Erciyes University

Erciyes University, known in Turkish as Erciyes Üniversitesi and by the initials ERÜ, is a public research university in Kayseri, central Turkey, established in 1978 and named after the volcanic mountain that rises about 15 kilometres south-west of its campus.埃尔吉耶斯大学（Erciyes Üniversitesi，简称 ERÜ）是土耳其中部开塞利的一所公立研究型大学，1978 年创办，校名取自校园西南约 15 公里处的火山。

It grew out of the Gevher Nesibe Medical School of 1969, an affiliate of Hacettepe University, and the Kayseri Business School of 1977, which were merged into the University of Kayseri in 1978.该校源自 1969 年设立、隶属哈杰泰佩大学的盖夫赫尔·内西贝医学院，以及 1977 年创办的开塞利商学院，两者于 1978 年合并为开塞利大学。

In 2017 Turkey's Council of Higher Education named Erciyes one of the country's first ten research universities, the only one outside Istanbul, Ankara and İzmir, and it holds the 901-1000 band of the 2026 ShanghaiRanking.2017 年，土耳其高等教育委员会把埃尔吉耶斯大学列入全国首批十所研究型大学，它是其中唯一不在伊斯坦布尔、安卡拉与伊兹密尔的高校，并在 2026 年软科排名中位列 901-1000 区间。

History

• The university's medical lineage reaches back to the Gevher Nesibe hospital founded in Kayseri in 1206, one of the oldest surviving hospitals of the medieval Islamic world.该校的医学渊源可追溯至 1206 年在开塞利创办的盖夫赫尔·内西贝医院，那是中世纪伊斯兰世界现存最古老的医院之一。
• The modern institution began in 1969, when local leaders secured a medical school affiliated with Hacettepe University, the first step towards a university in Kayseri.现代意义上的学校始于 1969 年，当地领袖争取到一所隶属哈杰泰佩大学的医学院，这是迈向开塞利自办大学的第一步。
• Turhan Feyzioğlu, a Kayseri-born politician and former deputy prime minister, pressed the case in Ankara, while Health Minister Vedat Ali Özkan and Mayor Mehmet Çalık mobilised local support.开塞利出身的政治家、前副总理图尔汉·费伊济奥卢在安卡拉推动此事，卫生部长韦达特·阿里·厄兹坎与市长穆罕默德·恰勒克则动员地方支持。
• İhsan Doğramacı, then rector of Hacettepe University and the architect of Turkish academic medicine, sponsored the new school and supplied its first teaching staff.时任哈杰泰佩大学校长、土耳其学术医学的奠基者伊赫桑·多拉马哲为该新学院提供支持，并派出首批师资。
• In 1975 the medical faculty moved into the external clinic of the Kayseri Public Hospital, where clinical teaching began before a dedicated university hospital existed.1975 年，医学院迁入开塞利公立医院的外科门诊楼，在尚无专属大学医院之时便开始了临床教学。
• The Kayseri Business School opened in 1977, adding commerce and accounting to a project that had until then been purely medical.开塞利商学院于 1977 年开学，为原本纯属医学范畴的项目增添了商业与会计学科。
• On the merger of 1978 the new University of Kayseri was formed from these two institutions, and it took the name Erciyes University soon afterwards.1978 年两校合并组成新的开塞利大学，此后不久定名为埃尔吉耶斯大学。
• The 1982 reorganisation of Turkish higher education under Law 2547 attached the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Theology to the university, widening it beyond medicine and business.1982 年依据第 2547 号法律进行的土耳其高教重组，把工程学院与神学院划归该校，使其学科从医学与商科扩展至工程与宗教研究。
