Koç University

Koç University (Turkish: Koç Üniversitesi) is a private non-profit research university in Istanbul, Türkiye, founded in 1993 by the Vehbi Koç Foundation.科奇大学（土耳其语：Koç Üniversitesi）是位于土耳其伊斯坦布尔的一所私立非营利研究型大学，由韦赫比·科奇基金会于 1993 年创办。

It is organised into seven colleges and four graduate schools, teaches almost entirely in English and hosts more than 8,000 students, of whom about nine per cent are international.该校下设七个学院与四个研究生院，几乎全部以英语授课，拥有八千余名学生，其中约一成是国际学生。

It is placed 329th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, in the 326-350 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education ranking, 457th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking and in the 701-800 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 329，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名中处于 326 至 350 区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 457，并在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于 701 至 800 区间。

History

• The management of the Vehbi Koç Foundation began planning a university after establishing the Koç Private High School in 1988, and a VKV board meeting in September 1988 set up a University Executive Committee to compile a feasibility report.韦赫比·科奇基金会在 1988 年创办科奇私立高中之后开始筹划一所大学，1988 年 9 月基金会董事会会议设立了一个大学执行委员会来编写可行性报告。

• The report was prepared by the professors Bülent Gültekin, Özer Ertuna, Işık İnselbağ and Seha Tiniç, and concluded that the university should start as a small-scale but high-standard facility aiming to be a centre of excellence.该报告由比伦特·居尔特金、厄泽尔·埃尔图纳、厄舍克·因塞尔巴及塞哈·蒂尼奇等教授编写，结论是这所大学应以小规模而高标准的机构起步，力争成为卓越中心。

• At a board meeting on 20 December 1989 the foundation decided to found a university providing English-language education under the name Koç University.在 1989 年 12 月 20 日的董事会上，基金会决定创办一所提供英语授课的大学，定名科奇大学。

• In February 1990 Tamer Şahinbaş was made director of the project in order to resolve bureaucratic and administrative difficulties over the founding of a foundation university.1990 年 2 月，塔梅尔·沙欣巴什被任命为项目负责人，以解决创办基金会大学过程中的官僚与行政难题。

• The establishment of the university was legally completed on 5 March 1992, when the founding law was passed by the Turkish Grand National Assembly and published in the Official Gazette.该校的设立于 1992 年 3 月 5 日在法律上完成，当日建校法案经土耳其大国民议会通过并刊载于政府公报。

• On 9 March 1992 the VKV board designated the Board of Trustees, chaired by Rahmi M. Koç and including Suna Kıraç, Ömer M. Koç and the founding director Tamer Şahinbaş.1992 年 3 月 9 日基金会董事会指定了校董会，由拉赫米·M·科奇任主席，成员包括苏娜·克拉奇、厄梅尔·M·科奇与创校负责人塔梅尔·沙欣巴什。

• On 16 March 1992 Tamer Şahinbaş was appointed founding president, and a research committee appointed Seha Tiniç as president with Seymour Smidt and Attila Aşkar as deans of the first two colleges.1992 年 3 月 16 日塔梅尔·沙欣巴什被任命为创校校长，一个遴选委员会又任命塞哈·蒂尼奇为校长，并任命西摩·施密特与阿蒂拉·阿什卡尔为最初两个学院的院长。

• On 26 April 1992 a ministerial cabinet granted the university a plot of 160 hectares known as the Mavromoloz State Forest inside Rumelifeneri village for a period of 49 years.1992 年 4 月 26 日内阁将鲁梅利费内里村内一块 160 公顷、名为马夫罗莫洛兹国有林的土地划拨给该校，期限 49 年。

• Because construction could not begin at once, the old Türkay match factory in İstinye, already owned by the foundation, was converted into a campus with classrooms, laboratories, a library and a gymnasium within about nine months.由于建设无法立即开工，基金会已拥有的伊斯廷耶旧蒂尔凯火柴厂在约九个月内被改造成校区，配有教室、实验室、图书馆与体育馆。

• Koç University began teaching 189 undergraduate and 42 postgraduate students at the İstinye Campus on 4 October 1993, when the founder Vehbi Koç himself delivered the university's first class.科奇大学于 1993 年 10 月 4 日在伊斯廷耶校区开始为 189 名本科生和 42 名研究生授课，创办人韦赫比·科奇亲自讲授了该校的第一堂课。

