Özyeğin University

Özyeğin University, known as OzU, is a private non-profit university on the Asian side of Istanbul, Turkey, founded in 2007 by the Hüsnü M. Özyeğin Foundation and teaching its degree programmes mainly in English.厄兹耶因大学（Özyeğin University，简称 OzU）是土耳其伊斯坦布尔亚洲一侧的一所私立非营利大学，由许斯努·M·厄兹耶因基金会于 2007 年创办，学位课程主要以英语授课，校舍集中于城市东北的切克梅柯伊。

It admitted its first students to a converted building in Altunizade in 2008, moved every department to a purpose-built campus in Çekmeköy in May 2013 and now runs seven faculties and three graduate schools on a single site.该校 2008 年在阿尔图尼扎德一栋改建楼宇中迎来首批学生，2013 年 5 月把所有院系迁入切克梅柯伊的新建校区，如今在同一个场地上设有七个学院与三个研究生院。

The university sits in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, is placed in the 801-1000 band of the Times Higher Education ranking 2027 and 1,484th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News table, while OpenAlex indexes 5,134 works and 116,063 citations for it.该校位列 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名第 1201-1400 区间，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名中处于 801-1000 区间，在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》榜单中排名第 1,484 位，OpenAlex 收录其成果 5,134 篇、引用 116,063 次。

