Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University

Thrace University Period

Some of the ÇOMÜ colleges were part of the Trakya (Thrace) University before 1992. The Faculty of Education is rooted in the 1950s. The Çanakkale Vocational School was also part of the Thrace University (Edirne).

Foundation

The ÇOMÜ was founded in 1992 based upon the Faculty of Education on the Anafartalar Campus by the Turkish Parliament law. Before this the facilities had housed a teacher training institute that was a branch of Trakya University. The first rector of the university was Prof. Dr. Mete Tuncoku.

In the 2005–2006 academic year there were over 19,000 students, with 960 academic staff in two graduate schools, nine faculties, two polytechnic colleges (four-year programs) and 11 vocational colleges (two-year programs). There are several campuses in Çanakkale itself, while some of the academic units are located in other towns of the province.

From October 20 to 24, 2010, the university hosted the World Universities Congress, which focused on addressing the question, 'What can world universities do to prevent global problems?'

The number of academicians in the ÇOMÜ is over 1800 and the student number is over 48.610 in 2020.

The current rector of the university is Prof. Dr. Sedat Murat.

The Faculty of Marine Science and Technologies was temporarily housed in the Faculty of Sciences and Arts building until the construction of its own building on the Terzioglu Campus. Its first name was Fisheries Faculty which founded in 1992 and started its academic program in 1995. It offers courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It has several research facilities and laboratories for fisheries and aquatic research that encompasses a broad range of topics such as: aquaculture, water chemistry and pollution, fish diseases, biotechnology and genetics, seafood processing and quality, limnology and marine biology, and fisheries biology.

Departments are Aquaculture, Fishing and Processing, Hydrobiology.

Faculty of Fine Arts

The Faculty of Fine Arts is housed in the buildings of Faculty of Agriculture, Faculty of Theology, Çanakkale Vocational College. Nedime Hanim Friendship House is the nest for the departments of Textile, Performing and Visual Arts and Cinema and Television.

Departments are Ceramics, Cinema and Television, Performing and Visual Arts, Graphics, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Textiles, Traditional Handicrafts.