YTU, with the exchange programs it offers to its students and staff, aims to raise its members as world citizens by increasing global awareness. At YTU, the highest ranking university in terms of sending the most students abroad with the Erasmus+ program in Türkiye, there are also both national and international exchange programs which are respectively Farabi, Mevlana and FreeMover. Moreover, YTU increases intercultural interaction with the countries outside the European Union through mutual cooperation and exchange programs.