History

• Turkish higher education was reorganised by the Higher Education Law of 1981, which created the Council of Higher Education and placed every university under a single national framework of admission, curriculum approval and academic appointment.1981 年的土耳其《高等教育法》重整了全国高教体系，设立高等教育委员会，并把所有大学纳入统一的招生、课程审批与学术聘任框架。
• A 1984 amendment to that law allowed foundations to establish non-profit universities, a route that produced Bilkent University in 1984 and later the family of foundation universities to which Özyeğin belongs.该法 1984 年的修正案允许基金会创办非营利大学，这一路径在 1984 年催生了比尔肯特大学，也孕育了厄兹耶因所归属的基金会大学群体。
• Hüsnü Özyeğin, born in 1944, studied engineering at the Middle East Technical University and later took a master's degree at Harvard Business School before returning to a career in Turkish banking.许斯努·厄兹耶因生于 1944 年，先在中东技术大学学习工程，后于哈佛商学院取得硕士学位，随后回到土耳其投身银行业。
• He founded Finansbank in 1987 and built it into one of the country's larger private banks, the institution that supplied the fortune behind his later education philanthropy.他于 1987 年创办芬兰斯银行，并将其发展为土耳其较大的民营银行之一，这家银行为他日后的教育慈善提供了财力基础。
• He sold Finansbank to the National Bank of Greece in 2006 and turned to large-scale giving, channelling funds through the Hüsnü M. Özyeğin Foundation into schools, scholarships and eventually a university.2006 年，他把芬兰斯银行出售给希腊国家银行，转向大规模捐赠，通过许斯努·M·厄兹耶因基金会把资金投入学校、奖学金，最终投入一所大学的创办。
• The foundation established Özyeğin University in 2007 as a non-profit institution governed by a board of trustees rather than a profit-seeking owner, with entrepreneurial research and teaching written into its mission.2007 年，该基金会创办厄兹耶因大学，定位为非营利机构，由董事会而非营利性股东掌管，并把创业型科研与教学写入办学使命。
• Teaching began in June 2008 at the Altunizade campus on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus, a converted commercial building that gave the new university its first classrooms, laboratories and library.2008 年 6 月，教学在博斯普鲁斯海峡亚洲岸的阿尔图尼扎德校区开始，那是一座改建的商业楼宇，为新大学提供了最初的教室、实验室与图书馆。
• The first intake entered a university with a handful of undergraduate programmes in business, engineering and social sciences, and the English-medium model required a preparatory year for students who arrived without sufficient English.首批学生入学时，学校只有商科、工程与社会科学领域的少数本科专业，英语授课模式要求英语未达标的学生先读一年预科。
• Growth during the early 2010s was financed by the foundation and by tuition, and construction of the permanent campus at Çekmeköy began in 2011 on land at the north-eastern edge of the metropolitan area.2010 年代初的扩张由基金会与学费共同支撑，切克梅柯伊永久校区的建设于 2011 年在大都市区东北边缘的用地上启动。
• In May 2013 the Altunizade building was evacuated and every faculty, the library and the administration moved to Çekmeköy, giving the university a single consolidated campus for the first time.2013 年 5 月，阿尔图尼扎德大楼腾空，全部学院、图书馆与行政机构迁往切克梅柯伊，学校首次拥有统一的校园。
• The years after the move brought new faculties in law, architecture and design, aviation and aeronautical sciences, and applied sciences, widening a portfolio that had begun with business and engineering.迁校之后的几年里，学校陆续增设法学、建筑与设计、航空与航空科学以及应用科学等学院，把最初以商科与工程为主的学科版图大幅拓宽。
• The aviation faculty built flight training into the curriculum with its own aircraft and simulators, an unusual asset for a university founded only a few years earlier and a decisive factor in its later reputation.航空学院把飞行训练纳入课程，配备自有飞机与模拟机，这对一所创办仅数年的大学而言是相当罕见的资源，也成为其日后声誉的决定性因素。
• The state of emergency declared after the coup attempt of July 2016 brought closer supervision of Turkish universities, and foundation institutions in particular had to document their governance and finances to the Council of Higher Education.2016 年 7 月政变未遂后宣布的紧急状态加强了对土耳其高校的监管，基金会大学尤其须向高等教育委员会说明其治理与财务状况。
• In 2017 the Çekmeköy district was connected to the M5 metro line, cutting the journey to Üsküdar and the Bosphorus bridges and making the campus reachable without a car.2017 年，切克梅柯伊区接入 M5 地铁线，缩短了前往于斯屈达尔与博斯普鲁斯海峡大桥的行程，使校区无需自驾即可抵达。
• In 2018 Turkey moved to a presidential system, and the Council of Higher Education's line of accountability shifted with it while the university's own charter and trustee structure stayed unchanged.2018 年土耳其改行总统制，高等教育委员会的问责链条随之调整，而大学自身的章程与董事会结构保持不变。
• In 2020 the pandemic closed the campus and moved lectures online, and the university used the pause to expand its digital learning platform, its laboratory safety rules and its remote library services.2020 年疫情使校园关闭、课程转为线上，学校利用这段停顿扩充数字教学平台、完善实验室安全规范并拓展远程图书馆服务。
• In 2023 the university marked ten years on the Çekmeköy campus, a decade in which its student body grew from a few hundred to several thousand and its first graduates moved into Turkish industry.2023 年，该校纪念迁入切克梅柯伊校区十周年，这十年间学生规模从数百人增长到数千人，首批毕业生也进入土耳其产业界。
• Its short history means that Özyeğin has no nineteenth-century endowment or imperial charter, and its reputation has been built entirely since 2007 on engineering, business, aviation and entrepreneurship.历史短促意味着厄兹耶因既无 19 世纪积累的基金，也无帝国时期的建校特许，其声誉完全建立在 2007 年以来的工程、商科、航空与创业教育之上。

