İstanbul Üniversitesi Reviews

Beautiful university, even you only can see it from outside. Nice shops near the school, you can walk slowly and feel those old little stores.

What a lovely place to be educated.

Even the obligatory cats look happy.

i spent 2 weeks in this university for congress, one of the best university in turkey .

One of the largest University in Istanbul. It's located in Aksary.

Foundation: Founded in 1453

Istanbul University is the oldest, largest and oldest university in Turkey, and its graduates have occupied key positions in the country and in Turkish educational institutions, economics and the government sector, and the university has many colleges that are spread in many parts of Istanbul, but the main campus of the university is located in Beyazit Square.

Currently 60 thousand university students and 8 thousand postgraduate students are studying at the university, and 6 thousand employees work at the university, and the university is one of the best 15 Turkish universities out of 136 universities, after being evaluated according to academic standards, and has more than 5 thousand professors, as it came within List of the top 500 universities in the world.

University history:

The first academic year at Istanbul University began with the Hagia Sophia Church, which was converted into a mosque after the conquest of Istanbul, and the Zairek Church adjacent to Hagia Sophia, and these two churches are the basic structural roots of Istanbul University, and it was also taught, in addition to religious sciences, some worldly sciences such as space science. Sociology, mathematics, law, literature and medicine, which was taught in the largest hospital in Istanbul at that time, which was the "Dar Al-Shafaqa Hospital."

Istanbul University continued to teach previous educational materials until July 21, 1846, when the Ottoman Empire decided after this date to add new technical fields to the fields taught at the university, with the aim of developing the Ottoman state s bureaucratic and military technical capabilities. At that time, Abdul Majid II transformed Istanbul University into a larger educational headquarters under the name House of Arts that included several buildings. After the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923, Istanbul University continued its educational activities under the name of the House of Arts until 1933, after which it was declared an official university. Under the name of Istanbul University and its geographical area was expanded after the annexation of the military department, and Istanbul University continues in its educational activities to this day.