Mission Statements
University, Faculty, and Department Mission Statements
Boğaziçi University’s vision is to be a leading institution of higher education, one that shapes the future through being a pioneer in education, teaching, and research. The primary tenets of our vision are to
Boğaziçi University’s mission is to educate individuals who embrace it’s institutional values, who are able to think both creatively and critically, who are independent and egalitarian, who appreciate ethical values, who respect nature and are aware of environmental issues, who are rooted in the local and open to the global, and who can, with their self-confidence and scholarly, social and cultural foundations, successfully take on leadership positions anywhere in the world.
Boğaziçi University’s mission also encompasses producing universal thought, science, and technology in service of humanity, and playing a pioneering role in encouraging the spread of science, culture, and the arts throughout society.
The mission of the Faculty of Engineering is to educate individuals for careers of leadership and innovation in industry, government and educational institutions, to expand the engineering knowledge base through original research, and to contribute through professional services towards a more prosperous and sustainable society. The vision of the Faculty of Engineering is to continue to employ the best faculty and to accept the best students and, thus, to become one of the leading engineering schools in the world in the areas of education, research and technology innovation. Our undergraduate programs are built on a sound foundation of freshman year core courses in engineering sciences including mathematics, physics, chemistry, economy, and computer programming, followed by engineering core courses mandated by the departments typically during sophomore and junior years, supplemented by specialization-option and complementary courses taken by the students during their junior and senior years. The undergraduate curricula of the engineering departments therefore comprise core courses in engineering sciences, departmental core courses, specialization-option courses, complementary courses, as well as courses in humanities and social sciences.
The mission of the Department of Computer Engineering is to graduate economically, socially and ethically conscious engineers that are equipped with the necessary analytical, mathematical, decision-making, computing, communication, teamwork and leadership skills that they can use to creatively design, implement, manage, maintain and improve a wide spectrum of computer hardware, software and information systems in the modern society.