Yaşar University

Overview

Yaşar University

Yaşar University is a private university in Izmir, Turkey. It was founded in 1999 by the Selcuk Yaşar Sports and Education Foundation and the Yaşar Group of Companies, with the goal of establishing a contemporary institution of higher education in the country. The university was eventually established in 2001 as one of the universities in Turkey that incorporate English Medium Instruction or E.M.I. in the majority of undergraduate and graduate programs it offers. Furthermore, Yaşar University is recognized as one of the leading universities in the country.

Yaşar University Key Statistics

The university has nine faculties and four schools that comprise multidisciplinary studies and vocational programs for undergraduate students, including science and letter, human and social sciences, art and design, engineering, and foreign languages. Meanwhile, the university’s graduate programs include 33 master’s degrees and nine doctoral programs.

Yaşar University's student population is approximately 9,400 and its academic staff has around 300 members. Students and university staff are spread across two campuses—Selçuk Yaşar Campus and Alsancak Campus. Selçuk Yaşar Campus, the main campus, is a 6.4-acre college ground that houses 19 buildings used as computer laboratories, A conference hall, an electronics lab, and an ergonomics lab. Alsancak Campus, on the other hand, is where the School of Foreign Languages is located.

Other Yaşar University key statistics include its electronic library called the Electronic Information and Documentation Center. This digital information resource center offers students and teaching staff access to more than 50,000 e-books, as well as 25 databases of more than 19,000 electronic journals.

Furthermore, Yaşar University is also the alma mater of the Turkish chess grandmaster, Vahap Şanal.

Yaşar University Research

The university is a research-intensive European institution. It conducts numerous notable projects, mostly funded by various E.U. research framework programs such as Horizon 2020 and Erasmus+.

The top fields of Yaşar University research are computer science, mathematical optimization, and engineering. Also, its research outputs have been published in widely recognized journals like Energy Conversion and Management, Energy and Buildings, and Information Sciences. Furthermore, its researchers have participated in major scholarly conferences, such as Soft Computing, Congress on Evolutionary Computation, and the International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security.

The most cited Yaşar University research publication is Turker's (2009) "Measuring corporate social responsibility: A scale development study." This article was published in the Journal of Business Ethics and has received 1,703 citations to date. The university’s second most cited publication is Mallipeddi et al.'s (2011) "Differential evolution algorithm with ensemble of parameters and mutation strategies," which was featured in Soft Computing and has been cited 1,164 times.

Moreover, the university’s third most cited publication is Turker's (2009) "How Corporate Social Responsibility Influences Organizational Commitment," which also appeared in the Journal of Business Ethics and has received 1,097 citations.

In addition, the university is home to several research centers and institutes. These include the International Law Implementation and Research Centre, the European Union Research Centre, and the Centre for Mediterranean Studies.