Academics

• Seven faculties make up the university, namely Business, Engineering, Social Sciences, Aviation and Aeronautical Sciences, Law, Architecture and Design, and Applied Sciences.该校由七个学院组成，即商学院、工程学院、社会科学学院、航空与航空科学学院、法学院、建筑与设计学院以及应用科学学院。
• Three graduate schools in engineering and science, business and social science coordinate master's and doctoral degrees, and the School of Languages runs the English preparatory programme for incoming students.工程与科学、商科、社会科学三个研究生院统筹硕士与博士学位，语言学院则为入学新生开设英语预科课程。
• The university advertises 25 bachelor's, 36 master's and 10 doctoral programmes, a portfolio assembled in less than two decades and weighted towards engineering, management and aviation.该校对外公布开设 25 个本科、36 个硕士与 10 个博士项目，这一体系在不到二十年间搭建完成，重心落在工程、管理与航空。
• Engineering covers computer, electrical and electronics, industrial, mechanical and civil engineering, with laboratories in robotics, materials, energy systems and structural testing.工程学院涵盖计算机、电气与电子、工业、机械与土木工程，并设有机器人、材料、能源系统与结构试验实验室。
• The Faculty of Aviation and Aeronautical Sciences trains pilots and aircraft engineers through flight instruction, air traffic and maintenance courses and partnerships with Turkish carriers and maintenance organisations.航空与航空科学学院通过飞行训练、空管与维修课程，以及与土耳其航空公司和维修机构的合作，培养飞行员与航空工程师。
• The Faculty of Law opened after the university's first decade and prepares students for the Turkish bar examinations under the national law curriculum set by the Council of Higher Education.法学院在该校创办十年后设立，按高等教育委员会规定的全国法学课程培养学生参加土耳其律师资格考试。
• Architecture and design programmes combine studio teaching with workshops in model making and digital fabrication, and they draw on Istanbul's building stock for site studies and measured drawings.建筑与设计专业把工作室教学与模型制作、数字建造工作坊结合起来，并借助伊斯坦布尔的建筑存量开展现场研究与测绘。
• Business education is taught in English and includes accounting, finance, marketing, operations and entrepreneurship, with a compulsory internship and a capstone project before graduation.商科教育以英语授课，涵盖会计、金融、市场营销、运营与创业，毕业前须完成必修实习与毕业设计项目。
• All undergraduate students except those in Turkish-language law programmes follow an English-medium curriculum, and the preparatory year is taught by the School of Languages on the same campus.除土耳其语授课的法学项目外，全体本科生都修读英语授课课程，预科一年由语言学院在同一校区承担。
• Class sizes are deliberately small, and the university markets a student-to-faculty ratio well below the Turkish average for foundation universities as one of its central claims.班级规模刻意保持在较小水平，校方把明显低于土耳其基金会大学平均水平的师生比作为其核心卖点之一。
• The university runs an entrepreneurship centre that incubates student start-ups, stages business-plan competitions and connects teams with Turkish venture capital, angel networks and the foundation's industrial contacts.该校设有创业中心，孵化学生初创企业、举办商业计划竞赛，并把团队与土耳其的风险投资、天使投资网络及基金会的产业人脉对接。
• Research is organised around engineering, aviation, business and social science, and the university's output of roughly 5,100 indexed works is concentrated in applied engineering, management and computer science.科研围绕工程、航空、商科与社会科学组织，其约 5,100 篇被收录成果集中于应用工程、管理科学与计算机科学。
• The university library holds Turkish and English collections in engineering, business, law and the humanities, and provides access to the major international journal databases and to open-access repositories.大学图书馆收藏工程、商科、法学与人文学科的土耳其语和英语文献，并提供主要国际期刊数据库与开放获取仓储的访问权限。
• Graduate programmes include professional master's degrees taught in the evening as well as research master's and doctorates supervised within the three graduate schools and their affiliated laboratories.研究生项目既有晚间授课的专业硕士，也有由三个研究生院及其附属实验室导师指导的研究型硕士与博士。
• Academic staff are appointed on Turkish university contracts, and the institution is subject to the Council of Higher Education's programme approval, student quota decisions and periodic quality review.教职人员按土耳其大学聘用合同聘任，学校的专业设置、学生配额与定期质量评估均受高等教育委员会监管。
• International exchange runs through the Erasmus programme, bilateral agreements and the Turkish Fulbright Commission, and incoming students can take English-taught courses without any prior knowledge of Turkish.国际交流通过 Erasmus 项目、双边协议以及土耳其富布赖特委员会开展，来访学生可选修英语课程，无需事先掌握土耳其语。
• Several faculty members hold membership of the Turkish Academy of Sciences, and the university counts research contracts with industry among its main sources of external income.该校若干教师为土耳其科学院院士，学校也把与产业界签订的研究合同列为主要外部收入来源之一。
• The curriculum requires every student to complete a summer internship, and the aviation, engineering and business faculties each run their own placement offices with company partners.课程要求每名学生完成一次暑期实习，航空、工程与商科三个学院各自设有与合作用人单位对接的实习办公室。
• Teaching quality is monitored through course evaluations and peer observation, and the university publishes an annual report on graduate employment and on time-to-degree for each programme.教学质量通过课程评估与同行听课加以监控，学校每年发布各专业毕业生就业与按期毕业情况的报告。

