About Us

Kıyıkent University was founded in 2011 by the Kıyıkent Education and Culture Foundation in Tuzla, on the eastern shore of the Marmara. Our aim is to give students not only a diploma but modern professional competence, a research culture and entrepreneurial thinking.

Our mission

To educate individuals of scientific quality who are committed to ethical values, and to contribute to the region's industry, health and culture through research and innovation. We update our programmes every year with industry advisory boards and prepare students for working life with at least two internships and a graduation project before the final year.

Our vision

By 2030, to be a research university among Turkey's top five foundation universities, offering internationally accredited programmes, where more than half of graduates are employed within six months of graduating.

Kıyıkent in numbers

• A 480,000 m² seaside campus, 9 faculties and schools, 45 programmes
• 14,500 students, about 1,900 of them international
• 620 academic staff, 38 research laboratories
• A 380-bed university hospital and 2,100 places in dormitories
• More than 120 Erasmus+ and bilateral agreements, more than 250 industry partners

Governance and oversight

The university operates under the supervision of the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) within the framework of the Higher Education Law No. 2547. The Board of Trustees, the rectorate and the academic councils are authorised in decision-making; all our regulations and directives are published in the Regulations section.