Location
Accommodation and Student Life

Introductory Catalogue

LOCATION GIT is located on the north-eastern shores of the Sea of Marmara, bordering Istanbul on the west and is only 60 kilometers away from the Bosphorus. The present industrial town Gebze, in the City of Kocaeli has a population of five hundred thousand, with numerous industries and hosts the largest research and development center in Turkey, TUBITAK-MAM, and the Gebze Institute of Technology.

The main campus of GIT (Çayırova Campus) is located on the Istanbul-Ankara highway, 10 kilometers away from Gebze city center towards Istanbul. The campus is settled in a wooded green savanna of 245,000 square meters. The Rector’s Office, Administrative bodies, The Library, and classrooms for the entire undergraduate and a number of graduate studies are located in Çayırova Campus.  Please click here to see the scratch of Cayirova Campus.

The second campus area, called the Muallimkoy Campus, is actively providing graduate studies and has research laboratories in its two main buildings comprising 48,000 square meters of enclosed area. Both campus locations are continuously being developed and expanded in order to meet the needs of increasing student population. Please click here to see the scratch of Muallimkoy Campus.

In addition, the Department of Foreign Languages, which provides English Preparatory classes for both undergraduate and graduate students, functions in a separate out-of-the campus building in the city center of Gebze.

ACCOMMODATION AND STUDENT LIFE

Erasmus students will be offered accommodation in the student dormitories at low prices. There is also opportunity to stay at their classmates’ family houses, or they can rent apartments for reasonable prices nearby the campus.

Cost of Living: If the students prefer to stay in the flats belonging to facilities of our Institute, they are charged around € 100, including cleaning services. If not, the students may look for private flats on locations close to the campus, the cost of which differs a lot depending on the conditions.

It is estimated that the average monthly personal expenses for students are between 300 and 400 Euro including rent and all other expenses.

Laboratories and Library: GIT has 37 Research and/or Teaching Laboratories equipped with state of the art hardware. The reading room at the library is available 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. seven days a week.  Library services are free of charge (membership is required to borrow books out of the library). The library is submitted to 2420 on-line periodicals. Please click here to view GIT Library web page.

GIT is connected to the world net through ULAKBIM, a university Data Processing Net. Every major department has its own computer network and laboratory for its students. In addition, public computer laboratories are available workdays and weekends.

Sports Facilities: The GIT Cayirova Campus houses a sports complex offering many sports opportunities including artificial turf football fields, tennis, basketball, and volleyball courts, table tennis, squash, indoor half-size basketball court and a conditioning gymnasium with a qualified trainer, and saunas. The Water Sports Club located at the GIT Marmara Seaside Social Complex is open to those interested in activities as swimming, canoeing and rowing. At the GIT Sports Club, all sporting facilities are available for use everyday, including weekends on appointment in advance. 

Health: Medical and dental services are available for students and the academic personnel at the GIT Health Services Center, located at the R-Block of Cayirova Campus, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Food:Cafeteria services are available at all three different campus locations.  The lunch menus consist of five-course calorie and nutrition controlled meals at reasonable prices. There are also cafes at all campus locations which provide a rich variety of snacks, fast food choices and beverages.

Transportation:The Cayirova and Muallimkoy Campus locations of GIT are accessible from Istanbul and Kocaeli city centers by the E-5 and the TEM Highways, via Haydarpasa-Gebze commuter trains, Harem and Eskihisar Ferries and the connecting commuter minibuses. Both campuses are located very close to the Kurtkoy Sabiha Gokcen Airport in Istanbul.

Please click here to view the sketch for accesing GIT Cayirova Campus via E5 and TEM Highways.

Security:All campus areas are under 24-hour security surveillance by security cameras as well as by security guards.   

Other Facilities:All parking is free of charge. There are pay phones and an ATM unit on campus.