General Information
International Relations Office

Niğde Ömer Halisdemir Üniversitesi (NÖHÜ) has currently been continuing its educational activities with 149 undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level programmes within 13 Faculties, 4 Graduate Schools, 1 Conservatory, 2 Schools, 6 Vocational Schools, 11 Application and Research Centers since founded in 1992. NOHU, within the scope of strategic goals and objectives, established International Relations Office in 2005 in order to realize smart transformation for sustainable quality and efficiency, contribute to international education and training and research activities and their developments, increase the number of international students and academic staff as well as increase the students’ and staff’s participation numbers to the international mobility programmes  and activities by being a research University in international standards. Many activities for internationalization have been carried out by the International Relations Office at our university. In this context, it has been included in the European Union exchange programs (Erasmus exchange programs), has adopted the International Credit Mobility (ICM) and has successfully conducted the mobility. It has been carrying out the Mevlana Exchange Program conducted by YÖK since 2013. As of 2018-19 academic year, NOHU started the Orhun Exchange Program conducted by the Turkic Council Turkish Universities Union, accepted visitors as part of the Fulbright Program and within the framework of the bilateral Academic Cooperation and Exchange Protocols (MOU agreements), and a lot of students, academic and administrative staff exchanges and project-based exchange programs were carried out. In addition, Farabi Exchange program, which is a national student exchange program, has been realized with many national universities. It is important to determine the vision, mission, goals and actions of the internationalization and evaluate its performance to expand, diversify and deepen the current capacity of our university in terms of quality and quantity

NÖHÜ has determined a road map for achieving the internationalization targets set in the Strategic Plan, developing all kinds of international and national cooperation, increasing the number of international students, conducting research and development activities at international standards and making internationalization efforts a corporate culture. Conscious of the need to take these concrete steps, NOHU established the International Relations office in 2005. Our office continues its coordination as a center of international activities at NÖHÜ by giving more importance than quality. Our office, which is responsible for the coordination of the mobility process within the scope of Exchange Programs, provides the necessary support for incoming and outgoing students and administrative and teaching staff and takes care of all the necessary administrative and registration processes during the preparation period. It is again our office’s responsibility to ensure that international agreements are prepared well and these agreements are duly executed. It is also our office’s duty to follow up the incoming and outgoing documents by providing orientation programs before starting of academic and research exchange programs, and providing the information exchange network of the units and departments related to students and academic / administrative staff. NOHU International Relations Office also organizes various activities to enable them to benefit from all social, cultural and sports activities of the university facilities in order to provide full integration to international students who have the right to study and internship at our university