Ondokuz Mayıs University (OMU) is a well-established local state university founded in 1975. The University’s mission is to adopt universal values to bring innovation to benefit individuals and society, working with intellectual rigour. The university has schools in the City of Samsun and 7 other counties. The main campus is in Samsun, a coastal and harbour city situated on the border of the Black Sea.

The University gives great importance to science, education and research and is one of Turkiye’s strongest research and teaching institutions. It also aims to satisfy a student’s needs in terms of professional training and other social needs, such as accommodation, health service, nutrition, cultural, social and sports activities, etc.

The university has 20 faculties, one school (first cycle), 12 vocational schools (short cycle), 2 graduate schools, 24 research centres and one conservatoire. It has 45,617 (4996 full-time international students from 120 different countries) students (including postgraduate and distance learning students), 2,500 academic staff and 3,875 employees.

As one of the most established faculties of our university, Ondokuz Mayıs University Faculty of Agriculture continues to train students with its dynamic academic staff. Our faculty, established in 1976, has 55 professors, 26 associate professors, 17 assistant professors, 6 doctoral research assistants, 23 research assistants, one lecturer, and over 1370 students. In addition to education and training activities, our faculty works with external stakeholders by supporting agricultural production. In agricultural production, we make the necessary contributions in line with the demands of the social environment. In addition, for student’s social and cultural development, there are two types of community structures classified into professional and social categories within the body of the Directorate of Health, Culture and Sports of our university. Professional societies are specific to faculties, while social societies are general. Our students have carried out many activities and organizations within the communities so far. In addition, our university provides the institutional ground necessary to create the atmosphere that will enable the cultural development of our students through social communities operating in 93 fields, from cycling to chess.