Dear Sabancı University Students, Academicians and Administrative Staff,
Leaving 20 years behind since first opening its doors for education, our university welcomes the 2020-21 Academic Year with great hope and excitement. This period , in which we will start differently than ever before with the use of distance education, brings the excitement of creating and developing together with our new students and the hope of welcoming our students on our campus as soon as possible.
As Sabancı University, thanks to our strong technological infrastructure, we quickly adapted to distance education during the pandemic period; we continued to provide our students with uninterrupted world standard university education with our internationally successful academic staff and our renowned education system that is making a difference in higher education. Meanwhile, we continued to invest in our goal of becoming one of the best campus universities in the world, powered by its research. As an important step in this regard, I am very happy and proud to announce that our Altunizade Campus is ready to welcome its first students. Our new campus will serve as a digital education center, furthering our university's vision for the future.
The 2020-21 Academic Year excites us very much in terms of the investments we have made in our Tuzla campus. The new studio building of our Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, which has been completed, opens new horizons for our young people who continue to work in the field of visual arts, while our new dormitory buildings, which are being built, will enable us to further the opportunities we offer our students on campus.
The most fundamental aim of our university has always been to educate individuals who have universal values, are sensitive to the needs of the society, are focused on producing solutions, know how to learn to learn, are open to continuous improvement and are self-confident. Sabancı University students and graduates are distinguished by these characteristics in every environment they are in.
I hope it will be an academic year full of health and success, in which we prepare our students to become world citizens and continue to undertake internationally acclaimed research.
Guler Sabanci
Founding Chair of the Board of Trustees