Eskisehir Technical University - ESTU (reviews)

Our laboratories and experienced professors in our school help us in every subject. We have some good student clubs to work with. We can improve ourselves with them. Today’s coronavirus has affected us just like any other school. Since our school was formerly connected to the Anatolian University, it has survived this process with the least damage by using the old open education experiences. As an example, we made the electrical circuit laboratory on the online platform. If you want to study engineering in our school, very successful teams are waiting for you as well as the very nice clubs. You feel that you are developing yourself with such activities.

Eskisehir Technical University (formerly known as Anadolu University) is a brand new university whose roots go back to the 2000s. The engineering faculty is mostly focused on quality and accreditated by MUDEK. (MUDEK is a full member of ENAEE (European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education). All programs have a EUR-ACE certificate. In my department(Electrical and Electronics Engineering) program is 100% English taught. Professors speak English all the time(of course with some exceptions like no foreign students present) and exams are 100% English. Department is known for its rich laboratories. Most of the department related courses have mandatory laboratories. There are 6 options to focus at 4th year: Power Systems, Signal Processing, Telecommunications, Digital Systems, Control Systems and Electronics. There are several mandatory courses for each minor area and some flexibilities for taking courses from other areas too. Before graduation, 240 ECTS and bachelor project/thesis should be completed and it is highly examined by the advisor and also by faculty because of accreditations. It is mostly hard to pass exams without studying so students should be prepared to study a lot.

Normally Eskişehir is not a big city in Turkey but it has 3 universities. So students constitute the majority of the population in this city. Also my own view this city is most livable city in Turkey.

First of all, Eskisehir Technical University doesn’t feel like a university if you completely separate it from Anadolu University. We don’t have any cultural activities, fortunately we can attend to the ones in Anadolu University. These kind of details are not that important of course since we just separated from Anadolu University, but they are still heartbreaking. As a computer engineering student, I am definitely not pleased with my lecturers. Even the good ones have to teach things out of their interests, because there are no other people to to it. This effects them and us. We usually prefer studying at home to attending to our lectures. My other problem with lecturers is that they usually don’t speak in English. And I find this really rude against the foreign students. Also, most of the ones who speak in English are only reading slides. Even as a student I’m trying really hard to develop my English and pronunciation. Although Eskisehir is a perfect city for students to live, we usually have to spend our times in our campus because it’s a bit far away from the city center and busses aren’t enough. When we have spare time, like three or four hours, we want to go to a cafe but we can’t. This might sound bad but it’s actually like that because we have an airport in our school. That’s why we have to be away from the city center. I may not be happy with engineering faculty teachers but Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics is really good and we are famous with that. I love that our campus is not huge, but still big enough for us. We don’t have a very very good looking campus but we do have some interesting sculptures around buildings.