The mission of Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University is to educate qualified human resource that will lay the foundations of national development in regional borders where industrialization and economic development increases rapidly and to play an effective role in regional development. The university also aims to contribute to technological developments by establishing the infrastructure that will educate students who are inquiring, analytic, open to continuous improvement and development, follow and seek to go beyond modern civilization level.
The vision of Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University is to become a modern university which offers the society its experience in research, education and teaching by mobilizing all modern educational, teaching and technical opportunities to train productive people who improve themselves spiritually, mentally and physically.
Kocaeli University’s mother institution was founded in 1976 as Kocaeli State Academy of Engineering and Architecture, and housed Electrical and Mechanical Faculty, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Institute of Foreign Languages. All of these schools became a part of Yildiz University’s Kocaely Engineering Faculty in 1982, and changed its name into Kocaeli University in 3 July 1992.
As of July 2006, Kocaeli University has 1890 academic staff including 171 professors, 84 associate professors, 434 assistant professos, 282 lecturers, 163 instructors, 704 research assistants and 52 specialists, and 975 admistrative staff who work in 11 faculties, 7 community colleges, 1 state conservatory, 18 vocational schools and 3 institutes. As of February 2007, 50.476 students are enrolled in the university.