Our university, located in the centre of Istanbul, one of the major culture capitals of the world, offers education with the awareness of meeting with the world, carrying several millennia of accumulation of scientific, historical and cultural heritage into the future.

Founded by the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce Education and Social Services Foundation, Istanbul Commerce University started formal education in 2001-2002 Academic Year. Our university is not only committed to keeping pace with the modern age but also inculcating in our students the virtues of our deep-rooted culture as well as the validity-reliability principles of art and science in a way that transcends spatial or temporal boundaries.

As one of the first foundation universities of Turkey, our university managed to capture the attention of students in a short period through its academic stance, quality of its programs, qualifications of scholars, technical equipment and its vision regarding the future. Having 73 students at its very first year, Istanbul Commerce University has achieved to have over 5000 students and 169 scholars in its 10th year. The prestige of the university, gained over a very short span of time, is maintained thanks to the hundreds of international and national publications, the awards given in various fields, and the activities carried out.

Working area: Istanbul Commerce University aims at educating young people who understand the era and value freedom of thought and participation, with awareness of international competition and facing the world, who develop with the society, business life and production processes, possess high professional skills, share with others and are broad-minded. For this purpose, Istanbul Commerce University is investing in the scientific future of the country with its five Faculties, English Preparatory School and Vocational School as well as Institutes of Social Sciences, Physical Sciences and Foreign Trade. Faculty of Arts and Sciences includes Departments of Statistics, Mathematics, Psychology and Pedagogy. Faculty of Commercial Sciences includes Departments of Banking and Finance, Business Administration, Tourism Management, International Relations, International Trade, and Economy.

All sections of the community are provided with the opportunity of education at every level by the Continuing Education Centre with certificate programs which have a specified goal of supplying individual, institutional, social and cultural development as an excellent example of lifelong education. In addition to these, along with our Career Planning Centre, the Application and Research Centre of Intellectual Property and Rival Business Law, which has a rising popularity in the banking world, will come into service soon.