WHY BİLKENT UNIVERSITY


Founded in 1984 as Turkey's first private, non-profit university, Bilkent University has quickly established itself as a major center for research and teaching, attracting world-renowned scholars to its faculty and many of Turkey's most able high school graduates to its student body. Instruction in all departments, except Turkish Literature, Music and Performing Arts is in English.

Bilkent's large, modern, residential campus is situated within Turkey's young and vibrant capital city, Ankara. The city, located on the high Anatolian plain, is the hub of governmental activities for all of Turkey and, as host to embassies and a variety of international organizations, is a gateway to the rest of the world. Bilkent has its own, direct worldwide connections as well, through its many collaborative projects and exchange programs with universities abroad.

Faculties, Schools, Degrees

• Bilkent University is comprised of nine faculties, six graduate schools (called institutes), and five vocational schools including the School of English Language.
  
• Degrees offered: A.A., A.S., B.A., B.F.A., B.M., B.S., M.A., M.B.A., M.S., Ph.D.
  

Students

• Of the over 11,000 students, 49% are female, 51% are male.
  
• About 25% of students hold full financial aid (scholarship) from Bilkent.
  
• More than 80% of graduate students hold fellowships from Bilkent.
  
• International students come from 48 countries in five continents.
  

Faculty

• 37% of Bilkent's 1,000 faculty members are international, from over 40 countries.
  
• Over 85% of faculty members earned their Ph.D. degrees at leading U.S. and European universities.
  
• Research is emphasized and Bilkent leads by a large margin universities in Turkey in the number of cited and refereed international journal publications per faculty member.
  
• The faculty to student ratio is 1:10.
  
• Classes range in size from 5 to 60 students, with the majority of classes having 15-25 students.