Middle East Technical University

Middle East Technical University (METU, Turkish: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, commonly abbreviated ODTÜ) is a public research university in Ankara, the capital of Türkiye, founded on 15 November 1956 under the name Middle East Institute of Technology and given its present name by Law No 6213 on 22 January 1957.东科技大学（英文缩写 METU，土耳其语：Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi，通称 ODTÜ）是位于土耳其首都安卡拉的公立研究型大学，1956 年 11 月 15 日以“中东技术研究所”之名创立，1957 年 1 月 22 日依第 6213 号法律改定现名。

Teaching and research are carried out by 42 academic departments grouped in five faculties and by five graduate schools offering 41 undergraduate, 105 master's and 70 doctoral programmes, and English is the official language of instruction in every degree programme.校 42 个学系分属五个学院，加上五个研究生院共开设 41 个本科、105 个硕士和 70 个博士专业，所有学位专业均以英语授课。

Its 11,100 acre (4,500 hectare) main campus, of which 7,500 acres (3,000 hectares) are forest, is the first planned university campus of Turkey, and the university counts more than 120,000 alumni worldwide while over 40 per cent of its undergraduate graduates go on to graduate study.园占地 11,100 英亩（4,500 公顷），其中 7,500 英亩（3,000 公顷）为人工林地，是土耳其第一座经过规划的大学校园；全球校友超过 120,000 人，逾四成本科毕业生继续攻读研究生。

History

• In 1954 Charles Abrams of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, commissioned by the United Nations to survey housing conditions and the state of architectural, urban and regional planning education in the Middle East, visited Turkey and recommended founding a technological institute there, and the United Nations then assigned G. Holmes Perkins of the University of Pennsylvania to help build the institute that would train Turkish architects and planners.954 年，美国麻省理工学院建筑与规划学院的查尔斯·艾布拉姆斯受联合国委托考察中东住宅问题与建筑、城市和区域规划教育状况，访土后建议设立一所技术学院；联合国随后指派宾夕法尼亚大学的 G. 霍姆斯·珀金斯协助创建这所以培养土耳其建筑师与规划师为使命的学院。

• Middle East Technical University was founded as Orta Doğu Teknoloji Enstitüsü (English: Middle East Institute of Technology) on 15 November 1956 by Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, the Director-General of Highways Vecdi Diker and a group of academics, and the founding Act No 7907 that gave it standing as a juridical entity was enacted on 27 May 1959.东科技大学于 1956 年 11 月 15 日以土耳其语名“Orta Doğu Teknoloji Enstitüsü”（即中东技术研究所）创立，发起人为总理阿德南·门德斯、公路总局局长韦克季·迪克尔及一批学者，1959 年 5 月 27 日颁布的第 7907 号设立法赋予其独立法人地位。

• During the parliamentary debate on the founding legislation the Democrat Party deputy Münib Hayri Ürgüplü argued that in a period of ideological threats in the Middle East the new university would arm young people with the truths of science, while the member of parliament Zakar Tarver moved that the institution be exempt from every form of taxation.设立法的议会辩论中，民主党议员穆尼卜·海雷·于尔居普吕强调，中东正值意识形态威胁丛生之际，这所新大学将以科学真理武装青年；议员扎卡尔·塔尔维尔则提议该校免征一切税项。

• Its government was set apart from every other institute run by the Ministry of National Education by a Board of Trustees at first composed of five members, with Thomas Godfrey holding the temporary directorship until March 1959 and Marvin Sevely serving among the earliest foreign faculty.治理结构与其他由国民教育部管辖的研究所不同，设有一个最初仅由五名成员组成的董事会；托马斯·戈弗雷代理首任负责人至 1959 年 3 月，马文·塞韦利则是最早的外籍教师之一。

• Classes opened in the 1956-1957 academic year with programmes in Architecture and City Planning, held in a small building owned by the Retirement Fund in the Kızılay district and in barracks beside the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, before Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Business Administration, Public Administration and Industrial Management were added in the following years.956 至 1957 学年以建筑与城市规划专业开学，上课地点是凯泽莱区一栋退休基金会的小楼和大土耳其国民议会旁的营房，此后数年陆续增设机械工程、土木工程、工商管理、公共行政与工业管理专业。

• Although the site was still unsettled, the campus plan drawn up by G. Holmes Perkins was adopted, and after rival proposals to use land behind Yalıncak Village or the buildings of the Etimesgut Sugar Factory, a groundbreaking ceremony was held at Yalıncak Village on 2 October 1957 before almost every ambassador in Ankara, President Celal Bayar and Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, with the first chairman of the Board of Trustees Vecdi Diker bringing an excavator from the General Directorate of Highways to open the first trench.管校址未定，珀金斯拟定的校园规划已获通过，在“耶林贾克村后土地”与“埃蒂梅斯古特糖厂厂房”两种方案之间周旋后，1957 年 10 月 2 日于耶林贾克村举行奠基礼，安卡拉几乎全体大使、总统杰拉勒·拜亚尔与总理阿德南·门德斯出席，首任董事会主席韦克季·迪克尔从公路总局调来一台挖掘机挖下第一铲土。

• At the start of the 1957-1958 academic year the Faculty of Architecture, the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Administrative Sciences were constituted, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences was completed in 1959, and that same year a Turkish team of Dr. Turgut Cansever, Ertürk Yener and Mehmet Tataroğlu won the international design competition for the Faculty of Administrative Sciences building, though the project was shelved while the campus site remained undecided.957 至 1958 学年开学之际设立建筑学院、工程学院与管理科学学院，1959 年又建成文理学院；同年土耳其设计团队（图尔古特·詹塞尔维尔、埃尔图尔·耶内尔、梅赫梅特·塔塔罗卢）赢得管理科学学院楼的国际设计竞赛，但因校址未定而搁置。

• The military coup of 27 May 1960 shook the young institute, since Prime Minister Adnan Menderes sat on its Board of Trustees and was arrested and expelled together with the deputy Ahmet Tokuş, and only the stand of Colonel Sami Küçük of the National Unity Committee, who argued against colleagues wanting the university shut as a partisan project, kept teaching going.960 年 5 月 27 日军事政变重创这所初创学府：兼任校董的总理阿德南·门德斯与议员艾哈迈德·托库什被捕并被逐出董事会，民族团结委员会的萨米·居居克上校反对同僚关闭大学的主张，坚持其不应因党派色彩停办，教学活动才得以延续。

• Foreign scholars led the institute in its first years: Willis Raymond Woolrich, who also served as dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Texas, was dismissed as advisory rector after the law of August 1960 ended the mandate of the Board of Trustees, and Edwin S. Burdell, president of the Cooper Union for 22 years and first dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then took the presidency of METU.校初期由外籍学者主政：曾任得克萨斯大学工程学院院长的威利斯·雷蒙德·伍尔里奇在 1960 年 8 月终止董事会职权的法律通过后被解除顾问校长职务；库珀学院 22 年校长、麻省理工学院人文社会科学学院首任院长埃德温·S·伯德尔随后出任校长。