• That 1982 reform also created the Council of Higher Education, the body that would later select Erciyes for the research-university programme in 2017.1982 年的改革还设立了高等教育委员会，正是这一机构在 2017 年把埃尔吉耶斯大学选入研究型大学计划。
• In 1993 the first Great Kayseri Meeting was held on Mount Erciyes to bind the university to the city's business community, and a second meeting followed in 1995.1993 年，首届「大开塞利会议」在埃尔吉耶斯山上举行，旨在把大学与本市商界联结起来，第二届会议于 1995 年召开。
• Local philanthropists financed several buildings in that period, and President Süleyman Demirel attended the related ceremonies, giving the university national visibility.那段时间当地慈善家出资兴建了数座建筑，总统苏莱曼·德米雷尔出席了相关仪式，使该校获得全国性的关注。
• The Erciyes Technology Development Zone was designated in the Official Gazette on 30 April 2004, covering some 250,549 square metres beside the campus.埃尔吉耶斯技术开发区于 2004 年 4 月 30 日在政府公报上获批设立，占地约 250549 平方米，紧邻校园。
• Erciyes Teknopark A.Ş. was founded on 8 February 2005 to manage the zone under Turkey's Technology Development Zones Law No. 4691.埃尔吉耶斯科技园公司于 2005 年 2 月 8 日成立，依据土耳其第 4691 号技术开发区法管理该园区。
• By 2018 the park's firms reported research and development revenue of 500 million Turkish lira, and the ETTOTronic electronics cluster was founded in Kayseri the same year.到 2018 年，园区企业报告的研发收入达 5 亿土耳其里拉，同年开塞利成立了首个电子产业集群 ETTOTronic。
• In 2017 the Council of Higher Education designated Erciyes as one of ten research universities, a status that brought extra doctoral places and research funding.2017 年高等教育委员会认定埃尔吉耶斯大学为十所研究型大学之一，这一身份带来了额外的博士名额与科研经费。
• A 2023 internal funding round saw the Scientific Research Projects office support 530 projects with a budget of about 127 million Turkish lira.2023 年的一轮校内资助中，科研项目办公室以约 1.27 亿土耳其里拉的预算支持了 530 个项目。
• Turkey began participating in the Erasmus programme in 2004, the same year the technology zone was designated, and Erciyes used both openings to build its European links.土耳其自 2004 年起参与 Erasmus 计划，同年该校的技术开发区获批，埃尔吉耶斯借助这两个契机建立起欧洲联系。
• The university's neutrino group joined the ANNIE and NOvA experiments at Fermilab, and one of its members holds an affiliated position on the CMS experiment at CERN.该校中微子研究组加入了费米实验室的 ANNIE 与 NOvA 实验，其中一名成员在 CERN 的 CMS 实验中持有附属研究员职位。
• In 2021 the university placed among the world's top 100 institutions in the UI GreenMetric sustainability ranking, a result of its campus greening programme.2021 年，该校在 UI GreenMetric 可持续发展排名中跻身全球前 100 名，这是其校园绿化计划的成果。
• Erciyes has grown from a medical school with a single building into a university with faculties of medicine, engineering, theology and economics, several institutes and a technology park on a campus six kilometres from the city centre.埃尔吉耶斯大学从只有一栋校舍的医学院，发展为拥有十七个学院、若干研究所与一个科技园、校区距市中心六公里的大学。
• The university's name changed from University of Kayseri to Erciyes University in the early 1980s, and no further renaming has occurred since.该校名称在 1980 年代初由开塞利大学改为埃尔吉耶斯大学，此后未再更名。