• The university was formally declared open on 12 October 1993, and it produced its first graduates in 1995, when a group of students completed their MBAs, followed by the first undergraduate graduates in 1997.该校于 1993 年 10 月 12 日正式宣告成立，1995 年一批学生完成工商管理硕士课程、成为首批毕业生，首批本科生则于 1997 年毕业。

• The foundations of the permanent Rumelifeneri Campus were laid on 31 May 1996, construction ran from September 1997 to November 1999, and the campus was officially opened that November.永久性的鲁梅利费内里校区于 1996 年 5 月 31 日奠基，施工自 1997 年 9 月持续至 1999 年 11 月，并于当年 11 月正式启用。

• The university began the 2000-01 academic year at Rumelifeneri and restructured its old İstinye Campus into a modern education and meeting centre where managers could study for MBAs.该校在鲁梅利费内里校区迎来 2000 至 2001 学年，并把旧有的伊斯廷耶校区改造为现代化教学与会务中心，供管理者攻读工商管理硕士。

• The College of Engineering was founded in 1999, and the same year the Admiral Bristol Nursing School affiliated with the university.工程学院于 1999 年成立，同年阿德米拉尔·布里斯托尔护理学校并入该校。

• The Law School began teaching in the 2003-04 academic year, and in 2007 it set up a research centre for international commercial law funded by the Arsel family.法学院于 2003 至 2004 学年开始授课，并于 2007 年设立了由阿尔塞尔家族资助的国际商法研究中心。

• One of the university's first two colleges, the College of Arts and Sciences founded in 1993, was split in 2008 into the College of Social Sciences and Humanities and the College of Sciences.该校最早的两个学院之一、1993 年创办的文理学院于 2008 年拆分为社会科学与人文学院以及自然科学院。

• The School of Medicine had its first intake of students in the 2010-11 academic year, and the Koç University Hospital opened in Topkapı in Istanbul in 2014 for its clinical training.医学院于 2010 至 2011 学年录取首批学生，位于伊斯坦布尔托普卡珀的科奇大学医院于 2014 年启用，供其临床教学之用。

• The School of Nursing was turned into a college in 2016, operating from the Koç University Hospital on the Health Sciences Campus.护理学院于 2016 年升格为学院，在健康科学校区内的科奇大学医院运作。

• The final stage of the Rumelifeneri campus plan was realised in 2018 with a sixth faculty building, an extension of the library and several new dormitory buildings.鲁梅利费内里校区规划的最后一期于 2018 年实现，包括第六栋教学楼、图书馆的扩建以及若干新宿舍楼。

• More than 13,400 students had graduated by 2018, and by the mid-2020s the alumni network passed 25,000 graduates.到 2018 年该校已有一万三千四百余名学生毕业，至 2020 年代中期校友网络已超过两万五千名毕业生。

• Its presidents have been Seha Tiniç from 1993 to 2001, Attila Aşkar from 2001 to 2009, Ümran İnan from 2009 to 2021 and Metin Sitti from 2023.其历任校长为塞哈·蒂尼奇（1993 至 2001 年）、阿蒂拉·阿什卡尔（2001 至 2009 年）、于姆兰·伊南（2009 至 2021 年）以及梅廷·西蒂（2023 年起）。

Academics

• The university has seven colleges and four graduate schools, offering 22 undergraduate, 44 master's and 30 doctoral programmes.该校设有七个学院与四个研究生院，开设 22 个本科、44 个硕士与 30 个博士专业。

• Instruction is in English in all programmes, with more than 95 per cent of classes taught in English and only a few exceptions in the Law School and the School of Nursing.该校所有专业均以英语授课，超过九成五的课程用英语讲授，仅法学院与护理学院有少数例外。

• The colleges are the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, the College of Engineering, the College of Sciences, the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, the Law School, the School of Nursing and the School of Medicine.其学院为行政科学与经济学院、工程学院、自然科学院、社会科学与人文学院、法学院、护理学院与医学院。

• The graduate schools are the Graduate School of Business, the Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering, the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Graduate School of Health Sciences.其研究生院为商学院、科学与工程研究生院、社会科学与人文研究生院以及健康科学研究生院。