• Professor Turhan Feyzioğlu, a scholar of constitutional law, followed Burdell as the first Turkish rector and told the opening ceremony that Middle East Technical University was entirely a Turkish university, and in June 1960 METU graduated its first class of 30 students, 11 of them in Mechanical Engineering and 19 in Architecture, the top graduate receiving a prize of 1000 lira and a plaque.法学者图尔汗·费济奥格鲁教授接替伯德尔，成为该校首任土耳其裔校长，并在开学典礼上演说强调“中东科技大学完全是土耳其人的大学”；1960 年 6 月 METU 首批 30 名毕业生离校，其中机械工程系 11 人、建筑系 19 人，最优者获 1000 里拉奖金与奖牌。

• On 27 October 1960 the military government used Law No. 114 to expel 147 academics from Turkish universities in the episode remembered as the 147 Incident, and many rectors and faculty members, Feyzioğlu among them, offered their resignations in protest, though his was refused and he remained in office until elected to the Chamber of Deputies in January 1961.960 年 10 月 27 日，军政府依第 114 号法律将 147 名学者逐出土耳其各大学，史称“147 事件”，包括费济奥格鲁在内的多位校长与教师提出辞呈抗议，其辞呈未获接受，他留任至 1961 年 1 月当选议员。

• Rectors then changed with unusual speed: Professor Seha Meray took office on 23 February 1961 and faced a student boycott over doubts about the recognition of diplomas and the state of teaching facilities, which ended only after talks with him, resigned on health grounds after some three months, and was succeeded first temporarily by Uğur Ersoy and then, after Ersoy resigned in August 1961, by the associate professor Arif Payaslıoğlu for two months.后校长更替频繁：塞哈·梅雷教授于 1961 年 2 月 23 日就职，随即遭遇因文凭承认与教学设施不确定而爆发的学生罢课，经与其协商后罢课结束；他约三个月后因健康辞职，先由乌古尔·埃尔索伊临时代理，埃尔索伊 1961 年 8 月辞职后又由副教授阿里夫·帕亚斯里奥卢接任两个月。

• On 26 April 1961 the Board of Trustees fixed the campus at Aşağı Balgat and a fresh national competition judged by an international jury selected the project of the young architects Behruz Çinici and Altuğ Çinici, announced in September 1961, while Kemal Kurdaş, who became rector on 22 November 1961, put campus construction before everything else.961 年 4 月 26 日董事会将校址定于阿沙勒巴勒加特，新一轮设国际评审的全国竞赛选定青年建筑师贝赫鲁兹·奇尼奇与阿尔图·奇尼奇兄弟的方案，结果于 1961 年 9 月公布；1961 年 11 月 22 日就任的校长凯马尔·库尔达什把校园建设列为第一要务。

• Tree planting began on 3 December 1961, when students set out 135,000 saplings, and the campaign went on until the rector and the students together had put more than 1.5 million trees into the steppe, while surveys near Yalıncak Village turned up historical remains that Kurdaş reported to the Ministry of National Education, the General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums and the Ankara Archaeology Museum, now called the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, and digs followed under the archaeologist Burhan Tezcan.961 年 12 月 3 日全校植树动工，学生当日栽下 135,000 株树苗，此后校长与师生共种下逾 150 万株树木；耶林贾克村一带的踏查发现历史遗迹，库尔达什将其通报国民教育部、古迹与博物馆总局以及今日称作安纳托利亚文明博物馆的安卡拉考古博物馆，随后由考古学家布尔汗·泰兹坎主持发掘。

• In 1961, still short of staff and buildings, the institute created departments of mathematics, physics, theoretical physics, chemistry, education, humanities and psychology together with a preparatory class, the construction blueprint was finalised in January 1962 with the Architecture Faculty and the service tunnels to be finished first, the cornerstone of the Architecture building was laid on 11 May 1962 in the presence of President Cemal Gürsel, and the preparatory class moved into four temporary barracks raised in the summer of 1962 and opened there in October 1962 as the first academic unit on the new campus.961 年师资与校舍两缺之际，学校仍设立数学、物理、理论物理、化学、教育、人文与心理诸学系并开办预科班；1962 年 1 月校园建设蓝图定案，优先建成建筑学院楼与地下管廊；1962 年 5 月 11 日总统杰马尔·居尔塞勒出席建筑学院楼奠基礼；1962 年 10 月预科班迁入夏秋间搭建的四栋临时营房，成为新校园首个运作的教学单位。

• Enrolment climbed from 1,025 students in the 1961-1962 academic year to 1,274 in 1962-1963, the Architecture Faculty building that cost 12.5 million lira became operational on 30 September 1963, the new campus was formally inaugurated on 1 October 1963 with Prime Minister İsmet İnönü present, and by the opening of the 1963-1964 year more than 67,000 square metres of floor space was finished, 1,893 Turkish and 167 foreign students were being taught by 310 Turkish and 56 foreign faculty members, and 158 undergraduates and 59 graduate students graduated.校生人数由 1961 至 1962 学年的 1,025 人增至 1962 至 1963 学年的 1,274 人；耗资 1250 万里的建筑学院楼于 1963 年 9 月 30 日启用，新校园于 1963 年 10 月 1 日正式落成，总理伊斯梅特·伊诺努出席；到 1963 至 1964 学年开学时，建成面积已逾 67,000 平方米，1,893 名土耳其学生与 167 名外国学生由 310 名土耳其教师和 56 名外籍教师授课，毕业本科生 158 人、研究生 59 人。

• The METU Library opened in 1956 on a donation of 50 books from the United Nations, was run from 1957 by Furuzan Olşen and Solmaz İzdemir, both holders of American master's degrees in librarianship, adopted the Library of Congress Classification in March 1958 as the first library in Turkey to do so, and passed through the directorships of the UNESCO experts Natelle Isley from 4 January 1958, Donald A. Redmond in 1959, D. R. Kalia in 1961 and William W. Bennett in 1962.ETU 图书馆 1956 年靠联合国捐赠的 50 种图书开馆，1957 年起由两位在美国取得图书馆学硕士学位的馆员富鲁赞·奥尔森与索尔马兹·伊斯德米尔打理，1958 年 3 月采用美国国会图书馆分类法，成为土耳其第一家使用该法的图书馆；联合国教科文组织派遣的专家纳塔勒·艾斯利（1958 年 1 月 4 日起）、唐纳德·A·雷德蒙德（1959 年）、D. R·卡利亚（1961 年）与威廉·W·贝内特（1962 年）先后出任馆长。

