2. Middle East Technical University
• First campus university in Turkey
• Over 24.500 students
• 16500 undergraduate, 4100 Ms, 2700 PhD
• Over 1400 international students from 68 different
countries
• 2500 academic staff
• 40 undergraduate programs within 5 faculties
• 5 Graduate Schools with 93 master’s and 61 doctorate programs
• 40 research centers, 365 laboratories
• International Projects
• EU FP: 31 ongoing, 58 completed
• Other Int. Projects: 30 ongoing, 41 completed
3. The first, biggest and the most innovative
science and technology park in Turkey
4. Application Oriented University Industry Commercial Product
Research Collaboration Applications
Product Oriented R&D
University Technopark Industry
Academics Technopolis, science park, research
Companies
Students park
Graduates
Research Centers International Cooperations
Laboratories
Technology Transfer
Clustring, Platforms,
Office (TTO)
Technology
Synergy
Cooperation Office
Services for University
Industry Collaboration
Pre Incubation,
Incubation
International Cooperations
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7. Land and Location
Land: Total Closed Area:
Property of the University 2003 – 27.000 m2
1.200.000 m2 in total 2005 – 60.000 m2
Scheduled Closed Area: 2007 – 86.000 m2
250.000 m2 2015 – 250.000 m2
(Completed Infrastructure)
11. METUTECH Companies
• 255 companies, 75% which are SMEs
• 3750 total personnel
• 3200 RTD personnel (75% engineers)
• Projects carried out:
~ 600-700 (at a time)
• 247 million US $ export (not include
manufacturing numbers)
12. University Industry Cooperation
• 787 joint R&D projects since 2002
• 1352 contracts with 496 different academics since
2002
• Cooperation with 40 different departments
• 119 completed projects with 149 academics, 54
companies and 29 departments (for the year 2011)
• 43 new projects starting in 2012 (the first three
month period)
13. Social Life at METUTECH
• 5 restaurant with a capacity of 1300 people
• Sport facilities within walking distance
• Public and private hospitals at a five-minute
distance
• The university library
• Branches and ATMs of various banks in the
campus area
• Market, tailor, shoemaker, coiffeur, barber,
pharmacy, photographer, stationery, boutique,
book store in campus.
• Accommodation services provided within the
campus area.
The property ship rights of the METU-Technopolis development region belongs to METU The total land dedicated for the development of MT is about 700.000 square meters. According to Physical Master plan 200.000 square meters out of these 700.000 is for office space enlargement. Being environmentally concerned The university and the management company emphasize on low density development in a high quality landscape.