Özyeğin University is a private, non-profit university located in

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History

The university was founded by the Hüsnü M. Özyeğin Foundation, and its establishment was approved by Foundation Act No. 5656, published in the Official Gazette No. 26526 on May 18, 2007. Özyeğin University admitted its first class of students to the department of

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and started its education in September, 2008. According to the "Most Popular Universities" survey conducted by Bloomberg Business Week in 2014, Özyeğin ranked 3rd among foundation universities, following Sabancı and Koç universities, respectively. Özyeğin University was also placed 4th among all universities in the online survey conducted with 15.700 students from 89 universities between January and May 2014. Özyeğin University ranked 6th among the Most Entrepreneurial and Innovative Universities of Turkey and rose in the ranking compared to 2013.

Campus

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Campus is the university's first campus, which was opened in June 2008. The university launched the main new campus in

Çekmeköy Çekmeköy is a district in the Asian suburbs of Istanbul, Turkey. It became a district in 2009 by secession from Ümraniye. Also; Ömerli, Alemdağ, and Taşdelen villages, 17 quarter and four towns joined Çekmeköy district in the same year. It ...

, Istanbul. Later the building in Altunizade was evacuated and all departments moved to the

Campus in May 2013.

Organization and structure

Özyeğin University aims to contribute to the development of Turkish society by producing original, creative, and valuable knowledge with its thoroughly modern education system, innovative structure, and service sector oriented education programs as well as being financially accessible to all students through an effective scholarship and financial support model.

Academics

Undergraduate

; Faculty of Architecture and Design * Architecture (English and Turkish) * Communication Design * Industrial Design * Interior Architecture and Environmental Design ; Faculty of Business * Banking and Finance * Business Administration * Economics * Entrepreneurship * International Business and Trade * Management Information Systems ; Faculty of Engineering * Civil Engineering * Computer Science * Electrical & Electronics Engineering * Industrial Engineering * Mechanical Engineering * Natural and Mathematical Sciences ; Faculty of Law * Law ; Faculty of Social Sciences (English and Turkish) * International Relations * Psychology ; School of Applied Sciences * Gastronomy and Culinary Arts * Hotel Management ; School of Aviation * Air Transportation Management * Professional Flight Program ; School of Languages * Modern Languages Programs * Preparatory English Program * Undergraduate English Programs

Graduate

; Graduate School of Business * Entrepreneurship * Executive MBA * Financial Engineering and Risk Management, covered by the Graduate School of Engineering * MBA * PhD in Business ; Graduate School of Engineering * Architecture * Civil Engineering * Computer Science * Electrical & Electronics Engineering * Industrial Engineering * Mechanical Engineering ; Graduate School of Social Sciences * Graduate Program for Design, Technology and Society (MA, PhD) * Graduate Program for Law * Graduate Program for Psychology

Notable alumni

İrem Karamete İrem Karamete (born June 20, 1993) is a Turkish fencer competing in the foil event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She is the first Turkish fencer to qualify for the Olympics since 1984. Early life Karamete was born into a fencing family in Ist ...

(born 1993), Olympic fencer *

Tutya Yılmaz Tutya Yılmaz (born 4 June 1999 in Istanbul) is a Turkish female artistic gymnast who represented Turkey at the 2014 Youth Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics. In 2016, she was named Turkish Female Athlete of the Year. Early life Yılmaz wa ...

(born 1999), Olympic gymnast

References

External links

Official website

Official website

Hüsnü M. Özyeğin Foundation
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