期刊名称：Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1944-1088
电子版ISSN：1944-1096
出版年度：2012
卷号：4
期号：1
出版社：Guild of Independent Scholars
摘要：Since the beginning of the 1990s, there has been a rapid increase in the amount of the student numbers of the higher education institutions in Turkey. In other words, higher education institutions have grown considerably with regard to student numbers recently. Recent studies show that the trends are similar in developed and developing countries. For example, Rosado and David (2006) point out that in Britain over the last 25 years, there has been a massive increase in the numbers of students participating in higher education, from three quarters of a million students to well over two million. However, the growth of the higher education sector has not been linear in student and faculty numbers in Kocaeli University (KOU). The expansion process of KOU must deliberately be reviewed to the needs of the future of higher education, to increase the quality of education and, in addition, to cope with the problems of university caused by this fast change. We will move on to consider in the broad statistical patterns of change in KOU by comparing the statistics of the higher education institutions in Turkey. In this paper, we discuss the massive expansion of KOU through the statistical patterns. As a consequence, statistics show that there is lack of proportion in the rise of student and faculty numbers in KOU. We have distinguished that the changes in KOU have not been planned strategically in the process of being a massive university. Now that KOU has grown massively so far, from now on consideration should be given to quality of its products and activities
