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History
Feyziye Schools Foundation (Turkish: Feyziye Mektepleri Vakfı, FMV), is an education institution which was founded in 1885 in Thessaloniki during the Ottoman Empire under the name Feyz-i Sıbyan School (Feyz-i Sıbyan Mektebi). After the founding of the modern Republic of Turkey, the school's name was changed to Işık Okulları (Işık Schools) under the approval of then Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Işık Schools is credited as being the first school in Turkey to teach foreign language starting at the preparatory year, take out the teaching of Arabic and Farsi from its curriculum and replace it with classes such as commerce, philosophy, sociology and logic, the first Turkish co-educational school and one of the first schools to implement the Socrates Comenius program in Turkey.

Işık Schools aims to contribute to national schooling by extending to all levels of education starting from Işık Preschool and going all the way to Işık University. Its Nişantaşı, Ayazağa and Erenköy campuses have approximately 4600 students in total. Işık University's Şile and Maslak campuses have 2600 undergraduate, 210 graduate students.

Işık University
Işık University’s 566,00 m² Şile Campus has the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Foreign Languages, and Faculty of Architecture and Design along with the research facilities; The 13,000 m² Maslak Campus contained within a 280,000 m²  area accommodates the Faculty of Fine Arts, Graduate School for Social Sciences and the Graduate School for Science and Engineering. The university is also home to 200 faculty members, laboratories for a diverse range of specialties, and its spacious library that contains over 83,000 books, with 50,000 being electronic.

While approximately only 10% of students have a scholarship at Işık Schools, this number is substantially higher for Işık University, being 30%.

Art and Culture
FMV is known for its work in art with its three art galleries. Galeri Işık Teşvikiye, a 200 square meter gallery found on the ground floor of Işık Schools Nişantaşı Campus, Galeri Işık İstanbul in Işık University Maslak Campus and  Işık University Şile Campus’s Galeri Işık Şile are home to numerous works of art from renowned artists.

Şile Campus

 * Işık University

Maslak Campus

 * Işık University

Nişantaşı Campus

 * FMV Özel Preschool
 * FMV Özel Işık Primary School
 * FMV Özel Işık High School

Ayazağa Campus

 * FMV Ayazağa Işık Preschool
 * FMV Ayazağa Işık Primary School
 * FMV Ayazağa Işık High School
 * FMV Ayazağa Işık Faculty of Fine Arts

Erenköy Campus

 * FMV Erenköy Işık Preschool
 * FMV Erenköy Işık Primary School
 * FMV Erenköy Işık High School
 * FMV Erenköy Işık Science High School

Internal links

 * Işık Lisesi
 * Işık University