Bahcesehir University

Bahçeşehir University -with permission from the Turkish National Assembly- was founded by the Bahçeşehir Ugur Foundation for Education in Istanbul 1998.

• An academic and strategic protocol was signed later that year with San Diego State University in California


• Bahçeşehir University considered one of the best privately owned universities in Turkey and was one of the few Turkish universities that gave lectures in the English language, so Bahçeşehir University remains a high priority for students applying for a high level of English language proficiency


• Its motto is "An International University in the Heart of Istanbul" as evidenced by its international campus in Washington, DC, Boston, Toronto, Rome, Berlin and Hong Kong


• It also has nearly 200 international partners, including Harvard University


• There are 17,048 male and female students, 10,137 college students and 4,716 graduate students


There are eight colleges

◊ School of Law.

◊ Faculty of Economics.

◊ Administrative and social sciences.

◊ College of Communication.

◊ College of Architecture and Design.

◊ College of Engineering and Natural Sciences.

◊ College of Health Sciences, College of Medicine.

In addition to a language school, two vocational schools and four graduate institutes.

• Its main campus is located in Besiktas, on the edge of the Bosphorus, often known as the Istanbul Strait


• A free shuttle service connects all students and employees of the four campus: North Besiktas, South Besiktas, Guztepe and Galata


• Istanbul (historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople) is the most populated city in Turkey and the country's economic, cultural and historical center

• It stretches over the Bosphorus (separating Europe and Asia), with its commercial and historical center on the European side and a third of its population on the Asian side


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