User:Gevrek011/sandbox

Yaşar University is an English-medium, foundation university, located in the center of the city of Izmir on the west coast of Turkey. The university offers over 60 degree programs at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

History
Selcuk Yaşar Sports and Education Foundation decided to establish Yaşar University in 1999, as a modern university in the city of Izmir. Turkish National Assembly approved the creation of the university on March 29, 2001. Education started within its Alsancak premises in the academic year of 2002-2003. The Selçuk Yaşar Bornova Campus was opened in 2008.

Philosophy
The vision of Yaşar University is to identify as a "boutique university" which is loyal to scientific, ethical and moral values, responsive to global change, practising efficiency as an indispensable part of quality, developing rapidly in a disciplined manner and making efficient progress resulting in success, educating experts who have the highest designing skills, project-based work experience and artistic sensitivity. Yaşar University also adhears to a policy of internationalization: a process of connecting a globalized world with the local community through a variety of social responsibility projects.

Organization
Yaşar University is divided into seven undergraduate faculties which have 25 different academic programs. Undergraduate divisions include the Faculty of Communication, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Faculty of Architecture, Faculty of Science and Letters, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Art and Design, and Faculty of Law.

The graduate program consists of two gradutae schools; the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences. The graduate schools have 22 different Masters and PHD programs.

The vocational school offers nine associate degree programs.

Selçuk Yaşar Campus
Located in the Izmir district of Bornova, the Selçuk Yaşar Campus serves as the main campus for Yaşar University.

Sports Center
The Sports Centre facilities offer a range of activities such as a fitness center, gymnasium, dance studio, tennis courts, volleyball and basketball courts. Programmes sponsored by the Sports Center include club sports, fitness training, intramural and ladder tournaments, instructional programmes and seminars.

Electronic Information and Documentation Center
The Electronic Information and Documentation Center was established to support the University’s education and research programmes at a national and international level. Students have access to reference sources, audio-visual materials, journals and newspapers, classified according to the Library of Congress Classification System. Electronic resources include over 50,000 e-books and 25 databases that reach 19,000 e-journals.

Media Center
Yasar University is home to a state-of-the-art media center and holds the title of being the first university in Turkey where there are TV and radio studios with a High Definition Broadcasting System. The Media Center develops and applies an integrated communication strategy which also incorporates developing relations with the media.

Alsancak Campus
The Yaşar University Alsancak Campus is home to the School of Foreign Languages.

References: