The University of Istanbul is one of the oldest universities in Europe (founded in 1453), and the oldest in Turkey. It was modernised by Kemal Atatürk in 1933. It has sixteen faculties on five campuses, the main campus being in Istanbul. It has a teaching staff of 2,000 professors and associates and 4,000 assistants and younger staff, and 60,000 undergraduate and 8,000 postgraduate students. Its graduates form the main source of academic staff for the Turkish university system, as well as providing a very large number of Turkish bureaucrats, professionals, and business people.
The University has been a leader in the establishment of modern values and social enlightenment, and it remains in the lead in the age of science.
IstanbulUniversity, which boasts of employing the elite of the teaching corps of Turkey, has an academic staff of 5 000, and is active in the fields of national and international research.
IstanbulUniversity has two faculties of medicine and their hospitals, and caters for the health problems of 100 000 people every day.
IstanbulUniversity (Turkish İstanbul Üniversitesi) was founded as an institution of higher education named Darülfünun in 1863.
However, education in IstanbulUniversity began in theological schools (medrese as they were then called) after Mehmet the Conqueror conquered Istanbul in 1453 [1].
The university currently has sixteen faculties on five campuses, the main campus being in Istanbul.
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