Eskisehir Osmangazi University
Although the official establishment of Eskişehir Osmangazi University (ESOGU) is dated 1993, the foundations have its roots in the foundation of Eskişehir State Engineering and Architecture Academy in 1970. Located in central Anatolian city Eskişehir, ESOGU has 12 faculties, 4 vocational schools and 4 graduate schools ESOGU serves more than 30.000 students.
Faculties of ESOGU are listed below: Faculty of Dentistry, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Science and Letters, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Faculty of Theology, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Faculty of Art and Design, Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Tourism, Faculty of Architecture.
Eskişehir Osmangazi University accepted values and principles of the contemporary European university education. The University is committed to the establishment of institutional quality management system, as well as building the organizational culture of quality, which will ensure the functioning of the continuous monitoring, assessment, assurance and quality improvement in all areas of the University and its faculties.
International cooperation as a priority activity of ESOGU is based on the establishment and development of cooperation with foreign universities and international organizations dealing with higher education. ESOGU obtained the Erasmus Charter in 2005 after the Turkey’s membership to the EU Education and Youth Programs and started to exchange students under the Erasmus Exchange program in 2005. Eskişehir Osmangazi University has a network of inter-university cooperation and so far has signed many bilateral cooperation agreements with more than 100 universities around Europe and also other countries from different parts of the world.
In addition to education, research is also another important mission of the ESOGU, implemented through fundamental, integrated, interdisciplinary, developmental and applied research schemes. Research projects are mostly funded by TUBİTAK (The Scientific And Technological Research Council of Turkey). ESOGU also has an office for funding scientific research projects of the students and academics by using ESOGU’s equity.
Bearing in mind that the importance of cooperation between the academic and business communities is undeniable, ESOGU seeks through the work of the Technology Transfer Office to establish contact with representatives of local and national companies and businesses in order to foster further R&D project as well as create values that will be benefited by students, academics and business world.
