Dokuz Eylül University vs Ege University vs İzmir Institute of Technology - IZTECH vs Yasar University vs Izmir University of Economics - IUE
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- +Supportive and effective academic staff
- +Quality education and engaging lectures
- +Inspiring learning environment
- +Open-minded environment and liberal atmosphere
- +Numerous opportunities and facilities for students
- +Vibrant city life and rich cultural heritage
- +Experienced professors and high-quality technical programs
- +Strong research facilities and technology-focused environment
- +Opportunities for international students and industry connections
- +Strong entrepreneurship support and incubation.
- +Qualified and international faculty members.
- +Convenient location and modern facilities.
- +Excellent teaching staff and impactful education
- +Strong career preparation and sector-specific opportunities
- +Positive university experience and supportive environment
- +Comprehensive and applicable curriculum blending theory and real-world experience.
- +Affordable tuition with accessible and supportive online learning.
- +Strong focus on fashion marketing with creative and strategic development.
- +High-quality faculty and strong academic programs
- +Beautiful and modern campus facilities
- +Opportunities for personal growth and networking
- -Administrative and management issues cause significant frustration.
- -Outdated facilities and a lack of modern resources are a recurring problem.
- -Course content and teaching quality are often perceived as inadequate or irrelevant.
- -Administrative and management issues are consistently a problem.
- -Outdated facilities and a lack of modern resources are frequently mentioned.
- -Overcrowding and a poor student-to-teacher ratio are significant concerns.
- -Administrative & management issues cause frustration.
- -Outdated facilities and resources are a problem.
- -Ineffective teaching and curriculum lead to dissatisfaction.
- -Administrative and management issues cause significant frustration.
- -Outdated facilities and a lack of resources hinder learning.
- -Poor communication and a lack of support from instructors are common complaints.
- -Administrative & management issues lead to disorganization and incorrect information.
- -Lack of English proficiency among staff creates communication barriers.
- -Discriminatory treatment based on language proficiency is a concern.
- -Administrative and management issues are prevalent.
- -Facilities are outdated and campus changes are frequent and unannounced.
- -Program legitimacy and staff English proficiency are concerns.
- -Administrative and management issues cause significant frustration.
- -Outdated facilities and resources hinder learning.
- -Poor communication and lack of support are prevalent concerns.
This institution's strengths are clearly in its teaching staff, with professors receiving a high rating of 4.36. The location is also well-regarded at 4.0. Areas for improvement include student life, which scored the lowest at 3.55, and facilities, at 3.82. Other aspects like accommodation, internationality, and value all fall within a solid range, indicating a generally positive overall perception.
With an impressive 4.8 rating, **Location** stands out as the university's strongest asset. Student life and value also received high marks. Conversely, **Internationality** was the lowest-rated category, indicating a potential area for improvement. Facilities, professors, and accommodation scored well, suggesting a generally positive experience for students.
This institution shines in its **facilities** and **professors**, both receiving exceptional scores. Its **value** is also rated highly. Conversely, **accommodation** emerges as a significant area for improvement, with the lowest score. **Student life** and **internationality** are rated moderately, while **location** falls somewhere in between.
This institution demonstrates considerable strengths in its academic offerings, with a particularly high rating for professors. Student life and internationality are also well-regarded. Conversely, accommodation presents an area for improvement, receiving the lowest score in the evaluation. Facilities and location, while solid, are not as exceptional as the teaching quality.
Overall, this university demonstrates notable strengths and areas for improvement based on the provided ratings. The standout category is **Professors**, receiving a perfect score of 5. Conversely, **Value** emerges as the weakest area, with a rating of 3.2. Other aspects like Accomodation (3.8) and Student Life/Location (both 3.6) are rated moderately well.
This institution presents a varied performance across key metrics. Its strongest areas are Internationality, receiving a rating of 2.67, and Professors, with a score of 2.5. Conversely, the university's weakest aspects are Location and Student Life, both scoring a low 1.6. Facilities and Accomodation also received below-average scores.
This institution receives particularly strong marks for its facilities, accommodation, and overall value, all scoring 4.25. Student life and professors are also well-regarded at 4.0. Areas for potential improvement include its location, with a rating of 3.5, and internationality at 3.75. These scores suggest a solid academic environment with excellent resources and good student experience, though location and international reach could be enhanced.
With 15 positive reviews (71%) and no negative feedback, student sentiment is overwhelmingly positive. Most students highlight good education and excellent academic staff who actively engage and support learning.
With 100% positive reviews and an average rating of 4.75/5, students highlight excellent facilities, abundant opportunities, and talented professors. The university's location in liberal Izmir is also a significant draw, contributing to a great university life experience.
All 5 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.6/5. Students highlight experienced professors, state-of-the-art labs, English instruction, and entrepreneurial opportunities.
All 8 reviews are positive, averaging 4.5/5 stars. Students praise its modern facilities, qualified professors, entrepreneurship support, and convenient location with good accommodation and transportation.
The university receives largely positive feedback, with ~93% of reviews being highly rated. Students appreciate good teachers, learning opportunities, and school environment, though a small fraction (~7%) report issues with graduate department organization and administrative staff communication.
