Ankara University

Ankara University is a public research university in Ankara, the capital of Turkey, and the first higher education institution founded in the country after the formation of the Turkish republic in 1923, and it is placed in the 731-740 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.安卡拉大学是一所位于土耳其首都安卡拉的公立研究型大学，也是 1923 年土耳其共和国成立后该国创办的第一所高等教育机构，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 731-740 区间。

It was established by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and traces part of its lineage to the Faculty of Political Science founded in 1859 to educate the bureaucracy of the Ottoman Empire.该校由穆斯塔法·凯末尔·阿塔图尔克创办，其部分渊源可追溯至 1859 年为培养奥斯曼帝国官僚而设立的政治学院。

It offers forty vocational programmes, 120 undergraduate programmes and 110 graduate programmes, operates forty-one research and application centres, and its OpenAlex record lists 71,450 works and 2,610,700 citations.该校开设 40 个职业项目、120 个本科项目与 110 个研究生项目，运营 41 个研究与应用中心；其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 71,450 项、被引 2,610,700 次。

History

• The university's history dates back to the founding of the Faculty of Political Science in 1859, established in Istanbul to educate the bureaucracy of the Ottoman Empire.该校的历史可追溯至 1859 年政治学院的创建，该学院设于伊斯坦布尔，旨在培养奥斯曼帝国的官僚。

• That faculty was initially known as the Mekteb-i Mulkiye-i Sahane under the Ottoman Ministry of the Interior and was renamed the Mekteb-i Mulkiye in 1918 under the Ministry of Education.该学院最初称 Mekteb-i Mulkiye-i Sahane，隶属奥斯曼帝国内政部，1918 年在教育部之下更名为 Mekteb-i Mulkiye。

• After the founding of the republic, Atatürk asked that the school be moved to Ankara, and it was renamed the School of Political Science.共和国成立后，阿塔图尔克要求把该校迁往安卡拉，学校随之更名为政治学校。

• On 23 March 1950 it became the Faculty of Political Science as part of Ankara University, offering public administration, labour economics, business administration and international relations.1950 年 3 月 23 日，它成为安卡拉大学下属的政治学院，开设公共行政、劳动经济学、工商管理与国际关系等专业。

• The Ankara University Law School was founded in 1925, one of the earliest faculties of the new republic's university system.安卡拉大学法学院成立于 1925 年，是共和国新大学体系中最早的学院之一。

• The School of Language and History and Geography was established in 1935 as part of Atatürk's project of national cultural institutions.语言、历史与地理学院于 1935 年设立，属阿塔图尔克民族文化机构建设计划的一部分。

• The Faculty of Science was founded in 1943 and the Faculty of Medicine in 1945, extending the university into the natural and clinical sciences.理学院于 1943 年成立，医学院于 1945 年成立，把该校扩展到自然科学与临床医学领域。

• The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine traces its origins to 1842, and the School of Divinity was founded in 1949 as one of the university's early developments.其兽医学院的起源可追溯至 1842 年；神学院于 1949 年设立，是该大学早期发展的组成部分。

• The School of Pharmacy was established in 1960, and the Faculty of Dentistry followed in 1963, becoming a full faculty in 1977.药学院于 1960 年设立；牙医学院于 1963 年成立，并于 1977 年成为正式学院。

• In 1965 the Faculty of Educational Sciences was founded along with the Faculty of Communication, known in Turkish as ILEF.1965 年，教育科学学院与传播学院（土耳其语简称 ILEF）相继成立。

• In 1996 the Cankiri Faculty of Forestry and the Health Education Faculty were opened, extending the university beyond central Ankara.1996 年，昌克勒林学院与健康教育学院的开设把该校的办学延伸到安卡拉中心之外。

• The Faculty of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Applied Sciences were established in 2015, adding arts and applied professional teaching to the university.2015 年设立的美术学院与应用科学学院，为该校增添了艺术与应用型专业教学。