• A September 1962 inspection by Paul Wasserman, Director of Libraries at Cornell University, helped unlock a grant of 30,500 under the AID Cornell project, and of the4.5 million awarded to the university by the United States Agency for International Development the rector devoted $1.5 million to the library, whose design by Behruz Çinici is still in use, the named collections include the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library and a British Government gift of 1,000 volumes in memory of Winston Churchill, which lifted the holdings to 50,000 volumes by the close of 1965, and the report on the library by Dr. Robert Downs, Dean of the Library Science Department at the University of Illinois, was highly favourable.962 年 9 月康奈尔大学图书馆馆长保罗· Wasserman 的评估助力获得 AID 康奈尔项目 30,500 美元拨款，美国国际开发署拨给学校的 450 万美元中，库尔达什将 150 万美元投入图书馆，馆舍由贝赫鲁兹·奇尼奇设计、沿用至今；馆内设约翰·F·肯尼迪纪念图书馆、英国政府纪念温斯顿·丘吉尔捐赠的 1,000 册专藏等特藏，到 1965 年底馆藏达 50,000 册；伊利诺伊大学图书馆学系主任罗伯特·唐斯博士的考察报告对该馆评价极高。

• The METU Computer Center was founded in 1964 to handle administrative data processing with computers, printers, sorters and punch card machines, was soon redirected toward academic support, and after Turkish scholars Dr. Şenol Utku and Dr. Cenap Oran were invited back from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology the centre leased an IBM 1620 system of the kind widely used in American universities and installed it in the Department of Physics in 1965, the same year the winning Atatürk Monument and the runner-up Tree of Science were raised on campus.ETU 计算机中心 1964 年创建，起初以计算机、打印机、分类机与穿孔卡机处理行政数据，同年年底即决定转向学术支持；学校自麻省理工学院请回土耳其学者谢诺尔·乌特库博士与杰纳普·奥兰博士协助建系统，租用美国大学通用的 IBM 1620 型机并于 1965 年安装在物理系；同年校园纪念碑竞赛揭晓，阿塔图尔克纪念碑与获第二名的“科学之树”一并立在校内。

• 1967 was a scientific turning point: the university carried out 219 research projects and took more awards than any other institution from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, enrolled 1,843 new students through a newly introduced testing method to reach a total of 5,127, grew its faculty by 20 per cent to 607 members, opened departments of Theoretical Chemistry and Computer Sciences and a Modern Biology Option, and completed the Central Library with 14,620 new books and 1,456 scientific periodicals. * Also in 1967 the rector set up the Committee to Rescue and Evaluate Historical Artifacts that Will Be Submerged by the Keban Dam Lake, opening an eight-year study of the archaeology, history, architecture, ethnography, folklore, music and language of the Keban region that had to be saved ahead of the floodwaters.67 年是科研转折之年：全校执行 219 项科研项目，从土耳其科学技术研究理事会获得的项目数居全国之首；采用新测验方法录取新生 1,843 人，在校生达 5,127 人；教师人数增两成至 607 人；新设理论化学、计算机科学两系与现代生物方向；中央图书馆落成，新增图书 14,620 册、期刊 1,456 种。 在 1967 年，库尔达什校长设立“科班大坝蓄水淹没文物抢救评估委员会”，对科班地区的考古、历史、建筑、民族志、民俗、音乐与语言展开历时八年的抢救性研究。

• Later milestones came quickly: the Institute of Marine Sciences had been working from the Erdemli coast since 1975, the Industrial Engineering professor Ömer Saatçioğlu became rector in July 1987 at the end of Gönlübol's term, the University Senate chose 27 May as METU Day in 1988 and the first Alumni Day honoured thirty-year graduates with plaques in 1989, the year the university reached one thousand personal computers, laid a fiber optic network and linked itself to international networks.后里程碑接踵而至：海洋科学研究所自 1975 年起在代利耶的埃雷姆利海滨工作；工业工程教授奥梅尔·萨特奇奥卢在 1987 年 7 月居诺吕博尔任期结束后接任校长；大学评议会 1988 年确定 5 月 27 日为“科技大学日”；1989 年首届校友节为毕业满三十年的校友授牌，同年全校个人计算机达一千台，铺设光纤网络并接入国际网络。

• A science park was planned from 1987 and the Technology Development Center TEKMER opened in 1990 under an agreement with the Small and Medium Industry Development Organization, while the law of 7 July 1992 replaced appointment of rectors by the Council of Higher Education with election, returning the Civil Engineering professor Süha Sevük to the rectorate after Saatçioğlu's term ended in September 1992 and seeing the BİLTİR Center founded with Turkey's first CAD/CAM Laboratory.技园区自 1987 年即着手筹备，1990 年与技术中小企业发展基金会签约后建成技术开发中心 TEKMER；1992 年 7 月 7 日的法律废止高等教育委员会委任校长之制、改行选举制，萨特奇奥卢 1992 年 9 月卸任后，土木工程专业出身的苏哈·塞维克再次当选校长；同年成立比尔特尔中心，设土耳其首个 CAD/CAM 实验室。

• On 12 April 1993 the first internet connection of Turkey was switched on through a leased 64 kilobit per second line between Ankara and Washington using the routers of the METU Computer Center, and the first Turkish web pages under the .tr domain followed, while the radio project begun in 1994 with the backing of Rector Sevük and Secretary-General Mehmet Çalışkan put Radio METU on the air at 103.1 FM in 1995.993 年 4 月 12 日，土耳其第一条互联网接入线路经 METU 计算机中心的路由器开通，以每秒 64 千比特的专线连接安卡拉与华盛顿，随后建立全国首批 .tr 域名网页，学校并受托管理土耳其国家顶级域名；1994 年在塞维克校长与秘书长梅赫梅特·恰勒尚支持下启动的广播计划，使电台于 1995 年以 103.1 兆赫调频开播。

• In 1998 the METU Development Foundation began a programme to found schools across Anatolia, starting in Ankara, Kayseri, Denizli, Mersin and İzmir with plans to grow to ten or twelve schools, and on 19 November 1998 the MODSİM-LAB was created under a protocol with the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces and the Defence Industry Agency, opening in a new campus building on 24 June 1999 and later attaining centre status as the METU-Turkish Armed Forces MODSİMMER modeling and simulation research center.998 年中东科技大学发展基金会启动在安纳托利亚兴办基础学校的计划，先在安卡拉、开塞利、登尼兹利、梅尔辛与伊兹密尔建校，拟扩至十到十二所；同年 11 月 19 日，校方与土耳其军队总参谋部及国防工业署签署协议设立 MODSİM 实验室，1999 年 6 月 24 日在新楼投入使用，后升格为“中东科技大学－军队 MODSİMMER”建模与仿真应用研究中心。

Academics

• Undergraduate teaching is organised in five faculties: the Faculty of Architecture with Architecture, City and Regional Planning and Industrial Design, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences with Biology, Chemistry, History, Mathematics, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Sociology and Statistics, and the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences with Business Administration, Economics, International Relations and Political Science and Public Administration.科教学分设五个学院：建筑学院含建筑学、城市与区域规划、工业设计三系；文理学院含生物、化学、历史、数学、分子生物与遗传、哲学、物理、心理、社会、统计等学系；经济与行政科学學院含工商管理、经济学、国际关系、政治学与公共行政。

