Prof. Dr. Mehmet Haberal
Founder & Founder President
Bakent University, a non-profit foundation university, was founded in 1993 by Prof. Dr. Mehmet Haberal, who had written his name in the history of organ transplantation. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Haberal, the vanguard of many fields, has many firsts that the World acclaims in his timeline of professional life. Among national and international awards, Prof. Haberal received the Spanish Order of the Civil Merit of the Kingdom of Spain on February 20, 2020, and the World Health Organization hsan Doramaci Family Health Award on May 27, 2022 and the 2022 Tanner-Vandeput-Boswick Burn Prize which is accepted as the Nobel Prize of Burn Studies.
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Haberal founded Bakent University with grand mastery of his vision to educate youth standing bound to Atatürk's principles, embracing science as their guide, and having a consciousness toward global problems. Bakent University aims to raise analytical, innovative, and creative minds as self-evident truths and seek science, sharing it objectively for the benefit of humanity and the World, promoting the develop-ment of technological, socio-economic, and cul-tural levels by conducting research and spreading science.
As the first foundation university teaching and serving health care simultaneously in Turkey, Bakent is the most significant health care institution after the Ministry of Health of Turkey, with six full-fledged Research Hospitals with dentistry clinics, 16 Dialysis Centers, nine outpatient clin-ics, a Geriatric and Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center, as well as a Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Center throughout Turkey.
Bakent is the first University in Turkey with the International Standardization Organization (ISO) certification promoting a student-centered education system along with a global perspective. Bakent University is differentiated from other institutions by its capacity to design programs, curricula, and services according to the changing global demands with the motto of "Sourcing and Spreading Science by working seven days a week, 24 hours a day".
Contributing To Turkey's Educational & Cultural Advancement
Today, Bakent University has 12 Faculties, a State Conservatory, eight Institutes, seven Vocational Schools, a Foreign Language School, 22 Research Centres, 1669 Academic staff, 8300