fakültesi

Fakültesi is a Turkish term connected to the concept of a faculty within a university. It refers to the division of an institution that groups related departments and programs around a field of study, such as medicine, engineering, or the humanities. In practice, a fakülte is a major organizational unit that plays a central role in education, research, and administration at a university.

In most Turkish universities, each fakülte is led by a dean (dekan) and operates with its own administration, curricula, and research agenda. Faculties contain departments (anabilim dalları) that provide undergraduate (lisans), graduate (yüksek lisans), and doctoral (doktora) programs. They coordinate academic standards, exams, and scheduling within their field, and often host research centers, clinics, or laboratories.

The possessive form fakültesi appears in phrases to indicate possession or attribution, such as fakültesi yönetimi (the faculty’s administration) or fakültesi öğrencileri (the faculty’s students). In naming conventions, compound forms like Tıp Fakültesi (Faculty of Medicine) or Mühendislik Fakültesi (Faculty of Engineering) are common.

Historically, the faculty-based organizational model was adopted during the modernization of Turkish higher education in the early 20th century and remains a standard structure in most universities today. The term fakültesi thus denotes both a functional unit within a university and, in possessive usage, the faculty’s related aspects or entities.