[7] Prominent alumni include Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, comic actor Kemal Sunal, and former media mogul Aydın Doğan.

Marmara University has several campuses in Istanbul and offers education in five languages: Turkish, English, German, French, and Arabic.

The facilities support a variety of sports, including basketball, volleyball, chess, table tennis, dancing, fitness, tae-bo, and mountaineering.

Students are encouraged to participate in men's and women's school teams for volleyball, basketball, and soccer in the Rectorate Cup, as well as in tournaments for chess and table tennis and inter-university games.

It also has an indoor Olympic swimming pool, a mini golf course, a boathouse, and an athletics track.Marmara University is an institution that hosts and participates in scientific meetings, cultural activities, art exhibitions, sports, and various other national and international events.

The Faculty of Law along with the Department of Political Science and International Relations represents the university in several different Model United Nations programs every year.

Many academic units within the university have been successful in developing student and lecturer exchanges within the framework of the Erasmus and Socrates programmes offered by the European Commission.

Based on statistics published by the EU Education and Youth Programmes Center, Marmara University is one of the top 3 choices among the foreign students who have applied to the exchange programs offered in Turkey.