THE FIRSTS OF ODTÜ

  • 1956 English Medium Instruction
  • 1956 The First University Library
  • 1966 The First  Homebuilt Rocket
  • 1968 ODTÜ Archeological Museum
  • 1976 ODTÜ Solar House
  • 1979 The First Supersonic Wind Tunnel
  • 1987 The First Technopolis
  • 1989 The First Prototype Robot
  • 1990 Fiber Optical Campus Network
  • 1992 The First Computer Aided Design
  • 1993 The First Internet Connection of Turkey
  • 1994 The First ABET Accreditation
  • 1996 Internet Radio Broadcasting
  • 1998 The First University to Broadcast TV over the Internet
  • 1998 The First Internet-based Distance Education Program
  • 2000 The First University to Set Up a Technopolis
  • 2000 The First Wireless network and megabyte Ethernet network
  • 2002 The university to initiate the .
  • 2003 ODTÜ Science and Technology Collection
  • 2005 Northern Cyprus Campus: The first university in Turkey to establish a campus overseas.
  • 2006 The University to start implementing Industry Theses (SanTez)
  • 2008 Confucius Center
  • 2011 ODTÜ Center for Wind Energy (METUWIND), Turkey’s first research center on wind energy
  • 2013 ODTÜ Central Laboratory (MERLAB), the first internationally accredited central university laboratory of Turkey in the field of materials and biotechnology
  • 2014 The first Turkish university to be ranked among the first 100 by Times Higher Education
  • 2015 A buoy that can measure both Oceanographic and Meteorological data (DEKOSİM run by the ODTÜ Graduate School of Marine Sciences)