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Boğaziçi University ((トルコ語:Boğaziçi Üniversitesi)) is a public university located on the European side of the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey. It has four faculties and two schools offering undergraduate degrees, and six institutes offering graduate degrees. Founded in 1863, it is the first American higher education institution founded outside the United States, having strong ties to the American educational system through Robert College. Boğaziçi University consistently ranks highest in Turkey, having the most number of applicants via the YGS-LYS Turkish university entrance examinations. This allows Boğaziçi University to attract many of the highest scoring students;〔(İlk 1000 Universielere göre dağılım ) Boğaziçi University〕 as well as having the most preferred applied science, education, engineering, and social science programs in Turkey.〔(Belgeler ) OSYM〕〔http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=w7xwCgrf4qgC&pg=PA184&lpg=PA184&dq=first+american+higher+education+robert+college&source=bl&ots=9axhld_JFi&sig=xu52q8a_ewQF4Sd_-HbiDROaPnk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FKl1UeDTItOw4QSPo4DwBw&ved=0CGwQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=first%20american%20higher%20education%20robert%20college&f=false〕 The language of instruction is English. Boğaziçi University is the only Turkish university among first 200 universities worldwide according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2013-2014.〔(World Rankins 2013 ) Times Higher Education〕 == History == In 1863, Robert College was founded in Bebek by Christopher Robert, a wealthy American and a philanthropist, and Cyrus Hamlin, a missionary devoted to education. Six years after its foundation, with the permission () of the Ottoman Sultan, the first campus (at present, it is the South Campus of Boğaziçi University) was built in Bebek at the ridge of Rumelia Fortress, very close to a Bektashi tekke, whose leaders maintained an excellent relationship with the Congregational and Presbyterian founders of Robert College, according to Dr Friedrich Schrader, a German lecturer at Robert College during the 1890s.〔Friedrich Schrader in: Robert College, Nord und Süd, November 1919, S. 165–169 (Article in German language)〕 The first building of the school was named "Hamlin Hall" in memory of Cyrus Hamlin. Few years after the foundation of Robert College, in 1878, Christopher Robert died. According to the article, ''A Millionaire's Will'', published in New York Times (November 27, 1878), Robert left a great portion of his wealth to the College. A College Catalog was compiled in 1878–1879, giving general information and an outline of the courses of study. Defining the aims of the College the catalog stated: "The object of the College is to give to its students, without distinction of race or religion, a thorough educational equal in all respects to that obtained at a first-class American college and based upon the same general principles." After Hamlin, Robert College was administrated by George Washburn (1877–1903)〔 Gale Biography In Context. 〕 and Caleb Gates (1903–1932). Though founded at the time of the Ottoman Empire as an institution of higher learning serving the Christian minorities of the Empire as well as foreigners living in Istanbul, the school adopted a strictly secular educational model in accordance with the republican principles of Turkey in 1923. Robert College, in the past had junior high school, high school, and university sections under the names ''Robert Academy'', ''Robert Yüksek'' and ''American College for Girls''. Since 1971, the school has functioned only as a "high school"〔(【引用サイトリンク】 About Robert College )〕 (more comparable to the French ''lycée'' in academic rigor) on its Arnavutköy campus (formerly the campus of ''American College for Girls''), yet it retains the title of College. The Bebek campus and academic staff were turned over to the Republic of Turkey for use as Boğaziçi University, the renamed continuation of Robert College's university section, as a public university. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boğaziçi University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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