Rector's Speech 5

Inonu University is a university with an international perspective. Inonu university is a well-established university and a university that has graduated many international students so far. Our university aims to graduate more international students in the future. So far, we have accepted international students from over 50 countries. International students are welcomed with very good guidance when they come to our university. Our International Student Office begins to guide these students before they even come to our university, without leaving their home countries. After they come to our country, our city, our university, this guidance continues at the highest level. Both the introduction of our university to them and the adaptation of these international students to our university and our city are our main areas of focus. According to my observations, international students adapt very easily to our university. They easily form friendships and relationships with Turkish students. Since we are a university with strong social activities, we bring them together in social activities, common platforms and student communities as easily. We have 2 important centers: one of them is the African Research Center. Our Africa Research Center hosts and guides them as a second center outside our International Student Office. Students from different countries meet there on a common platform, both physically and spiritually in a common area, and easily adapt to our university thanks to our faculty and students there. Another international center is the South Asian Studies Center for our students from countries such as Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Iran. Our students come together here on a platform outside the International Student Office at our South Asian Research Center, where they easily adapt to our university or even the city. Our students from the Turkish republics are perhaps the easiest to adapt to. Because they do not have difficulty in terms of language, they easily communicate with Turkish students, so they adapt more easily. Apart from that, there are many different countries in the world where we take in fewer students. Our students from these different countries easily adapt to our university and city thanks to the strong support of our management and faculty units, as well as our professors, faculty members and other friends who look directly at this work in our International Student Office here. In fact, some of our graduates work in different areas in Malatya, both in the organized industrial zone and in the city, without going back to their hometowns. We have international students who work here, stay here, even get married here and settle here. This situation also provides convenience to us and our international students who come later.