Cankaya University (Central Campus)

After spending over forty years in the field of education, next to Arı Primary School and Arı High School, an investment in higher education and research as well became inevitable. This endeavour was realized through the collaboration and genuine contribution of all the teaching and administrative staff as well as the thousands of young people who have attended these schools and also their parents. In fact, 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 which was published in the Official News Paper number 23050, dated 15 July 1997.

Vision of Çankaya University is to be a university:

• Providing high-quality higher education and training at world standards,
• Encouraging research and development at 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 the 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.

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 administration,
• preserve and improve high-quality in education and training,
• realize student and teaching staff mobility by cooperating with the outstanding universities of the world,
• provide education which:
  • has universal values and equipped with modern knowledge;
  • has a developed ability of research and analitical 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 successful 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 univervities in order to achieve student and instructor exchange