Academics

• Erciyes University is organised into faculties covering medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, engineering, architecture, science, letters, theology, economics, education, fine arts and sport sciences, together with graduate institutes, schools and vocational schools.埃尔吉耶斯大学设有十七个学院、若干研究生院与学校，教授医学、牙科、药学、工程、理学、神学、经济学与人文学科。
• The medical faculty, the university's founding unit, runs a six-year Turkish-language programme and trains residents in the university hospitals of Kayseri.医学院是该校的建校单位，开设六年制土耳其语课程，并在开塞利的大学医院培养住院医师。
• The Faculty of Engineering teaches mechanical, electrical and electronics, civil, industrial, computer, environmental and materials engineering on the main campus.工程学院在主校区开设机械、电气与电子、土木、工业、计算机、环境与材料工程等专业。
• The Faculty of Theology, attached in 1982, is one of the larger theology faculties in Anatolia and trains preachers, teachers of religion and religious-studies scholars.1982 年并入的神学院是安纳托利亚规模较大的神学院之一，培养宣教士、宗教课教师与宗教研究学者。
• The Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences obtained AQAS accreditation for its business, economics and finance programmes, an external German quality seal for its degrees.经济与行政科学学院的商学、经济学与金融项目获得了德国 AQAS 认证，为其学位提供了外部质量标识。
• The School of Veterinary Medicine holds accreditation from the European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education, which allows its graduates to practise across the European Union.兽医学院持有欧洲兽医教育机构协会的认证，这使其毕业生得以在欧洲联盟范围内执业。
• The Hebrew Language and Culture Program is the only undergraduate programme of its kind in Turkey, a niche that draws students from outside Kayseri.希伯来语言与文化项目是土耳其唯一的同类本科项目，这一特色吸引了开塞利以外的学生。
• The Faculty of Dentistry runs a teaching clinic in Kayseri that receives patients from across central Anatolia, and its students complete clinical rotations there.牙科学院在开塞利设有一所教学诊所，按国家定价接诊来自中安纳托利亚各地的病人，学生在此完成临床轮转。
• The university's teaching hospital complex includes the Children's Hematology-Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Hospital, described by the university as the largest paediatric transplant facility in Turkey.该校的教学医院群包括儿童血液肿瘤与骨髓移植医院，校方称其为土耳其规模最大的儿童移植机构。
• Both the adult and the children's bone marrow transplantation centres hold JACIE accreditation, and the children's centre was the first facility in Turkey to obtain it.成人及儿童骨髓移植中心均持有 JACIE 认证，其中儿童中心是土耳其首家获得该认证的机构。
• The Erciyes University Drug Research Center works with the European Medicines Agency and the US Food and Drug Administration on regulatory standards for clinical trials.埃尔吉耶斯大学药物研究中心与欧洲药品管理局及美国食品药品监督管理局就临床试验的监管标准开展合作。
• The Journal of Clinical Practice and Research, published by the medical faculty six times a year, is an open-access journal with an international advisory board.医学院每年出版六期的《临床实践与研究杂志》是一份开放获取期刊，设有国际顾问委员会。
• The Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Letters provide the basic-science and language teaching that the medical, engineering and theology faculties depend on.理学院与文学院提供医学、工程与神学等学院所依赖的基础科学与语言教学。
• The Genome and Stem Cell Research Center supports work on genetic disease, stem-cell therapy and the university's transplantation programmes.基因组与干细胞研究中心支持遗传病、干细胞治疗以及该校移植项目相关的研究。
• The Erciyes Neutrino Research Group builds detectors and calorimeters for neutrino experiments and contributes analysis to the NOvA and ANNIE programmes in the United States.埃尔吉耶斯中微子研究组为中微子实验研制探测器与量能器，并为美国的 NOvA 与 ANNIE 项目提供数据分析。
• Research funding comes from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, European programmes and the internal Scientific Research Projects office, which backed 530 projects in 2023.科研经费来自土耳其科学技术研究理事会、欧洲各类计划以及校内科研项目办公室，后者在 2023 年资助了 530 个项目。
• Admission is through the national student selection examination, the YKS, with the medical faculty among the highest-scoring programmes in central Anatolia.招生通过全国学生选拔考试（YKS）进行，其医学院是中安纳托利亚录取分数最高的项目之一。
• Teaching is in Turkish at undergraduate level, and a growing number of master's and doctoral programmes are taught in English for international students.本科阶段以土耳其语授课，越来越多的硕士与博士项目则以英语面向国际学生开设。
• Erasmus agreements link Erciyes to German institutions including the University of Cologne, RWTH Aachen University and Hochschule Niederrhein, mostly in engineering and business.Erasmus 协议把埃尔吉耶斯大学与科隆大学、亚琛工业大学及下莱茵应用技术大学等德国院校相连，合作多集中在工程与商科。
• In southern Europe the university partners with the University of Salamanca, the University of Coimbra and Italian universities such as Siena, Perugia and Modena and Reggio Emilia.在南欧，该校与萨拉曼卡大学、科英布拉大学以及锡耶纳、佩鲁贾、摩德纳与雷焦艾米利亚等意大利高校建立合作。
• Agreements with the University of Ioannina, the University of Thessaly, Széchenyi István University and the American University in Bulgaria extend the network across the Balkans.与约阿尼纳大学、色萨利大学、塞切尼·伊什特万大学及保加利亚美国大学的协议，把这一网络延伸到巴尔干各地。
• Vocational schools attached to the university award two-year associate degrees in technical, health and service fields, feeding graduates into Kayseri's factories and clinics.该校所属的职业院校在技术、健康与服务领域授予两年制副学士学位，毕业生进入开塞利的工厂与诊所。
• OpenAlex records 35,679 works and 1,256,259 citations for the university, with medicine, physics, materials science and engineering accounting for most of the output.OpenAlex 记录该校 35679 项成果与 1256259 次引用，其中医学、物理、材料科学与工程占据产出的主要部分。