• Next comes the Faculty of Education with Computer Education and Instructional Technology, Educational Sciences, Elementary Education, Foreign Language Education, Physical Education and Sports, and Secondary Science and Mathematics Education, while the Faculty of Engineering is by far the largest, covering Aerospace Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Engineering Sciences, Environmental Engineering, Food Engineering, Geological Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Mining Engineering and Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering.育学院含计算机教育与教学技术、教育科学、初等教育、外语教育、体育与运动、中学理科与数学教育等学系；工程学院规模最大，下设航天工程、化学工程、土木工程、计算机工程、电气与电子工程、工程科学、环境工程、食品工程、地质工程、工业工程、机械工程、冶金与材料工程、采矿工程、石油与天然气工程共十四个学系。

• Graduate work is run by five graduate schools, the Graduate School of Applied Mathematics, the Graduate School of Informatics, the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, the Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Graduate School of Marine Sciences attached to the Institute of Marine Sciences, which between them offer 105 master's and 70 doctoral programmes.究生教育由五个研究生院承担：应用数学研究生院、信息学研究生院、自然与应用科学研究生院、社会科学研究生院，以及挂靠海洋科学研究所的海洋科学研究生院，共开设 105 个硕士与 70 个博士专业。

• Outside the faculties sit the Department of Basic English and the Department of Modern Languages within the School of Foreign Languages, the Technical Vocational School of Higher Education, and two units answerable directly to the rectorate, the Department of Turkish Language and the Department of Music and Fine Arts.院之外另有附属单位：外语学院辖下的基础英语系与现代语言系、高等职业技术学院，以及直接隶属校长办公室的土耳其语系与音乐美术系。

• As of 2020 the university enrolled about 27,000 students, 19,700 of them in undergraduate programmes, 4,700 in master's programmes and 3,000 in doctorates, with a further 1,500 studying at the Northern Cyprus Campus, and more than 40 per cent of undergraduates went on to graduate school.020 年全校在校生约 27,000 人，其中本科生 19,700 人、硕士生 4,700 人、博士生 3,000 人，另有 1,500 人在北塞浦路斯校区就读；逾四成本科毕业生继续深造。

• As of 2023 the university employed 2,603 professors and associate professors, 479 academic instructors and more than 708 research assistants, and the cumulative number of graduates exceeds 500,000, of whom roughly 350,000 completed undergraduate programmes.023 年全校有教授与副教授 2,603 人、讲师 479 人、研究员 708 人以上；历届毕业生总数逾 500,000 人，其中约 350,000 人完成本科阶段。

• METU recruits from the very top of the national university entrance examination: more than one third of the 1,000 highest-scoring candidates enrol each year and most departments admit only the top 0.1 per cent of the nearly 1.5 million applicants.ETU 生源取自全国高校入学考试的顶尖梯队：每年成绩前 1,000 名的考生中有逾三分之一报入该校，多数学系只录取近 150 万报考者中排名前 0.1%的学生。

• English is the language of instruction for every programme and proficiency is tested before studies begin, with students who fall short taking a year of preparatory English taught by the School of Foreign Languages, the only courses given in Turkish are the Turkish language and the history of the Turkish revolution required by the Council of Higher Education.校各专业一律以英语授课并在入学前测试英语水平，未达标者先修外语学院开设的一年英语预科；唯一以土耳其语讲授的是高等教育委员会规定的土耳其语课与土耳其革命史课。

• METU began evaluating its engineering programmes against the standards of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) of the United States in 1991, and the process ended with all thirteen undergraduate programmes of the Faculty of Engineering declared substantially equivalent to ABET accredited programmes, making the university the first European institution to gain equivalence under the board's new criteria and, by 2003, one of only two Turkish universities with fully accredited engineering programmes.1991 年起，METU 按美国工程与技术认证委员会（ABET）的标准评估本校工程专业，最终工程学院全部十三个本科专业被认定与 ABET 认证专业“实质等同”，该校因此成为欧洲第一所在新标准下获得等同认定的机构，到 2003 年更是土耳其仅有的两所工程专业全面认证的高校之一。

• Research platforms include the Central Laboratory inaugurated on 8 December 2004 as education, measurement, molecular biology and biotechnology research and development centers, the BİLTİR Center of 1992 with Turkey's first CAD/CAM laboratory, the MODSİMMER modeling and simulation center, the Computer Center founded in 1964, the Institute of Marine Sciences, and the METU Science and Technology Museum opened in 2005.研平台包括 2004 年 12 月 8 日落成、下设教育、计量、分子生物与生物技术等研发中心的中央实验室，1992 年设立、拥有土耳其首个 CAD/CAM 实验室的比尔特尔中心，MODSİMMER 建模与仿真中心，1964 年创建的计算机中心，海洋科学研究所，以及 2005 年开馆的科技大学科学与技术博物馆。

• In 2001 the Grand National Assembly passed the Technology Development Zones Law and METU Teknokent became the first technology park of Turkey, by 2009 it housed 240 firms employing about 3,300 people, some 2,700 of them researchers, 86 per cent of staff university graduates and 23 per cent holders of a master's or doctorate, with roughly 90 per cent of the firms small or medium enterprises, 65 per cent in information and communication technologies, 25 per cent in electronics and 15 per cent in aerospace, environment, biotechnology, nanotechnology and advanced materials.001 年大国民议会通过技术开发区法，METU 科技园由此成为土耳其第一座科技园；到 2009 年园区入驻企业 240 家、雇员约 3,300 人，其中研究人员约 2,700 人，员工中 86%具大学学历、23%持硕士或博士学位；企业约九成为中小企业，65%从事信息与通信技术，25%从事电子，15%分布航空航天、环境、生物技术、纳米技术与先进材料领域。

• METU took part in 56 projects of the European Union's Sixth Framework Programme, coordinating 12 of them and 3 Networks of Excellence, and joined 33 projects of the Seventh Framework Programme from 2007, while its researchers work within COST, EUREKA, NASA, NATO, NSF, United Nations, World Bank, Jean Monnet, Erasmus Mundus, Leonardo and SOCRATES schemes.校参与欧盟第六框架计划项目 56 项，主持其中 12 项及 3 个卓越网络；自 2007 年起加入第七框架计划项目 33 项；教师与研究人员还参与 COST、EUREKA、美国国家航空航天局、北约、美国国家科学基金会、联合国、世界银行、让·莫内、伊拉斯谟慕德士、莱昂纳多与苏格拉底等计划。

