Type Public Rector Prof. Dr. Adnan KASMAN Website deu.edu.tr Number of students 66,559 | Established July 20, 1982 Location İzmir, Turkey Phone +90 232 412 12 12 Academic staff 3,297 | |
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Campus Tınaztepe, Dokuzçeşmeler, Buca, İnciraltı Address Kültür Mahallesi, Cumhuriyet Blv No:144, 35220 Konak/İzmir, Turkey Founded 20 July 1982, İzmir, Turkey Notable alumni Emre Aydın, Semih Kaplanoğlu, Şenay Gürler, Engin Altan Düzyatan, Betül Cemre Yıldız Similar Ege University, Celal Bayar University, Marmara University, Uludağ University, İzmir University of Econo | ||
Dokuz Eylül University (Turkish: Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi) (DEÜ) is a university in Turkey. It is located in İzmir, Turkey. It was founded in 1982 and is organized in 15 faculties. DEU is the first university which applied the problem-based learning method in Turkey, beginning in the School of Medicine in 1997.
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Several components of Dokuz Eylül University have attained a goal of continuous development in education, research and practice through the ISO 9001 2000 Quality Management System certificate: Social Sciences Institute and School of Maritime Business and Management (2001), University Presidency (2003) and Medical Faculty and Health Sciences Institute (2004).
History
Founded on 20 July 1982, the university's name ("September 9th") refers to 9 September 1922, the date of the Liberation of İzmir from the Greek occupation of the city, one of the final events of the Turkish War of Independence. Seventeen previously established schools, including some of the faculties of Ege University and other institutions of higher education, were affiliated with the university the same year. The university has fifteen faculties, five schools, six vocational schools, five graduate schools, and five research institutes.
Organization
There are 15 faculties into which the university is divided: