Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey Üniversitesi

Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University is a young and dynamic university founded in 2007. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University, which is ranked in the top 50 of Turkey’s innovative and entrepreneurial universities, contains 10 faculties, 3 colleges, 6 vocational schools, 3 institutes, and 21 research and application centres. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University was named in honour of Karamanoğlu Mehmet Bey, who declared Turkish as the state language for the first time, and the university continues its efforts to contribute to its region and country, especially the city Karaman, since its establishment in 2007. The university aims to make important contributions to Turkish higher education, especially in the fields of Turkish language, food and agriculture, and energy.  

Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University strives to provide the greatest number of benefits to its country and humanity with its scientific and academic studies, research infrastructure with advanced technology, public-university-industry collaborations, people-oriented service approach, its students, whom the university supports and trusts in every field, and all its members. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University offers its students a higher education environment where they can improve themselves in every field by touching their hearts while educating them with the most solid foundations and the most up-to-date information in the conditions of this Digital Age, which has been extremely accelerated and a new transformation is experienced every day.  

The basic values ​​of Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University are innovation, participation and democracy, commitment to ethical values, transparency, student focus, sensitivity to the city, country and world problems, neutrality and reliability, universality, scientific perspective, respect for the human and nature, and sensitivity to the correct use and dissemination of the Turkish language.

The educational objectives of Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University are for students to participate in at least one scientific project, to benefit from at least one course and certificate program, to engage in at least one sports branch, to be interested in at least one branch of art, expressing himself/herself in at least one non-governmental organization or student community, and learning at least one foreign language. 

The university campus is three kilometres away from the city center and the campus can be reached by a single vehicle from the bus station and train station. Thanks to family practice, students can easily meet their health needs within the campus. In the Psychological Counselling and Guidance Service, especially students who demand psychological help are supported, and new students are assisted in the adaptation process to the university and city environment.

Almost 500 international students from 34 countries of the world receive education at Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University and this number is increasing day by day. The university has 74 associate degree programs, 56 bachelor programs, 70 graduate programs, approximately 16,000 students, and 711 academic staff.

Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University is 8th among 70 state universities established after 2006 in Turkey. Among all the faculties and colleges in Turkey, the Faculty of Science at Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University is ranked 1st, the Faculty of Engineering is ranked 3rd, and the Faculty of Health Sciences is ranked 10th.   

Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University Scientific and Technological Application and Research Center (BİLTEM) has nine main laboratories where advanced analyses are carried out and support is given to R&D studies and university-industry cooperation in the region. In addition to the Central Research Laboratory, there are many application and research laboratories and vocational training workshops connected to academic units, especially the Practice Kitchen and Practice Hotel.

The Central Library has a capacity of 300,000 books, 42 single-person study rooms, 11 group study rooms, an internet access center consisting of 55 computers, a disabled and audio-visual unit, an automatic borrow/return station, encoded lockers, catalogue scanning units, a quite modern research infrastructure with 24/7 open study halls, conference and seminar hall, and a capacity to host 750 readers at the same time. Thanks to the Work Request Portal, the books and other documents that are not available in the library and needed by academic staff and students can be requested via electronic application and requests of persons requesting resources are fulfilled as soon as possible.   

The Student Living Center, which has an area of ​​13,000 square meters, includes places for the needs of students such as a dining hall, cafeteria, restaurant, stationery, bijouterie, and ATM. In the 780-seat cafeteria, affordable food service is offered twice a day for both regular and evening education students. In terms of its technical infrastructure, the university has the capacity to easily organize all kinds of scientific, cultural, and sportive activities with its modern conference halls and an open-air theatre of 1.500 people. In the sports complex on the campus with international standards, there is an indoor sports hall for 1.500 people, tennis courts, basketball, handball, volleyball, and football fields, jogging and walking tracks, climbing wall, fitness center, semi-Olympic swimming pool, and stadium. Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University is among the universities frequently preferred by national athletes. 

The university hosts several national or international congresses and symposiums each year. There are around 80 student clubs at the university and community activities are supported powerfully so that students can realize themselves in every field. At the university, which has a rich education process in terms of social and cultural activities, about 400 different events are organized every year. With these events, many researchers, writers, poets, artists, bureaucrats, and scientists meet with students and contribute to the universal climate of the university.