Sabancı Graduate Business School is accepting applications for the 2020-2021 academic year MBA-Non Thesis, Executive MBA-Non Thesis (EMBA), Professional MBA-Non Thesis, Masters in Finance-Non Thesis (MIF), Masters in Business Analytics-with Thesis (MSc.in BA), Masters in Business Analytics-non Thesis (MSc.in BA-NT) and Management PhD programs. Information regarding these programs can be obtained from the website. Additionally, various scholarships are available for MBA, MSc.in BA-with Thesis and PhD programs.

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Applications for the MBA-NT Program: 
The MBA Program is open to all candidates with an undergraduate degree from an accredited university.

Application Deadline for MBA:

Early Applications           : April 17, 2020

Scholarship Applications : ………., 2020. Final deadline for international applications and scholarship applications.

Applications                      : ………., 2020. Only local students can apply between …….. - ………. 2020. No scholarships are awarded after …….. 2020.

Admission Process:

Online application is required. After an initial screening, eligible candidates are to be interviewed. Interview results and decisions will be mailed to the candidate.

For more information: Ekin Basat  (0216) 483 96 71 or  ekinbasat@sabanciuniv.edu

Application Deadline for Professional MBA-NT :
Early Applications  : June 5, 2020
Applications             :

Admission Process: After an initial screening, eligible candidates are to be interviewed. Interview results and decisions will be mailed to the candidate. Applicants may also attend the Sabanci University English proficiency exam that will be held on March 7, April 18, May 16, June 27, July … 2020  All applicants who plan to attend SU exams should complete their online application before the exam dates. The spoken English level of the applicant will be evaluated in the interview.

ALES or equivalent test scores are not required for the applications to Executive MBA program.

For more information: (0216) 483 9734 or pmba@sabanciuniv.edu

Application for the Executive MBA-NT (EMBA) Program:

Application Deadline for Executive MBA: 
Early Applications  : June 5, 2020
Applications             : July ..., 2020

Admission Process: After an initial screening, eligible candidates are to be interviewed. Interview results and decisions will be mailed to the candidate. Applicants may also attend the Sabanci University English proficiency exam that will be held on March 7, April 18, May 16, June 27, July … 2020. All applicants who plan to attend SU exams should complete their online application before the exam dates. The spoken English level of the applicant will be evaluated in the interview.

ALES or equivalent test scores are not required for the applications to Executive MBA program.

For more information: Neyir Özdemir (0216) 483 9743 or neyir.ozdemir@sabanciuniv.edu

Application for the Masters in Finance-NT(MiF) Program: 
All candidates who have a 4-year undergraduate degree may apply to the Program.

Application Deadline for MiF: 
Early Applications  : June 5, 2020
Applications             : July .., 2020

Admission Process: 

Applicants may also attend the Sabanci University English proficiency exam that will be held on March 7, April 18, May 16, June 27, July … 2020. All applicants who plan to attend SU exams should complete their online application before the exam dates. 
The spoken English level of the applicant will be evaluated in the interview.

ALES or equivalent test scores are not required for the applications to MiF program.

For more information: Ekin Basat  (0216) 483 96 71 or  ekin.basat@sabanciuniv.edu

Application for the MS in Business Analytics Non-Thesis Program:

Application Deadline for MS in Business Analytics Non-thesis Program
Early Applications  : June 5, 2020
Applications             : July .., 2020

Admission Process: After an initial screening, eligible candidates are to be interviewed. Interview results and decisions will be mailed to the candidate. Applicants may also attend the Sabanci University English proficiency exam that will be held on March 7, April 18, May 16, June 27, July … 2020. All applicants who plan to attend SU exams should complete their online application before the exam dates. The spoken English level of the applicant will be evaluated in the interview.
 

ALES or equivalent test scores are not required for the applications to MS in Business Analytics Non-Thesis program.

For more information: (0216) 483 9672 or mscban-nt@sabanciuniv.edu

Application for the Masters in Business Analytics (MSc. in BA) – Thesis Program: 
All candidates who have a 4-year undergraduate degree may apply to the Program.

Application Deadline for MSc.in BA-With Thesis: 
Early Applications   :   ……., 2020

Applications                : ……., 2020

Admission Process: After an initial screening of the documents, eligible candidates will be interviewed. Interview results and decisions will be sent by mail.

For more information: Ekin Basat (0216) 483 9671 or ekin.basat@sabanciuniv.edu 

Application for the PhD Program:

Candidates will be accepted to Management and Organization, Business Analytics and Operations Management, Finance and Action Research concentrations.

The PhD program in Management is open to candidates with a background in business, economics, engineering, social or natural sciences.

