Adeola Abdulateef Elega

3.3 Research Context 
The study was done in North Cyprus particularly in Eastern Mediterranean 
University, Famagusta, North Cyprus. Turkish Republic of North Cyprus is a part of 
the island situated on the Mediterranean Sea. The main sectors of Turkish Republic 
of North Cyprus are agriculture, industry, tourism and higher education (Katircioglu, 
2007 p.44). The island housed a number of good universities with international 
recognition; Cyprus International University, Nicosia, Lefke European University, 
Lefke, Near East University, Nicosia, University of Mediterranean Karpasia, North 
Nicosia e.tc are some of the big names among higher educational establishment on 
the island.
Eastern Mediterranean University located in Famagusta, North Cyprus is an 
international state educational establishment which was established in 1979. This 
means it has been constantly running for 35 years. It is the oldest university on the 
island. The university has 11 faculties and also five Schools which has undergraduate 
and graduate programs (Masters and Ph.D.). The university has more than 30 
research centers. The big campus has a land mass stretching to about 3000 acres of 
land with 200.000 sq.m indoor area. It has comfortable dormitories which that can 
contain 5500 students. It is also worthy of note that the university is part of a number 
of international education associations; (EUA) European University Association, 
(IAU) International Association of Universities, (UNESCO) United Nations 
Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization e.tc 

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Business and Economics Faculty is a Faculty in the University which has Business 
Administration Department for undergraduate students which is a Turkish program. 
Others are English programs and they are Business and Administration 
Bachelor/B.B.A, Economics Bachelor/B.S, Political Science Bachelor/B.A, Public 
Administration Bachelor/B.A, International Relations Bachelor/B.A. The Faculty 
also has Masters with thesis and a non-thesis Master’s program too. The Faculty has 
Ph.D. Program and has an affiliation program with University of Warwick making 
students who school in EMU graduate with University of Warwick certificate. 
Communication And Media Studies Faculty has both English program and Turkish 
program for Public Relations and Advertising. Also another English and Turkish 
program for Radio-Tv and Film Studies. The Faculty has English program for 
Information Technology, Turkish program for Journalism and English program for 
Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design which are all undergraduate 
programs. For Master’s program, Digital Media and Film (Non-thesis) Visual Arts 
and Visual Communication Design (Non thesis). For the thesis option, it is called 
Media and Communication Studies Masters/Ph.D. 
Engineering Faculty is one of the biggest faculties in the institution. It has a good 
number of programs for undergraduate which are Civil Engineering (English and 
Turkish program), Computer Engineering (English and Turkish program), Electrical 
Electronic Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Information System Engineering, 
Management Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, 
Software Engineering (English Programs). The Faculty has thesis and non-thesis 
Masters programs and also Ph.D. programs (2014-2015 Information Handbook, 
2014, pp. 1-6). 

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