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Founding of Bilkent Prof İhsan Doğramacı (1915-2010) He finds the location in Ankara with water supplies He buys the land from villagers in 1970’s He constructs Bilkent lake for water supply for trees to be planted He starts companies The International Conference of Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers, Oct 1919-20, 2012

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Founding of Bilkent He convinces lawmakers to add a clause to 1982 Turkish constitution which allows nonprofit Foundation Universities

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Founding of Bilkent He founds the first example of a nonprofit Foundation University in Turkey. He names it “Know(ledge) City” Bilkent He becomes instrumental in the founding of other foundation universities like Koç, Başkent and Sabancı Universities. Now, there are about 62 such Universities.

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Founding of Bilkent He forms a Advisory Board consisting of eight eminent professors of US (not all of Turkish origin) He starts with six faculty members that he individually interviewed Advisory board meets with those founding members The International Conference of Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers, Oct 1919-20, 2012

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Advisory board recommendations Expect research from faculty members Promotion and appointment must be dependent on research performance Consulting (to make extra money) should be discouraged.

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Founding of Bilkent Institutes a very attractive scholarship system to attract top students to Bilkent Promotion of new university in select high schools Number one student in University Entrance Exam chooses Bilkent in its first year. The International Conference of Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers, Oct 1919-20, 2012

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First education building of Bilkent (1986)

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Present campus

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University Endowment He donates the ownership of about 40 companies These are the Endowment of the University.

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Construction: Tepe Construction

ISBANKASI GENEL MÜDÜRLÜK The International Conference of Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers, Oct 1919-20, 2012

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Construction: TAV Construction

ISTANBUL ATATURK AIRPORT INTERNATIONAL TERMIINAL BUILDING AND CAR PARK The International Conference of Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers, Oct 1919-20, 2012

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TAV Construction • Katar Doha Airport • Umman Airport • Libya Tripoli airport • Libya Sepa airport • Tunisia Airports (Monastır, Habip Burgiba) • Dubai (Buildings with 101, 75 and 52 floors) •Medina Airport The International Conference of Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers, Oct 1919-20, 2012

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Endowment • Tepe Home (Furniture) • Betopan (Cement boards) • Meteksan (Printing press)

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Endowment • Tepe Market (Shopping centers) • Bilenerji: (Electricity production) • Cyberpark: (Technopark)

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Endowment • Tepe

Güvenlik (Security)

• Bilintur (Hotel and catering) • TAV (Airport Operator) •TAV Güvenlik (Airport Security) • ATU (Airport Duty Free shop) • BTA (Airport catering company) • Havaş (Airport ground services) • Bilsigorta (Insurance) • Bildes (Maintanence) • Bilmarket (Market in the UniversityI

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Sports International

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6 clubs in 4 cities

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Bilkent First e-mail of Turkey arrives at Bilkent (1986) First WEB page of Turkey (1993) First non-smoking buildings First PC lab of Turkey First Unix workstation of Turkey Student evaluations of faculty The International Conference of Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers, Oct 1919-20, 2012

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Student evaluations versus grades 4.00

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Nonprofit, private university „ 500 hectare campus „ 450,000 m2 building space „ 200 hectares of planted trees „

First students admitted in 1986 Currently over 13,000 students The International Conference of Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers, Oct 1919-20, 2012

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Faculties Art, Design and Architecture Business Administration Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences Education Engineering Humanities and Letters Law Music and Performing Arts Science The International Conference of Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers, Oct 1919-20, 2012

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Schools „ „ „

School of Applied Technology and Management School of Applied Languages School of English Language

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What makes a university a good university? 1. Good academic staff 2. Good students 3. Good system and facilities The International Conference of Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers, Oct 1919-20, 2012

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Academic Staff 85% have Ph.D.s from abroad: Stanford, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Berkeley, Syracuse, Florida, Ohio State, Minnesota, MIT, CarnegieMellon, Yale, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, ... The International Conference of Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers, Oct 1919-20, 2012

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Academic Staff (cont.) 1/3 are international, from 42 countries Australia Canada France Germany Ireland Poland Russia U.K U.S.A

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Non-Turkish school directors, Department Chairs The International Conference of Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers, Oct 1919-20, 2012

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Maintaining Quality Appointment and promotion system modeled like the tenure system of research universities of US Promotions are based on research performance Evaluation of academic staff every two years “Distinguished Teaching Awards” given every year The International Conference of Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers, Oct 1919-20, 2012

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Students Generous scholarships for students: Tuition waiver, free dorm, monthly stipend 2012: 25 students from top 100 chose Bilkent

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International Students Full time, Erasmus and other exchange students. Exchange agreements with about 250 universities

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System/Facilities Small class size (few classes in large lecture halls) Instructor to student ratio of 1 to 11 Medium of instruction is English International standards used in exams testing English proficiency On campus housing for academic staff The International Conference of Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers, Oct 1919-20, 2012

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Tuition $5500 or $11000 per year About 4000 students on tuition waiver

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Teaching Problem based teaching in some courses Use of computer aided education in 50% of courses

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System/Facilities Use of computer aided education Moodle

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An Example: History (core) course No lectures In groups of 4 students choose a recent subject (not necessarily very important) not found in Internet Prepare a project report Best projects submitted to History journals The International Conference of Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers, Oct 1919-20, 2012

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Undergraduate reserach Alper Ozgurluk (BS 2012) Published 2 ISI papers before graduation Accepted to Berkeley with full scholarship

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Research Centers Leading Nanotechnology research in Turkey

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Research output to Industry Research of last 10 years leads to a semiconductor manufacturing company with 50-50 partnership with a large Electronics Firm

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GE 401/402 Senior students in Engineering, Science, Management and Graphics Design Departments take a twosemester course 3 credits each Interdisciplinary teams of students are formed in such a way that the teams have students from all departments The International Conference of Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers, Oct 1919-20, 2012

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GE 401/402 The teams come up with an innovative product idea that may sell in the market They prepare a business plan and form an imaginary company A prototype of the product is actually built by students with financial support from university The International Conference of Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers, Oct 1919-20, 2012

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GE 401/402 The company has a logo, plans for marketing campaign, a web page The company has an IPO and gets listed in imaginary Bilkent stock market A group of Bilkent professors act like traders of stocks after a traders conference The International Conference of Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers, Oct 1919-20, 2012

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Library

Open until 23:30 362 days a year „ “Open shelf” system „ Open to the general public „

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Bilkent in Rankings

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2012 Nobel Prize winner Alvin Roth’s coauthors in 12 papers are three Bilkent graduates: – Tayfun Sönmez (90BS) Prof in Boston Univ – Utku Ünver (93BS, 95MS) Prof in Boston Univ – Atila Abdulkadiroğlu (93BS, 95MS) Prof in Duke Univ The International Conference of Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers, Oct 1919-20, 2012

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Sports Facilities Two sports centers on Main and East campuses

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Sports Facilities

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Cultural Activities 800 seat capacity concert hall 4000 seat capacity ODEON 40 concerts given each year BSO (Bilkent Symphony Orchestra) „ 90 musicians from 12 different countries „

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Computing Resources Open 24 hours a day Over 900 PCs in 30 public labs on Wireless access at campus most places Over 5000 PCs on the campus network

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Dormitories Space for 4000 students

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Student clubs •One unit graded mandatory course for all students •Active participation in club activities generates more points •Passive participation generates less points. The International Conference of Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers, Oct 1919-20, 2012

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Graduation 2500 students accepted, 2000 students graduate

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