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Boğaziçi University has risen 96 places to 418th in the QS World University Rankings 2025
Boğaziçi University (Turkish: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), also known as Bosphorus University, is a prominent public research university in Istanbul, Turkey, historically tied to a former American educational institution, Robert College.
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With the transfer of the school’s site to the Turkish government, Boğaziçi University became the heir to the distinguished academic tradition of Robert College as well as to its excellent facilities. In 1971 Boğaziçi University had three faculties plus one school of higher education.
In 1971, it was transformed into Boğaziçi University, an elite Turkish public research university that has kept the liberal arts education tradition and English as the language of instruction. Since then, it has expanded its undergraduate and graduate programs and added new campuses.
Established as Robert College in 1863, Boğaziçi University (or Bosphorus University) was the first American university founded outside the US. Its founders, wealthy philanthropist Christopher Robert and missionary Cyrus Hamlin, struck up a partnership after meeting during the Crimean War and less than a decade later the university opened its ...
Boğaziçi University is an elite research university, with outstanding undergraduate and graduate programs in the natural and social sciences, humanities, engineering, education, and applied disciplines.
