Eskişehir Osmangazi University Comparative Literature Department, which was established in the Faculty of Science and Letters in 2000 and was the first comparative literature department opened in a state university, started its education life with an academic staff consisting of Ali Gültekin, Medine Sivri, Mehmet Semerci, Engin Bölükmeşe and Lale Çaklı.

Eskişehir Osmangazi University Comparative Literature Department started its education at Bademlik Campus in Odunpazarı with 32 students, and three years later moved to the building of Faculty of Education in Meşelik Campus. After three-years in this building, it finally moved to its current building in 2006.

Our department, which started to take its first students as part of the 4-year undergraduate program in the 2000-2001 academic year, has been transferred to the "one year compulsory Preparatory Class + four-year undergraduate education" system since 2001.

In the first stage, Eskişehir Osmangazi University Comparative Literature Department, offered its students the option of German as the second foreign language, together with English, then a year later included the French preparatory class option in its program in 2002. Evening Education program was opened in 2010 and started accepting students since this year. Our second education program gave its first graduates in 2015.

The Eskişehir Osmangazi University Comparative Literature Department, which has been involved in the Bologna Process since 2012, has reorganized the compulsory / elective course credits in accordance with the European Crediting System and became part of the European Higher Education Area owing to its accreditation.