Giresun University designs its quality assurance mechanisms, measurement and evaluation activities and processes as an integrated structure — established in accordance with international standards and taking into account the responsibilities and positions of all its units, in order to determine whether the strategies aligned with its mission and vision and the associated goals have been achieved — and adopts the delivery of services to its internal and external stakeholders in accordance with defined standards, together with the sustainability of these services, as its quality assurance policy .

Giresun University adopts an integrative approach to education that enables its managers, teaching staff, all other employees and its students to become innovative leaders in their fields and to succeed in life after graduation — maintaining a programme structure designed in accordance with international standards and on the basis of continuous improvement and updated to meet the needs and expectations of all relevant parties, sustaining its student-centred and research-based approaches through a qualified teaching staff and new learning and teaching methods, enabling students to become familiar with research processes and to learn through inquiry, attaching importance to quality awareness and upholding the principles of ethics and professionalism — as its learning and teaching policy .

Giresun University adopts the generation of knowledge and value at national and international level, the encouragement of research, the promotion of research, development and innovation activities within a framework of cooperation and interaction, and the continuous monitoring and improvement of research resources and infrastructure in the light of research outputs — guided by its mission and vision, its core values, its quality policy and its strategic plan, giving priority to regional and local needs and seeking to contribute at the highest level to our country's competitiveness and development in the technological, economic, social and cultural spheres — as its research and development policy .

Giresun University conducts the production and use of institutional information effectively through the information management system and applications that support its quality assurance systems, taking into account managerial effectiveness, accountability and the provision of information to the public. Accordingly it adopts a governance system policy that closely monitors the processes governing the effective and efficient use of all its resources and safeguards the protection and reliability of institutional information .

Giresun University determines its learning and teaching and its research and development activities in accordance with the priorities and expectations of society at national, regional and local level. Through its academic and administrative units as well as its research and application centres, it adopts an approach that offers training programmes, social and cultural events and the added value arising from them for the development and benefit of all its internal and external stakeholders, takes continuity as essential, uses feedback mechanisms to obtain stakeholders' views and observes cultural and environmental sensitivity, as its service to society policy .

Giresun University holds an understanding of international integration in the process of bringing together its quality assurance, learning and teaching, research and development, service to society and governance system policies, the strategies and goals defined in line with them, and the internationalization-based activities set out in its strategic plan. In this context it adopts the education of individuals with a high capacity to compete internationally, and the provision of services as an international and intercultural institution supported by its international connections, partnerships and student and staff mobility, together with the sustainability of these services, as its internationalization policy .

Giresun University adopts, consistently with the quality assurance system and learning and teaching policy developed in line with its mission, vision and associated goals, an approach that maintains distance learning and teaching through synchronous and asynchronous course tools and applications, aims to improve continuously the quality and technical infrastructure of distance education through the qualified information resources and support services offered to students and teaching staff, and systematically monitors evaluations of the distance education system with the participation of all relevant stakeholders, as its distance education policy .