Işık University, which started its education life in 1996, offers undergraduate education with 23 programs in 3 faculties, associate degree programs with 9 programs in 1 school, postgraduate education with and without thesis in the Institute of Graduate Education, 43 master's degree programs in Turkish and English and 6 doctoral programs in Turkish and English, and education opportunities for students with the School of Foreign Languages. provides.
Işık University, which comes to life with the 138-year-old culture of the Feyziye Schools Foundation, has a modern infrastructure that can meet today's needs, classrooms, dormitories, libraries, social and sports facilities, an art gallery, Şile Campus built on an area of 490 thousand square meters and Maslak, at the center of the business world in Istanbul. It provides services with its campus.
Işık University; It is the first choice of students in higher education with its strong academic staff, multi-purpose modern campuses, multi-national, multi-cultural university life, lively and social campus life, participatory education approach, wide range of success-oriented scholarship opportunities and exemplary performance in business and career life of its more than 14 thousand graduates. between.
MISSION
With the power given by the 138 years of experience of the Feyziye Mektepleri Foundation, which is the founder and basis of Işık University, its students will be able to comprehend the changes brought by the society, the world and technology in the day they live in, to quickly keep up with the changes, to create and manage the changes that determine the future, to dominate them regardless of the conditions. It envisages gaining the qualification to use scientific knowledge as a tool of production and social benefit.
Creating complex problem solving capacity, being highly adaptable, having skills in different fields within a multi-disciplinary understanding of science, creative, critical, analytical, having strong knowledge of foreign languages, open to different cultures, encompassing, perceptive, high virtue, dignified, sensitive to the environment. Raising individuals is the main vision of Işık University.
As a new, innovative and pioneering university, IU has created its own corporate culture where academic and social output is created and functionalized at the highest level, and is a privileged university with these qualities.
IU believes that the future will be built with students who have these qualifications.
VISION
IU's priority is academic production, which is the outcome of academic culture and structure. IU designs all its plans and regulations with this aim as its starting point.
IU considers itself responsible for transferring the most advanced scientific and technological knowledge produced today to its students.
IU prepares its students for life as innovative, pioneering, entrepreneurial and sharing people who are equipped with analytical knowledge, critical thinking, the ability to solve complex problems, advanced language knowledge and skills, and the ideal of protecting and glorifying the bright values of their country.
IU is an innovative, pioneering, competitive, creative, entrepreneurial, productive, organized and participatory university to which its stakeholders rely on to achieve this result. It equates scientific knowledge production with producing resources and value. It establishes its own ecosystem and value chain and aims at virtual, biological, physical and social R&D.
IU aims to provide its students with a specific formation with the academic culture it creates. Believes in and embraces the value of an interdisciplinary, integrated, modular, participatory, open education system.
IU, which sees scientific knowledge as a production resource, evaluates the resource it produces as the basic financial input that ensures its own sustainability. Industrial cooperation, patents, projects, innovative inventions, entrepreneurship and investment are the main financing input elements. All stakeholders of IU directly participate in the financial production process.
IU has a management and execution approach based on talent management. It is an institution where academic and administrative stakeholders feel the feeling of being selected and important, where they are happy to prove their existence with what they produce, and where their efforts are rewarded at the highest level through the reward system. It adopts the planned employment method.
IU believes that every individual is self-sufficient at the management level. Within the horizontal organization and decentralization approach, duties, authority and responsibility are optimized at the highest level. All management units aim for the same purpose. Consistency in purpose and ideal is essential. The principles and objectives of planning and implementation, not prescriptivism, dominate management.
In the light of all these principles, Işık University, with the scientific values and processes it creates, with the high level of understanding of virtue integrated with it, blends universal values with the values of its own country, designs the future, raises sensitive, responsible and proactive individuals, has economic competitiveness, and constantly transforms and renews itself. It is an effective and efficient world university that aims to increase its country's place in the human development index and its national competitiveness.
BASIC VALUES
The core values that constitute the vision and mission of Işık University;
Transformative Student Experience
Inclusive University and Campus Concept
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