Campus

• The main campus lies at Çekmeköy on the Anatolian side of Istanbul, on the north-eastern edge of the metropolitan area and roughly 20 kilometres from Sabiha Gökçen Airport.主校区位于伊斯坦布尔安纳托利亚一侧的切克梅柯伊，地处大都市区东北边缘，距萨比哈·格克琴机场约 20 公里。
• It was built as a single consolidated site after 2010, replacing the scattered Altunizade building that had housed the university from 2008 to 2013 and could not be expanded.该校区于 2010 年之后作为统一场地建成，取代了 2008 至 2013 年间容纳全校、且无法继续扩建的阿尔图尼扎德楼宇。
• The campus is arranged around a central student street that links the faculties, the library, the cafeteria and the sports hall within a few minutes' walk of one another.校园围绕一条中央学生街布局，把各学院、图书馆、餐厅与体育馆串联在彼此几分钟步行范围之内。
• Lecture halls and laboratories occupy separate blocks, and the engineering laboratories include a structures hall, electronics benches and a workshop reserved for student projects.讲堂与实验室分处不同区块，工程实验室包括结构试验大厅、电子实验台以及专供学生项目使用的工坊。
• The aviation programmes use hangar and apron space for flight training, and the university maintains its own fleet and flight simulators for pilot candidates on the campus edge.航空项目使用机库与停机坪开展飞行训练，学校在校园边缘为飞行学员保有自有飞机与飞行模拟机。
• On-campus dormitories house a large share of first-year students, and the rooms are grouped in blocks with shared kitchens, study rooms and resident tutors.校内宿舍容纳相当比例的一年级学生，房间按楼块分组，配有共用厨房、自习室与驻楼辅导员。
• A sports centre with indoor courts, a fitness hall and a semi-olympic swimming pool serves both the student body and the university's fencing and gymnastics teams.体育中心设有室内球场、健身房与半奥林匹克游泳池，既服务全体学生，也供校击剑队与体操队训练。
• The campus is served by shuttle buses to the M5 metro station and by the Northern Marmara Motorway, which connects the site to the Bosphorus bridges and to the airport road.校园有班车接驳 M5 地铁站，并邻近北马尔马拉高速公路，经由该路可通往博斯普鲁斯海峡大桥与机场道路。
• Çekmeköy itself was a village until the 1990s and has grown into a residential district of apartment blocks, which gives the campus a suburban setting rather than a historic one.切克梅柯伊在 1990 年代以前还是村庄，如今已发展为公寓楼林立的居住区，因此校园所处环境是郊区而非历史城区。
• The Bosphorus, the historic peninsula and the museums of Istanbul lie across the city, reachable by metro and ferry in about an hour from the campus gate.博斯普鲁斯海峡、历史半岛与伊斯坦布尔的博物馆位于城市另一端，从校门出发乘地铁与渡轮约一小时可达。
• The university has kept the Altunizade name for its continuing-education and executive programmes, which are taught in leased premises rather than on the main campus.学校保留了阿尔图尼扎德之名用于继续教育和高管培训项目，这些项目在租用场地而非主校区授课。

