Starting in the 2015-16 academic year, Sabancı University will adopt the "4+1" approach to graduate studies. 

Minister of Science, Industry and Technology Fikri Işık: “Sabancı University won 88.40 points to become Turkey's most entrepreneurial and innovative university in 2015.” 

Electronic Engineering graduates Tolga Dinç and Samet Zihir developed chips that will enable breakthroughs in 5G and more advanced wireless communication technologies.

Tolga Dinç and Samet Zihir developed circuits that achieve the highest performance in 5G and beyond with their functionalities and power properties. 

The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) and the Wheat Initiative announced today that funding was secured in Turkey for reference sequencing of wheat chromosome 5D. 

2015-2016 Fall Term Undergraduate Horizontal Transfer Applications

Sabancı University President Professor A. Nihat Berker said he was confident that Sabancı University alumni would never have severe failures or hindrances in their journeys through life.

400 bachelor’s degrees, 178 master’s degrees and 16 doctorate degrees were awarded at the Commencement Ceremony held on the Sabancı University campus. Among Sabancı University graduates this year were international students from 25 countries.

Sabancı University Founding Board of Trustees Chair Güler Sabancı gave life advice to new graduates at the commencement ceremony.

"You have been raised well and equipped with diverse qualifications. The philosophy of our university gave you benefits like free thought, freedom from prejudice, openness to different thoughts and opinions, embracing differences as assets, and valuing the importance of knowledge."

Sabancı University invited world-renowned scientist and Harvard University faculty member Professor Gökhan Hotamışlıgil for the Academic Year Closing Lecture.

As in previous years, the speaker for the Academic Year Closing Lecture was chosen by a democratic and participatory election process led by the Commencement Class.

Applying to the TÜBİTAK call for promoting the notion of entrepreneurship and innovation in universities and ensuring early realization of successful business ideas, Sabancı University became one of the 14 Turkish universities to receive TÜBİTAK support and started its first term in early 2014.