Welcome
The Department of Psychology at Bilkent University is a young, dynamic department having admitted its first intake of undergraduate students in 2005-2006. Our team of academics is growing rapidly, bringing together international experience and world-class research. The language of teaching is English at Bilkent, which makes it possible for us to bring together international academics. Our faculty come from major universities across the UK and US and have published in top journals such as Nature, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Nature Neuroscience, Current Biology, Cognition, Vision Research, Visual Neuroscience, Visual Cognition, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes , to name a few.
Bilkent is a top university in Turkey with international recognition in many fields, and it attracts some of the best students in the country. The university has a clear focus on research, and has one of the highest publishing rates in Turkey, placed at the top of the list most of the time. Research activity is supported and encouraged in the university with low teaching loads and good resources. In such an environment our emphasis is naturally very much on research as well as establishing a centre of excellence in the education of Psychology.
We are continually expanding in all areas of psychology although our initial emphasis has been on cognition and neuroscience which will continue to be the main focus of the department. In addıtıon to a group working on visual perception, we have a strong focus on neuroscience, made stronger by our access to an onsite 3T MRI scanner. The department has attracted around $1.5 million in research grants over the past two years.
Other areas of psychology are also getting stronger in the department, and we aim to expand in all areas of basic and applied science. We offer a broad and modern core undergraduate program keeping our focus on high quality research. We invite academics of all level and expertise to join our team.
If you are considering studying here at Bilkent we encourage you to visit our pages aimed at providing important and valuable information. These are in Turkish since most of our students come from Turkey and do not yet have the English language skills. For applications by foreign students, we recommend that you get in touch or visit the pages in the Bilkent University website containing the relevant information.
We aim to establish a great environment for world-class research and education, and are excited to be taking part in this endeavour. We will be delighted to see you here joining in with our enthusiasm.
Please follow the links on the left to view information on our department. For further information, do not hesitate to contact us on
(90) 312 290 3415 or psy@bilkent.edu.tr
Emre Özgen
Head of Department
