Toros University
Toros Üniversitesi | |
| Motto | Beyond Education, Into Life |
|---|---|
| Type | Private |
| Established | July 23, 2009 |
| Location | , |
| Website | http://toros.edu.tr/go.to/EN/index |
Toros University is a recently established university in Mersin, Turkey.
It was established officially on July 23, 2009 by the Mersin Education Foundation (Turkish: Mersin Eğitim Vakfı), a foundation founded 40 years ago and active in establishing high schools. It is a private non-profit (Turkish: vakıf) university. It is named after the Taurus Mountains, a mountain range which extends from east to west in southern Turkey.
Today, there are two more universities in Mersin Province; Mersin University is a public university and Çağ University is another private university.
Academic units of Toros University
Presently the units of the university are as follows[1]
- School of Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Industrial Engineering
- Software Engineering
- School of Economic, Administrative and Social Sciences
- Economics
Planned units
- School of communications
- School of Arts
- School of Technology and management
- School of foreign languages
Research & Development Laboratories
- Nanomaterial Production Laboratory (http://www.toros.edu.tr/sayfas/npllab)
Furthermore, post-graduate schools and a vocational school, as well as some other departments of the School of Engineering and School of Economic, Administrative, and Social Sciences, are under planning.
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