About UNIKA


Date of Foundation: 2007
EUC Number: 249262
Erasmus ID: TR KARABUK01
Legal Status: Public (PB)
Type of organization: (EDU-UNIV) (Non-profit public university)



KARABUK UNIVERSITY







History

Karabuk University, whose faculties and vocational schools had previously been affiliated to Zonguldak Karaelmas Unviversity, now Bulent Ecevit University, Zonguldak-Turkey, was founded on May 29, 2007 in accordance with Law Number 5662 published in the Official Gazette dated 29.05.2007 with the number 26536. As being one of the youngest and the most dynamic universities of our country, which is heading for global education and international progress, Karabuk University is located in Karabuk on the Western Black Sea Region of Turkey and near Safranbolu, a district and 8 KMs away from Karabuk, which is famous for its ancient historical wooden Ottoman Houses, many of which are under legal protection and used as lodging-houses, and it is thus in “the List of World Heritage Cities” by the UNESCO. 
Supported mainly by state funds, the University offers both undergraduate and graduate programmes with 16 faculties, 2 institutes, 3 higher school, and 9 vocational higher schools, where approximately 45.435 students take education at both undergraduate and graduate levels during the 2022-2023 academic year with around 1652 academic staff, 482 administrative and technical staff. Through highly qualify studies in these educational programmes, the University moves forward not only to achieve its target of being one of the world’s best universities in the near future but also to serve our country and humanity at large. By means of the advantage of the opportunities of international cooperation and solidarity, which is of vital importance in the international education, Karabuk University continues to have its voice heard serving the nation in the fields of science and technology, while taking its proper place in the world with its contribution to education and research with all of its academic units and academic staff in the local, national, and international arena. 
At Karabuk University, one academic year is divided into two semesters, Fall and Spring. The undergraduate degrees are conducted for 8 semesters while associate degrees consist of 4 semesters at vocational schools. The graduate institutes, Natural and Applied Sciences and Social Sciences, offer graduate courses and degrees that lead to master's or doctorate degrees. All the degree programmes, undergraduate and graduate, are intended to be compatible with requirements stipulated by the Bologna Process. Hence the University has afforded much to organize its programmes and education in line with the Bologna Process and the Framework of European Qualifications, and as a result of this strenuous effort, now it holds a valid (2021-2027) Erasmus Extended Charter, together with Diploma Supplement Label. In addition, Karabuk University was also awarded ECTS Label in December 2013. 


MISSION 

The mission of Karabuk University is to be an institution where the proper infrastructure with up to date technology is widely used in both education and research of high standards, which thus pave the way for quick transformation of knowledge to product, and where community and mankind at large are served not only by conducting high level basic/applied/interdisciplinary research but also by providing excellent education in world standards. Moreover, it also takes on the mission to provide high quality education at all levels of higher education defined in the Bologna Process using the basic concepts of Bologna Process, and to be a centre of attraction both for faculty and students at an international level. In addition, Karabuk University also co-operates with the academic world, business sectors and NGO’s nationally and internationally and motivate the community for lifelong learning as part of its educational and social responsibilities. Finally, the University considers it its foremost mission to have a campus with all the facilities to house students of different cultures and nationalities and prepare them for a world of global competition and cultural differences, while being aware of their individual differences.




VISION
 
Karabuk University as its indispensable policy pays utmost importance to excellence in higher education. Thus, the vision of the University is not only to be a leading higher education institution where sustainable innovations and developments are brought to both academic and social life and where individuals, who are educated in degree and training programmes with the principles of free-thinking, participating, sharing, and open-mindedness, which are subject to continuous changes and innovations in accordance with contemporary perspectives of the 21st century, can transform knowledge into product for the benefit of mankind, but it also undertakes to become an internationally approved institution of higher education and research and a centre of excellence and quality through the shared efforts of academic and administrative staff, students and all stakeholders.
Karabuk University gives the highest importance to freedom of expression, thought, justice and peace committing itself to learning, respect for diversity and difference, striving for excellence, sharing resources, aesthetics, creating values, and social involvement.
 


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