Reputation

• Özyeğin is listed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a position it shares with a large group of Turkish foundation universities of its generation.厄兹耶因位列 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名第 1201-1400 区间，与一批同代的土耳其基金会大学处于同一档位。
• Its strongest international showing is the 801-1000 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, unusually high for a university founded in 2007.其最好的国际表现是 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名第 801-1000 区间，对一所 2007 年创办的大学而言相当突出。
• The university is placed 1,484th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking, which weights research reputation, publication volume and citation impact.该校在 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学排名中位列第 1,484 位，该榜以科研声誉、论文数量与引用影响力为主要权重。
• It does not appear in the main table of the 2026 ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities, which favours institutions with decades of Nobel-level scientific output.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，该榜更青睐拥有数十年诺奖级科研产出的院校。
• In Turkey the university competes with older foundation institutions such as Sabancı University and Koç University, and it positions itself on engineering, aviation and entrepreneurship rather than on breadth.在土耳其国内，该校要与萨班哲大学、科奇大学等历史更久的基金会大学竞争，其定位落在工程、航空与创业，而非学科齐全。
• Within Istanbul it is a latecomer beside Istanbul University, Marmara University and Yıldız Technical University, all of which predate it by decades or, in the first case, by centuries.在伊斯坦布尔，它是一所后来者，前有伊斯坦布尔大学、马尔马拉大学与耶尔德兹理工大学，这些院校比它早建数十年，伊斯坦布尔大学更是早了数百年。
• Its aviation faculty is one of the few in Turkey attached to a university rather than to a flight academy, which lets its pilots earn a degree alongside their commercial licences.其航空学院是土耳其少数附设于大学而非飞行学院的同类机构之一，使飞行学员能在取得商用执照的同时获得学位。
• OpenAlex records 5,134 works and 116,063 citations for the university, a research base that has grown quickly but remains small when compared with Istanbul Technical University or Boğaziçi University.OpenAlex 记录该校 5,134 篇成果与 116,063 次引用，这一科研基础增长迅速，但与伊斯坦布尔理工大学或海峡大学相比仍显薄弱。
• The university has no Nobel laureates and no long prize record, and its reputation rests on graduate employment, English-medium teaching and its entrepreneurship programmes.该校没有诺贝尔奖得主，也没有长期的获奖记录，其声誉主要建立在毕业生就业、英语授课与创业项目之上。
• Because it is non-profit and foundation-owned, tuition and philanthropy rather than state funding determine its budget, which keeps fees high by Turkish public university standards.由于是非营利基金会办学，其预算来自学费与捐赠而非国家拨款，这使其学费按土耳其公立大学的标准衡量偏高。
• Turkish employers in banking, aviation and manufacturing recruit from the university's internship pipeline, and the foundation's industrial holdings give its graduates an unusual route into those sectors.土耳其的银行、航空与制造业雇主从该校的实习渠道招人，基金会的产业资产又为毕业生进入这些行业提供了不同寻常的通道。

