Sabanci University

Sabancı University, a private non-profit research university founded in 1996 in Istanbul, has already gained a reputation as one of the premier universities in Turkey providing a world class education. The most important factor leading to that reputation is the quality of its faculty. Another distinguish characteristic of Sabancı University is its close ties with industry and the business world. The university’s state-of-the-art campus, endowed with the most recent technological infrastructure, is on the Asian side of Istanbul, right in the center of Turkey’s industrial and economic heartland. Sabancı School of Management (SOM) is accredited by the ACCSB (the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business). The Sabancı MBA Program, a two year full-time program, is an excellent example of how Sabancı University combines world-class education with practical relevance. The design of the program has taken the best aspects of management education from around the world and built in aspects that fit the unique Turkish and regional business context.