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İstanbul Bilgi University Santral Campus
İSTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITY
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 neighboring 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 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.
Students at BİLGİ benefit from the advantages of studying at BİLGİ throughout and after their studies with 45 undergraduate and over 30 graduate programs and 15 vocational schools. Students at BİLGİ:
• can have a true international experience thanks to the Laureate International Universities Network membership,
• can study, obtain a double degree or continue their studies at undergraduate or graduate program levels at over 60 institutions in 27 countries,
• take part in social responsibility projects,
• work at non-governmental organizations,
• actively join the works of around 20 research centers and develop projects,
• participate in over 400 scientific and cultural activities every year at award-winning campuses located in the heart of the city.
İstanbul Bilgi University offers its students a true university experience. Students at BİLGİ not only prepare for their professional business lives but aim at developing into responsible individuals that are sensitive to their environment, sharing the worries of their community and making a contribution to the society.
History
Adopting the principle of “Non scholae, sed vitae discimus” (We do not learn for the school, but for life), Istanbul Bilgi University took its place within the Turkish system of higher education as a civil corporation after the application made by the Bilgi Education and Culture Foundation on 7 June 1996 and the subsequent approval by the Turkish Grand National Assembly according to Law number 4142.
Over time Istanbul Bilgi University has grown to encompass 3 main campuses, Kuştepe, Dolapdere and Santral, that total 160,000 square meters and it is on these three campuses that it continues to serve its students and the academic world in Turkey.
Having realized many firsts in its 15 years and with the aim of increasing the quality of education and research and becoming a university that can compete globally, Istanbul Bilgi University began a long term partnership with Laureate Education, one of the largest international education networks in the world, in 2006 and continues to be a part of this network.
The university currently has around 11,000 students, 600 academic staff members, 6 faculties, 4 institutes, 4 schools, and 7 programs associated with its vocational schools, and around 100 programs that provide education to its associate, undergraduate and graduate students. As of 2011, a total of over 14,000 students have graduated from the university.
For more information visit Istanbul Bilgi University web site.
İSTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITY SANTRAL CAMPUS
In its original incarnation, before restoration and conversion into Bilgi University Santral Campus, the Silahtarağa Power Plant was the Ottoman Empire’s first urban-scale power plant. The facility went into service on the Golden Horn, İstanbul’s oldest industrial area, in 1911 and supplied the city with electricity up until 1983. Today, the power plant stands as a unique industrial heritage site following its conversion into Santral Campus, a project which involved the collaboration of public sector, private sector and non-governmental organizations alike. Opening its doors on 8 September 2007, Santral Campus is one the most exhaustive conversion projects to be carried out in Turkey in the field of arts and culture.
Santral Campus has hosted over 20 national and international exhibitions since opening. Together, these exhibitions have attracted more than 500,000 visitors. In addition, Santral Campus has welcomed numerous leading international artists and thinkers for various events.
Address:
Eski Silahtarağa Elektrik Santralı
Kazım Karabekir Cad. No: 2/13
34060 Eyüp İstanbul
