General Information
Gebze Institute of Technology (GIT) was established in 1992 and now is located in a purposefully selected area, at the epicenter of developing Turkish industry in the Marmara Region of Turkey. GIT’s main objective is research and development at the cutting edge of the technology. GIT aims at being a research institution which educates enterprising and open minded researchers, acquiring a prestigious position in the international society of science and technology, and leading national industry to acquire significant competitive advantages in the global market. As well as being young and dynamic, GIT is a assertive, developing university with its elite academic staff and state of the art infrastructure

Points of Pride
Although GIT is comparatively young it is already ranked among the top Turkish universities for educational value.

• Being a center of research, GIT was ranked 1. in Turkey as per the rate of PhD students to the whole student population.

• GIT has been rated 2nd in 2009, 4th in 2007, 5th  in 2006, 4th  in 2005, 2nd   in 2004 and 6th in 2003 among Turkish Universities according to the number of international publications per faculty.

• GIT Faculty received various awards including: V.G. Sologub Award, Incitement Award given by The Scientific And Technological Research Council Of Turkey, METU Mustafa Parlar Foundation Science Award, Sedat Simavi Science Award

Departments

Please click here to view GIT Undergraduate Departments page

Please click here to view GIT Graduate Departments page


Location
GIT is located on the north-eastern shores of the Sea of Marmara, bordering Istanbul on the west. The present industrial town Gebze, in the City of Kocaeli has a population of five hundred thousand, with numerous industries and hosts the largest research and development center in TUBITAK-MAM, and the Gebze Institute of Technology.

The main campus of GIT (Çayırova Campus) is located on the Istanbul-Ankara highway, 10 kilometers away from Gebze city center towards Istanbul. The campus is settled in a wooded green savanna of 245,000 square meters The Rector’s Office, Administrative bodies, The Library, and classrooms for the entire undergraduate and a number of graduate studies are located in Çayırova Campus.  Please click here to see the scratch of Cayirova Campus.

The second campus area, called the Muallimkoy Campus, is actively providing graduate studies and has research laboratories in its two main buildings comprising 48,000 square meters of enclosed area. Both campus locations are continuously being developed and expanded in order to meet the needs of increasing student population. Please click here to see the scratch of Muallimkoy Campus.

In addition, the Department of Foreign Languages provides English Preparatory classes for both undergraduate and graduate students.

Accomodation And Student Life
Erasmus students will be offered accommodation in the student dormitories at low prices. There is also opportunity to stay at their classmates’ family houses, or they can rent apartments for reasonable prices nearby the campus.

If the students prefer to stay in the flats belonging to facilities of our Institute, they are charged 150 €, including cleaning services. If not, the students may look for private flats on locations close to the campus, the cost of which differs  depending on the conditions."

It is estimated that the average monthly personal expenses for students are between 300 and 400 Euro including rent and all other expenses.

- Laboratories and Library: GIT has 79 Research and/or Teaching Laboratories equipped with state of the art hardware. Every major department has its own computer network and laboratory for its students. In addition, public computer laboratories are available workdays and weekends.

The reading room at the library is available 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. seven days a week. Library services are free of charge (membership is required to borrow books, dvds and music cds out of the library). Please click here to view GIT Library web page.

- Sports Facilities: The GIT Cayirova Campus houses a sports complex offering many sports opportunities including artificial turf football fields, tennis, basketball, and volleyball courts, table tennis, squash, indoor half-size basketball court and a conditioning gymnasium with a qualified trainer, and saunas. The Water Sports Club located at the GIT Marmara Seaside Social Complex is open to those interested in activities as swimming, canoeing and rowing. At the GIT Sports Club, all sporting facilities are available for use everyday, including weekends on appointment in advance. Please click here to see the sport activities

- Health: Medical and dental services are available for students and the academic personnel at the GIT Health Services Center, located at the R-Block of Cayirova Campus, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.,Monday through Friday.

- Food: Cafeteria services are available at all three different campus locations.  The lunch menus consist of five-course calorie and nutrition controlled meals at reasonable prices. There are also cafes at all campus locations which provide a variety of snacks, fast food choices and beverages.

- Transportation: The Cayirova and Muallimkoy Campus locations of GIT are accessible from Istanbul and Kocaeli city centers by the E-5 and the TEM Highways, via Haydarpasa-Gebze commuter trains, Harem and Eskihisar Ferries and the connecting commuter minibuses. Both campuses are located very close to the Kurtkoy Sabiha Gokcen Airport in Istanbul. Please click here to view the sketch for accesing GIT Cayirova Campus via E5 and TEM Highways.

- Security: All campus areas are under 24-hour security surveillance by security cameras as well as by security guards.

- Other Facilities: All parking is free of charge. There are pay phones and ATM units on campus.