Ankara University is one of the biggest universities in Türkiye and has over 500 agreements all over Europe Universities. It was the first higher education institution founded in the Turkish Republic in 1946. Ankara University is a public university in Ankara, capital city of Türkiye and it has 19 faculties, 14 institutions and 13 vocational schools. The mission of Ankara University is to educate individuals that will guide the society in the fields of science and arts through a universal perspective, and to contribute to the production of science, technology and arts with its distinctive and qualified research.
The main objective of Ankara University is to sustain its pioneering identity being the first university of the Republic of Türkiye through its qualified scientific research and education studies and to be one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Ankara University has adopted transparency, justice, equality of opportunity and qualification as principles, as
well as openness to improvement and change; it regards itself as thoroughly modernist and accepts variety as a form of intellectual wealth. Within this context, it encourages all its members to contribute to improvement and innovation, and prepares the necessary ground for the sustainability of such contributions. The main objectives of Ankara University are: - to create scientific research and implement improvement projects by taking the primary needs of the country and the society into consideration; - to support scientific research by allocating the highest amount of domestic and outer sources possible within both national and international contexts; - to attach high importance to cooperation between the university and industry in scientific research activities; - to accelerate national production with scientific and technological innovations by integrating the current technology development center with the region, highlighting interdisciplinary approaches in education and research, throughout the whole wide range of the scientific disciplines of the university; to prepare diploma programs in the forms of formal and non-formal education as well as certificate programs through continuing education and education on distance, such as e-learning, and thus establish an effective cooperation between the university and society.