Description
Having opened its first campus in Bahçeşehir-Istanbul in 1994, Bahçeşehir College operates 125
campuses in 56 provinces across Turkey by the end of 2018-2019 academic year.
Bahçeşehir Uğur Educational Institutions, which Bahçeşehir College is an affiliate to, is a global
education brand founded by Enver Yücel in 1968. By the year 2018 Bahçeşehir Uğur Educational
Institutions offers high quality education to more than one hundred and fifty thousand students with
a broad range of schools including Bahçeşehir College, Bahçeşehir College Science and Technology High
Schools, Fulford Academy, Uğur Schools and within the BAU Global network Bahçeşehir University,
BAU International University Washington DC, BAU International Berlin - University of Applied Sciences,
BAU International University Batumi, Bahçeşehir University Cyprus, International Academy of Rome,
BAU Global Silicon Valley Incubation Center, BAU Global Hong Kong, Mentora Language Schools, CES
Toronto Language Schools, and Toronto & CES Junior Summer Schools.
Bahçeşehir College has been implementing innovative educational models and pioneering adoption of
various educational models in Turkey. STEM+A, Personalized Teaching Model (PTM), Bilingual
Education, Master 6, Programming and Robotics Education are some of the educational models
pioneered Bahçeşehir College in the educational community and first implemented in Turkey by
Bahçeşehir College. With innovative educational models, particularly STEM+A, Bahçeşehir College
graduates multitalented, analytical and interested minded world citizens who cherish attainments of
the 21st Century and proficient in foreign language.
Bahçeşehir College has pioneered adoption of STEM+A educational model in Turkey which is a projectoriented model based on combination of multi-disciplines in sciences, technology, engineering,
mathematics and arts taught together, and the model implemented at all campuses of the institution
across Turkey starting from preschool grades. STEM+A educational model is employed to educate
individuals who are capable of solving the problems of the future and who can think creatively and
convert ideas into results. At STEM+A Centers featuring multi-purpose laboratories for productionbased education and STEM+A focused projects, students are enabled to use state-of-the-art
instruments such as 3D printers, CNC lathe & turning, laser cutters, such as computerized hot wire
cutting tools that are hard to come by even in universities, in order to manufacture prototypes for their
projects in "Computer Assisted Drawing and Modeling", "RC Model Production Club - RCCLUB",
TUBITAK projects, patenting, utility model production classes offered within Bahçeşehir College
curriculum as elective courses in all campuses of Bahçeşehir College.
Turkey's and Europe's largest educational institution Bahçeşehir College opened its first overseas
campus in Canada in 2017 under the title of Fulford Academy, in line with its goal to become a global
education brand. While enabling the students of Bahçeşehir College to be awarded double diplomas,
Fulford Academy also offers a leveraging ground for students who plan to continue their university
education in Canada and the United States.
Since 1994, Bahçeşehir College continues to move towards the goal of becoming a "global education
brand" and to graduate generations who know no limits on success and who will make a difference in
our future world, building on its strong academic program, innovation vision and mission to ensure
access of greater number of young minds to higher quality education.
