ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY

Our university, which aims at having a distinguished place among national and international universities, was founded on 1st March, 2006. Despite being a recently founded university, Kastamonu University has established itself as a “Developing Young University” with its innovations in social, cultural and sports areas as well as its physical developments. Our university consists of two campuses. Our main campus, Kuzeykent Campus, is located on an area of 237 hectares on the north of the city. In our other campus, Faculty of Education and Application Kindergarten is serving. With an increasing number of qualified academic and administrative staff, our university carries out its academic activities within 13 faculties, 3 institutes, 3 schools and 13 vocational schools. Our campus area also includes 1 conference room, 3 indoor sports halls (1 in the Faculty of Education Campus, 2 in Kuzeykent Campus), 1 fitness room, 1 football field (in accordance with UEFA criteria) and athletics track, outdoor sports fields, Center and Student Laboratories, Research and Investigation vessel, 2 social facilities, Practice Kindergarten, Cide Application Hotel. There are five state-funded dormitory buildings near Kuzeykent Campus with capacity of 2928 male and 4462 female students. Apart from these dormitories there are many private dormitories with several facilities, especially in the city center and near the campus. English preparatory education is provided at our university. Preparatory education given by the school of Foreign languages is compulsory for Faculty of Tourism and is optional for our other departments. Furthermore, TÖMER (Turkish Language Teaching, Practice and Research Center) provides Turkish Language classes for international students. https://iro.kastamonu.edu.tr/images/KastamonuUniversity.pdf