Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University

Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University was originally established in 2007 as Bilecik University. It was renamed in 2012.

As its name suggests, the university is located in Bilecik, a city in northwestern Turkey.

There are six different campuses spread across the city of Bilecik: Sögüt Campus, Bozüyük Campus, Osmaneli Campus, Pazaryeri Campus, Gölpazari Campus, and the university’s main campus.

The university aims to be a green campus. All buildings were built with dome-shaped roof lighting openings and windows on all walls in order to maximise daylight and save energy.

The university consists of 10 faculties: faculty of dentistry, faculty of science, faculty of fine arts and design, faculty of economics and administrative sciences, faculty of humanities and social sciences, faculty of Islamic studies, engineering faculty, faculty of health sciences, faculty of applied sciences, and the faculty of agriculture and natural sciences.

There is also the medical school, which aims to train qualified physicians with a high level of knowledge and professional competence. Part of the medical school is the Bilecik Education and Research Hospital, which was originally established in 1930 as the Motherland Hospital. It became affiliated with the university in 2020 and today has a capacity of of 300 beds and more than 800 members of staff.