Mersin University (
Turkish: Mersin Üniversitesi) is a public university, built in 1992 in
Mersin Province,
Turkey. It has about 39,000 students, 1,813 academic staff, and a number of foreign and guest academic staff.[2]
The university has research and sports facilities, in
Mersin town centre and in other towns.[3]
In 2005 the Mersin Technology Development Zone (Technoscope) was set up, creating a partnership between the university's research and development departments and industry, with the aim of developing new technologies that could be directly translated into industrial production.[4]