The university was founded in 2009 and takes its name from Mevlânâ Celâleddîn-i Rûmî.

[1][2][3] In July 2016, 196 faculty members, 3,784 undergraduate, 349 master, and 36 Ph.D. students were actively continuing their education at the University.

[4] Scholars at Risk has expressed concern at these mass closures, saying that they have a chilling effect on academic freedom, undermine democratic society, and may represent a grave threat to higher education in Turkey.

[6] Students from the Faculty of Education were transferred to Necmettin Erbakan University.

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