1. Dynamic staff who are young and who have plans for the future
2. The high number of SCI publications of each academic staff
3. Diversity of specialty of academic staff
4. Tendency to versatile studies
5. The fact that there are many young academic staff
6. Increasing popularity of environmental engineering both in the world and in Turkey
7. Settlement in central campus
1. The low number of academic and administrative personnel
2. The fact that there are deficiencies of technical infrastructure such as classrooms and laboratories
3. Insufficient economic support to participate in meetings abroad
4. The fact that performance evaluation has been fulfilled both on individual basis and department basis
5. The fact that adequate income of circulating capital cannot be produced
6. The fact that social facilities of both the city and university are limited
7. The fact that the number of research assistant is insufficient
8. Imbalances in distribution of academic staff according to divisions of department
1. Programs of European Union
2. The laws of Technology development areas which will support research and development studies
3. The fact that the need for scientific approach to engineering
problems has occurred as a result of increasing competitive atmosphere
in the world and in country
4. The fact that the interest which international massive companies
which attach great significance to science and research show has
increased.
5. Development of communication facilities.
1. The fact that the quota allocated to academic and administrative staff is limited
2. The fact that some other disciplines which are not expert in the
solutions of environmental problems take part in environmental sector
3. The fact that businessmen from Niğde don’t show enough interest to structuring
4. The fact that there are some difficulties which arise from
competition in creating financial means from European higher education
fields
5. The difficulty in providing and employing researcher personnel
6. Low wages paid to academic personnel
7. The fact that traditional educational techniques decrease the quality of education
8. The fact that there are some difficulties in balancing between competitive research and course load
9. The fact that the people and the local administrations of Niğde do not show necessary interest to University
10. The fact that industry is limited in the region
11. The fact that income of the local people is low