Student life

• Özyeğin has no formal motto, and its public identity is expressed through the idea of an entrepreneurial university that prepares students for working life rather than through a Latin tag.厄兹耶因没有正式校训，其公共形象通过“培养面向职场的创业型大学”这一理念来表达，而非借助一句拉丁语格言。
• More than a hundred student clubs cover aviation, robotics, entrepreneurship, debating, music and sport, and each club must register with the student affairs office and report annually.校内有一百多个学生社团，涵盖航空、机器人、创业、辩论、音乐与体育，每个社团都须在学生事务处登记并每年提交报告。
• The aviation club and the university's flight school give students access to discovery flights and simulator sessions that few Turkish campuses can offer.航空社团与学校飞行学校为学生提供体验飞行与模拟机课程，这在土耳其校园中并不多见。
• First-year students are encouraged to live on campus, and the dormitory blocks run their own orientation programme, mentor scheme and weekend excursions before the academic year begins.学校鼓励一年级学生住校，宿舍楼会在学年开始前自行组织迎新活动、导师计划与周末出游。
• The student council organises the spring festival, career days and the inter-faculty sports tournament that fills the central street each May.学生会筹办春季文化节、职业日以及每年五月让中央学生街人潮涌动的院际体育赛。
• Istanbul itself supplies the cultural life of the campus, and students routinely travel by metro to concerts, galleries and the historic districts on the European side.伊斯坦布尔本身提供了校园的文化生活，学生常乘地铁前往欧洲一侧的音乐会、画廊与历史街区。
• The university's fencing and gymnastics teams, built around Olympic-level athletes, train in the sports centre and compete in Turkish university championships and national leagues.该校的击剑队与体操队围绕奥运级运动员组建，在体育中心训练，并参加土耳其大学生锦标赛与全国联赛。
• Career services run compulsory internships, company days and a graduate recruitment fair, and the foundation's business network supplies placements in banking, aviation and industry.就业服务处组织必修实习、企业日与毕业生招聘会，基金会的商业网络则提供银行、航空与工业界的实习岗位。
• Because the campus sits in a residential district rather than a student quarter, much of social life happens indoors, in the dormitory common rooms, the cafeteria and the clubs' own premises.由于校园位于居住区而非学生街区，社交生活多发生在室内，即宿舍公共活动室、餐厅与各社团自己的场地。

Notable people

• Hüsnü Özyeğin, born in 1944, founded Finansbank in 1987 and later the Hüsnü M. Özyeğin Foundation, which created the university in 2007 and remains its owner.许斯努·厄兹耶因生于 1944 年，1987 年创办芬兰斯银行，其后设立许斯努·M·厄兹耶因基金会，该基金会于 2007 年创办这所大学并始终是其所有者。
• As a philanthropist Özyeğin endowed scholarships, schools and the university itself, and he has said that the institution should outlive its founder as a permanent non-profit.作为慈善家，厄兹耶因捐资设立奖学金、学校与这所大学本身，并表示这一机构应作为永久性非营利组织在其身后延续。
• Murat Özyeğin, the founder's son and a senior executive in the family's Fiba group, sits among the trustees who govern the university and oversee its endowment.穆拉特·厄兹耶因是创办人之子、家族菲巴集团的高级管理者，也是治理这所大学并监管其基金的董事之一。
• Ayşen Özyeğin has been associated with the family foundation's education and scholarship work, which funds students who could not otherwise afford a private university.艾谢·厄兹耶因长期参与家族基金会的教育与奖学金事业，资助那些原本无力负担私立大学学费的学生。
• İrem Karamete, an Olympic fencer born in 1993, was selected through the Turkish Olympic Committee and competed for Turkey at the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Games and is counted among the university's sporting alumni.伊雷姆·卡拉梅特（İrem Karamete）生于 1993 年，是奥运击剑运动员，经土耳其奥林匹克委员会选拔，代表土耳其参加 2016 年里约与 2020 年东京奥运会，被列为该校体育界校友。
• Tutya Yılmaz, a gymnast born in 1999, represented Turkey in artistic gymnastics at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and trained while studying at Özyeğin.图提亚·耶尔马兹（Tutya Yılmaz）生于 1999 年，是艺术体操运动员，曾代表土耳其参加 2016 年里约奥运会，并在厄兹耶因就读期间坚持训练。
• The university's first cohorts of graduates, who left from 2012 onwards, now work in Turkish banks, airlines, engineering firms and start-ups, and they form the alumni network the university relies on.该校自 2012 年起陆续毕业的首批学生如今供职于土耳其的银行、航空公司、工程企业与初创公司，构成了学校所依托的校友网络。
• Its faculty includes members of the Turkish Academy of Sciences and engineers recruited from Istanbul Technical University and Middle East Technical University, who staff the engineering and aviation departments.该校师资包括土耳其科学院院士，以及从伊斯坦布尔理工大学和中东技术大学引进的工程人才，他们支撑起工程与航空院系的教学。