History
Founded by the Adem Çelik-Beykent Educational Foundation, the University opened in 1997, expanding its academic offerings in subsequent years to a total in 2012 of 34 undergraduate programmes, 38 associate programmes and 2 distance learning programmes.
It opened an Institute of Social Science on the Taksim Campus in 1999. In 2002, it opened an Institute of Science on the Şişli-Ayazağa Campus and a vocational school on the Beylikdüzü Campus. In 2007, the vocational school began offering night courses. In 2008, it opened the Distance Learning Center, also on the Beylikdüzü Campus, and a Faculty of Law in Taksim.
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