Short History of Bahçeşehir University

Bahçeşehir University was founded by Bahçeşehir-Uğur Education Foundation on 18.01.1998 in Istanbul. The university started to accept student admissions in the 1999-2000 academic year. The first campus of the university was in the Bahçeşehir region. As of 2004, all units of the university moved to Beşiktaş Campus.

Establishment Dates of Faculties and Institutes

• Faculty of Communication, Faculty of Business Administration (became Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences in 2013), Faculty of Arts and Sciences (closed in 2014), Faculty of Engineering(became Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences in 2013), School of Tourism Management and Hotel Management (it was changed to Vocational School in 2000) and the Institute of Social Sciences opened on 18.01.1998
• Faculty of Law opened on 17.05.2000.
• Faculty of Architecture (became Faculty of Architecture and Design in 2008) opened on 2001.
• School of Applied Sciences opened on 13.03.2007.
• The Faculty of Educational Sciences and the Institute of Educational Sciences opened on 22.12.2011.
• Faculty of Health Sciences opened on 28.01.2012.
• The Institute of Health Sciences opened on 10.09.2012.
• Faculty of Medicine received its first student in 2013.
• Vocational School of Health Services opened on 13.03.2014.
• The School of Foreign Languages opened on 26.08.2014.
• The Faculty of Dentistry opened on 11.03.2017.
• The Conservatory opened on 05.03.2020.
• Graduate Education Institute opened on 09.05.2020.
• Faculty of Pharmacy opened on 08.03.2022.
   

 

Opening Dates of Campuses

Bahçeşehir Campus was opened on 18.01.1998 as the first campus of the University. Later, it moved from this campus to the Beşiktaş Campus.

CAMPUS NAME	Opening Year
Beşiktaş South Campus	2004
Galata Campus	2012
Göztepe Campus	2013
Beşiktaş North Campus	2016
Galata Campus IDEA	2017
Çatalca Campus	2017
Saint Pierre Han	2018
Kemerburgaz Future Campus	2019
Galata Conservatory	2021

 

Our Rectors

	Inauguration	Departure From Office
Prof. Dr. Halil GÜVEN	17.01.1999	18.06.2003
Prof. Dr. Süheyl BATUM	18.06.2003	18.06.2007
Prof. Dr. Deniz ÜLKE ARIBOĞAN	18.06.2007	16.03.2010
Prof. Dr. Yılmaz ESMER	02.08.2010	15.06.2011
Prof. Dr. Şenay YALÇIN	05.07.2011	23.07.2019
Prof. Dr. Şirin KARADENİZ	16.08.2019	16.08.2023
Prof. Dr. Esra HATİPOĞLU	15.09.2023	ON THE JOB

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