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The Acıbadem Healthcare Group is Turkey’s most valuable private healthcare organisation according to brand assessment results and the position the group has achieved in the sector. Today Acıbadem, with its 25 hospitals, 15 outpatient clinics, 3.829 doctors and 5.469 nurses, provides healthcare services with nearly 26.440 employees. The Group provides diagnosis and treatment services at certified healthcare standards with a qualified staff, advanced technology, modern infrastructure and JCI accreditation. The journey of growth and development for Acıbadem, which started out as a district hospital in 1991, continues on the world stage with an agreement made in 2012 with IHH Healthcare Berhad, one of the largest groups in the Far East. IHH Healthcare Berhad, which has education and real estate investments in many countries throughout the world in addition to investments in hospitals and healthcare institutions in 8 large countries of the Asian Pacific, is the 2nd largest healthcare chain in the world with a powerful structure comprised of the Malaysian government’s investment fund Khazanah, Japan’s Mitsui & Co. Ltd. and the Aydınlar Family Partnership. In 2016, Acıbadem Healthcare Group acquired the Tokuda Group and the City Clinic Group, both of which are leading Bulgarian healthcare providers. An investment of 125 million Euros enabled Acıbadem to expand its operations by 4 hospitals and 5 outpatient clinics thus making it the largest private healthcare provider in Bulgaria. Acıbadem currently operates 25 hospitals and 15 clinics in 5 countries. The Acıbadem Healthcare Group, provides integrated premium healthcare services with Acıbadem Project Management (Hospital Design, Project Management), APlus (Hospital Hospitality Company), Labmed (Advanced Clinical Lab Company) and Acıbadem Mobile (Mobile Healthcare Services, such as Air & Groud Ambulance).

Koç University strives to be a center of excellence, one that succeeds in providing a world-class education to its students, creating new knowledge via the research of its faculty, applying the acquired knowledge for the benefit of society, and equipping its students with the highest sense of ethics, social responsibility and good citizenship. Koç University was founded in 1993 as a non-profit private university in Istanbul, Turkey. Its beautiful campus sprawls over a sixty-two acre estate that succeeds in balancing accessibility to all of Istanbul with retreat from the distractions of city life. The product of a meticulous, integrated design, Koç University’s sixty buildings -academic and administrative- include laboratories, library, dormitories, faculty residences, social venues, health center and sports facilities. In the twenty years since its establishment, Koç University has become one of the leading universities in Turkey, distinguished by notable contributions to the elevation of education, knowledge and service both domestically and beyond. With Colleges of Social Sciences and Humanities, Administrative Sciences and Economics, Science, Engineering, Law, Nursing and Medicine, Koç University offers 22 undergraduate, 32 graduate and 18 PhD programs.

Marmara University is one of the oldest educational institutions in Turkey. Established on 16 January, 1883 under the name Hamidiye Ticaret Mekteb-i Âlisi, and affiliated with the Commercial, Agriculture, Forestry and Mining industry, Marmara University began its life in a house behind the Istanbul High School for Girls in Cağoğlu. The first graduates (13 people) matriculated in 1887. On 21 September, 1889 the school was affiliated with the Education Ministry; in 1893 the school was closed, with the idea that it would be reformed and reopened in the near future. On 15 October, 1897 the school, still affiliated with the Education Ministry, was reopened; from this date on the university has provided education.