Boğaziçi University, Bebek, İstanbul, Turkey
Boğaziçi University is a public university located on the European side of the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey. It has four faculties and two schools offering undergraduate degrees, and six institutes offering graduate degrees. It consistently ranks highest in Turkey, having the most number of applicants via the Turkish university entrance examinations. This allows Boğaziçi University to attract many of the highest scoring students; as well as having the most preferred applied science, education, engineering, and social science programs in Turkey. Boğaziçi University is the only Turkish university among first 200 universities worldwide according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2013-2014.
It was founded in 1863 on a hill between Bebek and Rumeli Hisarüstü as Robert College, the first American higher education institution to be opened outside the United States. In 1971, its campus of 118 acres, including buildings, the library, laboratories and all facilities and personnel, was passed on to the Turkish government, which turned it into a state establishment, but kept English as the language of instruction. The Alumni Association (BÜMED) Building, also called "Sosyal Tesis," where the workshop will take place, is situated in the original campus, today called the "South Campus."
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