Our President Prof. Barış Tan Meets Faculty and Administrative Staff at the State of the University Address

This year, the State of the University Address was held on October 1, 2025, at the beginning of the 2025-2026 Academic Year, where our President Barış Tan met with our faculty and administrative staff. The meeting was widely attended by both on-campus and online participants, with simultaneous translation services and an online English presentation provided for our international members.

In his presentation focusing on the key activities planned for the beginning and end of each academic year in line with Özyeğin University’s strategic priorities, President Prof. Barış Tan evaluated the positive impact of the academic activities and achievements during his first year in office. President Prof. Tan then highlighted OzU’s current standing and upward trajectory in global higher education rankings as a testament to OzU’s goal of becoming an “entrepreneurial research university with high global impact” focused on transforming students, delivering exceptional education, and providing an excellent university experience. Prof. Tan especially emphasized that OzU has been named among the top universities in Türkiye in the THE Young University Rankings.

Our President Prof. Tan reviewed 7 main goals for the 2024-2028 vision, which involve the academic and administrative activities within the 2024-2025 Academic Year. Some headlines of Prof. Tan’s presentation include: National and international awards by faculty members; OzU’s internationalization policies; research, impact-sustainability, OzU at international rankings (by subject); high acceptance rates for national and international research grants; high application rates for research, education, and project seed funds established by OzU’s own resources; new human resources practices; incentive programs for high-performing faculty members; establishing special academic positions and the OzU AI platform launch; newly-established international mobility scholarship programs, and national- and international-level collaborations with sectoral and academic institutions.

The meeting concluded with the “Impact Awards Ceremony,” where we honor the outstanding contributions of our faculty members in scientific, social, economic, and institutional fields in the 2024-2025 Academic Year.