Those institutes were Ankara-Gazi, Istanbul-Atatürk, Balıkesir-Neacti, İzmir-Buca, Bursa, Konya-Selçuk, Samsun, Trabzon-Fatih, Erzurum-Kazım Karabekir, Eskişehir, Adana, Uşak, Edirne, Isparta, Gaziantep, Hatay, Diyarbakır and Nazilli.

Its original new building was assigned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to host the King of Afghanistan Amanullah Khan (reigned 1926–1929) with his spouse during his state visit to Turkey as the guest of Mustafa Kemal ATatürk.

The Middle Teacher's School (Turkish: Orta Öğretmen Okulu), as the institution was called at that time, was moved to the insufficient building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The building of "Child Protection Corporation" (Turkish: Çocuk Esirgeme Kurumu) was then used as a dormitory for the boarding students.

[1] With the initiative of Minister of National Education Mustafa Necati (in office 1925–1929), a building was built on a land covering 360 daa (430,000 sq yd) purchased from the Atatürk Forest Farm to a symbolic price.

[1] Gazi Eğitim Enstitüsü was the second higher education institution in Ankara founded in the newly proclaimed Republic after the Law School.

It was a favorite educational institutor with its selected executives, faculty and students as it bore in its name the prefix "Gazi", the honorific title of Atatürk.

Boarding students were enjoined to compulsory service for the period of one and half times of the duration of their education.

[1] Almost all of the students in the branches Drawing-Handcraft, Music and Physical Education were graduates of primary teacher's schools or village institutes, which had wide opportunities for sports.

Most of the students in the Turkish language-Literature branch were also graduates of primary teacher's schools or village institutes.

Admittance to the branches Pedagogy or Special Education were only for primary school teachers with at least three years of service.

In the early 1960s, almost all of the province directors of national education were graduates of the institute, particularly from the Pedagogy branch.

Personnel, who served between 1950 and 2000 in the central organization of the Ministry of National Education were graduates of the Gazi Institute or other similar teacher's colleges.