Campus

• The main campus lies about six kilometres from the centre of Kayseri, a city of roughly 1.39 million people in the shadow of Mount Erciyes.主校区距开塞利市中心约六公里，这座约 139 万人口的城市位于埃尔吉耶斯山脚下。
• Mount Erciyes, a 3,917-metre volcanic peak, stands about 15 kilometres south-west of the campus and gives the university both its name and its winter-sports hinterland.海拔 3917 米的埃尔吉耶斯火山位于校园西南约 15 公里处，既赋予大学名称，也构成其冬季运动的腹地。
• The Erciyes Ski Resort, about 25 kilometres from the campus, is one of Turkey's largest ski areas and employs the mountain's volcanic slopes.距校园约 25 公里的埃尔吉耶斯滑雪场是土耳其最大的滑雪区之一，利用火山的坡面建成。
• The campus is roughly 80 kilometres from Cappadocia, the UNESCO World Heritage region whose rock-cut churches and underground cities draw the university's foreign visitors.校园距联合国教科文组织世界遗产卡帕多西亚约 80 公里，那里的岩凿教堂与地下城吸引着该校的外国访客。
• The university hospital complex occupies a large part of the campus, and its paediatric transplant hospital is a national referral centre rather than a purely local facility.大学医院群占据校园的大片区域，其儿童移植医院是全国性的转诊中心，而非仅为本地服务。
• Erciyes Teknopark occupies about 250,549 square metres beside the campus, with laboratories and offices let to technology firms under Law 4691.埃尔吉耶斯科技园占地约 250549 平方米，紧邻校园，依据第 4691 号法律向科技企业出租实验室与办公空间。
• The university radio observatory, listed among its research facilities, uses the clear continental sky of the Kayseri plateau for radio astronomy.该校的射电天文台被列为其研究设施之一，利用开塞利高原清朗的大陆性天空开展射电天文观测。
• Kayseri Erkilet Airport and the city's bus terminal connect the campus to Ankara, Istanbul and the Cappadocia tourist route, all within a few hours' travel.开塞利埃尔基莱特机场与长途汽车站把校园与安卡拉、伊斯坦布尔及卡帕多西亚旅游线路相连，车程均在数小时之内。

Reputation

• Erciyes University holds the 901-1000 band of the 2026 ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities, its strongest result in the four major global tables.埃尔吉耶斯大学在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列 901-1000 区间，这是它在四大全球榜单中的最好成绩。
• It is placed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 and the 1001-1200 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1201-1400 区间，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列 1001-1200 区间。
• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities table it holds position 1,266, a placing consistent with its ShanghaiRanking band.在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学榜单中，该校位列第 1266 名，与其软科区间大致相当。
• OpenAlex credits the university with 35,679 works and 1,256,259 citations, a research volume that reflects its status as central Anatolia's largest medical research centre.OpenAlex 记录该校 35679 项成果与 1256259 次引用，这一体量反映出它作为中安纳托利亚最大医学研究中心之一的地位。
• The 2017 research-university designation by the Council of Higher Education is the university's principal national distinction, and it came with additional doctoral and postdoctoral places.2017 年由高等教育委员会授予的研究型大学身份是该校最重要的全国性荣誉，并随之带来额外的博士与博士后名额。
• Its JACIE-accredited transplant centres give it a clinical reputation that extends beyond Turkey, particularly in paediatric bone marrow transplantation.其获 JACIE 认证的移植中心使该校在临床上享有超越土耳其国界的声誉，尤其是在儿童骨髓移植领域。
• The 2021 UI GreenMetric placing in the global top 100 recognised the campus greening and waste programmes, an unusual distinction for a large Turkish state university.2021 年 UI GreenMetric 把该校列入全球前 100 名，以表彰其校园绿化与废弃物管理计划，这在土耳其大型公立大学中并不常见。
• Erciyes Teknopark's 500 million lira research revenue in 2018 made it one of Anatolia's larger university-linked technology zones outside the Istanbul-Ankara-İzmir triangle.埃尔吉耶斯科技园 2018 年 5 亿里拉的研发收入，使其成为伊斯坦布尔—安卡拉—伊兹密尔三角之外安纳托利亚较大的大学科技园之一。
• Within Turkey the university is the leading institution of the Kayseri region, and its medical and engineering graduates dominate the city's hospitals and furniture and textile industries.在土耳其国内，该校是开塞利地区的领头高校，其医学与工程毕业生主导着本市的医院以及家具与纺织产业。

