Mersin University is a state university, built in 1992 in Mersin province

Mersin Province

The Mersin Province is a province in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast between Antalya and Adana. The provincial capital is the city of Mersin and the other major town is Tarsus, birthplace of St Paul...

, Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. The university has about 25,000 students, 1,405 academic staff and a number of foreign and guest academic staff.

The university has a number of research and sports facilities, situated in Mersin

Mersin

-Mersin today:Today, Mersin is a large city spreading out along the coast, with Turkey's second tallest skyscraper , huge hotels, an opera house, expensive real estate near the sea or up in the hills, and many other modern urban...

town centre and in other towns.
In 2005 the Mersin Technology Development Zone (Technoscope) was set up, creating a partnership between the university's research and development departments and industry, with the aim of developing new technologies that could be directly translated into industrial production.

Departments

• Faculty of Engineering
• Faculty of Economics and Managerial Sciences
• Faculty of Arts and Science
• Faculty of Fine Arts
• Faculty of Water Resources
• Faculty of Pharmacy
• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Architecture
• Faculty of Educational Sciences
• Faculty of Tarsus Technical Education
• Faculty of Communication

External links

• Mersin University website
• Website of Mersin University Students