Kastamonu University, which aims to have a distinguished place among national and international universities, was founded on March 1, 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: the "Kuzeykent Campus" which is the main campus, located on an area of 237 hectares at Daday Road (3 km), and the "Faculty of Medicine Campus."
With 15 faculties, 3 institutes, 2 colleges, 13 vocational schools, 24 research and application centers, 17 coordinatorships, MERLAB (Central Research Laboratory) accredited by TÜRKAK, and a Technology Transfer Office, our university boasts an increasing number of distinguished academic and administrative staff members.
KU offers about 200 undergraduate and graduate programmes, in the fields of education, forestry, tourism, engineering, architecture, health sciences, sports, economy, communication, humanities, aviation, theology and fine arts. With its green campus area surrounded by forests, KU works ambitiously to produce sustainable development both within and outside Türkiye.
Our university has 120 bilateral protocol agreements with universities in different parts of the world. Within the framework of these protocols, students graduating from our vocational schools have the opportunity to complete their bachelor's degree at universities all over the world, with which we have bilateral protocols, and our undergraduate students have the opportunity to receive graduate education. The agreements include joint research, joint projects, and the exchange of faculty members and students.
In addition, our university has protocol agreements with 93 universities in our country within the framework of the Farabi exchange program, and we have agreements with 92 European universities within the scope of study, internships, and faculty mobility within the framework of the Erasmus program. Our university, which is rapidly adding new universities to the list of universities with which we have concluded a cooperation protocol and universities with which we have Erasmus and Farabi agreements, is taking a firm step towards becoming a "world university.".
