ISTINYE UNIVERSITY
Istinye University (ISU) was established in 2015 by the 21st Century Anatolian Foundation as an affiliation of the MLP Care Group with knowledge and experience of 25 years in medicine and education. The university with around 500 academicians and 12,000 students has the vision of being a science and research center and utilizing scientific findings for social welfare and offering quality and accessible services to society. Aiming for excellence in education, research, innovation, and technology development, and with a particular focus on artificial intelligence and digitalization, it engages itself in generating new information and information-based technologies to be used as solutions to local and universal problems. The university is ranked in the first 201- 300 universities in the University Impact Rankings announced by the international higher education ranking organization Times Higher Education (THE), which aims to measure the value universities add to the sustainable development of societies and social impact they create. The university has a Center for Teaching/learning Excellence which works to keep the school as a 'learning university' and help academics and students acquire latest educational skills. The Center also aims to produce innovations by carrying out research studies and utilizing research results worldwide. It tries to manage innovation by incorporating the latest technologies.