In recent years, Turkey has taken on an increasingly significant role in the globalizing economy. Foreign investors, attracted by the financial opportunities available, have launched an ever-growing number of offices in Turkey, particularly in Istanbul. Turkish companies, in addition to engaging in import and export, have also acquired a stronger international presence through direct investments in other countries. Our department aims to provide managers of the future with the global vision that they will need to succeed in this increasingly competitive international business world.

Aware that keeping up with the latest developments in the field is crucial, we take a global perspective on economics, finance, and international trade. Bolstered by an interdisciplinary approach and our faculty members’ broad base of knowledge, we offer programs primarily in administration and economics, and in addition to a number of other programs, students can enroll in dual major and minor degree programs as well. There are far-reaching employment opportunities for our graduates at national and international financial firms, multinational companies, NGOs, and research centers.... [-]

WELCOME TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Since 1997, our department aims to train outstanding students who are equipped to meet the needs of the rapidly changing and globalizing economy and will become qualified managers and entrepreneurs.

We provide a continuously updated training program that enriches students' expertise in management, organization, marketing, production, finance and accounting, and strategic thinking skills. Experienced faculty members integrate universal theoretical knowledge with contemporary practical applications of business.

All courses are taught in English in the Business Administration program. Thanks to partnership agreements of our university, students are able to benefit from exchange programs in leading universities in the world. A significant number of foreign students taking part in these programs also spend part of their study in our department.... [-]

In our lives, perpetually changing and getting more and more complex, because of technological advancements, psychology and its areas of application have gained considerable importance. The main objective of our psychology department is to help students acquire the theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in the area of psychology that are contemporary and robust To this end, our faculty consists of academicians who are graduates of the highest ranking universities in Turkey, Europe, and the US, are experts in various areas of psychology and have extensively published both nationally and internationally.

We aim that our students will be individuals who:... [-]

İstanbul Şehir University, School of Islamic Studies aims to equip its students with knowledge and skills that will enable them to have an in-depth understanding of the religion and civilization of Islam, as well as a closer comprehension of today’s world.

The School of Islamic Studies, which received its first students in the 2012-2013 academic year, offers a multi-directional and multi-optional program that extends from Tafseer (exegesis of the Qur’an) to historical sociology of Muslim societies, from hadith (traditions of the Prophet) to modern Islamic thought. The school not only opens doors to the great heritage of Islamic civilization for its students but also enables them to discover the philosophy and knowledge that are produced in the modern world. On top of offering the current curriculum of Schools of Theology in public universities of Turkey, School of Islamic Studies offers courses that aim to bring its students in contact with the history and classics of Islamic studies.... [-]

We’ve become accustomed to the ease of modern living, where everything can be easily found on a store shelf. However, there are many difficult and complex processes involved in providing everyone with affordable and readily available consumer goods. The name for the system planning that goes into these processes is Industrial Engineering. It involves the procurement of the materials needed for production, the inexpensive production of quality products, and the transportation of those products to consumers. It is everything in between the production of a product and its arrival to its consumers.

Electricity has been around since even millions of years ago, when the world was in a cloud of gas. But the raw electricity found in nature in lightning is an uncontrollable power. One day someone captured this in a cable. Since then, countless electrical inventions and discoveries have been made. Those inventors were the first electrical engineers, Edison, Siemens and Westinghouse, people who since became rich and famous.

You’ll work hand in hand with engineers from different fields and academics from the humanities and social sciences studying the production, control and application of electrical current and electromagnetic waves, investigating and finding solutions for the problems of our time.... [-]

Does the city have a spirit? Why do people living in the city feel alone? Is our identity more than what is written on our ID cards? Why do we always hear about postmodernism? Why are some things fashionable and others not? What was life like before the internet and cell phones? How can the conflicts in society be resolved? How do companies, the government, and NGOs work? How do culture and politics affect each other? What makes people religious, nationalistic, liberal or conservative? How do religions and ideologies shape our behaviors, values, and even our economy? Why do civilizations rise and fall? If you are looking for answers to these types of important questions the Sociology Department will be right for you.... [-]

What is schizophrenia? Why do we fall in love? Do children who play violent video games and watch violent movies become aggressors? What makes people happy? What is emotional intelligence? These are just some of the questions that are asked in the science of psychology. Psychology is a discipline that finds a fascinating variety of applications in daily life.

Our academic staff includes representatives of clinical psychology, counseling, psychiatry, social psychology and cognitive psychology. Our curriculum incorporates the various fields of psychology in a balanced way. Also, you’ll have the chance to study other social sciences and broaden your perspective. A student-friendly department that will help you obtain scientific understanding, as well as professional skills, awaits you.... [-]

The Department of Philosophy at İstanbul Şehir University is a young, ambitious, and growing Department committed to a pluralist approach to philosophy. The expertise of its multinational faculty members comprises both the analytic tradition focusing on philosophical problems and the European and Islamic tradition focusing on the same problems from a historical perspective. The Department respects both universal and regional traditions of thought. It is in particular dedicated to an interdisciplinary perspective through offering double major and minor programs.

