Istanbul Technical University

İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, or ITU, traces its roots to 1773, which makes it one of the oldest technical universities in the world. That date matters here, because this is not just another campus — it grew out of the Ottoman push to train engineers, surveyors, and naval specialists for a changing empire. Today, the university’s name carries that long technical tradition into the present, and you still feel it in the way ITU is associated with engineering, architecture, and applied science in Istanbul. The institution operates under the name İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, and its main presence in the city sits here in Beşiktaş, where academic life mixes with one of Istanbul’s busiest waterfront areas. ITÜ’s modern identity is closely tied to its historical depth: a university founded in 1773, still active under the same technical mission centuries later. …

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