The number of African students studying in colleges and universities in Turkey has risen to 61,000, according to the country’s foreign minister.

A Turkish government-funded scholarship program for international students has received over 165,000 applications in 2022.

The Irish embassy in Ankara is struggling to keep up with the number of applications it is receiving, forcing students to cancel their programs.

Interest in masters programs is continuously growing around the world, particularly from Turkey, Iran and Nigeria, a StudyPortals report has suggested.

ILA Turkey has partnered with Gazi University to allow its students to be exempted from additional language tests in order to enter Turkish universities.

A new report from Studyportals and Unibuddy has identified 17 emerging student source markets for universities and countries interested in diversifying their student cohorts.

The government of Turkey is using the recent third Turkey–Africa summit as a springboard to attracting more African students to its universities.

Turkey has been given the green light to join Europe’s largest research and development program, Horizon Europe, the ESC and Erasmus+.