Turkey University List - LATEST 2026
Universities in Turkey with city, founding year, student numbers and dormitory details, listed so you can compare them before you apply.
The universities listed below are all private, and fourteen of the fifteen are in Istanbul. The exception is Ankara Medipol University in Ankara, founded in 2018 with 12,000 students. StudyLeo lists 76 private universities in Turkey in all.
Several are recent. Istinye University opened in 2015 and has 14,744 students, Biruni University in 2014 with 12,562, and İstanbul Esenyurt University in 2013 with 15,500. Uskudar University, founded in 2011, has 24,000. Haliç University and Bahçeşehir University, both founded in 1998, are the oldest. Altinbas University and Istanbul Gelisim University were both founded in 2008; Altinbas has 13,800 students and Gelisim 39,052.
StudyLeo marks every university on the list as having a dormitory, and students can apply to each one through StudyLeo. Two more: Istanbul Yeni Yuzyil University was founded in 2009 and has 18,347 students, and Istanbul Nisantasi University was founded in 2010 and has 15,000.
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