Application Deadline for PhD: June 12, 2020  

For more information: Işıl Kılıç (0216) 483 9976 or isil.kilic@sabanciuniv.edu

Sabancı Üniversitesi 

Öğrenci Kaynakları Birimi,

Orta Mahalle, Üniversite Cd. No:27, Tuzla, 34956 Istanbul 

0 (216) 483 90 93 

0 (216) 483 90 73

Please contact studentinfo@sabanciuniv.edu if you have any questions regarding your graduate application.

The "Sabanci University Alumni and Friends" meeting organized as fringe event of 2020 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 2020) took place in San Francisco, on February 17th, 2020. 

ISSCC is the largest scientific gathering of the semiconductor and solid-state circuits domain, attracting more than 3000 participants each year from academia and industry each year. Our alumni participating in the dedicated Sabanci University fringe meeting have shared their experiences and their success stories with the other participants. Other universities organizing similar fringe events at ISSCC include MIT, UCLA, University of Michigan, and University of Toronto. We sincerely thank all of our alumni alumni and friends who have participated in this activity.

Didem Türker Melek (2003 alumna)

Additionally, our 2003 alumna Didem Turker Melek has received the "Outstanding Forum Presenter" Award at ISSCC, for her presentation entitled “Clock Generation and Distribution for 56Gb/s, 112Gb/s and Beyond Serial Links”. We sincerely congratulate her for this excellent achievement.

All three projects developed by Sabancı University and SUNUM were chosen to receive support from the TUSEB System Biology and Bioinformatics R&D Projects Call.

TUSEB System Biology and Bioinformatics R&D Projects call aims to develop innovative approaches to the diagnosis, observation and treatment of diseases as a result of computational analyses on biological data sets in literature.  

Project details supported  by TUSEB System Biology and Bioinformatics R&D Projects Call:

Abbreviations:

FENS: Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences

SUNUM: Sabanci University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center

A report of a novel nano-scale device, designed and fabricated entirely in Turkey, has just been published in Physical Review Letters, one of the most prestigious journals in the field of Physics. The study was also selected as an Editor’s Suggestion and highlighted with a news piece in the Physics websites of the American Physics Society and phys.org.  

The study was undertaken by the team of Dr. Selim Hanay, one of the first graduates of Sabancı University, who is currently working at Bilkent University Department of Mechanical Engineering. Meanwhile, a significant part of the prototype device fabrication was accomplished in Sabanci University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM). The study demonstrates for the first time that a nano-sized silicon beam can be buckled in a controlled manner with cleverly designed nano electro-mechanical system based electro-static architecture.

Full Electrostatic Control of Nanomechanical Buckling, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 046101 (2020)

SUNUM Nanofabrication Team Leader Dr. Cenk Yanık was mainly responsible for the nanofabrication process of the devices.  Reporting on the project, Dr. Yanık said, “it is very exciting and I am proud to be involved in this kind of first-class research, where novel concept designs are demonstrated for the first time in the world. SUNUM has a state-of-the-art 100 kV electron beam lithography system (the only such system open to all users in Turkey), which played a critical role in the fabrication of this world-class nano-scale prototype device. SUNUM is pleased to provide such production services with its expert technical staff.”

Sabancı University Integrated Manufacturing Research and Application Center (SU IMC) Researchers Assoc. Prof. Burcu Saner Okan was granted a new research project, within the scope of FLAG-ERA Program.

FLAG-ERA projects, which are used as an application tool within the framework of the European Union Framework Programs under Horizon 2020, have been developed and integrated into the work plans of the Graphene and Human Brain Flagship Projects by providing the coordination between national and regional research programs in countries that are members of the European Union and candidate for European Union membership.

The Management Panel of the Graphene Flagship has approved GO-FOR-WATER project as a Partnering Project of the Graphene Flagship and the project will start on April 1, 2020 (the start date of the Graphene Flagship Core 3 project). Sabancı University will join the Flagship as an associated member in the Core 3 project.

About FLAG-ERA

FLAG-ERA gathers most regional and national funding organisations (NRFOs) in Europe with the goal of supporting the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagship concept and more specifically, the FET Flagship initiatives Graphene and Human Brain Project (HBP). FLAG-ERA contributes to the construction of the two Flagship initiatives on graphene and human brain research, and also offers support to the four non-selected pilots to progress towards their goals with adapted means.

Please click to reach the list of the projects. 

Sabancı University FENS Faculty Member Prof. Ali Koşar was granted a research project, within the scope of TÜBİTAK and Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) Bilateral Cooperation Program.

One graduate and one doctoral candidate are planned to be supported by the funded project. 

Information about Prof. Ali Koşar’s projects: 

Abbreviations:

FENS: Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences

SUNUM: Sabanci University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center

Business Against Intimate Partner Violence/A Case of Participatory Action Research and Social Action book addresses the Business Against Domestic Violence (BADV) project launched by the Corporate Governance Forum of Turkey (CGFT).

The goal of BADV is to mobilize companies to combat intimate partner violence (IPV) in Turkey. The project was realized in a collaborative partnership with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), with the support of Sabancı Foundation and in co-operation with Turkish Industrialists and Business Association (TUSIAD).   

The book is divided into two sections. Section 1, which focuses on the project itself, frames the elimination of IPV as an SDG target, and provides a detailed account of the project’s motivation, underlying research, project organization, implementation, and outcome. The question of why gender equality and IPV matter for business is also addressed. Lastly, the role of business schools and management scholars in creating practical and actionable knowledge to achieve development goals is discussed, based on the BADV experience. In turn, Section 2 explores the background of the project and sheds a multidisciplinary light on the local context. 

The main objective of the book is to encourage business schools and business organizations to form partnerships in pursuit of Goal-5 and other SDG targets, helping to create actionable knowledge and prompt social action. The book presents IPV from all relevant perspectives and focuses on Turkey, a key emerging economy and G-20 country.

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Akış / Flux, an exhibition featuring Marina Abramović + MAI opens at Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM), along with its conjunction at Akbank Sanat on January 31, 2020 with the support of Akbank.

The exhibition will constitute Turkey’s first large-scale retrospective of Marina Abramović, who is one of the pioneers of performance art in the world, and will be open to visit until April 26, 2020 between 12:00 - 20:00, six days a week. Akış / Flux, realized with the joint efforts of SSM and Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), will introduce video and photographic documentation of performances by the artist, along with live performances developed with MAI and artists who were brought together by an open call and invitation, as well as a section dedicated to the Abramović Method. Concurrent with the exhibition Akış / Flux at SSM, Akbank Sanat will host a documentary series presenting the history of works by Abramović, as well a video gallery featuring numerous works in performance, aiming to explore the legacy of performance art still informing its present.

The exhibition at SSM consists of three sections. The first section will feature video and photographic documentation of Marina Abramović’s iconic performances, loaned from private collections and institutions, to represent the artist’s 50-year career. Akış / Flux aims to introduce and support performance art, which is the general term developed in the 1970s to define the non-object, immaterial and time-dependent form of art that is widely performed today as an interdisciplinary social process, encouraging art audiences in Turkey to experience performance art firsthand.

The second section of the exhibition will present performance projects both submitted to an open call launched in August 2019 for practicing artists working in all forms of performance, as well as artists invited to participate in the exhibition. The long durational live performances will be taking place alternately within a three-month schedule for eight hours between 12:00 - 20:00 every day the museum is open to visit.

Akış / Flux will be concluded by the section dedicated to “The Abramović Method”, where visitors will be invited to participate in a unique experience through exercises Abramović developed for the public. Created over decades of research on performance and immaterial art, Marina Abramović deems “The Method” to be her masterpiece, and the audience will hold a central place in the section where they will be presented with new experiences. “The Abramović Method” is a large scale, public participatory event joining people in a communal experience to connect with oneself and with each other, and an exploration of being present in both time and space through exercises that focus on breath, motion, stillness, and concentration.

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Sabancı University Istanbul International Center for Energy and Climate (IICEC) has released the eighth issue of IICEC Energy Market Newsletter. 

Please click to read IICEC Energy Market Newsletter. 

Sabanci University alumna (2013) İrem Boybat Kara has received her diploma as the 50th PhD student of Yusuf Leblebici, in a ceremony which took place in Zurich on January 24th, 2020. 

İrem Boybat Kara

Irem has completed a significant part of her doctoral research at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, and she has earned her PhD degree from EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne) with her thesis entitled "Multi-Memristive Synaptic Architectures for Training Neural Networks". Having authored 7 journal papers, 19 conference papers, and 4 patents so far, Dr. Kara has also received 5 research awards during the course of her studies. She will continue her research work at IBM Zurich Research Laboratories, as a postdoctoral researcher. 

President Leblebici together with some of his former students at the diploma ceremony in Zurich, on January 24th, 2020: (left to right) Abdulkadir Akın (Sabancı University BS 2008, MS 2010, currently working as a researcher at ETH Zurich Quantum Engineering Center), İrem Boybat Kara (Sabancı University BS 2013, currently working at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory), Yusuf Leblebici, Tuğba Demirci (Sabancı University MS 2002, currently working as the IC Design Team Leader at aiCTX), Zuhal Taşdemir (Sabancı University MS 2010, currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Paul Scherrer Institute).