Üsküdar University has based its mission and vision on the principles of scientificity, universality, pluralism, democratic understanding, modernity and human-oriented approach and has established its goals and objectives in the light of these principles.
In line with these principles, the main purpose of our university is to provide education and training services for a better future and a more livable world, to make scientific production, and to transform knowledge into life.
Our primary mission is to train qualified manpower that will contribute to the development and progress of our city, our country and the world, and to serve humanity through the production of scientific knowledge. In line with this mission, we attach importance to excellence in education and visionary understanding in scientific production. We want individuals who receive education at our university to be successful not only in their professions but also in all areas of their lives. For this reason, we strive to provide a visionary education and training service that is as comprehensive, versatile and fed by the reality of life as possible. We are committed to raising individuals who are qualified in their fields, who have the ability to think critically, who question, discuss, who can look at problems, events and phenomena in multiple ways, who are proactive, solution-oriented, respectful, tolerant and embracing individuals who respect all people without discrimination.
We aim to touch all sections of life with our education and training programs. All of our education and training programs at associate, undergraduate and graduate levels are based on scientific knowledge and care is taken to provide theoretical and practical education together.
In our university, care is taken to use modern methods in education and training, to create laboratory environments with the latest technological equipment for applied education; With the partnership agreements made with the relevant sectors, institutions and organizations, it is ensured that our students gain professional experience and skills in their fields.
Our university attaches importance to research and development activities. Universities are not only educational institutions, but also knowledge production centers. Üsküdar University has adopted this understanding and takes care to fulfill its requirements in the most effective way. With the projects carried out within the scope of university - industry cooperation and university - society cooperation, our university is excited to contribute at regional, national and universal level.
International mobility is important for our university. We have become a center of attraction for international students with our programs that provide education in English. On the other hand, we also contribute significantly to academic mobility at the international level through exchange programs such as Erasmus.
Located in Üsküdar, the pearl of the world city of Istanbul, our university, which has fully realized all the goals it has set since its establishment, aims to continue its education and training services and scientific production by taking its place among the world's leading universities in the near future.
Prof. Nazife Güngör
Rector