Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University

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Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University is a public higher educational institution located in Ağrı, Eastern Anatolia in Turkey. It was formerly the Faculty of Education linked to the Atatürk University of Erzurum.In 2007, the facility was developed to a university named Ağrı Dağı University . The university was later renamed following a protocol signed between the government and a local businessman and philanthropist İbrahim Çeçen.The university has six faculties, two institutes, five colleges, five vocational schools and five research and application centers.The university is a member of the Caucasus University Association.HistoryThe opening of the university was on 27 May 2007 as Ağrı Dağı University. On 28 June 2008, the university was renamed after its refounder – İbrahim Çeçen.uAs a civil engineer and businessman his name was given to the university and its name was changed to Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University (ICUA). Deputy rector was Prof. Dr. Yaşar SÜtbeyaz then Prof. Dr. Irfan ASLAN was appointed as the first rector in 2008.At the start, the university had only one faculty – the faculty of Education. The board of professors and lecturers numbered 18, and the student body was 1200. Today the number of professors involved in teaching and training is around 300, including 59 academicians and 259 corresponding members of the academy, and nine thousand students pursue their degrees at 12 regional branches of the university.ICUA todayToday ICUA is the 4th largest university in Eastern Anatolia. It has two campuses, one central laboratory for scientific-research and study-scientific institutes, four scientific-research laboratories and centers, 12 study laboratories and rooms, and two libraries.