'We learn for life, not for school’

Since its foundation, BİLGİ has attempted to establish a cultural and scientific community that promotes tolerance and respect for a diversity of individuals with different lifestyles, beliefs and ways of thinking within the framework of contemporary universal values, while at the same time maintaining strong ties with all segments of the society.

BİLGİ community includes more than students; it also includes faculty, alumni, families, employers and neighbouring communities where BİLGİ is located.

Being part of Laureate International Universities Network, the founding premise of BİLGİ has become ‘to make education more accessible and affordable so that more students can pursue their dreams’.

BİLGİ seeks to educate free-thinking, creative, intellectually curious and enterprising individuals who will contribute to a world in which knowledge is accessible to all and, indeed, in which access to it has come to be seen as a fundamental human right.

BİLGİ holds the primary responsibility for providing, maintaining and further developing an academic environment in which both students and faculty members are able to engage in learning and production of knowledge at the highest level.

• Founded officially in 1996 with the motto ‘Learning not for school but for life’
   
• A city university intertwined with İstanbul’s vibrant cultural life
   
• Leading Turkish university with an innovative academic environment and a diverse student body
   
• Medium of instruction in English
   
• More than 24.000 alumni and 25.000 students
   
• Close to 1.000 academic staff, each one renown nationally or globally in their own fields with the initiation
   
• Of new innovative programs each year, more than 150 programs in its 7 faculties, 4 schools, 3 vocational schools and 5 institutes.
   
• Host of over 1.000 scientific and cultural activities every year at award-winning campuses located in the heart of the city
   
• The only member in Turkey of world’s leading university network Laureate International Universities which provides a quality higher education on an international scale with more than 80 accredited campus-based and online universities throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, Northern Africa, Asia and the Middle East
   
• More than 600 exchange agreements in Europe, an active participant in the Erasmus exchange network
   
• Full member of European University Association (EUA), International Association of Universities (IAU), EUA-CDE (EUA-Council for Doctoral Education) and OECD/Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE)
   
• Among the most distinguished universities in Turkey for social responsibility projects
   
• Opportunities to work with non-governmental organizations and study at around 20 research centers
   
•  A community of not only students but also faculty, alumni, families and neighboring communities where the university is located
   
• Regardless of age or degree, the opportunity to study cultural or vocational topics with BİLGİ Lifelong Learning Center through a wide range of programs including literature, creative writing, history, journalism, fantasy art, politics and music, law studies, digital marketing communication and many more.

International Opportunities

 BİLGİ is proud to bring students a global perspective with a blend of multicultural experiences. As one of the leading international higher education institutions in Turkey and a member of Laureate International Network, BİLGİ provides diversified higher education to both domestic and international students.

Functioning under the aegis of the Turkish Council of Higher Education, BİLGİ is an individual full member of the European University Association (EUA).With nearly 350 exchange agreements in Europe, BİLGİ is also an active participant in the Erasmus exchange network and has strong academic affiliations with numerous universities abroad.

Be a free-thinking creative 

BİLGİ seeks to educate freethinking, creative, intellectually curious and enterprising individuals who will contribute to a world in which knowledge is the primary driving force of society, where knowledge is accessible to all and, indeed, in which access to it has become a fundamental human right. BİLGİ holds a primary responsibility for providing, maintaining and further developing an academic environment in which both students and faculty members are able to engage in learning and the production of knowledge at the highest level.

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