• In 2020 the Faculty of Open and Distance Education was founded, giving the university a dedicated unit for remote teaching.2020 年成立的开放与远程教育学院，使该校拥有专门的远程教学单位。

• The university now operates forty-one research, application and education centres supporting its academic and public service mission.该校现运营 41 个研究、应用与教育中心，支撑其学术与公共服务使命。

• The Turkish and Foreign Languages Research and Application Centre, known as TOMER, was established in 1984 and had expanded to eleven branches across Turkey by 2014.土耳其语与外语研究应用中心（简称 TOMER）成立于 1984 年，到 2014 年已在土耳其全国扩展到 11 个分支机构。

• On 1 December 2020 the university's Department of Japanese Language and Literature received a commendation from the Japanese Foreign Minister for promoting Japanese language education in Turkey.2020 年 12 月 1 日，该校日语与日本文学系因推动土耳其的日语教育而获得日本外务大臣表彰。

• Ankara University was established by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first president of Turkey, and remains one of the country's leading educational institutions.安卡拉大学由土耳其首任总统穆斯塔法·凯末尔·阿塔图尔克创办，至今仍是该国主要的教育机构之一。

• In 1925 the new republic created the Ankara University Law School, part of Atatürk's programme of building national institutions in the new capital rather than in Istanbul.1925 年，新共和国设立安卡拉大学法学院，这是阿塔图尔克在新首都而非伊斯坦布尔建设国家机构计划的一部分。

• In 1935 the School of Language and History and Geography was founded as one of the cultural institutions that accompanied the Turkish language and history reforms of the 1930s.1935 年设立的语言、历史与地理学院，是伴随 1930 年代土耳其语言与历史改革而建立的文化机构之一。

Academics

• The university offers forty vocational programmes, 120 undergraduate programmes and 110 graduate programmes across its faculties and vocational schools.该校各学院与职业学院共开设 40 个职业项目、120 个本科项目与 110 个研究生项目。

• Its Faculty of Political Science offers programmes in public administration, labour economics, business administration and international relations.其政治学院开设公共行政、劳动经济学、工商管理与国际关系等专业。

• The Law School, founded in 1925, and the Faculty of Medicine, founded in 1945, are its two best-known professional faculties.1925 年创办的法学院与 1945 年创办的医学院，是该校最知名的两个专业学院。

• The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, whose origins reach to 1842, is one of the oldest veterinary schools in the region and teaches at the university's veterinary campus.其兽医学院的起源可追溯至 1842 年，是该地区历史最久的兽医学院之一，教学设在校内兽医学院区。

• The School of Language and History and Geography teaches the linguistics, history and geography disciplines that form part of the modern Turkish academic tradition.其语言、历史与地理学院教授语言学、历史学与地理学等构成现代土耳其学术传统的学科。

• The Faculty of Educational Sciences trains teachers and education administrators, and the Faculty of Communication, known as ILEF, teaches journalism and media studies.其教育科学学院培养教师与教育管理者，其传播学院（ILEF）则教授新闻与媒体研究。

• Research output recorded by OpenAlex stands at 71,450 works and 2,610,700 citations, one of the largest research outputs of any Turkish university.OpenAlex 记录其研究成果 71,450 项、被引 2,610,700 次，是土耳其各大学中科研产出最大的之一。

• The Centre of Excellence in Superconductivity Research studies superconducting materials such as MgB2, BSCCO and YBCO for use in practical technologies.其超导研究卓越中心研究 MgB2、BSCCO 与 YBCO 等超导材料，以用于实用技术。

• The Kreiken Observatory began construction in 1959 and opened in 1963, contributing to astronomy research and to public and school education in the field.克莱肯天文台 1959 年动工、1963 年启用，为天文学研究以及公众与学校教育作出贡献。