Student life

• Erciyes University has no Latin motto, and its public identity instead draws on the mountain, the Seljuk medical heritage of Gevher Nesibe and the research-university title.埃尔吉耶斯大学没有拉丁文校训，其公共形象转而依托这座山、盖夫赫尔·内西贝的塞尔柱医学遗产以及研究型大学的头衔。
• Student societies cover skiing, mountaineering, robotics, theatre and the traditional folk dances that Anatolian universities perform at spring festivals.学生社团涵盖滑雪、登山、机器人、戏剧以及安纳托利亚高校在春季庆典上表演的传统民间舞蹈。
• The proximity of Erciyes Ski Resort gives the university a winter-sports culture unusual among Turkish universities, with student trips running through the snow season.毗邻埃尔吉耶斯滑雪场赋予该校土耳其高校中少见的冬季运动文化，雪季期间学生团队频繁上山。
• The Great Kayseri Meetings, begun in 1993, still bring university staff and city business leaders together, and the tradition has shaped the university's local funding relationships.始于 1993 年的「大开塞利会议」至今仍把学校教师与本城商界领袖聚在一起，这一传统塑造了该校与地方的资金关系。
• The spring festival on the main campus combines concerts, food stalls and society fairs, and it is the main occasion on which the dispersed faculties meet socially.主校区的春季庆典结合音乐会、小吃摊与社团招新，是分散各处的学院在社交上相聚的主要场合。
• Kayseri's reputation as a conservative industrial city shapes student life, and alcohol is less visible on campus than in universities in İzmir or Istanbul.开塞利作为保守工业城市的声誉塑造了学生生活，校园内饮酒的现象比伊兹密尔或伊斯坦布尔的高校少见。
• The city's Ottoman and Seljuk monuments, including the Hunat Hatun complex and the 1206 Gevher Nesibe hospital, are used by history and architecture students as study sites.城内的奥斯曼与塞尔柱遗迹，包括胡纳特哈通建筑群与 1206 年的盖夫赫尔·内西贝医院，被历史与建筑专业学生用作研习场所。
• The university's medical students spend their clinical years in the campus hospitals, and the transplant wards give them exposure to procedures rare in smaller Turkish cities.医学专业学生的临床阶段在校园医院度过，移植病房让他们接触到在土耳其较小城市中罕见的诊疗技术。

Notable people

• Turhan Feyzioğlu, deputy prime minister of Turkey in the 1960s and a Kayseri deputy, was the political force behind the 1969 medical school and the 1978 university.图尔汉·费伊济奥卢（Turhan Feyzioğlu）是 1960 年代土耳其副总理与开塞利选区议员，是 1969 年医学院与 1978 年大学得以设立的政治推手。
• Vedat Ali Özkan, health minister at the time, approved the Kayseri medical school, and Mehmet Çalık, the city's mayor, organised the local land and financing.时任卫生部长韦达特·阿里·厄兹坎（Vedat Ali Özkan）批准了开塞利医学院的设立，市长穆罕默德·恰勒克（Mehmet Çalık）则筹措了本地土地与资金。
• İhsan Doğramacı, rector of Hacettepe University and founder of Bilkent University, sponsored the school and is regarded as its academic progenitor.伊赫桑·多拉马哲（İhsan Doğramacı）是哈杰泰佩大学校长、比尔肯特大学创办人，他为该学院提供支持，被视为其学术上的奠基者。
• Süleyman Demirel, president of Turkey from 1993 to 2000 and a native of the region, attended the university's fundraising ceremonies in the 1990s.苏莱曼·德米雷尔（Süleyman Demirel）于 1993 至 2000 年任土耳其总统，也是本地区人，他在 1990 年代出席了该校的募款仪式。
• Tanju Karanfil of Clemson University and John A. Rogers of Northwestern University sit on the university's International Advisory Board, which reviews its research strategy.克莱姆森大学的坦朱·卡兰菲尔（Tanju Karanfil）与西北大学的约翰·罗杰斯（John A. Rogers）均为该校国际顾问委员会成员，参与审议其科研战略。
• Weihong Tan of Hunan University and Xian Huang of Tianjin University bring Chinese links to the same board, reflecting Erciyes's growing ties with Asian universities.湖南大学的谭蔚泓与天津大学的黄显同为该委员会成员，为埃尔吉耶斯大学带来与亚洲高校的联系。
• Robert Svoboda of the University of California, Davis, and Olcay Y. Jones of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center represent the physics and medical wings of the advisory board.加州大学戴维斯分校的罗伯特·斯沃博达（Robert Svoboda）与沃尔特·里德国家军事医学中心的奥尔贾伊·琼斯（Olcay Y. Jones）分别代表顾问委员会的物理与医学分支。
• The university's medical alumni staff the hospitals of Kayseri and the surrounding provinces, and its transplant centres train surgeons from across central Anatolia.该校医学毕业生充实了开塞利及周边各省的医院，其移植中心则为中安纳托利亚各地培养外科医生。
• Erciyes graduates in engineering and business fill the management of Kayseri's furniture, textile and food companies, the industries that fund the university's technology park.该校工程与商科毕业生占据了开塞利家具、纺织与食品企业的管理层，这些产业也正是大学科技园的出资方。
• No Nobel laureate or Turing Award winner has been affiliated with Erciyes as student or professor, a gap common to Turkey's regional research universities.尚无诺贝尔奖或图灵奖得主以学生或教授身份与埃尔吉耶斯大学相关，这一空缺在土耳其的区域性研究型大学中相当普遍。