• METU hosted more than 1,700 regular international students from 94 countries as of 2020, holds 168 Erasmus programme agreements and 182 bilateral exchange agreements with foreign universities across Central Asia, the Middle East, North America, Australia and the Far East and Pacific, sending 350 students and receiving 300 students and 50 researchers every year, and by 2020 had opened 22 international joint-degree programmes with European and American partners.020 年该校有来自 94 个国家的 1,700 余名正式国际学生；持有伊拉斯谟计划协议 168 份、与中亚、中东、北美、澳大利亚及远东太平洋地区高校的校际交换与合作协议 182 份，每年派出学生 350 人、接收学生 300 人与研究人员 50 人；至 2020 年已与欧美伙伴开设 22 个联合学位项目。

• Among its Chinese links, METU signs Erasmus+ and bilateral student-exchange agreements with institutions such as Beihang University and Southeast University, the latter sending exchange students from its School of Architecture for the 2025-2026 academic year, and Chinese universities also run summer programmes on the Ankara campus.对华合作方面，METU 与北京航空航天大学、东南大学等高校签有伊拉斯谟加计划与校际互换协议，东南大学建筑学院即按新签协议在 2025 至 2026 学年选派互换生赴安卡拉校区，中国高校亦在该校开设暑期课程项目。

• The university has completed the Institutional Evaluation Programme of the European University Association in 2002, belongs to the European University Association, the European Association for International Education, the Institute of International Education, SEFI and the Council on International Educational Exchange, takes part in AIESEC and IAESTE summer internship schemes, and in 2000 co-founded the Anatolian University Libraries Consortium with Bilkent, Boğaziçi, Hacettepe, İTÜ, Koç and Sabancı universities. In June 2002 METU, Ankara University, İTÜ, Boğaziçi University and Bilkent University also formed the Inter-University European Union Initiative, which organised 12 workshops across the seven themes of the Sixth Framework Programme, and in 2001 the State Planning Organization approved a faculty development project worth 14 million Turkish lira.校于 2002 年完成欧洲大学协会机构评估计划，现为欧洲大学协会、欧洲国际教育协会、国际教育学院、欧洲工程教育学会（SEFI）与国际教育交流理事会成员，参与 AIESEC 与国际实习生交流计划（IAESTE）的暑期实习项目；2000 年与比尔基、博阿济奇、哈杰泰佩、伊斯坦布尔理工、科奇、萨班恰等大学共同创建安纳托利亚高校图书馆联盟。2002 年 6 月，该校又与安卡拉大学、伊斯坦布尔理工大学、博阿济奇大学、比尔基大学共同组建跨高校欧盟倡议，围绕第六框架计划的七个主题举办 12 场工作坊；2001 年国家规划组织批准院系发展项目，资助 1,400 万里尔。

• Its named strengths run from engineering to the planning disciplines that motivated its founding: the Faculty of Engineering with fourteen departments, the Faculties of Architecture for Architecture and for City and Regional Planning, the departments of Computer Engineering and of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, and the Graduate School of Informatics.优势学科既包括创校初衷所在的技术门类：设有十四个学系的工程学院、建筑学院与城市与区域规划专业，以及计算机工程系、石油与天然气工程系和信息学研究生院。

Campus

• The main Ankara campus, in use since 1963, was the first university campus of Turkey and lies about 10 kilometres west of central Ankara, its registered address is Üniversiteler Mahallesi on Dumlupınar Boulevard number 1 in the Çankaya district, in the postal code 06800.卡拉主校区自 1963 年启用，是土耳其第一座大学校区，位于市中心以西约 10 公里，登记地址为昌卡亚区迪吕克皮纳尔大道一号大学城街区，邮编 06800。

• The campus covers 11,100 acres (4,500 hectares), of which 7,500 acres (3,000 hectares) make up the METU Forest, transformed out of bare steppe by continuous planting to which students and volunteers have contributed since the university was founded, the project was carried through by the rector from 1961 to 1969, Kemal Kurdaş.园面积 11,100 英亩（4,500 公顷），其中 7,500 英亩（3,000 公顷）为“中东科技大学林”，由创校以来学生与志愿者持续在荒原上栽种而成，这一绿化工程由 1961 至 1969 年在任的校长凯马尔·库尔达什主导完成。

• Its master plan won the competition announced in September 1961 and was drawn by Behruz Çinici with Altuğ Çinici, and two of Çinici's buildings still serve the university: the Faculty of Architecture, in use since 30 September 1963 and built for 12.5 million lira, and the Central Library, the service tunnels beneath the campus were laid in the first stage of construction between 1962 and 1964.961 年 9 月公布的竞赛中标方案由贝赫鲁兹·奇尼奇与阿尔图·奇尼奇共同设计；至今仍在使用的奇尼奇作品包括 1963 年 9 月 30 日投用、造价 1250 万里的建筑学院楼以及中央图书馆；校园地下管廊在 1962 至 1964 年的首期工程中建成分。

• Facilities inside the fence include the Central Library, the METU Science and Technology Museum opened in 2005, the Culture and Convention Center, the Medical Center, sports facilities, the continuing-education centre and the ODTÜDEN student portal, alongside the shops and dormitories administered by the university. The Central Library holds more than 500,000 books classified under the Library of Congress Classification, subscribes to 1,500 print journals amounting to 170,270 volumes and gives access to 76,671 electronic journals, 587,493 electronic books and 66 electronic reference sources, with an exhibition space of about 100 square metres named after Furuzan Olşen at its entrance.园内设有中央图书馆、2005 年开馆的科技馆、文化与会议中心、医疗中心、体育设施、继续教育中心以及学生门户网站 ODTÜDEN，另有校方管理的商店与学生宿舍。中央图书馆藏有按国会图书馆分类法编目的图书 500,000 余册、纸质期刊 1,500 种共 170,270 册，并提供电子期刊 76,671 种、电子图书 587,493 种与电子工具库 66 个的访问，门口另设面积约 100 平方米、以富鲁赞·奥尔森命名的展览空间。

• Lake Eymir near Gölbaşı, about 15 kilometres from the academic core of the campus, is used by students and faculty for rowing and other recreation, and the campus itself, ringed by its forest, is treated as a natural area as much as a university site.园学术区以东约 15 公里的盖尔巴西附近埃尔米尔湖，是学生与教师赛艇及休闲场所；被林地环绕的校园本身也兼具自然保护地性质。

• The campus is served by several lines of public transport and by the university's own ring buses, whose positions can be tracked online, and the construction of the METU station on the Ankara Metro at the campus main entrance, gate A1, was completed in 2014.园有多条公共交通线路抵达，校内另设环线巴士并支持在线查询到站信息；安卡拉地铁的“中东科技大学站”在校园正门 A1 号门处建设，于 2014 年完工。

• The METU Northern Cyprus Campus, the first overseas campus of a Turkish university, lies 50 kilometres west of North Nicosia, the assembly of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus passed its establishment laws in 2003, it admitted its first students in the 2002-2003 academic year and opened formally in September 2005, and about 1,500 students were enrolled there as of 2020.塞浦路斯校区是土耳其高校的首个海外校区，位于北尼科西亚以西 50 公里；北塞浦路斯土耳其共和国议会于 2003 年通过其设立法，校区在 2002 至 2003 学年招收首批学生，2005 年 9 月正式开学，2020 年在校生约 1,500 人。

