COMU

Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (ÇOMÜ in Turkish) is a Turkish university located in Çanakkale (Dardanos) province (near Gallipoli) and its surrounding towns. It is a member of the Balkan Universities Network and hosted the World Universities Congress 2010. COMU was founded in 1992 based upon the Faculty of Education on the Anafartalar Campus. Before this the facilities had housed a teacher training institute that was a branch of Trakya University. With its new status and intake from Turkey's large youth population, the university developed quickly in terms of the number of students, staff and facilities, spurring the opening of new faculties and colleges. The university has expanded rapidly over the last few years and in the...