Toros University

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

1. Computer Engineering
2. Electrical and Electronic Engineering
3. Industrial Engineering
4. Software Engineering

• School of Economic, Administrative and Social Sciences

1. 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.pesti.net)

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.

References

1. ↑ University Academic Units page