Education in Ankara

Education in Ankara is primarily provided by public schools and private schools. Compulsory education lasts 12 years. Ankara is the center of education in Turkey. Many foundations such as Ministry of National Education, Council of Higher Education and Education and Science Workers' Union is centered in the city.

Primary and secondary education
Numbers of schools, students, teachers and clasrooms in Ankara in 2017-2018[1]
Number of schools Number of students Number of teachers Number of classrooms Students per classroom
Public Private Total Public Private Total Public Private Total Public Private Total Public Private
Pre-primary education 112 375 487 54.341 19.939 74.280 3.531 1.482 5.013 1.968 2.143 4.111 28 9
Primary education 621 200 821 271.562 30.694 302.256 15.350 3.709 19.059 10.052 3.045 13.097 27 10
Middle school 579 212 791 282.482 36.604 319.086 17.936 4.314 2.250 8.472 3.000 11.472 33 12
General high schools 150 293 443 95.348 50.151 145.499 7.040 6.899 13.939 3.623 4.523 8.146 26 11
Vocational high schools 215 47 262 101.952 11.278 113.230 10.672 1.063 11.735 3.747 841 4.588 27 13
Religious high schools 64 0 64 22.621 0 22.621 2.284 0 2.284 1.564 0 1.564 14 0
Total 1.741 1.127 2.868 828.306 148.666 976.972 54.470 17.467 71.937 28.071 13.552 41.623 30 11

Universities

There are 14 universities in Ankara, 7 of them are private and 7 of them are public. Its is the city with highest number of universities in Turkey after Istanbul. Universities in Ankara include Gazi University which is the first university in history of Republic of Turkey,[2] Middle East Technical University which is the first university in Turkey that teached a foreign language,[3] Bilkent University which is the first private university in Turkey[4] and Hacettepe University which is the most advanced university in Turkey in the field of medicine.

List of universities
Main article: List of universities in Ankara

Student dormitories

There are 32 public and 306 private student dormitories in Ankara. There were 27,225 students staying in public dormitories and 12,251 students staying in private dormitories in 2018. 82 schools across the city has their own pansions and number of students staying in those pansions is 12,343.[5]

References
  1. https://ankara.meb.gov.tr/meb_iys_dosyalar/2018_07/05165530_2017-2018_EYYTYM_YYRETYM_YILI__YSTATYSTYKLE.xls
  2. "Tarihçe - Gazi Üniversitesi". gazi-universitesi.gazi.edu.tr. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
  3. "ODTÜ Ankara Kampusu Aday Öğrenci Sayfası | Siz de ODTÜ'lü Olmalısınız". web.archive.org. 2015-10-22. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
  4. https://w3.bilkent.edu.tr/www/bilkent-hakkinda/
  5. "National Education Statistics 2017/'18" (PDF).
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