The social and cultural activities carried out in our city and university provide the students with many alternative opportunities for leisure.
 
Alongside academic success, our university gives great importance to social and cultural activities of students. Throughout the academic year, the university hosts many famous guests from different academic and artistic backgrounds, enabling students to participate in a variety of lectures, seminars and workshops, in addition to enjoying performances and special exhibitions in music, dance, theatre and visual arts.
 
There are various events traditionally organized in the university. Some of them are: Spring Festivals, Sports Festival, Media Awards, National Theater Festival, University Fair and Career Days. Every year, more and more traditional sport activities and competitions are organized in the University.
 
Students can participate in many different branches of sport in the indoor and outdoor complexes situated in the various campuses. The University has 5 indoor sport complexes, 4 football fields (2 indoor and 2 outdoor), an athletic track, 3 tennis courts and a swimming complex with an Olympic and Diving Pool. We also have fitness salons, saunas, spa baths, table tennis, billiards and massage.
 
Incoming students also have the privilege to join our university Sport Teams. Some of our teams are: Basketball, Box, Football, Wrestling, etc. Please click HERE for the list of sport teams. For further information on campus sport facilities please visit http://sbf.omu.edu.tr/
 
Student Clubs
 
Students can join any of the many student clubs (there are 85 clubs) the campus life offers them, such as: “ESNSamsun”, Mountaineering Club, Aviation Club etc. Please click HERE for the list of student clubs.
 
Life Centre
 
This centre includes the bare necessities of students for clothes and accessories, market, grocery and food shopping, eat-in and take-away food, rent-a-car, cargo post, copy centre, travel agency and some leisure activities such as; play station, mini golf and bowling.
 
Student Boutique
 
A student boutique is founded by the General Directorate of Health Culture and Sports for students with economic needs. The boutique is run by charities of the firms and people. The students can take two products free of charge per month by showing their student ID cards.
 
Other Campus Facilities
 
Observation House, Planetarium, Artificial Climbing Wall
 
Sport and leisure facilities in the city 
 
With the great numbers of sport facilities in Samsun, the city is vastly progressing to become “a city of sports”. The sport complexes and centres of the City Municipality and the Ministry of Youth and Sport are also for the use of our students with very low membership and entrance fees.

The nearest sport complex to the Exchange Student Dormitory in Guzel Sanatlar Campus is Mustafa Dagistanli Sport Complex.
 
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