The Technical University of Crete is a state university under the supervision of the Greek Ministry of Education and was founded in 1977 in Chania, Crete. The first students were admitted in 1984. The campus is located on a panoramic site in the peninsula of Akrotiri and covers an area of 750 acres, 7 km Northeast of Chania. Library, cafeterias, and students' dormitories are located on campus. The Technical University of Crete ranks highly among the best Greek universities in terms of research productivity, research funding, scientific publications and citation per faculty member. In addition the departments of the Technical University of Crete are highly competitive. The students enter the University after scoring high scores in the National Examinations organized annually for this purpose by the Greek Government. The purpose of the institution is to conduct research, to provide under-graduate and graduate educational programs in modern engineering fields as well as to develop links with the Greek industry. With a total of 210 research and development programs and a budget approaching the amount of 19,000,000 Euro, the Technical University of Crete is among the top in Greece in Performing research. In addition, the Technical University of Crete is among the first and top Greek institution with the highest rate of research publications per faculty member. One of its scope is to strengthen even more the basic sciences offered in the department curricula and to attract the best researchers. Wikipedia [ - ]

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