ITU is a state university which defines and continues to update methods of engineering and architecture in Turkey. It provides its students with modern educational facilities while retaining traditional values, as well as using its strong international contacts to mould young, talented individuals who can compete not only within their country borders but also in the global arena.
ITU was established in 1773, during the time of the Ottoman Sultan Mustafa III. Under its original name "Muhendishane-i Bahr-i Humayun", The Royal School of Naval Engineering, its responsibility was to educate chart masters and ship builders. In 1795, the "Muhendishane-i Berr-i Humayun", The Royal School of Military Engineering, was established to educate technical staff in the army. In 1847, education in the field of architecture was also introduced. Established in 1883, the “Hendese-i Mülkiye”, the School of Civil Engineering, assumed the name “Mühendis Mekteb-i Alisi”, Engineering Academy, in 1909, with the aim of educating the staff for work on the country’s infrastructure projects.
Gaining university status in 1928, the “Yüksek Mühendis Mektebi”, Engineering Academy, continued to provide education in the fields of engineering and architecture until it was incorporated into Istanbul Technical University, in 1944. Finally, in 1946, ITU became an autonomous university, including the Faculties of Civil Engineering, Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering.
BUEK ailesinin üyesi olarak 1994 yılında Bahçeşehir’de kurulan ilk kampüsünde eğitime başlayan Bahçeşehir Koleji, “kaliteli eğitimi daha çok çocuğa ulaştırmak” amacıyla Türkiye’nin 58 ilinde 144 kampüsüyle eğitim veriyor.
We are a big family believing that the life is the product of dreams, dreams give rise to goals and goals give rise to life, and we all adjoin not only heart but also mind to the work.
As a requisiteness of doing a work whose output is science, we believe in the power of seeing, looking differently, changing and transforming. We make a great effort to reach our objective of changing life of every person touching us in the direction of his/her goals and dreams, and beautify primarily our environment and our country and then the entire world.
In this way we prepare our students not only to courses but also to the life; we teach them not only curriculum but also their profession, we help them experience life. As a global university, we educate people of the world who protect their national values. We are a university that is neither surrounded by four walls nor a closed educational institution but open to the life, environment and the whole world and breathes every moment.
We offer opportunities for our students to make them know themselves, their dreams and determine their goals. Furthermore we encourage them to change and develop together with us and the whole world. All in all, we know that dreams change lives. If somebody changes herself, then the world changes.