• The Erdemli campus in Mersin Province on the Mediterranean coast, 45 kilometres from the city of Mersin, has been used by the Institute of Marine Sciences since 1975 and was the first METU site outside Ankara, covering 660,000 square metres near lemon groves with about 700 square metres of laboratory space and the METU-IMS harbour, the only intact rocky habitat along a long sandy coast and a refuge for marine life.于地中海沿岸梅尔辛省、距梅尔辛市 45 公里的埃雷姆利校区自 1975 年起由海洋科学研究所使用，是该校在安卡拉之外的第一处基地，占地 660,000 平方米、毗邻柠檬园，实验室面积约 700 平方米；该校港湾是漫长沙质海岸线上仅存的完整岩礁生境，为海洋生物提供庇护。

• In 2026 the Ankara campus was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List as METU Campus: A Living Modern Cultural Landscape, recognising the joint achievement of the Çinici master plan and the man-made forest.026 年，安卡拉校园以“中东科技大学校园：活态现代文化景观”之名列入联合国教科文组织世界遗产预备名单，肯定奇尼奇总体规划与人工林地共同构成的成就。

Reputation

• Middle East Technical University is ranked 305th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.东科技大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 305。

• In the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it is placed in the 326-350 band, and in the U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027 it stands at 568th.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位于 326 至 350 区间；在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 568。

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University the university falls in the 901-1000 band.由上海交通大学发布的 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，该校处于 901 至 1000 区间。

• Its best subject showing came in the QS field tables of 2010, when METU was ranked 185th in the world for engineering and technology and 333rd for natural sciences, and in the Webometrics ranking of July 2009 it placed 435th among 15,000 universities, first in Turkey and the only Turkish institution inside the world top 500.科层面，2010 年 QS 学科排名将该校列为世界工程与技术第 185 名、自然科学第 333 名；2009 年 7 月网络计量排名将其列于 15,000 所高校中的世界第 435 名，居土耳其首位，也是当年唯一进入世界前 500 的土耳其高校。

• Earlier global tables put METU at 501-600 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of September 2016, one of only six Turkish universities then inside the world top 600 alongside Bilkent University at 351-400, while in the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings it was placed 91-100 in 2012, 51-60 in 2013 and 71-80 in 2014.2016 年 9 月的泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校列于 501 至 600 档，是当时进入世界前 600 的六所土耳其高校之一，另五所中比尔基大学居 351 至 400；在泰晤士高等教育全球声誉排名中，该校 2012 年列 91 至 100、2013 年列 51 至 60、2014 年列 71 至 80。

• Within Turkey METU commonly ranks at or near the top of the research universities and it has held the largest share of national research funding distributed by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) over the last five years, as well as the lead among Turkish universities in European Union framework programmes.国内，该校长期位居研究型大学前列，过去五年获得土耳其科学技术研究理事会（TÜBİTAK）国家科研经费的最大份额，在欧盟框架计划的参与上也居土耳其高校之首。

• OpenAlex credits the university with 50,056 research works attracting 2,662,723 citations, and in 1967 alone it ran 219 research projects and won the highest number of TÜBİTAK awards.OpenAlex 统计，该校共产出 50,056 项研究成果、累计被引 2,662,723 次；早在 1967 年即在校执行科研项目 219 项，获 TÜBİTAK 资助数居全国第一。

• Its forestation programme won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1995, and the Faculty of Engineering was given the Silver Badge of Honor by the UNESCO International Center for Engineering Education and the Meritorious Achievement Award in Accreditation Activities by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1977, recognition of the standards that later let all thirteen of its engineering programmes pass ABET review.校植树绿化工程获 1995 年阿卡汗建筑奖；工程学院早在 1977 年即获联合国教科文组织工程教育国际中心颁发的“银质荣誉勋章”，并获电气与电子工程师学会（IEEE）“认证活动杰出成就奖”，为其后十三个工程专业通过 ABET 评审奠定标准。

• On the world's top scientific honours, one Nobel laureate sits on its International Advisory Board, the 2003 chemistry laureate Peter Agre of Johns Hopkins University, and its faculty record includes the Wigner Medal awarded to Feza Gürsey in 1986 and the Humboldt Prize awarded to Oktay Sinanoğlu in 1973, though no Nobel, Turing Award or Fields Medal winner has been permanently employed on the Ankara campus.世界顶级科学荣誉方面，2003 年诺贝尔化学奖得主、约翰斯·霍普金斯大学的彼得·阿格雷是其国际咨询委员会成员；教职中费扎·居尔赛 1986 年获维格纳奖章、奥克塔伊·锡南诺卢 1973 年获洪堡奖；但尚无诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主在安卡拉校园长期任教。

Student life

• METU has no historical Latin motto, and the phrase the university uses as its official slogan on the front of its website is "We Can Change the World", chosen to match its founding mission of training scientists and planners for Turkey and the surrounding regions.东科技大学没有传统的拉丁文校训，校方在官网首页使用的正式口号是“We Can Change the World”（我们能够改变世界），与为土耳其及周边地区培养科技与规划人才的创校使命相呼应。

• In 1988 the University Senate fixed 27 May as METU Day, the anniversary of the 1959 Foundation Act, and the day is celebrated every year on the last working day of the week in which 27 May falls, the first Alumni Day followed in 1989, when alumni thirty years out of graduation were honoured with plaques, a practice that has continued since.988 年大学评议会将 5 月 27 日定为“科技大学日”，以纪念 1959 年第 7907 号设立法；校方每年在 5 月 27 日所在周的最后一个工作日举行庆典；1989 年首届校友节则为离校满三十年的校友授牌，此制延续至今。

• Student volunteering has been part of campus routine since 3 December 1961, when students planted 135,000 saplings in a single day, and the forest that now covers 7,500 acres has been extended each year by students and volunteers on the university's planting campaigns.生义务劳动自 1961 年 12 月 3 日单日栽下 135,000 株树苗起就是校园传统，如今占地 7,500 英亩的林地仍靠每年校园植树活动由学生与志愿者继续扩展。

• Accommodation is largely on campus and the university campaigns under the slogan "My Dorm My Home METU", its dormitories were opened to survivors of the Marmara earthquake of 17 August 1999, which killed about 18,000 people, and the campus also served as the base of the crisis management center and of the METU Earthquake Relief Campaign and scholarship scheme.生住宿以校内宿舍为主，校方以“My Dorm My Home METU”（宿舍即我家）为宣传口号；1999 年 8 月 17 日马尔马拉地震致约 18,000 人遇难后，校内宿舍向灾民开放，校园同时成为校方危机管理中心、地震救援行动与面向大中小学灾区学生的奖学金计划的基地。

