Erdoğan: 350 Thousand Foreign Students from 198 Countries Are Studying in Türkiye
The President of Türkiye, pointing to the significant increase in the education budget and the number of universities over the past 23 years, announced that currently more than 350 thousand international students from 198 countries around the world are studying at universities in the country.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the President of Türkiye, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the Boğaziçi University Male and Female Dormitories in Istanbul. During the ceremony, he stated: “We have mobilized all our resources so that our universities can achieve higher rankings, especially in prestigious international rankings.”
Erdoğan proceeded to provide remarkable statistics on the growth of higher education in Türkiye, emphasizing: “Currently, 6 million 830 thousand students are studying at universities in our country. In addition to this, more than 350 thousand guest students from 198 countries around the world are receiving education with high standards at our universities. We have increased the number of universities from 76 to 208, and the number of faculty members from 70 thousand to 187 thousand.”
Emphasizing the government’s firm resolve to continue the path of progress without any pause or hesitation, he noted: “It is important for us that our country’s universities and academics, while carrying out activities on a global scale, also pay attention to localization efforts. I observe with great pleasure that Boğaziçi University has taken important steps in this direction recently.”
In another part of his speech, the President of Türkiye, citing the writings of the renowned Turkish poet and author Sezai Karakoç, stressed the importance of dimensions beyond intelligence in managing life and said: “The principle that guides our lives is not intelligence alone. The stronger form of intelligence, purged of negativities, is reason; stronger than reason is the heart; and stronger than all of these is our soul.”
