Kocaeli University

Kocaeli University was founded in 1992 with the law numbered 3837. Our university is the first in Turkey to have been opened four years after the construction and planned to be completed in 8 years.

Bri̇ef Informati̇on

• Today our university continues education, training, and research activities with 11 faculties, 6 High Schools, 1 State Conservatory, 3 Institutes, 12 Research Centres, 12 Research Units, 19 Vocational Schools, and 57 487 students.
• The devices such as heating, irrigation, and ventilation are under automation, and they can be remotely controlled outside the campus.
• Umuttepe Campus has an automatic garden irrigation system.
• We are the first in Turkey to have a filtration plant.
• Our university has one of the most modern congresses and culture centers in Turkey.
• An area of 800 decares of Umuttepe Campus is in the protected area. There will soon be archeological excavations in that area (Total area of Umuttepe Campus is 6500 decares. No construction will be made in the area protected).
• The hospital of the Faculty of Medicine has been built earthquake-resistant, and 250 seismic isolators and 2500 dampers have been used in the building.
• We are the first in Turkey to have stairlifts for our disabled students in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
• The most modern and well-equipped dormitories of Credit and Dormitory Institution in Turkey are on Umuttepe Campus.
• Works of arts on Umuttepe Campus have been done for International Competitions by the Department of Sculpturing of the Faculty of Fine Arts.
• The Atatürk Monument on Umuttepe Campus has been planned by Assistant Prof. Nevzat Atalay, Academician of the Faculty of Fine Arts, and completed in 6 months. Also, decoration works have been continued by the same faculty.
• Barbaros Maritime School has been established in Karamürsel so that the number of schools of KOU in Karamürsel has increased to four.
• Guesthouse arrangements have been continuing on Anıtpark and Umuttepe Campus for Erasmus students and academic staff.

Mission:

• To produce knowledge which shall contribute to entire humanity with the help of scientific research performed in the fields of health, society, culture, art, sports, economy and technology to transmit and make use of the knowledge produced and raise personalities who:
  • have respect for human rights,
  • are free-minded,
  • abide by the ethical values,
  • are creative, constructive, operative.
• To contribute to the formation of well-known brands that shall perform an industrial transformation with our shareholders' advanced technology by sustaining advanced education, training, research, and development activities in harmony with the international modern education progress.

Our mission is to be a university that has a grasp of the information age and is known and visible.

Values:

• To make sure that the basic principles of the Republic of Turkey, which was founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and doctrines and revolutions of Atatürk are well protected and transferred to the next generations,
• To be modern, secular, democratic, and respectful to national values and human rights,
• To abide by the universal principles of law,
• To respect and serve everyone without any discrimination,
• To abide by the ethical values,
• To follow the scientific and technological developments,
• To be in harmony and cooperation with internal and external shareholders,
• To adopt quality and its supervision.