• Students govern themselves through the Council of Student Representatives and the student assemblies, and the campus supports clubs and societies, sports facilities and a Culture and Convention Center that hosts concerts and the university's spring events.生通过学生代表委员会与学生自治组织参与校内事务；校园内有众多社团俱乐部、体育设施与举办音乐会及春季系列活动的文化与会议中心。

• Radio METU has broadcast on 103.1 FM since 1995, the project having been launched in 1994 under Rector Süha Sevük and Secretary-General Mehmet Çalışkan, and student media also include the ODTÜDEN portal and the Turkish-language ODTÜLÜ magazine published by the university.园电台自 1995 年起以 103.1 兆赫调频播音，该项目由苏哈·塞维克校长与秘书长梅赫梅特·恰勒尚于 1994 年推动创办；学生媒体另有 ODTÜDEN 网站与校方出版的土耳其语刊物《ODTÜLÜ》。

• Athletes and adventurers from the campus have won national and world recognition: the correspondence chess grandmaster Tunç Hamarat took the International Correspondence Chess Federation world title in 2004, Eylem Elif Maviş became the first Turkish woman to summit Mount Everest, and Yasemin Dalkılıç has held world records in free diving.园走出的运动员同样成绩显著：通讯棋特级大师通奇·哈马拉特获 2004 年国际通讯棋联合会世界冠军；艾勒姆·埃利夫·马维什成为首位登顶珠穆朗玛峰的土耳其女性；亚谢敏·达尔克利奇多次创自由潜水世界纪录。

• Rowing and other water sports use Lake Eymir 15 kilometres from the academic core, while the forest inside the campus ring, its shops, its medical center and its metro link at gate A1 make the site a self-contained town, the first student boycott of 1961, resolved by negotiation with Rector Seha Meray, set the pattern for student consultation on campus affairs.艇等水上项目使用距学术区 15 公里的埃尔米尔湖；校园环线内的林地、商店、医疗中心与 A1 号门的地铁站使其自成一城；1961 年首次学生罢课经与校长塞哈·梅雷协商化解，开创了校内事务与学生协商的先例。

Notable people

• Its founders and earliest foreign staff include Prime Minister Adnan Menderes and the Director-General of Highways Vecdi Diker, the first chairman of the Board of Trustees, the United Nations advisers Charles Abrams of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and G. Holmes Perkins of the University of Pennsylvania, the temporary director Thomas Godfrey, the early faculty member Marvin Sevely, the advisory rector Willis Raymond Woolrich of the University of Texas and the president Edwin S. Burdell of the Cooper Union.办者与最早的外籍教师包括总理阿德南·门德斯、首任董事会主席暨公路总局局长韦克季·迪克尔、联合国顾问麻省理工学院出身的查尔斯·艾布拉姆斯与宾夕法尼亚大学的珀金斯、临时负责人托马斯·戈弗雷、早期教师马文·塞韦利、得克萨斯大学出身的顾问校长伍尔里奇，以及库珀学院出身的校长伯德尔。

• Rectors from the faculty shaped the institution: Turhan Feyzioğlu, a constitutional lawyer, was the first Turkish rector in 1960-1961 and Seha Meray, Uğur Ersoy and Arif Payaslıoğlu followed in rapid succession in 1961, the architect-rector Kemal Kurdaş held office from 1961 to 1969, the theoretical physicist Erdal İnönü from 1970 to 1971, and after Gönlübol came the industrial engineer Ömer Saatçioğlu in 1987, the civil engineer Süha Sevük in 1992 and the chemist Ural Akbulut in 2000.教师中产生的历任校长塑造了这所学校：宪法学者图尔汗·费济奥格鲁于 1960 至 1961 年任首任土耳其裔校长，1961 年内塞哈·梅雷、乌古尔·埃尔索伊、阿里夫·帕亚斯里奥卢相继接任；建筑师出身的凯马尔·库尔达什 1961 至 1969 年在任；理论物理学家埃尔达尔·伊诺努 1970 至 1971 年在任；居诺吕博尔之后，工业工程师奥梅尔·萨特奇奥卢 1987 年、土木工程师苏哈·塞维克 1992 年、化学家乌拉尔·阿克布卢特 2000 年分别就职。

• Physicists who taught at METU include Feza Gürsey, who was on the faculty from 1961 to 1974 and took the Wigner Medal in 1986, Oktay Sinanoğlu, a physical chemist trained at the University of California, Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who won the Humboldt Prize in 1973, Behram Kurşunoğlu, who held posts from 1956 to 1958 and helped establish the existence of two kinds of neutrino in the late 1950s, and Hakkı Ögelman, a Cornell-trained astrophysicist on the faculty from 1970 to 1990.理学家方面，费扎·居尔赛 1961 至 1974 年任教、1986 年获维格纳奖章；奥克塔伊·锡南诺卢毕业于加州大学伯克利分校与麻省理工学院、1973 年获洪堡奖；贝赫拉姆·库尔松奥卢 1956 至 1958 年在校任教，1950 年代末参与证实中微子有两种；康奈尔大学出身的天体物理学家哈克·于格尔曼 1970 至 1990 年任教。

• Mathematicians on its roster include Cahit Arf, professor from 1967 to 1980 and author of the Arf invariant, trained at the École Normale Supérieure, Robert Langlands, who spent the year 1967-1968 at METU before becoming one of the century's leading number theorists, holding degrees from the University of British Columbia and Yale University, Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda of Osaka University, and the nuclear scientist Namık Kemal Pak, doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. * Space science is represented by Dilhan Eryurt, an astrophysicist who worked at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and on Apollo 11, by Jean Swank of the California Institute of Technology, by Bilge Demirköz trained at MIT and the University of Oxford, and by the solar physicist Ordal Demokan, doctorate from the University of Iowa, while the computer scientist Tuncer Ören holds an emeritus chair in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.与基础科学名家包括 1967 至 1980 年任教、以阿尔弗不变量闻名、负笈巴黎高等师范学校的贾希特·阿尔弗；1967 至 1968 年在此讲学、拥有不列颠哥伦比亚大学学士与耶鲁大学博士学位的数学家罗伯特·兰格兰兹；大阪大学出身的数学家 Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda；以及加州大学伯克利分校博士、核物理学家纳比克·凯末尔·帕克。 科学方面：天体物理学家迪尔汗·埃雷尔特曾在 NASA 戈达德太空研究所工作并参与阿波罗十一号任务；让·斯旺克出身加州理工学院；比尔盖·德米尔科尔获麻省理工学院学士与牛津大学博士；太阳物理学家奥尔达尔·德莫坎获爱荷华大学博士；计算机科学家通杰尔·伦任电气与计算机科学学院荣休教授。

