Sports activities are carried out by Directorate of Sports Activities which is within the scope of Office of Health, Culture and Sports.

At our university, our students and staff can participate in sports activities in many branches. With the start of the academic calendar, sports courses and tournaments are organized in various branches. In addition, our teams represent our university in intercollegiate sports competitions. Our students have the opportunity to participate in the sports teams of their choice by participating in the team selections held every year.

Our university's sports facilities are open between 09.30 and 21.30 hours, except on Sundays, users need to make a reservation for the facility they want to use with the online reservation system. Our gyms are usually reserved for training for sports teams at certain times in the evenings and on Saturdays. Click to make an online reservation.

• Outdoor Pool
• Indoor Pool (Olympic)
• 3 Gymnasia
• Stadium (13.000 seats for spectators and a running track with 6 lanes)
• Tennis Courts (15 outdoor - 5 indoor, 6 outdoor, 2 outdoor clay courts)
• Fitness Centers (Sports Center and Baraka Gym)
• Squash Courts (Sports Center)
• Table Tennis tables (Great Gym / Mirrored Hall)
• Carpet Football Fields (3 pieces)
• Outdoor Basketball Courts
• Outdoor Volleyball Court
• Football fields of different sizes (7 units)
• Yalıncak Running Tracks (2 km short and 6 km long tracks)
• Synthetic Turf Field
• The track where open field strength training can be done (in front of the Turf Football Fields)
• The area around Eymir Lake where walking/running and cycling can be done

For detailed information about the facilities: https://spormd.metu.edu.tr/en/facilities

* Every session (between 09:00-20:45) is 75 minutes at the indoor pool and there are 15-min intervals between these sessions. Every one in the pool should leave the pool at the end of each session.

Sauna reservations can be made until 10:00 within a day.

* Please visit Student Clubs and Societies page to access the available web sites of these groups.

The Eymir Lake is within the boundaries of METU territory and 20 kilometers away from the main campus. The lake and its surroundings are ideal places for activities like rowing, fishing, having picnic etc. There are places to dine around the lake as well.

• Table d'hôte meal is served in the Student Cafeteria at noon and in the evening at weekdays.
• Every department has its own student canteen, and those canteens serve between 08:00 and 16:00. The cafes in various buildings usually serve lunch at noon. In those cafes one can also find soft drinks, coffee, tea, sandwiches, etc.
• The canteens in the dormitories serve between 07:30 and 23:30.
• The Shopping Center on campus is open between 08:30 and 23:30. In the Shopping Center restaurants serving hot meal, fast food, pizza, kebab, etc. can be found.
   

There are six banks available within METU Campus.

The branches of the banks within the campus are located in and around Çarşı Shopping Center and they are İş Bankası, Akbank, Vakıflar Bankası, Ziraat Bankası, Halk Bankası, Garanti Bankası and Yapı Kredi Bankası. These branches have ATMs (Automatic Teller Machines) as well.

At the entrances of Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Department of Civil Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Department of Chemistry and Library, there are ATMs of those banks which have a branch within campus boundaries and ATMs of HSBC, Oyakbank, Finansbank and Dışbank which do not have a branch in the campus.

The telephone numbers of the banks that are open in working hours of the weekdays are as follows:

Post Office (telephone : 210 27 76) is near İş Bankası within the campus. Working hours for the post office is 08:30-12.00 and 13:30-17:00

All the telephone booths in METU Campus are card phones. These cards are available in METU Post Office. The card phones can be found at the entrance of all the buildings of the university and at the post office.

The students cannot make local, intercity or international calls via the METU telephone central. When necessary, they can use the METU telephone central only for in-campus calls.

There are 19 dormitory buildings run by the METU Directorate of Health, Culture and Sports. 