• The College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, one of the first faculties founded in 1993, comprises the departments of Economics, Business Administration and International Relations.行政科学与经济学院是 1993 年最早设立的学院之一，下设经济学系、工商管理系与国际关系系。

• The College of Engineering teaches computer engineering, electrical and electronics engineering, industrial engineering, chemical and biological engineering and mechanical engineering.工程学院开设计算机工程、电气与电子工程、工业工程、化学与生物工程以及机械工程。

• The College of Sciences gives four-year undergraduate programmes in mathematics, physics, chemistry and molecular biology and genetics, with master's and doctoral degrees in those fields.自然科学院开设数学、物理、化学以及分子生物学与遗传学四个本科专业，并在这些领域授予硕士与博士学位。

• The School of Medicine runs a six-year medical programme, the first three years of which take place at the Rumelifeneri Campus and the clinical years at the Koç University Hospital.医学院实施六年制医学培养，前三年在鲁梅利费内里校区进行，临床阶段则在科奇大学医院完成。

• Research is built on more than 200 research centres, forums and laboratories, including some 256 research laboratories reported in the mid-2020s.其科研依托两百多个研究中心、论坛与实验室，其中截至 2020 年代中期报告的科研实验室约有 256 个。

• Koç University has been the top recipient of research awards from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey and has led Turkish institutions in European Research Council grants.科奇大学是土耳其科学技术研究理事会科研奖项的最大获得者，并在欧洲研究理事会资助方面居土耳其机构之首。

• As of March 2018 it coordinated 8 of the 15 active European Research Council projects in Türkiye and was then hosting Horizon 2020 projects worth 10.2 million euros.截至 2018 年 3 月，该校统筹了土耳其 15 个在研欧洲研究理事会项目中的 8 个，当时主持的“地平线 2020”项目价值 1,020 万欧元。

• Between 2004 and 2017 the university was awarded 761 externally funded projects valued at 86 million US dollars.2004 至 2017 年间，该校获得 761 个外部资助项目，总价值 8,600 万美元。

• The Suna Kıraç Library has five branches and holds some 322,000 print volumes, nearly 160,000 ebooks and 64,000 online serial titles, together with about 2,000 rare materials.苏娜·克拉奇图书馆设有五个分馆，藏有约 32.2 万册纸质书、近 16 万种电子书与 6.4 万种在线期刊，另有约 2,000 件珍本资料。

• Its students take part in more than 300 exchange programmes with top-ranked partner universities in the United States, Europe and Asia, including Cornell University, Northwestern University and Georgetown University.该校学生可参与与美欧亚顶尖伙伴院校的三百多个交流项目，其中包括康奈尔大学、西北大学与乔治敦大学。

• A low student-to-faculty ratio of about 13.6 to one supports boutique learning, with 631 full-time faculty members, 464 of them in the professoriate.约 13.6 比 1 的低师生比支撑着小班化教学，全校有 631 名全职教师，其中 464 人属于教授层级。

• The university offers full and partial scholarships at both undergraduate and graduate level, and its law courses on comparative and international law are taught in English while Turkish legal system courses are taught in Turkish.该校在本科与研究生阶段均提供全额与部分奖学金，其比较法与国际法课程以英语授课，土耳其法律体系课程则以土耳其语讲授。

• Research collaborations span medicine, engineering, science, social sciences and administrative sciences, and the university also runs interdisciplinary doctoral work in biomedical sciences and engineering.其科研合作横跨医学、工程、自然科学、社会科学与行政科学，并开设生物医学科学与工程等跨学科博士研究。

Campus

• The central Rumelifeneri Campus lies north of Istanbul overlooking the Bosphorus and the Black Sea, covers 230,000 square metres of built area and comprises 60 buildings.中央的鲁梅利费内里校区位于伊斯坦布尔以北，俯瞰博斯普鲁斯海峡与黑海，建筑面积 23 万平方米，由 60 栋建筑组成。

• The campus was designed by the Boston-based architect Mozhan Khadem, who was chief design architect of all Koç University buildings and master planner of the campus.校园由驻波士顿的建筑师莫占·哈德姆设计，他是科奇大学所有建筑的首席设计建筑师，也是校园的总规划师。

