Council of Higher Education (YÖK) accepted demand of Senate of Onsekiz Mart University and decided to establish The Tourism Faculty to Çanakkale. University authorities said: "Approval of this decision on Council of Ministers is expected. We are expecting the approval of Faculty of Architecture and Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. The number of faculties in ÇOMÜ will be increased to 13 with these decisions. YÖK decided to allocate of Çanakkale Vocational School on sciences and social sections. Name of Çanakkale Vocational School will be changed to Çanakkale Technical Sciences Vocational School. Çanakkale Social Sciences Vocational School will be the newest vocational school of ÇOMÜ with 10 sections. Another good news from YÖK is the approval of a new doctoral and two master programs. There will be doctoral program on the field of Public Administration in ÇOMÜ and there will be Genetics Master Program and Physiology Master Program in Institute of Health Sciences of ÇOMÜ. More than 2000 students are in doctoral and master programs in ÇOMÜ."