Our Department of Philosophy is committed to excellence meeting international standards in teaching and research. Although most of our students arrive at our Department through a selection process in Turkey, a proportion of them comes from abroad through the University’s scholarship program and through our Erasmus-agreements with European Universities. Building on the strengths of Istanbul Şehir University’s other Departments, our students have the opportunity to learn and develop proficiencies in classical languages such as Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Ancient Greek, and Latin as well as to improve their English, which is the language in which our courses are taught. The regular activities our Department provides for students and faculty include the public lecture series “Philosophy Talks” and the organization of international workshops and conferences.... [-]

İstanbul Şehir University’s School of Management and Business Administration promises to teach its student the point to which the discipline of Management has reached today from a global standpoint, also considering the local dynamics.

The most significant entity of İstanbul Şehir University College of Management and Business Administration is the academic staff with their international experience in theory and practice.

The College of Management and Business Administration aims to have graduates who can take their place with success in the leading organizations of not only Turkey but the World. The aim is to equip students with features to specialize in certain areas and be good team members, as well as to form and manage a team whenever required by bringing out their leadership capabilities.... [-]

In our day, the phenomenon of globalization increasing with ever greater acceleration raises the importance of an education of international trade and management. For those who wish to specialize in this field, receiving only management education is not enough.

The Department of International Trade and Management at İstanbul Şehir University has been designed with the objective to successfully cultivate international business administrators with a global vision who can keep up with the constantly changing structure of the international business environment.

At the Department of International Trade and Management, we aim to cultivate the executive candidates of the future and business administrators who will internalize the fundamental principles and rules of international trade and management not only in Turkey but also in the world at large, who will communicate fluently in more than one foreign language and contribute to our country’s achievement of a good position in the global economy. ... [-]

The knowledge that illuminates the future, at ŞEHIR…

Why History? Because history is life’s teacher. History is the most important key for unlocking the secrets of the future. History is more than just dates, places, names, wars, and the actions of famous men. In the past hundred years, history has become a colorful new discipline, different from what you may have learned in your high school classes. History is the scientific manifestation of the basic human desire to know the past.

At the History Department at Istanbul Şehir University, we have an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to history. Paying attention to new trends in Turkish and world historiography, we are opening classes in various subfields of world history, ranging from Ottoman-Turkish history to European, Asian, and American history. We want you to become familiar with historical methodology and good sources, along with the methods of the social sciences, and be able to write within a literary style. Without neglecting the methods of historical interpretation produced in Europe and America, we hope to develop methods for regional history writing and incorporate them into general history. We consider it a responsibility of Turkey’s historians to share Turkey’s rich historical heritage with the world. By training future academics in undergraduate and graduate studies, and by supporting research projects, the History Department at Istanbul Şehir University will offer original contributions to historiography in Turkey.... [-]

As the Department of Cinema and Television at İstanbul Şehir University, we see the media from a large perspective, as a social tool and art form which is technological and industrial. Our aspiration is that our students graduate and join us as fast as possible as young colleagues with the sufficient scientific and professional assets. Both in Turkey and in the countries of the region, the need for qualified communications personnel is increasing day by day.

There is a special need for generations familiar with world cinema, with advanced visual and numerical literacy, which possess intellectual depth and technical skills and are informed of the operation of both national and transnational cinema and TV industries. Upon their graduation from our department, there will be many professionals who will want to work with our students as a producer, director, screenwriter, critic, copywriter, curator, researcher, reporter, editor, television programmer, new media specialist and visual communications designer.... [-]

Having accepted its first cohort of students in Fall 2013, Architecture is a small but steadily expanding department. While we aspire to match the academic standards of the best architectural schools across the globe and incorporate cutting-edge thinking in architectural pedagogy and practice, we also seek to install in our students, a strong sense of social engagement, environmental responsibility and professional ethics.

***With a foundational belief in design as a “Critical Practice” that can generate “public good” in the world, we take issue with the increasing instrumentality and commodification of architectural knowledge, education and production. We envision our graduates to be fully aware of the social, economic, political and cultural dynamics that shape the production of the built environment and to engage with them critically and innovatively in multiple scales from single buildings and construction details to large urban interventions. We pledge to educate the next generation of competent, creative and critical design professionals who can challenge the received conventions and fashionable trends of their discipline and are as interested in defining problems as they are in solving them.... [-]

Graphic Design is a design field that organizes visuals and writings in order to visually communicate and convey a message to a target audience. To enable this communication, students are educated to design logos, posters, billboards, packaging, books and magazines, 3D modeling and they study areas of concentration such as typography, computer, photography, illustration.

The Department of Graphic Design follows an educational program that allows the aspiring design student to solve any visual problem with a contemporary point of view, using a wide range of technologies. The education proceeds through different projects in each semester. First, projects are explained to students theoretically. Then, applications are created in computer labs and studios. Finally, the projects and studio works incorporate fields like communication design, illustration, computer graphics, and presentation. The major goal of the Graphic Design Program is to train creative and broad-minded young designers for communication and multimedia design and to reach professional standards in design and production. To achieve this goal, students also receive courses in art and culture and are encouraged to intern with advertising agencies.... [-]