We have received a mail and copies of correspondence with Eindhoven University from one of our graduates who applied for a place on one of your masters program. Having read this correspondence, it seems unclear to us on what basis this student has been rejected, since in one mail, the adequacy and level of his BA programme at Eastern Mediterranean University is brought into question, and in another mail, the lack of information about EMU’s programmes in NARIC is raised, with the suggestion that this problem is linked in some way to the lack of international recognition of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, further implying that the university itself is not recognized. Needless to say this lack of clarity has upset as well as confused the student in question, unnecessarily in our view.
For your information, the Eastern Mediterranean University is a state-trust university located in North Cyprus (
www.emu.edu.tr). It is the largest, oldest and most developed university offering education through the medium of English on the island of Cyprus. It was established in 1979 and over the past thirty years has acquired a solid international reputation. EMU welcomes over 15000 students from 68 different countries and employs more than 1000 academic staff from 36 different countries. Our Engineering program is fully accredited by ABET (The American Board For Engineering and Technology) and we are members of many associations such as EUA (European University Association), FUIW (The Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World), IAU (International Association of Universities), and many other organizations from America and Europe (Please see
http://web2009.emu.edu.tr/aboutemu/memb ... ation.aspx). We also have more than 120 collaboration agreements with universities from America and Europe (Please see
http://ic.emu.edu.tr/index.php?option=c ... &Itemid=87) for a complete list of our collaborations. Also of relevance, given that the student in question is Nigerian is the fact that EMU is fully and officially recognized and accredited by the Nigerian Higher Ministry of Education, as well as through the Higher Education Council in Turkey (YOK).
Furthermore, Eastern Mediterranean University has been a member of NARIC since 2009 (please see attached documents), and information about Eastern Mediterranean University is freely available on the NARIC website. A full report on the university and evaluation of its work has also been conducted by the European University Association. Again, this report is again freely available.
Like all institutions of higher education, Eindhoven University has the full right to make its own decisions on who it accepts onto its programmes of study. However, as Eastern Mediterranean University, we would ask that Eindhoven University confine itself to established facts and avoid what seem to be little more than speculations about both the status and quality of our university in correspondence with our students.
