Aydin is located in the Aegean Region. One of the most developed provinces in terms of tourism and agriculture. Although the main city doesn't have shores to the Aegean Sea, a lot of provinces has beautiful places to see. Aydin has a large number of historical monuments. Herodotus related Aydin province "Our earth's six most beautiful sky and the best climate to where we know," he said. Aydin is influenced by the Mediterranean climate. The rainiest season is winter. Summer rainfall is little or no during the season. Snowfall appears rare.
There are lots of places to be in around Aydın, Such as İzmir, Manisa, Denizli, and Muğla. If you are a person who likes to travel a lot we suggest you come and enjoy the ability to reach everywhere with no ease. Natural beauty, climate, historical features are all in one in our small city. Aydin has over ten of ancient cities. Provinces of Aydın, especially Kusadasi and Didim, have a lot to offer you.
Adnan Menderes University, located on the hill. Aydin is a state university founded in 1992. Our university today continues to offer education in 17 different towns . Such as Kusadasi, Söke, Didim and is Davutlar. But Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Science and Aydin Vocational School is located in the central city. At the same time, Adnan Menderes University Faculty of Veterinary Campus, Faculty of Cakmur Campus is located in the center. It is very easy to access the university by public bus services in approximately every 7 minutes down the hill. If you prefer, you can also walk down to the hill.
Total Administrative Employees: 1710
Total Number of Academic Staff:1717
Total Number of Students: 4764
Our hospital beds: 485 beds in service, 102 intensive care bed, including a total of 587 registered beds. Our hospital has 14 operating rooms. Our operating theaters are able to broadcast the conference room with the camera.For the education of our students, it is very important. Our hospital offers services consisting of a staff of 325 nurses and 818 staff.
Our faculty has a new building.Our labs have a lot of new accoureted equipment.Teachers in our university hospital run several research projects about important disease like cancer.
Investigation of the Oncogenic Potential of Protein Phosphatase PPM1D/Wip1 in Human Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Meals will be provided in the hospital cafeteria at lunch breaks. Also, there are several places where you can eat. Down to the hill, there is a small shopping center called "Forum Aydin". This place has mixed with different restaurants so you can taste fast food and Turkish cuisine, depends on what you prefer. To the main city, there are different and small restaurants on Adnan Menderes Avenue. By that way, you can easily get into Turkish culture.
Lodging is in student flats shared with Turkish medical students so you can easily learn Turkish culture and language.
Getting There
All of our incomings come to Izmir Airport. After that there is two ways to get to Aydin. Intercity buses or railways. For the first one, you should take public bus no. 204 to Izmir Intercity bus station. From Izmir Bus Station (OTOGAR) there are plenty of companies that have buses to Aydin.When you arrive to Aydin Bus Station, bus companies have free transport service to Aydin city center.For railways, there is a train station near Izmir Airport and there are trains avalible between 8.00 – 18.30 everyday.The trains come directly to Aydin city center.
Getting Around
Aydin city center is a small town so you can go everywhere buy public buses or walking.
There is a lot of ruin in Aydin. Thousands of years of history in this land that has left dozens of different civilizations lived and scars . Didyma,one of the most important ancient cities of our country ancient city and Aphrodisias as well as. Alice in the ancient city of the ancient city , Tralleis ancient city of Nysa Ancient City , Alabanda ancient city of Magnesia Ancient City and Miletus Theater is located in Aydin
Museums:
Those who are interested in history indispensable stop for vacationers Aydin museums. Offering a lot of information about the history and culture of the region between Authentica Museum of Ethnography museum Aydin, Karacasu Ethnographic Museum, and Miletus Museum nomad Ali Efe Museum of the museum is a must-see
Mosques:
The remaining historical buildings from different periods between Aydin mosques are remarkable. Ahmed Gazi Mosque,Ahmed Shamsi Pasha Mosque, Bey Mosque, Ilyas Bey Mosque Ilyas Bey Complex, Üveys Pasha Camiiv the Ox Mehmet Pasha Caravanserai in historic mosques can visit Aydin.
Holiday Town: Aydin has some of the famous resort of our country.These include Didim famous turquoise waters and pristine beaches. We suggest you to see in Didim:Handle Island in Altinkum, Akbuk and Altinkum Beach. Another resort area is Kusadasi .Every year thousand local and foreign tourists visit here.We suggest you to see in:Kusadasi National Park, Dilek Peninsula, Zeus Cave and Guvercinada Castle.
During July and August, our national team has planned tours which can make your exchange experience even more unforgettable. Even tho we haven't planned any specific social programs way before you come here, we are always ready to help and arrange something you would like to do. Which makes us more flexible in that way we hope we can make your experience special for each and every student.