My Campus Is My Workplace

Bahçeşehir University is implementing, for the first time in Türkiye, CO-OP, the 21st-century education model that brings together the present and the future, life and school, and the university and the business world.

Implemented since 2008 with the "My Campus Is My Workplace" approach, the model brings together the university and the business world. In this way, BAU students have the chance to gain real work experience while still at university. Thanks to BAU's cooperation with more than a thousand domestic and international companies, our students gain work experience by working full-time in the summer and part-time in the winter. Combining education and working life with the CO-OP Education Model, BAU has so far given nearly 3,000 of its students the chance to gain CO-OP experience.

MY VISION HAS CHANGED

Meltem Küçükkorucu, a fourth-year student in the Bahçeşehir University Department of International Trade and Business, had the opportunity to work for a short period at Borusan Mannesmann thanks to the CO-OP advantage. Having seized this opportunity at an important company at a critical turning point in her career, Meltem Küçükkorucu had the chance both to put into practice what she had learned during her undergraduate studies and to get to know the business world up close. Stating that Bahçeşehir University puts its students one step ahead thanks to the major brands with which agreements have been made under the CO-OP model, Meltem Küçükkorucu said: "Thanks to CO-OP, students can easily overcome difficult stages such as finding an internship. Doing an internship at an important company like Borusan Mannesmann had a significant impact on my vision, and of course the basis of this impact is the Bahçeşehir University CO-OP system. I would like to thank everyone who pioneered and provides this system."

The most original and innovative concept of the CO-OP Model, implemented by Bahçeşehir University for the first time in Türkiye, is "Branded Courses". A branded course is the name given to courses that companies open at Bahçeşehir University under their own brands in order to train a qualified workforce in their own fields, products, services and practices. Companies prepare the content of these practice-oriented courses according to the needs of the sector, and sector representatives teach the classes. By choosing branded courses, students have the opportunity to take classes one-on-one with sector representatives and company executives. At the end of the course, successful students receive a certificate that also bears the signature of the company concerned. Since 2008, 84 Branded Courses have been offered to students at BAU.

Here are some of the Branded Courses

1.   Ajans Press “Media Monitoring & Coverage Analysis”

2.   Alametifarika “Future Brand Management”

3.   Alcatel – Lucent “Optical Networks”

4.   Anadolu Sigorta “Insurance Management”

5.   Bersay Communication Institute "Proficiency in Communication"

6.   BOYNER Group “Retail Management”

7.   Böcek Yapım “Advertising Production and Management”

8.   Citibank “Global Investment Products”

9.   Denizbank “Banking Practice”

10.       FOX TV “Media Strategy & Implementation”

11.       Garanti Factoring “Factoring: The World of Receivable Finance”

12.       Hürriyet Daily News “News Room”

13.       IBM “Service Oriented Architecture”

14.       Lidyana “Internet Entrepreneurship”

15.       Medyanet “Digital Advertising”

16.       Mercedes Benz “Materials and Distribution Management”

17.       NTV “TV Formats”

18.       TEB “Banking Academy”

19.       Türk Telekom “Telecommunication Systems”

20.       Turkcell “Mobile Communication & Technologies”

21.       Ülker “Strategy & Creativity in Marketing Communication”

22.       Virgin Radio “Radio Formats”

"MY VISION HAS CHANGED"

Meltem Küçükkorucu, a fourth-year student in the Bahçeşehir University Department of International Trade and Business, had the opportunity to work for a short period at Borusan Mannesmann thanks to the CO-OP advantage. Having seized this opportunity at an important company at a critical turning point in her career, Meltem Küçükkorucu had the chance both to put into practice what she had learned during her undergraduate studies and to get to know the business world up close. Stating that Bahçeşehir University puts its students one step ahead thanks to the major brands with which agreements have been made under the CO-OP model, Meltem Küçükkorucu said: "Thanks to CO-OP, students can easily overcome difficult stages such as finding an internship. Doing an internship at an important company like Borusan Mannesmann had a significant impact on my vision, and of course the basis of this impact is the Bahçeşehir University CO-OP system. I would like to thank everyone who pioneered and provides this system."