• The layout follows an east-west axis and is built around the Portal of Knowledge, an arched main entrance symbolising a gateway to knowledge and a link between East and West.校园布局沿东西轴线展开，围绕“知识之门”而建，这座拱形正门象征着知识之门径以及东西方之间的连接。

• The architecture draws on Ottoman tradition and the poetry of Rumi, using stepped forms and interlocking courtyards to fit the steep contours of hills above the Black Sea.其建筑借鉴奥斯曼传统与鲁米的诗歌，以阶梯式形态与相连的内院来顺应黑海上空山丘的陡峭地形。

• The campus is compact and pedestrian-friendly and is built on a four-by-four metre modular grid, so that students and staff can move between places through open courtyards or under cover.校园紧凑且适合步行，以四米见方的模块网格建造，师生可在露天庭院或遮蔽通道之间往来。

• Besides the Rumelifeneri Campus the university operates West Campus dormitories and residences nearby, and its former İstinye Campus now serves as a conference and training centre.除鲁梅利费内里校区外，该校还在附近运营西校区宿舍与住宅，其旧有的伊斯廷耶校区如今用作会议与培训中心。

• The health sciences campus in Topkapı houses the School of Nursing and the Koç University Hospital, which opened in 2014.位于托普卡珀的健康科学校区容纳护理学院与科奇大学医院，后者于 2014 年启用。

• Other facilities include the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, ANAMED, in Beyoğlu, the KWORKS entrepreneurship centre in Şişli, the AKMED centre in Antalya and the Vehbi Koç Ankara Studies Research Center in Ankara.其他设施还包括贝伊奥卢的安纳托利亚文明研究中心 ANAMED、希什利的 KWORKS 创业中心、安塔利亚的 AKMED 中心以及安卡拉的韦赫比·科奇安卡拉研究中心。

Reputation

• Koç University is ranked 329th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings and is one of the highest-placed universities in Türkiye in that table.科奇大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 329，是该榜单上土耳其排名最高的大学之一。

• It sits in the 326-350 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, having been in the 301-350 band in the previous year.该校在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 326 至 350 区间，上一年度则处于 301 至 350 区间。

• It is placed 457th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking and in the 701-800 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 457，并在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于 701 至 800 区间。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 24,535 research works attracting 876,250 citations.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 24,535 项研究成果，累计被引用 876,250 次。

• The university is regarded as one of the leading research universities in Türkiye and the wider region, positioning itself as a global centre of research.该校被视为土耳其及周边地区领先的研究型大学之一，并将自身定位为全球科研中心。

• In the Financial Times Masters in Management ranking of 2017, the CEMS Masters in International Management, of which Koç University is one of thirty member schools, was ranked ninth.在 2017 年《金融时报》管理学硕士排名中，科奇大学作为三十所成员院校之一的 CEMS 国际管理硕士项目位列第九。

• Its Graduate School of Business is recognised in the Financial Times European Business School and Executive MBA rankings and in the QS Business Masters rankings.其商学院在《金融时报》欧洲商学院与高级管理人员工商管理硕士排名以及 QS 商科硕士排名中获得认可。

• The university's alumni network of more than 25,000 graduates reports that 83 per cent are employed within six months of graduation.该校两万五千多名毕业生组成的校友网络中，有 83% 的人在毕业六个月内就业。

• Koç University was invited by the Turkish scientific council as a flagship institution, and its placement in the 2027 QS ranking at 329th marks its strongest showing among the major league tables.科奇大学被土耳其科学理事会列为旗舰机构，其在 2027 年 QS 排名中第 329 的位次是它在各主要榜单中的最好表现。

Student life

• The university has no formal Latin motto, and instead states its educational philosophy as creative teaching and participatory learning.该校没有正式的拉丁文校训，而是将其教育理念表述为「创造性教学与参与式学习」。

• Students founded the American football team Koç Rams, also known as the Istanbul Rams, which played in the European League of Football in the 2022 season.该校学生创立了美式橄榄球队科奇公羊队，又称伊斯坦布尔公羊队，该队在 2022 赛季参加了欧洲橄榄球联赛。

