Sabancı University established in 1994, is a young foundation university located on a 1.26 million squaremeter campus which is about 40 km from Istanbul's city center. Its first students matriculated in 1999. The first academic session started on October 20, 1999. Under the guidance of one of Turkey's leading family foundations, Sabancı Vakfı (Sabancı Foundation), the Sabancı Group established Sabancı University in July 1994. More than 50 academics from 22 countries, students and private sector leaders participated in the Search Conference in August 1995. This conference was followed by university development committees, which worked under the direction of a Student Trend and Preference Survey and other academic program design activities.

Faculties:

• Economics
• Management
• Political Science and International Relations
• Psychology
• Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design
• Gender Studies
• Mechatronics Engineering Graduate Programs
• Business Analytics Minor Program
• Chemistry
• Conflict Analysis and Resolution
• Decision and Behavior
• Entrepreneurship Minor Program
• Finance Minor Program
• Computer Science & Engineering Graduate Programs
• Cyber Security Graduate Programs
• Data Science
• Electronics Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Materials Science and Nano Engineering

The Sabancı University Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Research and Application Center (SU IMC) was founded in 2016. Sabancı University IMC is the industrial scale research and technology development center that provides laboratory test, prototype manufacturing, design and simulation services, composite materials in the scope of research and development services, and design, manufacturing, assembly and process prototyping services in the area of manufacturing technologies, also, provides consultancy and training services to governmental organizations and industry corporations. Sabancı University IMC was built with an investment of $35 million to provide facilities for both fundamental and applied research, product development, graduate and life-long education. It also acts as a center for incubation services as well as commercialization opportunities in composite manufacturing technologies.