About Us

Founded in 1911 and guided by its motto “The Star of Türkiye,” Yıldız Technical University (YTU) is a leading institution of science and higher education that combines its 115-year long-established heritage with a contemporary educational vision.

With the aim of shaping the future by integrating science and technology with human values, YTU remains firmly committed to its mission of educating ethically responsible, highly competent, and solution-oriented generations.

Possessing a strong technology and innovation ecosystem, YTU provides its students with a rich academic and social learning environment through its 10 faculties, 3 institutes, 1,800 academic staff members, nearly 300 laboratories, 78 active student clubs, and award-winning teams that have achieved championships at TEKNOFEST. YTU places significant emphasis on international student mobility and continues to strengthen its leadership within the Erasmus programme each year.

Extending from research and development to patents, and from entrepreneurship to mentorship, the YTU ecosystem offers students not only up-to-date knowledge but also valuable opportunities for applied learning and experiential development. By transforming theoretical education into professional practice through its CO-OP Education Model, YTU further demonstrates its academic excellence through its consistent rise in global university rankings published by prestigious organizations such as QS and THE.

Established as an integral stakeholder of the YTU community, YTU Schools transfer the university’s accumulated expertise in knowledge, technology, and innovation into basic education, nurturing individuals with strong personal and social awareness through the Yıldız culture.

YTU Schools provide an education aligned with internationally recognised standards, including the IB PYP Candidacy Process, CIS membership, and the Global Schools Sustainable Schools Project. Through certifications such as the White Flag, Blue Flag, and Common Sense School, they continue to prioritise student well-being, environmental awareness, and digital citizenship, fostering highly conscious and responsible learners.

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Established in 1983, the YTU Foundation aims to develop YTU, increase its efficiency and level of education, strengthen its financial resources, resolve the issues of the teaching staff, and implement initiatives to support its graduates.

The YTU Foundation collaborates with the university administration to support the expertise and research studies of YTU teaching staff and students both in Turkey and abroad and to encourage those who serve the country and humanity with inventions and research on technical, technological and economic issues. Every year, the Foundation offers scholarships to more than 1,000 talented Turkish students who lack the financial means for education and ensures they receive a high-quality education.

Our mission is raising leaders who can design the future, are internationally open-minded, entrepreneurs and lifelong learners with academic productivity with ethical and esthetic features as responsible, sensitive, self-aware and multi-talented people who can manage their relations for the sustainable well-being of societies in a rapidly changing world.

Raising individuals with high personal and social awareness who design the future.

As a teacher, I would like to have an interview with the future.

I would like to proudly tell the future that very beautiful children are walking toward you, self-aware and nature-friendly children.

Children who are able to maintain a balance between their talents, knowledge, and feelings.

Children who started their education journey at a 111-year-old university.

I would like to tell the future how valuable childhood years are. Then I would say, “you’re safe.” This is a school!

Our children are preparing. Our teachers and parents, who are part of our learning community, are also here, always supporting them.

We joined hands for you, the future.

At YTU Schools, we are certain that the positive behavior of our children will enhance well-being in our future in a world that is rapidly changing environmentally, economically, and socially. We focused on this fact while determining our teaching philosophy.

Welcome to one of the most genuine schools in the world.

Sincerely,

Özlem Ülker Günal

General Coordinator and Founding School Principal of YTU Schools

We are certain that the positive behavior of our children will enhance well-being in the future in a world that is rapidly changing environmentally, economically, and socially.

We believe that the children at Yıldız will be self-aware, responsible, sensitive, independent and strong-willed individuals. They are also leaders who are able to demonstrate their personal, familial, regional, national and global sensitivity in the digital world. These children, who are physically, mentally and emotionally healthy, are able to withstand difficulties, establish bonds, and manage relationships.

Yıldız combines its ethical approach, crowned with human values, with esthetics that makes us see the beauty in everything. This perspective improves flexibility and facilitates acceptance. Our children, who know that they should treat everyone fairly, will help create a more equal world of which we dream.

Even though knowledge is the building block for our children, it requires the development of skills. It gains purpose with attitudes and values. Students develop attitudes in practices reinforced with thinking skills, communication skills, collaboration skills, organizational skills and social skills, and they play a leading role in an experience-based learning journey in line with a project-oriented approach.

Sustainable leadership is a lifelong learning experience that includes action, foresight, and transformative thinking. Our children, who are included in a “learning to learn” environment, are raised as innovative entrepreneurs who build value, find solutions to problems, and are sensitive to social issues. Having a fiery passion, our children contribute to social transformation as strong project leaders and executors.