Sakarya University

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Sakarya University, frequently referred to simply as SAU, is a public research university located in the city of Adapazarı, the capital of the Turkish province of Sakarya.Considered one of the largest universities in Turkey with more than 85,000 students, Sakarya University has very high research activity and its comprehensive graduate program offers doctoral degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Humanities, as well as professional degrees in business, medicine, law, nursing, social work and dentistry. It hosts five different institutes: Educational Sciences, Natural Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences, and Middle East Institute.In Turkey, Sakarya University is the first and only state university receiving the ISO-2002 Quality Certificate and "the EFQM Excellence Quality Certificate of Competency Level".HistoryThe nucleus of Sakarya University, whose mission is to educate individuals by all kinds of equipment modern civilization requires, has been formed by School of Engineering and Architecture founded in 1970 affiliated with Istanbul Technical University. This school has turned into the State Academy of Engineering and Architecture in 1971 and served as a faculty from 1982 to 1992.Founded as Sakarya Engineering and Architecture in 1970, it renamed as Sakarya State Engineering and Architecture Academy in 1971. It opened Master of Science and Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) programs in 1980. The programs were executed by İTÜ (İstanbul Technical University) Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences. It was bounded to İstanbul Technical University as Sakarya Engineering Faculty in 1982. Vocational Schools of Sakarya and Düzce were bounded to her at same year. Finally It left from ITÜ and became Engineering Faculty of Sakarya University in 1992. Düzce Vocational School left from Sakarya Engineering Faculty and bounded to Abant Izzet Baysal University at the same year. Finally, Sakarya University was established according to the Law No. 3837 dated 3 July 1992.