Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University, one of the notewhorthy univesities in our country, located in an area surrounded by natural beauties between two metropolis İstanbul and Ankara, was founded on 3 July 1992. The university, which has been developing rapidly since its foundation, has campuses in the city centre and three districts of Bolu (Gerede, Mengen, Mudurnu). The main campus of the university, namely İzzet Baysal Campus, is located in Gölköy, which is 8 km from the city center and surrounded by a unique natural beauty.
The university comprises 16 faculties, 1 institutes, 1 schools, 8 vocational schools and 19 research centers. 1.563 faculty members and 1.184 administrative staff in the university are proud to provide a quality and modern educational setting for about 27.061 students.
Izzet Baysal was born in Bolu in 1907. He completed primary and secondary schools in Bolu and studied in İstanbul for his higher degree in Istanbul Fine Arts Academy and graduated as an Architect.
Baysal started his career as a civil servant, and then became an industrialist by founding the Temper Casting Factory in 1949. He played a leading role for the development of casting industry in Turkey. For many years, he was in the top-ten list for paying income tax in Istanbul.He founded the “Izzet Baysal Foundation” in 1987, which he considered as his greatest achievement, by earmarking from his tax-deduced wealth.
Mission: The mission of Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University is to educate qualified human resource that will lay the foundations of national development in regional borders where industrialization and economic development increases rapidly and to play an effective role in regional development. The university also aims to contribute to technologic developments by establishing the infrastructure that will educate students who are inquiring, analytic, open to continuous improvement and development, follow and seek to go beyond modern civilization level.
Vision: The vision of Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University is to become a modern university which offers the society its experience in research, education and teaching by mobilizing all modern educational, teaching and technical opportunities to train productive people who improve themselves spiritually, mentally and physically.