• The Brain Research Centre, founded in 2009, brings together linguists, psychiatrists, neurologists and electrical engineers to study the human brain.2009 年成立的脑研究中心汇聚语言学、精神病学、神经病学与电气工程领域的专家，共同研究人脑。

• The Psychiatric Crisis Research and Application Centre, established in 1987, serves as a reference point for the World Health Organization.1987 年成立的精神危机研究与应用中心，是联合国世界卫生组织的参考机构之一。

• The European Research Centre, founded in 1987, promotes study of the European Union and of Turkey-EU relations through interdisciplinary research and training.1987 年成立的欧洲研究中心通过跨学科研究与培训，推动对欧盟及土耳其与欧盟关系的研究。

• Further centres cover small entrepreneurship, child culture, Latin America, south-eastern Europe, Turkish geography, political psychology, environmental science and ageing.其他中心涵盖小型创业、儿童文化、拉丁美洲、东南欧、土耳其地理、政治心理学、环境科学与老龄问题等方向。

• The university also runs a distance education centre and the Women Issues Research and Application Centre, which launched a Women Research master's programme in 1996.该校还运营远程教育中心与妇女问题研究应用中心，后者于 1996 年开设「妇女研究」硕士项目。

• Its Faculty of Applied Sciences teaches programmes aimed at public and private sector employment, adding vocational depth to the university's academic range.其应用科学学院开设面向公共与私营部门就业的项目，为该校的学科范围增添职业深度。

• The Faculty of Fine Arts, created in 2015, teaches visual arts, music and performing arts within a university otherwise dominated by professional faculties.2015 年成立的美术学院在以待业型学院为主的大学中教授视觉艺术、音乐与表演艺术。

• The Faculty of Open and Distance Education, founded in 2020, coordinates the university's online degrees and continuing education courses.2020 年成立的开放与远程教育学院，统筹该校的在线学位与继续教育课程。

Campus

• The university is distributed across several campuses in Ankara, at approximately 39.91987 degrees north and 32.85427 degrees east.该校分布于安卡拉的多处校区，坐标约为北纬 39.91987 度、东经 32.85427 度。

• Its principal sites are in the Tandogan and Cebeci districts of central Ankara, where the law, political science and medical faculties are concentrated.其主要校区位于安卡拉市中心的坦多安与杰贝吉区，法学院、政治学院与医学院集中于此。

• The university's observatory occupies a hilltop site outside the built-up area, chosen for the clarity of its night sky.其天文台位于建成区之外的一处山顶，选址考虑到夜空透明度。

• The veterinary campus at Diskapi carries the faculty whose history begins in 1842, with teaching hospitals and animal clinics.位于迪什卡皮的兽医校区容纳起源可追溯至 1842 年的兽医学院，并设教学医院与动物诊所。

• The Cankiri Faculty of Forestry is located outside Ankara in Cankiri province, extending the university's forestry teaching into the forests of central Anatolia.其昌克勒林学院位于安卡拉以外的昌克勒省，把林业教学延伸到安纳托利亚中部的森林地区。

• Ankara's position as the national capital places the university within reach of the ministries, the parliament and the headquarters of Turkish public institutions.安卡拉作为国家首都的地位，使该校便于通达各部委、议会以及土耳其公共机构的总部。

• The university campus is served by the Ankara metro and bus network, and most students live off campus in the surrounding districts.其校园由安卡拉地铁与公交网络服务，多数学生在周边城区租住。

• The Faculty of Political Science occupies a historic building in central Ankara that reflects the faculty's nineteenth-century Ottoman origins.其政治学院设于安卡拉市中心的一座历史建筑中，该建筑反映其十九世纪奥斯曼时期的渊源。

• Student health, dining and sports facilities are distributed among the campuses, with the medical faculty operating university hospitals in the city.学生医疗、餐饮与体育设施分布在各校区，其医学院在城内运营大学附属医院。

