Cankaya University (Central Campus)

After spending over forty years in education, next to Arı Primary School and Arı High School, an investment in higher education and research became inevitable. This endeavor was realized through the collaboration and genuine contribution of all the teaching and administrative staff and the thousands of young people who have attended these schools and their parents. This was the source of the motivation that led to the establishment of Çankaya University, the last link in our educational project. On 9 July 1997, Sıtkı Alp Education Foundation was ratified through the Turkish National Assembly decree number 4282, published in the Official News Paper number 23050, dated 15 July 1997.

The vision of Çankaya University is to be a university:

• Providing high-quality higher education and training at world standards,
• Encouraging research and development at the international level and producing knowledge,
• Considering public service within its primary objectives,
• Raising individuals who devote to/ stand as a protector of the democratic, secular, social
• And legal rights attributes of the Turkish Republic, and love their country and nation in particular,
• Embracing all humanity in general,
• Being respected within every section of the society.
• To be a University giving importance to University-Industry collaboration, Respected by the whole society.

The mission of Çankaya University is to:

• make basic and applied research at world standards,
• raise young people who know very well how to produce, transmit, distribute and use knowledge,
• put into practice the principles of good management within the administration,
• preserve and improve high-quality education and training,
• realize student and teaching staff mobility by cooperating with the outstanding universities of the world,
• provide an education which:
  • has universal values and equipped with modern knowledge
  • has a developed ability of research and analytical thinking
  • has an ability to work and research on interdisciplinary issues
  • is reformist and creative
  • has assimilated the principles and revolutions of Atatürk
  • is productive and thriving in the work-life
  • can raise individuals who master their surroundings.
  • to transfer its knowledge to the industry and society using University-Industry collaboration and transfer of technology To cooperate with the world's prominent universities in order to achieve student and instructor exchange