Social Sciences University of Ankara

SSUA was founded in 2013. The university provides an environment for both undergraduate and graduate studies. In addition, SSUA maintains several research centers related to the social sciences. SSUA is a research-oriented university for both undergraduate and graduate studies. Among the university’s primary aims is the publication of social sciences research that positively contributes to the international literature. To that end, SSUA encourages its academic staff and students to engage in national-international scientific projects, and supports their effective use of social sciences research funds provided by national (TUBİTAK, and other public and private institutions) and international bodies.

If you are interested in the phenomena as to humans and societies, and if you like to progress in social sciences as a discipline, the right address should be the Social Sciences University of Ankara (SSUA). SSUA is a young, dynamic state university with a vision in social sciences. Its scope with social sciences oriented activities compels SSUA to progress more profoundly in those disciplines and to become a leader in its field as a part of its mission and vision. Since social sciences as a discipline are more complicated, thus being full of challenging readings compared to the other disciplines, SSUA aims at offering a medium for the self-confident researchers with intellectually high capacity and entrepreneurship.

As a natural part of social sciences, SSUA, designed as an urban university, is located in Ulus, at the old city centre on the road from the Ankara Castle-Hajı Bayram Wali to the First Grand National Assembly of Turkey, being the most spectacular parts of Ankara. Combining history, art, wisdom and knowledge, this exceptional place is itself a “social laboratory”, stimulating learning environment, and a campus offering observations and social experiments.

Our mission, in line with the universal human values, is to have a leading role in the development of research as to the field of social sciences in Turkey, to shed light on the future of the region and the country alike through the research in social sciences, to contribute to the “universe” of researchers, and to transfer the outputs collected from research into the benefit of society. Our vision, as the Social Sciences University of Ankara, is to become a prominent research university at global scale with multilingual and multicultural profile, using high tech at historic buildings, embracing the whole world with its scope, giving priority to international collaboration, through focusing on undergraduate and postgraduate programs.