• Because the university spread across the capital rather than occupying a single site, travel between faculties is part of daily student life.由于该校布局遍及首都而非集中于单一校园，在各学院之间往返是其学生日常生活的一部分。

• The Tandogan campus groups the law, political science and communication faculties near the city centre, while the medical and veterinary facilities occupy their own sites.坦多安校区把法学、政治学与传播类学院集中于市中心附近，医学与兽医设施则各占独立院区。

• University hospitals attached to the medical faculty serve both teaching and public health in Ankara, giving medical students early clinical contact.附设于医学院的大学医院既承担教学、也服务安卡拉公共医疗，使医学生较早接触临床。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Ankara University is placed in the 731-740 band, according to the official ranking table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，安卡拉大学处于 731-740 区间。此排名以官方榜单为准。

• It stands in the 1201-1400 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and is 783rd in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 1201-1400 区间，并在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 783。

• It is placed in the 701-800 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by ShanghaiRanking.在软科发布的 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，该校处于 701-800 区间。

• OpenAlex attributes 71,450 works and 2,610,700 citations to the institution, giving it one of the largest research outputs in Turkey.OpenAlex 记录该校 71,450 项成果与 2,610,700 次被引，使其科研产出在土耳其位居前列。

• As the first university founded after the republic, it holds a founding position in the Turkish higher education system and supplies staff to many later institutions.作为共和国成立后创办的第一所大学，它在土耳其高等教育体系中具有开创性地位，并为许多后来的院校输送师资。

• Its medical, veterinary, law and political science faculties are among the oldest and most established in the country.其医学、兽医、法学与政治学等学院是土耳其历史最久、根基最深的学院之列。

• Within Ankara it shares the higher education landscape with peers including the Middle East Technical University, Hacettepe University, Gazi University and Bilkent University.在安卡拉，它与中东技术大学、哈杰泰佩大学、加齐大学与比尔肯特大学等同侪共同构成当地高等教育格局。

• Other Ankara institutions include Yildirim Beyazit University and Atilim University, which together make the capital one of Turkey's densest university cities.当地其他院校还包括耶尔德勒姆·贝亚泽特大学与阿特勒姆大学，使首都成为土耳其大学最密集的城市之一。

• The university's forty-one research centres give it unusually broad scope for applied and public service research, from superconductivity to psychiatric crisis care.其 41 个研究中心使该校在应用与公共服务研究方面覆盖面异常广泛，从超导材料到精神危机干预。

• Its TOMER language centre has become one of the country's principal institutions for teaching Turkish to foreigners, reinforcing the university's international profile.其 TOMER 语言中心已成为土耳其面向外国人教授土耳其语的主要机构之一，强化了该校的国际形象。

Student life

• Student life is dispersed across the capital, since the faculties occupy separate sites in Tandogan, Cebeci and other Ankara districts.由于各学院分处坦多安、杰贝吉及安卡拉其他城区，学生生活散布于整个首都。

• The university's language centre, TOMER, attracts foreign students to Ankara for Turkish courses and has branches in eleven Turkish cities.其语言中心 TOMER 吸引外国学生到安卡拉学习土耳其语，并在土耳其十一座城市设有分支。

• Students at the Faculty of Political Science follow a curriculum that dates to the Ottoman school of civil administration, including public administration and international relations.政治学院学生修读的课程可追溯至奥斯曼时期的文官学校传统，包含公共行政与国际关系等内容。

• The university's observatory opens to the public during major astronomical events, giving students and city residents access to its telescopes.其天文台在重要天文事件期间向公众开放，让学生与市民得以使用其望远镜。

• The Women Issues Research and Application Centre runs research and education programmes and launched a master's programme in women's studies in 1996.妇女问题研究应用中心开展研究与教育项目，并于 1996 年开设妇女研究硕士项目。

• The distance education centre allows students to pursue degrees and individual courses remotely, extending the university's reach beyond Ankara.其远程教育中心使学生可远程攻读学位与单科课程，把该校的覆盖面延伸到安卡拉之外。