Male students can stay in the Dormitories 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, and İsa Demiray Dormitory, in addition to a certain block allocated to them in Dormitory 19, and Refika Aksoy Dormitory. Female students can stay in the Dormitories 1, 3, 5, 7, and Faika Demiray Dormitory, in addition to a certain block allocated to them in Dormitory 19, and Refika Aksoy Dormitory.

As for the guest houses, Osman Yazıcı Guest House, Guest House 12, and Dormitory 16 are allocated for female students, while Faik Hızıroğlu Guest House and Guest House 15 are allocated for male students.

The Office of Dormitories, with the aim of solving our students' accommodation issues by offering a high standard service, obtained TSE-EN ISO 9001-2000 certificate of quality from the Turkish Standards Institution (TSE) in 2005. Regarding the quality of our dormitory services, the inspections carried out in 2021 in accordance with the TSE-EN ISO 9001:2015 standards were completed with success.

The services provided by our unit are carried out according to the procedures, instructions, duties, and responsibilities determined within the Dormitory Regulations, Student Discipline Regulations of the higher education institutions, decisions taken by the Executive Board of Dormitories, and the certificates of quality.

Therefore, every year, the Executive Board of Dormitories evaluates the dormitory applications of students based on the current capacity of dormitories, the number of applications, and the conditions for staying in the dormitories established in accordance with the aforementioned regulations and approved by the Rectorate. Then, the registration procedures of the students whose applications are accepted are conducted.

We endeavor to provide 24/7 uninterrupted service that includes an environment of respect, love, equality and trust in our dormitories with an understanding that prioritizes a service that is high-quality, transparent, modern but at the same time adherent to the traditions of METU, which can only be achieved with a team spirit.

There is a mini-fridge in each room. For each student, a studying desk, a chair, a closet for clothes, and a closet for shoes are provided in each room. In addition, the dormitory offers students a bedding set consisting of bed sheet, blanket and pillow. Students can also bring and use their own bedding sets if they prefer to do so (but in this case, washing and cleaning these bedding sets will be their responsibility). In our dormitories, there are common studying rooms, TV rooms, laundry rooms, and kitchens as well as another common room for students of the Department of Architecture so that they can carry out their activities such as drawing. A sufficient number of automatic washing machines, dryers, irons, and ironing boards are available to students in the laundry rooms.

The bedding sets in the room are changed periodically, but if need be, they can be changed outside their regular cycle as well. These bedding sets are washed and ironed in the laundry room, where industrial washing machines are used. There is hot water in our dormitories ready for use 24/7.

There are buses and minibuses operating between the city center and the dormitories between the hours 07.00 and 24.00. Besides, there also are ring busses that operate between dormitories and departments.

Students whose family resides outside of Ankara can apply for the dormitories. Students who start our university this year, if they want to stay in our dormitories, must fill out the dormitory-related sections on the YKS Registration Program website during their university registration process and thus complete their applications.

The economic and social situation of each student's family who applies for dormitories is investigated through local administration units. This information obtained from the local authorities and the students' scores/rankings according to YKS are taken into consideration to create an overall score for each student in accordance with the criteria determined by the Executive Board of Dormitories and approved by the Rectorate. The results of applications are announced on the Office of Dormitories website. After learning their scores, students can learn when they can register for the dormitories and the dates for the next student placement through the announcement tables regarding registrations.

The students who have the following ranking success in YKS Exam are placed in the METU dormitories without further consideration of other criteria: ranking in the top 4,000 in Quantitative Field, ranking in the top 500 in Equal Weight Field, ranking in the top 300 in Verbal Field, and ranking in the top 100 in Foreign Language Field.

The placement of students to the dormitories are carried out according to their scores. Each week, considering how many rooms and beds remain vacant, new students with lower scores are placed. This placement process continues until all the students, who applied for the dormitories within the application dates, are listed. When a student is entitled to register for the dormitory, they are expected to gather all the required documents and submit them to the Office of Dormitories to complete the registration process.

Your right to stay in the dormitory is calculated by adding one year to the rest of your regular education period.

