University is the collection of the efforts of man to ponder on the problems surrounding him, to search, find and apply reliable and sustainable solutions scientifically and finally to teach those findings within the framework of universal scientific methods. With respect to this, university is a stance of scientific sensitivity; and is a method. Scientific creativity thrives to the extent that it integrates with artistic sensitivity. Hence, the attribution of "Higher Education" to university derives from its attempts to teach scientific methods and principles and to introduce artistic sensitivity to young minds. Due to those two functions, university rises above being a school and attains the quality of a sophisticated way of life and becomes a "Higher Education Institution" in which civilized people prepare for life.

Yasar University is a "private" higher education institution because of its special interest in developing artistic sensitivity in its programs through scientific activities, because the University's scientific arguments are incorporated with the perseverance to equip its students with the positive outcomes of artistic sensitivity on creativity.

Science is acknowledging the existence of a problem, analyzing the underlying reasons, thinking systematically within the framework of scientific methods and principles, making accurate foresights and activating mental processes prior to application. Design therefore, is an inseparable element of science and a privileged effort that can be anticipated from well-educated minds. Design, which can also be defined as the effort to combine science's method with art's creativity before the production stage and in a way to reach utmost quality, is one of the exceptional skills and qualifications that Yasar University is aiming to furnish its students with so as to distinguish its students from their counterparts.

Yasar University is unique owing to its claim "... to train the best designers who are equipped with advanced project based study skills which are strengthened up by the artistic creativity in the finest learning settings..." in economics, business administration, architecture, engineering, science and letters, communications, arts and vocational studies. Design, project and arts in its curriculum are features that differentiate and make it more advantageous among the others. Yaþar Üniversitesi, Yasar University has no intention to provide higher education in every field! Instead, being the best in its programs, providing high quality learning settings to its highly skilled students and endowing its students with high satisfaction, success and happiness after their graduation are the first and foremost foundations of Yasar University. English as the medium of teaching, experienced foreign and native teaching staff, learning environment consistent with international standards, objectives and foresights for the future, institutional identity and technological infrastructure are the basic quality indicators of our University.

Yasar University is one of the most successful Turkish universities in its league to offer its students and academics ERASMUS exchange programs and accordingly to exchange the highest number of students and academics and to participate in EU projects.

The quality in service principle of Yasar University begins with foreign language teaching in the English Preparatory School and continues with 4 year degree programs offered by the Science and Letters, Business Administration, Engineering and Architecture, and Communications Faculties and the School of Foreign Languages and 2 year undergraduate programs offered by the School of Vocational Studies. The Institutes of Science and Social Sciences also demonstrate the University's scientific research potential in addition to offering post-graduate studies.

Starting to accept students to "graphics" "music" and "film design" departments in the Fine Arts Faculty 2008-2009 academic year onwards, Yasar University is continuing its preparations ceaselessly to welcome its students into the Selçuk Yasar Campus in the upcoming academic year.

Founded in 2001, young Yasar University is an academic institution that acknowledges the universal identity of a scientific organization with enthusiasm, genuineness and devotion with its 300 staff members, 200 being academics, and 2600 students in İzmir; the city of the Aegean's civilized, humane and art and science conscious people.

Rector
Prof. Dr. Murat BARKAN