• Student accommodation is largely private, and the city's metro and bus network connects the dispersed campuses with the districts where students live.其学生住宿以私人房源为主，城市地铁与公交网络把分散的校区与学生居住的城区相连。

• Because Ankara is the national capital, students have access to internships in ministries, state agencies and the diplomatic missions accredited to Turkey.由于安卡拉是国家首都，学生可在各部委、国家机构以及驻土耳其外交使团获得实习机会。

• Graduates work in Turkish public administration, medicine, law, education and the media, and the university's alumni are prominent in national public life.其毕业生就业于土耳其公共行政、医学、法律、教育与媒体领域，校友在全国公共生活中地位显著。

• The Japanese Language and Literature department's commendation from the Japanese Foreign Minister in 2020 illustrates the university's international engagement in language teaching.其日语与日本文学系 2020 年获日本外务大臣表彰，体现该校在语言教学方面的国际参与。

• The Faculty of Communication, known as ILEF, has trained journalists and media professionals since 1965 and is one of the oldest such faculties in Turkey.其传播学院（ILEF）自 1965 年起培养记者与媒体从业者，是土耳其历史最久的同类学院之一。

Notable people

• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first president of Turkey, established the university and required that the Ottoman school of civil administration be moved to Ankara.土耳其首任总统穆斯塔法·凯末尔·阿塔图尔克创办了该校，并要求把奥斯曼时期的文官学校迁往安卡拉。

• The Faculty of Political Science descends from the 1859 Ottoman school for training imperial bureaucrats, one of the university's founding threads.其政治学院源自 1859 年培养帝国官僚的奥斯曼学校，是该大学的创办脉络之一。

• Hasan Resit Tankut, a Turkish politician and historian, served on the university's faculty.土耳其政治家与历史学家哈桑·雷希特·坦库特曾在该校任教。

• The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, whose origins lie in 1842, has trained veterinary surgeons for Turkey and the wider region for more than a century and a half.其兽医学院的起源可追溯至 1842 年，一个半世纪以来为土耳其及更广地区培养兽医。

• The Faculty of Medicine, founded in 1945, supplies physicians to Ankara's university hospitals and to the Turkish health system.1945 年成立的医学院，为安卡拉的大学附属医院与土耳其卫生体系输送医生。

• The Law School established in 1925 has supplied judges, prosecutors and civil servants to the republic since its earliest years.1925 年设立的法学院，自共和国最初年代起即为其输送法官、检察官与公务员。

• Faculty at the Centre of Excellence in Superconductivity Research work on MgB2, BSCCO and YBCO materials for practical superconducting technologies.其超导研究卓越中心的教师研究 MgB2、BSCCO 与 YBCO 材料，用于实用超导技术。

• Researchers at the Brain Research Centre combine linguistics, psychiatry, neurology and electrical engineering, an unusual interdisciplinary grouping in Turkey.其脑研究中心的研究者结合语言学、精神病学、神经病学与电气工程，这在土耳其属不寻常的跨学科组合。

• The university's staff contributed to the creation of later Turkish universities, since many new institutions drew their founding academics from Ankara, a pattern that continued through the twentieth century and into the present day and beyond.该校教师参与了此后土耳其多所大学的创建，因为许多新院校的创校学者来自安卡拉，这种师资输出的模式延续了整整一个世纪并持续至今以后。

• Its graduates are found across the Turkish state, professions and cultural institutions, a consequence of the university's position as the republic's first university.其毕业生遍布土耳其国家机关、专业领域与文化机构，这是该校作为共和国第一所大学这一地位的必然结果。

• The university's Ankara location and its founding role mean that several Turkish universities, including Hacettepe University and Gazi University, grew out of or alongside it.该校位于安卡拉及其创始地位，意味着包括哈杰泰佩大学与加齐大学在内的多所土耳其大学从其内部或周边发展而来。