Social Sciences University of Ankara (ASBU)

ASBU was founded in 2013 in the center of the capital of Turkey in order to pioneer research in the social sciences and is Turkey's first and only state university on this field. ASBU is a research-oriented university for both undergraduate and graduate studies. Among the university’s primary aims is the publication of social sciences research that positively contributes to the international literature. A large number of research and application centers at ASBU are active for this purpose.

Research University

Research in ASBU does not have the understanding of transferring knowledge produced in the West with small contributions, it is based on the production of information that will contribute to the production of unique solutions for social, human, administrative, political, commercial and industrial problems at the local level. For this reason, as in the leading research universities in the world, ASBU is working with a focus on research centers.

City University

ASBU is not a campus university outside the city, it is a city university that penetrates the city's tissue and veins, intertwined with the community, which is the natural laboratory of social sciences. Being a city university gives ASBU the opportunity to integrate into society and examine the dynamic structure of society.

An Environment where Education and Research Integrate with History and Culture

ASBU carries out its education and research activities in buildings with high historical, cultural and aesthetic value in Ulus, one of the oldest districts of Ankara. The ASBU campus is located in historic buildings that also include the first Prime Ministry Building of the Republic of Turkey. Our rectorate building was built in 1925 by the architect Yahya Ahmet Bey and served as the Prime Ministry Building until 1937. After the 1950s, the building, which was the home of the treasury, was used by the Undersecretariat of Customs after 2001, and was allocated to ASBU in April 2013. The campus of our university is also adjacent to the tomb of Hacı Bayram Veli, one of the oldest historical sites in Ankara, the 2000-year-old archaeological Roman Baths of Ankara, the Monumentum Ancyranum and the historic Turkish Parliament Buildings. In this historical texture, the university intends to create educational and research environments using modern technology and to blend past and future in its structure.

Interdisciplinary Approach

ASBU undergraduate and graduate programs are designed on the basis of the interdisciplinary approach to enable our students to be aware of the work in different disciplines. Our undergraduate and graduate programs allow students to take courses from different departments with a rich elective course pool and thus to deepen and study in their fields of interest.

Possibility to learn more than one language

ASBU, which gives importance to multilingualism in education, provides students with opportunities to improve their language skills. In this context, our Language Center offers its students with its Turkish and international experts to a high quality language education. The medium of instruction in all of our programs is English. ASBU students are not only able to acquire a high level of English, but are also particularly encouraged to learn a second foreign language.