Notice: The stay of those students will be rendered void, if they have no more rights to stay in the dorm.

The student, who had the right to register to the dormitories according to the general points announced, but did not register within the specified deadlines, loses the right to register himself/herself with this general point announced for him/her on the list. In this case the students' points will be calculated again according to late application situation.

METU student dormitories are managed, run and controlled according to the rules in the Dormitory Regulations. The Dormitory Regulations can be read from bulletin boards of every dorm. We recommend our students to read these regulations.
Moreover, the written information about the regulations in the dorms is handed to the students during registrations to the dorms.

• Going on Leave

Every student has the right to go on a leave for 15 days within a semester other than the weekends and holidays. The students, who will use their leave, should fill out a form, which can be obtained from the dormitory office. The students below the age of 18 should bring a note of permission from their parents to be able to use their leaves. The related form can be obtained from the Directorates of the Dormitories.

• Latest entrance hour to the Dormitories

The students residing at the dorms should be within the campus at 23.30. The latest time to enter the dorms is 24.00.

• Staying at the Dorms During Holidays

The students, whose education continue during the holidays (due to summer school, project, internship etc.), should present their reasons to stay with an authorized letter.

• Sports Facilities

Around the dormitories, there are basketball courts, volleyball grounds, football fields, tennis courts, open and closed swimming pools, and 2 gyms (which are open till 23.00)

• Dormitory Address

When the students use the dormitory address, they should indicate the number of the dormitory, the number of the room and the number of their bed.

In METU Campus, there are suitable shopping opportunities for students. Students may find what they need in Şok Market and the Shopping Center which are in Çarşı Sitesi. In the Shopping Center one can find drugstore, photography shop, stationery store, billiards room, boutique, book store and some places for dining. Furthermore, one can find a tailor, a shoemaker, a hairdresser's and a barber's shop. One can obtain newspapers and magazines, in both English and Turkish, from the store at the entrance of the Cafeteria, from the buffet in front of the 3^rd Dormitory and from the newspaper stand in the Çarşı Merkezi.

Here is a list of some shopping centers in the city center, for those students who are not familiar with Ankara. The centers and the shops in the list are the ones, which are thought to be suitable for students.

• Armada (Söğütözü)
• Cepa (Across the A-1 Gate)
• Kentpark (Across the A-1 Gate)
• Atakule (Çankaya)
• Beğendik Çarşısı (Kocatepe)
• Gima (Kızılay, Bahçelievler, Küçükesat, A. Ayrancı, Söğütözü, Yüzüncü Yıl)
• Gümüşsoy Pasajı (Kavaklıdere)
• Karum (Kavaklıdere)
• Kocabeyoğlu Pasajı (Kızılay)
• Koray (Kızılay, Kavaklıdere)
• Kuğulu Pasajı (Kavaklıdere)
• Migros (Akköprü, Maltepe, Gaziosmanpaşa, Bahçelievler, Ayrancı, Balgat)
• Moda Çarşısı (Kızılay)
• Onur Çarşısı (Kızılay)
• Soysal Pasajı (Kızılay)
• Yeni Karamürsel (Kızılay)
• Yeni Konak (Bakanlıklar)
• Yüzüncü Yıl Çarşısı (Ulus)
• Zafer Çarşısı (Kızılay)

* Some of the supermarkets that are located in Yüzüncü Yıl district: Altunbilekler, Çağdaş, Kiler, Makromarket, Peynirci, Migros

• Arkadaş Kitabevi (Kentpark, METU Shopping Center)
• Bilgi Kitabevi (Kızılay)
• Bilim ve Sanat Kitabevi (Kızılay)
• Dost Kitabevi (Kızılay, Kavaklıdere)
• D&R Kitabevi (Cepa)
• İmge Kitabevi (Kızılay)
• Remzi Kitabevi (Kızılay, Armada)