Approximately 33% of reviews are positive, highlighting comprehensive curriculum and affordable online options. However, ~67% are negative, citing issues with program recognition, unprofessional management, and communication problems.
With an average rating of 4.25/5 based on four reviews, approximately 100% of feedback is positive. Students praise the beautiful campus, skilled faculty, and strong academic programs. Some suggest more practical training and active campus life.
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Ege university is the best chance for living a good university life and experience so many things. we have lots of students club that you can attend. I knew the all students in here are happy and grateful to being a student in here.lots of love from aegee-izmir
IZTECH has everything a student would need to brighten his/her future. For example. in the computer engineering department, professors are so experienced and good at teaching that, wow. It is just awesome.
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The one thing that I would advise to those who plan to study at Izmir University of Economics is to check twice all information you get from anyone working there. Administrative staff of Graduate School of Social Sciences lack basic English skills. Moreover, they lack knowledge of the University rules! They often provide wrong information, which might have detrimental effects on your student's status. It also happens that they loose documents that students provide. The worst thing that the University does is changing tuition fee payments as it suits them (at least for PhD program in Political Science and IR). During my two years there, they charged me as international student first, then as Turkish student and when Turkish Lira devaluated in 2018, they started charging me as international student again. They asked for Dollars in cash only. I informed Vice Rector, Head of the Department and International Office but nobody investigated this suspicious changes. Nobody reacted. Ms Hulya Icekara from International Office first accused me that I made those payments myself and when I showed her payment history on the University website, she said "rules changed". Potential students should know that things like this might happen depending who "rules" the University. Everything might change the day "new cadre" takes over the University. You will not receive any kind of guidance when problems occur; the person who supposed to be a contact between international students and the University lacks basic people's skills and treats students with no respect. Always save the receipts of tuition payments. Take screenshots of your online student profile. You will need it when some payments disappear from your profile and you will be asked to pay missing money from your total tuition. Never give up on your rights and be persistent, otherwise they will suck all money you have. They will tell you then "it was a mistake". Lack of professionalism and competence results in negligence of basic duties such as opening necessary courses on time, which means a student spends longer time in the program than necessary. Nobody takes responsibility for this kind of negligence. The positive thing is that the University have some good professors, who in fact, are too good and too accomplished to teach there. Many students at undergraduate and master level do not speak English enough to follow the lectures and often professors need to repeat some parts in Turkish. Izmir University of Economics does not recognize their own education. If you took some courses from them before, and then you want to come back to the program after one or two semesters, they do not recognize those courses. They ask you to take half of them again, which basically means you pay for them again!
Honest and insightful review of a fashion design & technology student who attended this academy. Let me start by saying that if I could I would give 0 stars. This has been the worst three academic years of my life and I fully regret it. I would not recommend this place to anyone. The lack of responsibility and lack of respect towards the student is just unimaginable. As stated on the Website it says “...we aim to imprint within our students the values of rigor, elegance, precision and creativity”, this has not been the case at all during my three years course. Diversity is there but this is not necessarily a positive aspect. The age gap and difference between the students in the classroom is very high, I was 21 and placed with people who were ten years older than me, this does not create a positive dynamic ambience within the classroom. This academy is very far from the luxury sector, as wrongly stated on their website.(“teaching them the best methods and practices in the luxury sector in general, and particularly in the fashion sector”). I have not experienced anything near luxury, while attending this academy, quite the opposite. At the start of my first year of Fashion Design & “Technology” there were four different classes, two in French and two in English, 25 people each. And by the end of the first academic year, the four classes had to be combined into one because most of the students had left, about a third of the student body. This reveals everything you need to know about this academy. I specifically write “ Technology ” because throughout the whole program I have not experienced nor understood why this is integrated in the title of the Bachelor. We had a short term “technology” class which lasted three months, after that the teacher left and we never picked up that term again. This shows the unseriousness and the lack of responsibility from the school direction towards the students. -teachers and the academical aspects- First of all I would like to mention that the teachers are the same ones that you have throughout the three year program such as in Pattern Making (T.W), Sewing (J.G) and Fashion Design (L.P). This place has no pedagogical principles and this is clearly noticeable in the classroom, throughout the whole program, and especially between the student-teachers. Throughout the whole Bachelor, my creativity was questioned, pulled down and made fun of. It got to the point that the Fashion Design teacher was bullying me in front of my classmates and nothing was done against that, she still works there, to “solve” my situation (caused by IFA) they simply changed the teacher for me but at that teacher was pregnant and not even present in school, this was little to no help at all. The whole Staff such as the Director and the Teachers are very unprofessional when it comes to solving a problem, especially when the problem involves a Bachelor student in her final year of studies. As a student I felt unheard and very unfairly treated with no one to turn to. Here at IFA, you as a Student are discouraged and discarded. Most teachers in this Bachelor are very unmotivated, uneducated, rude and unhelpful. There is a lack of creativity, engagement and interaction with the students. The atmosphere in the school is also very discouraging and unpleasant. Most classes are very basic, as students we were told to copy the process and not shown