Antalya Bilim University

• Location: Antalya, Turkey,
• Year of foundation: 2010,
• Number of students: more than 5000,
• Language of instruction: English, Turkish,
• Type of education: mixed.

Antalya Bilim University (ABU) is a private university that ranks second in the country in terms of teaching and quality of programs. This institution has many well-deserved awards and titles, despite its relatively young age. Opened in 2010, it presented undergraduate programs in current and modern specialties, and then, in 2014, included postgraduate programs in the list.

ABU is also known as the university with the largest percentage of international students in Turkey. Representatives of 74 countries, speaking more than 40 languages, study, live and attend events side by side with local residents.

Among the teachers are highly qualified specialists who arrived from 19 countries of the world. Based on the results of several awards, Times Higher Education singles out ABU as one of the institutions that brings together teachers with the best qualifications, skills and knowledge to teach today's youth.

Thanks to the working hours system, students can meet with their teachers outside the classroom and have the opportunity to ask them additional questions on the topics they studied. Thus, additional classes are held in groups and individually.

Antalya Bilim University consists of several large faculties and colleges, each of them has thematic units, narrowly focused on the following specialties:

• Law and jurisprudence,
• Fine Arts and Design: Architecture, Interior Architecture and Ecology,
• Engineering: computers, electrical and electronics, industry, mechanics, civil use,
• Business and Social Sciences: Psychology, Economics, Business Administration, Politics and International Relations,
• Tourism: tourism and hotel management, gastronomic and culinary sciences,
• Aviation and Space: Piloting,
• Professional school: computer programming, cooking, design technologies, justice,
• Medicine and dentistry,
• Foreign languages.

With the Erasmus Student Learning Mobility exchange programme, students have the opportunity to study for 3 to 12 months during the academic year at another higher education institution in Europe and receive financial aid under the programme. The student will gain practical experience in a European country in the field he is studying.

Advantages of the Erasmus Student Learning Mobility program:

• Study in a foreign and multicultural environment,
• Acquaintance with new cultures, languages and customs,
• Creation of an alumni network,
• Experience in several universities,
• Introduction to a different education system.

Girls studying at ABU are accommodated in a residential building on the study grounds, and a hostel for boys is located off-campus. The buildings are designed in such a way that residents feel the comfort of a five-star hotel and the coziness of home, so the hostels can be safely called going beyond the standard university boarding houses.

The rooms are designed for one or four students, each of whom has its own secluded place: a bed, a workplace and storage of personal belongings. The building is equipped with common bathrooms, in which hot water is supplied around the clock.

The residential area is completely safe and comfortable, as it is under round-the-clock video surveillance and security, equipped with fire alarms.

In common use in the hostels there is a mini-cinema, a lounge with table tennis and a TV, playgrounds for team sports games, a fitness center and a laundry room.

On campus there is a large dining room with a kitchen, where chefs prepare a variety of dishes in buffet format. Students can have a snack and purchase a full three-course lunch, order specialized vegetarian, dietary or diabetic food.

The cost of living in dormitories per year:

• Male: from 2200 to 2850$,
• Female: from 745 to 1065 $.

ABU regularly organizes thematic events with guest speakers of leading companies and institutions, highlighting important areas for students and passing on their experience to them.

The Department of Student Activities and its directorate supervises all types of extracurricular activities, helping in the organization and conduct of most events: concerts, festivals, scientific seminars and master classes. Undergraduate students make up a large part of the department, thereby maintaining communication between teachers, staff and students.

Students have the opportunity to participate in the activities of clubs and circles of the Department of Arts and Culture:

• Folk dances,
• Theatrical art,
• Playing musical instruments: guitar, wind, drums and keyboards,
• Vocals, choir.

