Turkey is blessed with an excellent educational system. Izmir's is considered to be even a notch or two better. There are 9 universities (4 state, 5 private ) …including Dokuz Eylul University, The Izmir University of Economics, Aegean University and the Izmir Institute of High Technology, the latter with administrative, medical and engineering departments. Approximately 16,000 students graduate from these Universities each year.

Izmir also provides top-rated public and private elementary institutions and high schools, a variety of vocational and trade schools (in textiles, machinery and business) …all of which prepare an abundance of skilled and semi-skilled labor for Izmir's burgeoning economy.

For the children of international investors, the Izmir International Schools provides an education (in English, German and French) from pre-school to grade12.