Could someone PLEASE tell me about Galatasaray University?
Galatasaray University is the only Francophone University in Turkey. The establishment has 5 faculties (Economic and Administrative Sciences, Law, Communications, Natural Sciences and Literature), 2 institutes (Social Sciences, Applied Sciences), 200 teachers and 2500 students. As a participant in the European exchange programs Erasmus and Socrates, Galatasaray University accommodated 50 European students in 2005-2006 and will accommodate 70 of them for the academic year 2006-2007. Meanwhile, 100 students of Galatasaray University travel each year to France within the framework of these exchange programs. In essence, Galatasaray University represents a secular tradition of teaching. Courses at Galatasaray University are tri-lingual: in Turkish, French and English. Apart from French which is the primary foreign language, fluency in English as the secondary foreign language is also obligatory. Due to a new regulation in 2006, the incoming students (via the annual nationwide ÖSS universit
