Website	agu.edu.tr

The Abdullah Gül University (AGU) is a state university, which is supported by a private foundation (AGUV) and is located in Kayseri (Turkey).

The university, which was inaugurated in 2010, has four faculties and thirteen bachelor, master and doctoral programs. All AGU courses are taught in English. The first courses started in the 2013/2014 academic year.

history

The first steps in founding Abdullah Gül University were taken in 2007 by the Kayseri City Council and personalities of Kayseri. The aim was to improve the profile of training in Kayseri in line with the urban development plan. The university was named after the prominent citizen of Kayseris and 11th President of the Republic of Turkey, Abdullah Gül , and was inaugurated on July 21, 2010. The university is described as a public-private partnership model (“Hybrid Universities”), which on the one hand is state-run and on the other hand is financially supported by a private foundation (AGUV) with more than 15 million USD. The legal basis for this model is insufficient.

According to ÖSYM , the new university, with only 121 students in 2013–2014, was among the preferences of 21,534 high school graduates nationwide and was named as the first choice of 3,046 among them. If you look at the number of applications and the few approved study places, the Abdullah Gül University became the most popular university among Turkish high school graduates.

Faculties and Programs

AGU in winter

The Abdullah Gül University offers courses in the following faculties:

Faculty of Engineering & Natural Sciences: Computer Engineering (B.Sc), Civil Engineering (B.Sc), Electrical Engineering and Electronics (B.Sc), Industrial Engineering (B.Sc), Mechanical Engineering (B.Sc)

Faculty of Architecture: Architecture (B.Sc)

Faculty of Economics & Administrative Sciences: Business Administration (B.Sc)

Graduate School: Materials Science and Nanotechnology (M.Sc), Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering (PhD), Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (M.Sc and PhD), Industrial Engineering (M.Sc and PhD)

AGU Language School (AGUSL): Since English is the language of instruction in all subjects, all new Turkish AGU students take part in a one-year English preparation course. The AGUSL also offers students the opportunity to acquire knowledge of a second international lingua franca as a foreign language.

University campus

View of the Erciyes mountain from the Sumer campus

The first campus of the university was set up on the former site of the first industrial plant complex in Turkey and connects this industrial monument with an educational site. In the future, the university will also open a second campus, the Mimar Sinan campus.

Sumer campus

The current AGU campus was built on the site of a former textile factory and currently covers 280,000 m². It is ten minutes from downtown Kayseri and also offers student accommodation in its "Student Village". The campus recently expanded with the construction of their new administrative and educational structure, the "Steel Building".

Mimar Sinan Campus

AGU has started construction of its new Mimar Sinan campus, named after Mimar Sinan and located 14 km from the city center. The planned total area of this future campus will cover more than 1,200 ha, two thirds of which will be reserved for green spaces and forests.

Web links

AGU website (English)

Individual evidence

^ "To become the pioneer of third generation universities" - Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi: AGU Vision . In: agu.edu.tr . Archived from the original on March 18, 2015. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
↑ ^a ^b HYBRID UNIVERSITY: A CASE STUDY OF PRIVATE-PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP IN TURKEY ( Memento from January 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Sefer YILMAZ, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakänei Dergisi HU Journal of Education 28 (1), 464-475 (2013)
^ ^A ^b Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi: AGU Ranks Most Requested University in Turkey . In: agu.edu.tr . Retrieved on January 15, 2015 ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.agu.edu.tr

↑ According to the preferences for higher education programs of the candidates of the student selection and placement system from 2013, which were published in the report of January 16, 2014 by the Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM)

^ Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi: Faculties and Departments . In: agu.edu.tr . Archived from the original on March 18, 2015. Retrieved January 15, 2015.

^ World Buildings Directory - AGU City Campus . In: Worldbuildingsdirectory.com . Archived from the original on July 30, 2014. Retrieved January 15, 2015.

^ Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi: About AGU: Facilities . In: Agu.edu.tr . Archived from the original on March 19, 2015. Retrieved January 15, 2015.

[Agu_vision-1] "To become the pioneer of third generation universities" - Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi: AGU Vision . In: agu.edu.tr . Archived from the original on March 18, 2015. Retrieved January 15, 2015.

[hybrid-2] HYBRID UNIVERSITY: A CASE STUDY OF PRIVATE-PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP IN TURKEY ( Memento from January 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Sefer YILMAZ, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakänei Dergisi HU Journal of Education 28 (1), 464-475 (2013)

[Agu.edu.tr_Requested-3] A ^b Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi: AGU Ranks Most Requested University in Turkey . In: agu.edu.tr . Retrieved on January 15, 2015 ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.agu.edu.tr

[4] According to the preferences for higher education programs of the candidates of the student selection and placement system from 2013, which were published in the report of January 16, 2014 by the Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM)

[agu.edu.tr_-5] Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi: Faculties and Departments . In: agu.edu.tr . Archived from the original on March 18, 2015. Retrieved January 15, 2015.

[Worldbuildingsdirectory.com-6] World Buildings Directory - AGU City Campus . In: Worldbuildingsdirectory.com . Archived from the original on July 30, 2014. Retrieved January 15, 2015.

[Agu.edu.tr_Facilities-7] Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi: About AGU: Facilities . In: Agu.edu.tr . Archived from the original on March 19, 2015. Retrieved January 15, 2015.