• Historians and social scientists include Aptullah Kuran, dean of the Faculty of Architecture from 1960 to 1968 with degrees from Yale University and Ankara University who went on to found Boğaziçi University, Şerif Mardin, the sociologist trained at Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University and Princeton University, Kemal Karpat of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Suraiya Faroqhi of the University of Hamburg, a Fellow of the British Academy, the Middle East historian İlber Ortaylı, and the anthropologist Nur Yalman, a Cambridge graduate who became chairman of Koç University.史与社会科学学者包括 1960 至 1968 年任建筑学院院长、先后毕业于耶鲁大学与安卡拉大学、后创办博阿济奇大学的阿普图拉·库兰；社会学家谢里夫·马尔丁（斯坦福、约翰斯·霍普金斯、普林斯顿）； Kemal Karpat（威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校）；汉堡大学博士、英国科学院院士苏拉娅·法罗奇；中东史名家伊尔贝尔·奥尔塔伊利；以及剑桥大学出身、后任科奇大学董事长的社会人类学家努尔·亚尔曼。

• Economists and statesmen trained or employed here include Kemal Derviş, who taught at METU from 1973 to 1976, took his doctorate at Princeton University and later led the United Nations Development Programme, served as a World Bank vice-president and as Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey, Hikmet Çetin, former minister of foreign affairs and NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, Yakin Ertürk, the former United Nations special rapporteur, and Ali Babacan, graduate of 1988 and later Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey.此任教或受业的政经人物包括：1973 至 1976 年任教、普林斯顿大学博士、后任联合国开发计划署署长、世界银行副行长与土耳其副总理的凯马尔·德维什；前外交部长、北约阿富汗首席文职代表希克梅特·杰廷；前联合国特别报告员雅金·埃尔图尔克；以及 1988 届校友、后任土耳其副总理的阿里·巴班詹。

• Its alumni include two other deputy prime ministers and several ministers, Cevdet Yılmaz and former development minister Cüneyd Düzyol being the most prominent, together with Mehmet Ali Talat, graduate of the 1977 master's class and President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Nabi Avcı, minister of national education and chairman of the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO, Fikri Işık, minister of science, industry and technology, and Kürşad Tüzmen, minister of trade and customs, Javaid Laghari, master's graduate in electrical engineering of 1975, chaired the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan and sat in its Senate.友中另有两位副总理与多位部长，最著名为副总理杰夫代特·耶尔马兹与前发展部长居奈德·杜聚奥尔；1977 届硕士梅赫梅特·阿里·塔拉特出任北塞浦路斯土耳其共和国总统；1986 届校友纳比·阿夫哲任国民教育部长并掌土耳其联合国教科文组织全国委员会；菲克里·伊席克任科技工业部长；居尔沙特·图兹曼任贸易与海关部长；1975 届电气工程硕士贾维德·拉加里曾任巴基斯坦高等教育委员会主任并任该国参议员。

• Central banking and business have strong METU representation: Erdem Başçı, trained at Johns Hopkins University and Bilkent University, headed the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey and Süreyya Serdengeçti, graduate of 1979, had earlier served as governor of the same bank, Haluk Bayraktar, a computer engineering graduate of 2000, is chief executive of Baykar and sits on the TÜBİTAK board, Eren Bali, graduate of 2005 in mathematics and computer engineering, founded and runs the online course platform Udemy, and Ahmet Bozer holds office as a vice-president of The Coca-Cola Company.融与工商界 METU 色彩浓厚：约翰斯·霍普金斯大学与比尔基大学出身的埃尔德姆·巴什奇出任土耳其共和国中央银行行长，1979 届校友叙雷亚·塞尔登盖奇提更早担任同一职位；2000 届计算机工程校友哈鲁克·拜拉克塔尔任拜卡尔首席执行官并任 TÜBİTAK 董事；2005 届数学与计算机工程校友埃伦·巴利创办并执掌在线教育平台 Udemy；艾哈迈德·博泽尔任可口可乐公司副总裁。

• In science and engineering abroad, Ümran İnan of Stanford University became president of Koç University after NASA group achievement awards in 1983, 1998 and 2004, M. Tamer Özsu, graduate of 1974 and 1978 and doctorate from Ohio State University, is a University Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science and a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE and the Royal Society of Canada, Erol Gelenbe, graduate of 1966 with doctorates from New York University and the Sorbonne, chairs the informatics section of Academia Europaea, Tülay Adali is a distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Naşide Gözde Durmuş was named among the world's top innovators under thirty-five in 2015, Ilkay Altintas is Chief Data Science Officer of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and Peter Agre, the 2003 Nobel laureate in chemistry, serves on the METU International Advisory Board with William Colglazier, former United States Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State, and the deputy dean of the Whitacre College of Engineering Nurcan Baç, Oya Atalay Franck of the ZHAW School of Architecture and Oya I. Tukel of the NJIT Martin Tuchman School of Management.海外科学与工程的校友与顾问中：斯坦福大学博士 Ümran İnan 于 1983、1998、2004 三度获 NASA 集体成就奖后出任科奇大学校长；1974 与 1978 届校友、俄亥俄州立大学博士 M. 塔梅尔·厄兹苏为滑铁卢大学谢里顿计算机科学学院大学讲座教授，兼美国计算机协会、电气与电子工程师学会与加拿大皇家学会会士；1966 届校友埃萝尔·盖伦贝拥有纽约大学博士与索邦大学理科博士，主持欧洲学术院信息学组；图莱·阿达利是马里兰大学巴尔的摩县分校讲席教授；纳希代·居兹德·杜尔穆什 2015 年入选全球三十五岁以下顶尖创新者；伊尔凯·阿尔坦塔斯任圣迭戈超级计算机中心首席数据科学官；2003 年诺贝尔化学奖得主彼得·阿格雷与曾任美国国务院科技顾问的威廉·科尔格拉齐，以及惠特克工程学院副院长努尔詹·巴奇、苏黎世应用科学大学建筑学院院长奥雅·阿塔莱·弗兰克、新泽西理工学院马丁·塔克曼管理学院院长奥雅·图凯尔同列该校国际咨询委员会。

• Writers, journalists and artists from METU include the novelist Elif Şafak, made a member of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2010, the journalist Can Dündar, holder of the Reporters Without Borders prize of 2015, his colleague Emin Çölaşan, the columnist and economist Alev Alatlı of the first graduating class of 1963, the rock singer Şebnem Ferah, the historian and Holocaust scholar Taner Akçam, the philosopher Arda Denkel, and the artist and professor Hakan Topal.学与新闻界校友包括 2010 年获法国文学艺术勋章的小说家艾莉芙·夏法克；2015 年获无国界记者新闻奖的记者詹·敦达尔；其同行埃明·乔拉桑；1963 年首届毕业班出身、集经济学家与专栏作家于一身的阿莱芙·阿拉特勒；摇滚歌手谢卜嫩·费拉赫；大屠杀研究学者、历史学家塔内尔·阿克恰姆；哲学家阿尔达·登凯尔；以及在纽约州立大学帕切斯学院任教的艺术家哈坎·托帕尔。