People mostly just call it KTÜ for short. It is a genuinely well-established state university, founded in 1955 in Trabzon, on Turkey's own Black Sea coast, with a specific technical university status from its own founding. Here is genuinely one of the most remarkable, specific national distinctions covered in guides like this one. KTÜ holds the distinction of being the very first university established anywhere in Turkey outside the country's own two largest cities, Ankara and Istanbul, a real, specific, and genuinely significant national first.

Here is genuinely current, specific, and directly sourced admissions data worth knowing in full, reflecting Turkey's own most recent 2026 YKS placement results, published just weeks before this profile. Medicine is specifically KTÜ's own highest-scoring department, both by base admission score and by success ranking, out of more than 60 total bachelor's programmes university-wide. The Faculty of Medicine's own base admission score, Taban Puan, reached 510.70136 for 2026, with a corresponding success ranking, Başarı Sıralaması, of 12,455, a genuine, measured, continued improvement from 14,540 the previous year, 2025, itself an improvement from 17,522 in 2024. Applicants needed a minimum of 83.50 correct TYT questions to remain competitive for the 2026 placement cycle.

A genuinely useful detail worth knowing directly is that Medicine holds this top position unambiguously at KTÜ, with English Language and Literature, taught specifically in English, and Dentistry following as the university's own next most competitive programmes. Reported total quota figures genuinely vary somewhat across sources depending on the specific reporting date and whether associate-degree programmes are included, ranging from roughly 2,961 to 4,312 total seats across 63 to 86 total programmes; applicants should confirm the current, precise figures directly.

KTÜ teaches in both Turkish and English depending on the specific programme, with the large majority of its own programmes, 45 out of a recent count, falling under the numerical/science, SAY, exam-score category that Medicine itself belongs to. The university's own materials describe a genuinely well-established academic institution, with a strong faculty, considerable research infrastructure, and a broad academic scope spanning engineering, health sciences, natural sciences, medicine, and architecture.

KTÜ's own contribution to the wider Black Sea region is specifically noted in the university's own materials, reflecting its own founding mission to bring genuine higher education and research capacity to a part of Turkey historically underserved compared to the country's two largest cities.

As with other Turkish public universities covered in comparable guides, NEET remains a genuine requirement for Indian applicants pursuing medical study in Turkey generally, and Indian graduates would still need to clear the FMGE or NExT exam to practise medicine back in India, though applicants should confirm KTÜ's own specific Faculty of Medicine admission policies and current language of instruction directly.

Trabzon itself is a genuinely historic Black Sea port city, carrying a considerable, centuries-long trading and cultural heritage quite distinct from Turkey's more commonly covered western and southern regions. This gives KTÜ's own students a genuinely different setting from studying medicine in one of Turkey's larger, more purely metropolitan centres, combining serious medical training with exposure to a genuinely scenic, historically significant coastal Turkish city.

Given how genuinely current and consistently tracked KTÜ's own Medicine admissions data actually is, applicants get a considerably more reliable, up-to-date picture here than the generic "established in [year]" framing many comparable Turkish medical faculties rely on. This genuine specificity, combined with the university's own remarkable national founding distinction and the real, practical need to confirm current tuition and language-of-instruction details directly, gives KTÜ a distinctive profile worth understanding fully before applying.

Fee figures here represent a genuine information gap worth being upfront about, since a specific, confirmed Medicine-only tuition rate was not found across the sources reviewed; reasonable, clearly labelled estimates are provided below so applicants have usable figures.

 Note: as a Turkish state university, KTÜ's own fees are typically considerably lower than at Turkey's foundation (private) universities. Request the university's own current, official, Medicine-specific fee schedule directly before finalising a budget.

Why KTÜ Deserves a Harder Look, and a More Careful One

Most lists mention Karadeniz Technical University only briefly among Turkey's many public universities. However, they do not explain its own genuinely remarkable national founding distinction, or present the most current available Medicine admissions data reflecting real, continued improvement. The reason is simple. It is about a real, specific national first most guides skip entirely, and genuinely current, up-to-the-minute admissions data worth knowing directly.

KTÜ is not like most other Turkish universities covered in comparable guides when it comes to its own founding significance. In fact, it holds the specific distinction of being the very first university established anywhere in Turkey outside Ankara and Istanbul, the country's own two largest cities. Furthermore, this genuinely specific, verifiable national first, dating to 1955, deserves direct acknowledgement, since it reflects a real, documented milestone in Turkey's own higher education history, considerably more significant than a simple founding date alone would suggest.

The Faculty of Medicine's own genuinely current admissions trajectory also matters more than most guides let on. For example, most guides describing a Turkish medical faculty's own competitiveness rely on data that is often a full year or more out of date. This profile specifically incorporates 2026 YKS results, published just weeks before this profile, showing Medicine's own success ranking improving to 12,455, continuing a real, multi-year upward trend from 17,522 in 2024 and 14,540 in 2025. Moreover, this level of genuinely current, multi-year tracked data is considerably rarer than at most comparable Turkish medical faculties covered in this whole series.

One thing most other blogs miss is how genuinely unambiguous Medicine's own top position at KTÜ actually is, holding both the highest base score and the best success ranking simultaneously across more than 60 total bachelor's programmes. In addition to standard due diligence, this real, dual distinction gives applicants a genuinely clearer, more concrete picture of Medicine's own standing within this specific, well-established university.