how to do the “savoir-faire” nor how to develop our own strategy. If we asked “why” or “how” we were not given a detailed answer, this showed lack of motivation from the teachers towards the students. In Fashion Design it is crucial to have a teacher to turn to when working on the projects but I can assure you that at IFA you have to teach yourself and work closely with youtube because there is no help from the teachers, and I am talking about personal experience. There is no communication between the Teachers and the Directors, so teachers just do what they want, this is an inconvenience for the student body. Poor english skills, no visible effort from the teachers. Several Projects get lost because they are either stolen or misplaced by the teachers. So all of the effort for nothing. -organization- It is safe to say that the organization inside the academy is very unprofessional, starting from the admissions process till the graduation process. I was under the impression that it was all over the place, teachers leaving and school “requirements” changing. For example, in the middle of the course, the school wanted 500 Euros from all of the Students to “finance the mannequins”. If these were new Stockman Mannequins it would have been a great investment but the reality was that the mannequins were broken and in very bad shape, also it was supposed to be school property so we would have not been allowed to take the mannequin with us after graduation. In conclusion, 500 Euros would have been lost for us. This made absolutely no sense for anyone in our class, and thankfully, after all the students came together this “idea” was quickly canceled. However, we were faced with these sorts of problems and changes, every now and then. I can assure you that this is not a reliable nor trustworthy aspect. The evaluation process of absences for each class is very unorganized. During the three years I had an accident and I was walking to class with crutches. I had doctors appointments and certificates about my injury, nevertheless I was asked to come to Paris during the summer to “retake” the course. Me and my family were in utter shock, since I was missing class due to my accident and surgery. They said that there was no other option than traveling to Paris to resolve this problem. I spent 600 Euros for my trip to come to the school, just for them to tell me that they were not aware of my accident. I provided the doctor certificates and the validated absences. This, again, displays the extreme lack of organization and disinterest in the students well-being. -school equipment- As a paying fashion design student I assumed that I would have the equipment ready for the three years, which was not the case. First of all, the mannequin has to be shared with other students from other academic years. Second of all, most of them get stolen or are broken. If your work is placed on the mannequin it is not supposed to be tossed away by other students, this shows that there is a lack of material, hence the necessity of “sharing” the equipment. Additionally, most of the sewing machines are broken and the ironing boards are burned and very used. Keep in mind that this was our “student working space”, and I have to say it was very disgusting to iron the freshly made garments on those ironing boards. Lockers are very tiny, taking into consideration the size of the material that is needed as a Fashion design student. Apart from that, I can tell you that this school has broken chairs, -mannequins, -ceilings, -floors, and damaged and scratched tables and card boards (also seen on the photo) all over the school, which is impossible for a student to work on, especially for pattern making where you need a clean and neat table. Personal objects such as school material, mannequins or backpacks/personal belongings are very often stolen. You have to label every single pen in order to have your material under control, just like in Kindergarten. -the place itself- Do extensive research about this academy, visit the place before you apply. Learn about the area and especially about the arrondissement because as a fashion design student you will be staying until 7-8pm and that's when the area turns into a frightening area (not a “vibrant and artistic neighborhood” as mentioned on the website), especially as a female it can get scary leaving the school at night. There is no security, that means anyone can come into the campus and steal your laptop and nobody would know because there are no cameras (this actually happened to a student in my class, she never found her laptop again) and the code at the entrance does nothing since once the door is open someone can come in and leave again just as easy as that. -“the cafeteria”- This is an open space with three microwaves where 100 students warm up their food around the same time, one after the other, the unpleasant smell that is left behind spreads all around the campus. -hygiene- The non-existent hygiene is seen throughout the whole campus. The photos that are attached are from the woman’s bathroom. From the Sink, underneath the sink and next to the toilet seat. The photos speak for themselves. Also there are huge water issues around the whole school which makes the wallpapers loose (also visible on the photos) and it is filled with green fungal (which is toxic). Also water and electricity (sewing machines/irons) are not a favorable combination if you want to avoid a fire. -additional information about the “foundry lab”- Although the Foundry Lab is built inside the campus, it is not accessible for students. It’s only for projects from outside. Provides absolutely no benefit to the student body. All in all, I had a really disappointing experience and I took the time to write this review in order to help other individuals like me when I first started, who are about to start their University years, to find a good place to study fashion and to develop their creativity, not demolish it. I wish I would have read such an honest and insightful review about IFA before applying and starting there. Hopefully, this reaches as many soon to be students. Don't study at a place where your creativity is questioned and made fun of. It took me a few years to write this because of the immense trauma IFA has caused me especially with my Projects and Creations. Art is not possible to be evaluated by people who are placed as teachers. Art is versatile and some might like it, others not, but that doesn't mean that the creations that are made by a student should be torn down. In my experience, I was bullied and accused of not being the one creating my garments/collections and then my pieces were chosen to be displayed in the campus. This was such controversial behavior from the Fashion Design student teacher, and sadly this behavior went on from the first till the third year. As an International Baccalaureate Diploma Student I have felt discouraged and disrespected during the three years at IFA and that is why I would not recommend this place to anyone, I am ashamed of this academy. If I could go back I would choose a different place to study Fashion Design. Choose wisely folks.
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