Facts about METU
Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (ODTÜ) / Middle East Technical University (METU), a state university founded in 1956, currently has about 27,000 students.
METU has 43 undergraduate programs within 5 faculties. Additionally, there are 5 Graduate Schools with 107 masters and 69 doctorate programs, and a "School of Foreign Languages", which includes the English Preparatory Department and Modern Languages Department. 15 undergraduate programs and 3 graduate programs are offered in connection with METU Northern Cyprus Campus.
English as the language of instruction in all its degree programs has greatly facilitated METU’s efforts to accommodate international students and researchers. METU hosts over 1,700 international students from nearly 94 different countries studying toward myriad of academic degrees.
The main part of the campus has dormitory capacity of approximately 7000 students who benefit from a shopping area, banks, post office and many eating places. Also a wide variety of sports facilities, including gymnasiums, tennis courts, basketball and football fields, jogging trails, olympic-size indoor swimming pool, and an outdoor swimming pool are available on METU campus.
