Abstracts for the 14th National Congress of Anatomy, 28 June-1 July 2012, Ankara, Turkey

First university during republic period in Turkey was established on 1933. The numbers of universities increased to 7 in 1959, 12 in 1973, 27 in 1982, 29 in 1987 (of one is private), 53 in 1992 (of 2 are private), 93 in 2006 (25 private), 177 in 2014 (73 private). Based on TUIK date, gross schooling rate is 74% and net schooling rate is 38.50% in higher education. However, based on the date of Higher Education Council, these rate are above %80 and %40 respectively with the number of students approaching to 5.5 million. Today, the number of teaching staff reached to 141,647. Of this, 86.20% (122,116) employed by the state universities, %13.44 (19,188) are in private universities and 0.26% are in private vocational high schools. Total number of academic staff is 63,271. Of this, 84.76% (53,630) employed in state universities. 31.43% of academic staff are professors, 19.97% (12,634) associate professors and 48.60% are assistant professor. Total number of students are 5,449,961. Of this 93.38% (5,089,291) are studying in state universities, 6.44% (350,999) are private universities and 0.18% (9671) are in private vocational high schools.