• Campus life takes place on a compact, safe campus in a quiet location, with an abundance of social and cultural activities such as student clubs, concerts and sports.校园生活在这处紧凑、安全而僻静的校园中展开，设有学生社团、音乐会与体育等丰富的社会文化活动。

• The university takes a student-oriented approach to education and provides support mechanisms for learning and development, along with full and partial scholarships.该校以学生为本开展教育，为学习与成长提供支持机制，并提供全额与部分奖学金。

• The Suna Kıraç Library and its five branches act as central study spaces, holding rare materials on Ottoman and European history, literature and religion.苏娜·克拉奇图书馆及其五个分馆是主要的自习空间，藏有关于奥斯曼与欧洲历史、文学和宗教的珍本资料。

• Exchange programmes with top-ranked partner universities give students the chance to spend a semester in the United States, Europe or Asia.与顶尖伙伴院校的交流项目让学生有机会在美国、欧洲或亚洲度过一个学期。

• The campus is used for conferences and continuing professional education, while its old İstinye Campus hosts managers studying for MBAs.该校园用于会议与继续职业培训，其旧有的伊斯廷耶校区则接待攻读工商管理硕士的管理者。

Notable people

• The university was founded by the Vehbi Koç Foundation, whose head Vehbi Koç, founder of Koç Holding, personally taught the university's first class on 4 October 1993.该校由韦赫比·科奇基金会创办，其会长、科奇控股创办人韦赫比·科奇于 1993 年 10 月 4 日亲自讲授了该校的第一堂课。

• Rahmi M. Koç chaired the first Board of Trustees, alongside family members Suna Kıraç and Ömer M. Koç, while Semahat Arsel and Suna Kıraç shaped the foundation's support.拉赫米·M·科奇出任首届校董会主席，家族成员苏娜·克拉奇与厄梅尔·M·科奇同在董事会中，塞玛哈特·阿尔塞尔与苏娜·克拉奇则塑造了基金会的支持。

• The founding president Tamer Şahinbaş steered the young institution, and its first president Seha Tiniç served from 1993 to 2001.创校校长塔梅尔·沙欣巴什引领了这所年轻的机构，其首任校长塞哈·蒂尼奇于 1993 至 2001 年在任。

• Later presidents were Attila Aşkar from 2001 to 2009, Ümran İnan from 2009 to 2021 and Metin Sitti from 2023.其后的校长依次为阿蒂拉·阿什卡尔（2001 至 2009 年）、于姆兰·伊南（2009 至 2021 年）以及梅廷·西蒂（2023 年起）。

• Among the faculty are the theoretical physicist Tekin Dereli, the political economist Ziya Öniş and the legal scholar Bertil Emrah Oder.其教师中有理论物理学家特金·德雷利、政治经济学家齐亚·厄尼什与法学家贝尔蒂尔·埃姆拉·厄德尔。

• The engineer and information theorist Özgür Barış Akan and the engineer and physicist Alphan Sennaroğlu are members of the faculty.工程师与信息论学者厄兹居尔·巴勒什·阿坎以及工程师兼物理学家阿尔凡·森纳罗卢是该校教师。

• The engineer Hakan Ürey and the psychologist Aylin Küntay also teach at the university, the latter trained at the University of California, Berkeley.工程师哈坎·于雷与心理学家艾琳·昆塔伊也在该校任教，后者曾在加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校深造。

• The barrister and international lawyer Can Yeğinsu, trained at the University of Oxford, Princeton University and Harvard Law School, is associated with the Law School.曾就读于牛津大学、普林斯顿大学与哈佛法学院的出庭律师兼国际法学者詹·耶因苏与该校法学院有联系。

• The medical researcher Funda Yağcı Acar, trained at the University of Southern Mississippi, works in the university's medical and health sciences programmes.曾在南密西西比大学深造的医学研究者丰达·亚格奇·阿贾尔在该校的医学与健康科学专业工作。

• The architect Mozhan Khadem, who planned the Rumelifeneri Campus, and the founding trio of professors Bülent Gültekin, Özer Ertuna and Işık İnselbağ shaped the university's identity in its earliest years.规划鲁梅利费内里校区的建筑师莫占·哈德姆，以及比伦特·居尔特金、厄泽尔·埃尔图纳与厄舍克·因塞尔巴三位创校教授，塑造了该校最初岁月的面貌。