7 Genetics Degree Programs in Turkey

The Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics prepares students to become researchers in this area of biology.

The Molecular Biology and Genetics program offers its students both a technical and practical education based on research. As with leading universities around the world, the program is in English.

The science of Genetics is improving more and more each day with the introduction of new research areas those of which lead to encoding the genetic codes that programs the formation of living organisms and use of these codes for other areas such as medicine, biotechnology, and agriculture.

By raising individuals who are modern, who are on the path shown by science, who have served their country and humanity; to contribute to the formation of health-manpower.

In today’s world, molecular biology, biochemistry, and other biological fields are becoming increasingly information driven. Mainly the need of processing massive quantities of sequence information generated by recent developments in genome sequencing and proteome analysis has propelled these life sciences into a new era in which computer science, information technologies, and biology merged into a single discipline as bioinformatics.

Biology, biotechnology and biosciences have been rapidly developing since 2000. To handle the data produced, computer technology is required due to the excessive amount of data.

The mission of Baskent University is to raise individuals indigenizing the objectivity of science and individuals having national consciousness and researcher, productive, interrogative, creative and innovative characters and being respectful of science, mind and universal law and having analytic and holistic view and being sensitive to human and environmental rights and also to raise individuals sticking to Atatürk's principles.