Mersin University was established with the Law No. 3837 accepted by the Turkish Grand National Assembly on July 3, 1992, and became operational on November 10, 1992.

Having completed its twenty-sixth year in the 2018-2019 academic year, our University had its first graduates in June 1997.

Mersin University will conduct its graduate programs in the 1993-1994 academic year with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Faculty of Fine Arts, the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, the Faculty of Engineering, the School of Tourism and Hotel Management, Mersin Vocational School, Gülnar Vocational School, Mut Vocational School. He started education by taking students to the Institutes of Sciences and Sciences.

In the 1995-1996 academic year, the Faculty of Fisheries and the Faculty of Medicine became operational in the 1998-1999 academic year. On March 15, 1999, Faculty of Medicine Research and Application Center (Hospital) was put into service. The Center was renamed the Health Research and Application Center in 2007.