For three years in a row, the traditional sports competition has been held on campus for students of preparatory classes who have just started studying at ABU. The tournament includes popular team sports, the winners of each of which receive cups, medals and various gifts. The following competitions are held annually:

• Rector's Cup – football tournament (on a field with artificial turf),
• Global Fair Cup – football and streetball,
• Football tournament among ten teams of foreign students (artificial field),
• May 19 Cup - football in the sports hall, streetball, mini-football.

Women's and men's teams participate in the competition.

• Teaching in English and Turkish,
• About 35% of the total number of students are foreign citizens,
• Teachers with doctoral diplomas from the 200 best universities in the world,
• Separation for boys and girls.

Antalya ranks third in the list of the most visited tourist destinations, and is also especially favorite for citizens of Russia and the CIS countries. The city has more than 300 five-star hotels, an international airport, many shops, markets and entertainment places for any budget. With a population of almost two million people, this city is one of the fastest growing in Turkey. Every year Antalya is visited by about ten million tourists from different countries.

The campus of the university covers an area of 300,000 sq.m. and combines Seljuk architecture and modern style. The territory includes everything you need for effective education and comfortable living:

• Spacious classrooms with interactive whiteboards and projectors,
• Specialized laboratories of natural and technological sciences,
• Sports halls for games and individual education,
• Outdoor football and basketball courts, tennis court,
• Library with reading room,
• Residential residences for girls and boys,
• Dining room
• Walking areas on the territory.

There are several stages in the academic year:

• Autumn semester: September-January,
• Spring semester: February-May,
• Summer semester: May-September.

Before each of the semesters, there is an introductory stage, when students submit applications, recruit the number of courses they need, close academic debts, so each of the semesters affects the previous and subsequent.

The education takes place on weekdays in the morning and afternoon, and after the main classes, activities are organized.

Additional costs:

• Accommodation and meals – from $ 745 per year,
• Laundry in the residences,
• Books and consumables,
• Off-campus activities,
• Medical care,
• Transport
• Personal spending.

Applicants should contact the admissions office a couple of months before the start of the semester admission to clarify the current admission conditions and ask questions of interest to them. The enrollment process consists of several stages:

• Filling in the registration form,
• Provision of necessary documents,
• Applying for a scholarship, if necessary,
• Payment of deposits for a place in the classroom and dormitory,
• Obtaining an official invitation to the ABU,
• Arrival on campus for internal testing,
• Get a schedule and further guidance.

Diplomas received at the end of their studies will lead students to the beginning of a career in the specialty, allowing them to start working both in local organizations in Turkey and abroad.

Foreign applicants wishing to enroll in ABU programs must provide:

• Completed registration form,
• Diploma of the previous stage of study: school (certificate) or bachelor's degree program,
• Transcripts with grades and reports on the passed exams,
• Passport-size photograph,
• Personal documents: passport, visa or residence permit for a long stay in Turkey, health insurance, vaccination certificate,
• Results of the english or Turkish language test: TOEFL iBT (from 80), YDS or YÖKDİL (from 60),
• Resume with biography, personal goals, interests and achievements.

ABU offers four types of scholarships for international students:

• Achievement Scholarship

It is offered to students who already have an average score of 3.30 or higher (out of 4.00) upon enrollment.

• Athletic Scholarship

Encourages students who participate in sporting activities on behalf of the university.

• Disability Scholarship

Students with disabilities are given a discount on tuition fees in proportion to the degree of their disability. Students with a disability degree of 60% to 80% will be provided with a financial aid of 25% in addition to their SSPC scholarships, and students with a disability degree of 80% to 100% will be offered a financial aid of 50%. The duration of payments is five years, including the preparatory class.

Also in the institution, each student gets the opportunity to receive an additional scholarship:

• The first ten applicants receive a 25% discount,
• Foreign students who score 70 or more points in secondary school may be eligible for an academic scholarship,
• Scores for national and international examinations can be taken into account to receive a larger scholarship amount,
• The first student to enroll from any new country not currently represented at the university will receive a scholarship of 75%.

• Guardianship services during the studies
• Student supervision