Private Universities in Turkey - LATEST 2026

StudyLeo lists 76 private universities in Turkey. Of the ones shown below, fourteen are in Istanbul and one, Ankara Medipol University, is in Ankara. StudyLeo marks every one of them as having a dormitory, and students can apply to each through StudyLeo.

Student numbers vary widely. Istanbul Aydin University is the largest in the list with 50,000 students, followed by Istanbul Medipol University with 46,488 and Istanbul Gelisim University with 39,052. Uskudar University has 24,000, Bahçeşehir University 20,347 and Istanbul Topkapi University 20,000. The smallest is Istanbul Gedik University with 6,254.

Founding dates differ as well. Haliç University and Bahçeşehir University are the earliest in this list, both founded in 1998. Istanbul Topkapi University, Istanbul Yeni Yuzyil University and Istanbul Medipol University all date from 2009. Uskudar University was founded in 2011 and Istinye University in 2015. Ankara Medipol University is the newest, founded in 2018.