BAU Communication Moves Beyond Its Time

Following the innovations that the world's prestigious universities have brought to the concept of the campus, Bahçeşehir University offers its students more than a modern campus with BAU Galata.

Bahçeşehir University, which since its founding has taken care to ensure that its students study in learning environments that are intertwined with the city and able to keep pace with development, is taking this vision a step further with BAU Galata. Home to all departments, classrooms and laboratories of Bahçeşehir Communication from next semester, BAU Galata is getting ready to welcome BAU students as one of Türkiye's most modern and best-equipped faculty campuses, following months of effort and a major investment.

Providing information on the subject, Dean of the Faculty of Communication Prof. Dr. Haluk Gürgen stated that BAU Galata was designed in line with the vision and goals of Bahçeşehir Communication, which grows every year, is preferred by more and more students and is expanding and strengthening its academic staff. Prof. Dr. Gürgen said: "All departments of the Faculty of Communication will be located on this campus, but not all classes will be held in Galata. This campus will mainly host practice-, project- and workshop-based courses. In particular, the service courses that all students of the faculty must take will continue to be taught at the Beşiktaş Campus."

"THE CONDITIONS NECESSARY FOR TÜRKİYE'S BEST COMMUNICATION FACULTY HAVE BEEN MET"

BAU Galata features the CATI Laboratory, Focus Group Laboratory, News Center, Game Lab (BUG), Creative Industries Center and computer classrooms, prepared so that students and academic staff can carry out their research and practical work, as well as art studios and exhibition rooms. Underlining that communication education must also keep pace with change in line with the ever-changing nature of communication technologies and the understanding of communication, Prof. Dr. Gürgen said: "Thanks to the laboratories, classrooms and cultural and artistic spaces at BAU Galata designed in line with this new understanding, the conditions necessary for Türkiye's best communication faculty have been met."

A STUDENT-FOCUSED CAMPUS

Noting that student comfort has been prioritized at BAU Galata, Prof. Dr. Gürgen said: "To ensure that students and academic staff do not experience transportation problems,a shuttle service by sea will be provided. In addition, to prevent students from losing time by traveling back and forth on the Beşiktaş–Galata line during the day, classes will be scheduled so that they take place on the same campus on the same day." Stating that BAU Galata will have a very large cafeteria, Prof. Dr. Gürgen said: "We have designed a campus in line with the modern understanding of a university: more dynamic, mobile, enabling closer relations with the industry, and allowing students to turn their designs into practice more easily. I believe that, thanks to BAU Galata, our constantly rising quality of education, as appreciated by the media sector and the academic world, will rise even faster."