Dear Students,

Boğaziçi University welcomes and embraces you as the newest members of the family.

Here, you will interact with faculty who take genuine pleasure in helping you and solving the various problems you may encounter in life. You will experience first hand, the personal interest your advisors take in you and all your concerns. You will find yourself in an environment where your mistakes are met with constructive tolerance rather than destructive criticism. You will be surprised at first when the stranger you struck up a conversation with in the corridor on your first day turns out to be the head of your department, or the person behind you in the line for tea who noticed that you looked tense and asked what was wrong turns out to be one of the Deans.

The undergraduate education you will get at Boğaziçi will not only equip you fully with the knowledge and tools for your field, but it will also furnish you with the capability to implement your ideas or whatever you choose to create, develop, or produce with this knowledge freely and ethically.

Here, you will not only acquire the highest level of knowledge, skills, and creativity you will need in your post graduation lives of business or academia, but you will also internalize, over time, a way of life, the habit of thinking freely, and ethical values.

On our campus, you will enjoy active participation in the many clubs where you’ll be able to develop your hobbies. You will experience how your view of life is enhanced through interaction with different friends of different backgrounds from different fields of study.

A quick look at Boğaziçi alumni will show the top-level positions they have reached in any field they choose, be it in academia, entrepreneurship, or management. The value attributed to the Boğaziçi diploma is based on the success of our alumni. The high quality of our students and the education provided at our university ensure the synergy of ability, self-confidence, competence, and passion, which lead our graduates to success in all fields.

You will work hard at Boğaziçi, but you will also come to accept and internalize this as part of the highest level of education in the world and the discipline that leads you to success. And at this point, I believe that the beauty of our campus and Istanbul, the fun you will have, the things you will enjoy doing, the parties and the festivals you will attend will all help compensate.

College life is a unique experience, especially at Boğaziçi.
Live it to the fullest. And may success, wisdom, and luck always be with you on this journey.

Prof. Dr. Kadri Özçaldıran
Rector