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AI degree programs filled all available places in university placements
Zafer Küçükşabanoğlu, president of the Artificial Intelligence Policies Association (AIPA), announced that AI-based university programs filled all available places while assessing the 2026 YKS placement results. Küçükşabanoğlu said the interest of young people should be transformed into knowledge, competence, research and production.
Zafer Küçükşabanoğlu, president of the Artificial Intelligence Policies Association (AIPA), announced that AI-based university programs filled all available places while assessing the 2026 YKS placement results.
Küçükşabanoğlu said the full placement rate showed that young people had strongly embraced the AI transformation, adding that turning this interest into knowledge, competence, research and production should be the priority.
Steps in education policy
The AIPA president said the association had identified education as one of its priority areas of work and published its Education and Artificial Intelligence Policy Paper in 2023. He stressed that AI was not merely a technological issue but also a matter of education, human resources and development.
Küçükşabanoğlu said the Education in Artificial Intelligence Policy Paper and Action Plan, published by the Ministry of National Education in 2025, provided a comprehensive road map for the 2025–2029 period. He noted that the document included four main objectives, 15 policies and 40 action steps.
He said the framework covered various areas, from building an AI culture and integrating AI into curricula to teacher training, student outcomes, AI-supported administrative processes, and technology and data infrastructure.
Strong interest in university programs
Küçükşabanoğlu said the Council of Higher Education had launched new undergraduate and associate degree programs in AI and digital technologies at universities in recent years, adding that these steps were important for training the skilled workforce Türkiye would need.
Küçükşabanoğlu said the interest shown by university applicants in AI programs was consistent with public awareness. Citing the results of AIPA’s Artificial Intelligence Perception Survey, he said 80.5% of the public was aware of AI, 57.6% used AI, and 35.3% of users used the technology every day.
AI Action Plan and a university proposal
Küçükşabanoğlu said the Türkiye Artificial Intelligence Action Plan, shaped under the leadership of the Ministry of Industry and Technology with contributions from public institutions, academics, civil society organizations and private-sector representatives, set out the objectives for the 2026–2030 period within a comprehensive framework.
He said the Action Plan’s approach of “Recognize, Benefit, Produce and Govern” reflected Türkiye’s goal of becoming a country that not only uses AI but also trains, develops, produces and governs human resources in the field.
The AIPA president said Türkiye should have a university focused on AI that brings together international students and academics and produces scientific research and technology. Küçükşabanoğlu said, “We believe that Cahit Arf University of Artificial Intelligence will certainly be established one day.”
Küçükşabanoğlu thanked the Ministry of National Education and the Council of Higher Education for their work to prepare the education system for the needs of the AI era.
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