İzmir, receiving its original name from the Amazonian queen "Smyrna," is one of the world's several cities that dates back to the neolithic era, dating back to 8500 years ago. İzmir embodies one of the seven wonders of the Temple of Artemision Ephesus and Agora, a city left from the Romans and Guinness-Record Breaking oldest known bridge many other historical treasures.
İzmir, having become an essential place in Mediterranean trade and a world harbor city by the 16th century, is the second-largest industrialized city in Turkey after Istanbul. Free Zone, International Fairs, Organized Industrial areas, and large harbor, import, and export trades are significantly developed in Izmir.
As the educational and cultural focal point of İzmir, Ege University takes its place in the middle with its half a century-long history. The University is built in one of the largest districts of the city, Bornova. The campus located in Bornova offers a 3450 decare space full of buildings that provide the people with educational, cultural, and sport-related service.
In the university campus, an edge of technology modern library, indoor and outdoor pool, indoor sports salon, spaces of football, basketball, mini-football and tennis courts, an exhibition salon, with its 730 visitors capacity Prof. Dr. Yusuf Vardar – MÖTBE culture center, a Students' Village dormitory that is highly accessible to the public, cafeterias, students shopping center, hypermarket, guest houses and locales for students and the personnel can be found. In addition to that, Girls Dormitory can also be found within the campus operated by the Student Loans And Dormitories Institution.
Ege University's vision is to be an educational and research institution which has advanced organizational bonds with reputable national and international science and technology institutions and to be an equivalent educational institution, having a strong institutional culture and identity, a high degree of organizational commitment, and member branding, to the high ranked universities in the world.
