Middle East Technical University | Turkey

The Middle East Technical University's mission is to reach, produce, apply and promote knowledge,as well as to educate individuals with this knowledge for the social, cultural, economic, scientific and technological development of society and humanity. The university contributes to this by bringing teaching, research and social services up to universal standards. The university wants to ensure the understanding of current knowledge and the discovery of new knowledge. Therefore, there should be no hindrance to the discovery and sharing of new knowledge and the Middle East Technical University strives to provide an environment in which research, creativity and student self-development can be fostered. At Middle East Technical University, interdisciplinary education and research is encouraged and this enables academic staff to work on educational and research projects with educational centres and institutes outside their own academic units. METU hosts about 1350 international students from nearly 65 different countries studying toward myriad of academic degrees.