METU Northern Cyprus Campus became fully operational by August 2005 and accepted students to a total of eight undergraduate programs. By 2015, METU Northern Cyprus Campus will be offering a full spectrum of degree programs and will have reached an enrollment of 5,000 students.

METU North Cyprus Campus is built on an area of 3,000 decares (donums), approximately 50 km west of Lefkoşa ( Nicosia ) and 6 km north of Güzelyurt (Morphou), a charming town with a population of 12,000. Today, METU NCC is an excellent campus with its high-tech infrastructure, very modern education buildings and laboratories, the Cultural and Convention Center, Administration - Library - Computer Center Complex, Cafeteria, Shopping Center, Student Association Rooms, Dormitories, Staff Housing, Fitness-Wellness Club, Post Office, Book Store and Health & Counseling Center . The Campus is designed with all the necessary provisions to accommodate physically handicapped students to achieve their full potential.

HOW TO GET FROM TURKEY to TRNC?
There are daily air and sea connections from Turkey to TRNC. It takes only one hour by air to reach TRNC from the major cities of Turkey; and if you take a sea bus from Mersin or Alanya, it will take around three hours.

By Air
Two airlines fly from Turkey to TRNC: CTA (Cyprus Turkish Airlines) and THY (Turkish Airlines). There are daily direct flights from Ankara and Istanbul and scheduled direct flights from Izmir, Antalya and Adana. Indirect flights are also available from other cities via Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Adana and Antalya.

By Sea
Ferry and sea bus services travel daily between Mersin-Taşucu (Turkey) and Kyrenia and Famagusta (TRNC) harbors. In the summer season, there is also a service between Alanya and Kyrenia. The crossing takes approximately three hours from Alanya and two hours from Taşucu. Please contact the following maritime companies for rates and schedules: Fergun Denizcilik and Akgünler Denizcilik (0.324.741.40.33 - 0.392.815.31.70)

GETTING AROUND TRNC

There are regular bus services between Nicossia and Kyrenia, Güzelyurt and Kyrenia, Güzelyurt and Nicossia, Güzelyurt and Kyrenia, and also between Nicossia and Famagusta. Moreover, taxi services are available for local and inter-city transportation. Municipalities also offer local bus services. You have to drive on the left with a local or international driving license in TRNC, where international traffic signs are used. The domestic roads are safe and in good condition. The vehicles brought into TRNC must have valid insurance.



THE MISSION STATEMENT OF METU
The mission of the Middle East Technical University is to reach, produce, apply and promote knowledge, and to educate individuals with that knowledge for the social, cultural, economic, scientific and technological development of our society and humanity. This is to be done by bringing teaching, research and social services up to universal standards.

BASIC PRINCIPLES

1. Scientific Approach

It is unconditionally accepted that a university’s mission is to ensure the understanding of current knowledge and the discovery of new knowledge. On this subject, there should be no hindrance to the discovery and sharing of new knowledge. An environment should be created in which research, creativity and student self-development can be fostered.

2. Academic Freedom

The right to determine how, to whom, and by whom knowledge is taught is paramount. The university is opposed to dogmatic thought and ideas, under the principle of the scientific approach. The right to honest inquiry and legal protest is acknowledged and guaranteed by law.

3. Interdisciplinary Approach

Interdisciplinary education and research are encouraged. The university enables academic staff to work on educational and research projects with educational centers and institutes outside their own academic units.

4. Lifelong Education

The university encourages lifelong education for its own staff, graduates, and people from all walks of life, and provides these people with new scientific knowledge. In order that the people of our country benefit more effectively and efficiently from METU’s experience and culture, the university develops and applies exemplary educational models.

5. The Training of Qualified People

For the good of society, the university aims to develop students with humane and moral values, the skills for leadership, open-mindedness, and the habit of continuously re-educating themselves. Graduates are oriented to employ the skills they have learned at METU in the workplace. Students are encouraged to become scientists, and thus be among the nation’s most important human resources.

6. Student Support

The duty to provide the necessary support in order to prevent those students with material difficulties from being deprived of higher education is acknowledged.

7. Communication with Society

The university aims to continue performing its functions in order to benefit every sector of society and remain in contact with its environment. The university is concerned with the finding and promoting of solutions to the problems of our nation, region and the international community. It plays a prominent role in providing communication in scientific, cultural and social fields.

8. Involved Administration

The university encourages its academic staff, departments and administrative units to prepare, assess and continuously evaluate plans and concrete strategies in order to keep up with rapid change and globalization. To this end, an administrative policy which is based on knowledge, the delegation of duties and responsibilities, democratic principles, involvement, dynamism, flexibility and transparency is pursued. Respect for the individual and tolerance are our foremost concerns.

Degree Programs

Economic and Administrative Science Programs
Business Administration
Business Administration (UOLP-SUNY New Paltz)*
Economics
Political Science and International Relations

Engineering Programs
Civil Engineering
Computer Engineering
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Mechanical Engineering