Necmetin Erbakan University, though a newly established state university in 2010, with 19 Faculties, 6 Colleges, 4 Institutes, 25 Research Centers and a State Musical Conservatory, is privileged of housing three oldest higher educational institutions in Konya; Ahmet Keleşoğlu Faculty of Education (since 1962), the Faculty of Theology (since 1962), and Meram Faculty of Medicine (since 1982).