Altınbaş University has a management approach in which the active participation of all stakeholders is ensured in order to raise individuals who are loyal to their values, competent, well-equipped, innovative, and have analytical thinking skills in an environment where free and democratic thinking prevails.
In the light of this understanding, Altınbaş University’s Quality Policy:
Within the framework of the above principles, our main goal is to establish and maintain a quality assurance system based on strategic management and quality.
The quality policy is formulated by taking stakeholder views into account and is reviewed and updated periodically by submitting it to the quality commission and relevant stakeholders. Policies are monitored through Strategic Plan Performance indicators.
Altınbaş University adopts a policy that transforms the concept of management into a governance approach, takes into account the participation of its stakeholders, and determines and evaluates university goals together with its stakeholders. The basic principles of this policy are set out below.
As a requirement of this approach, the university’s strategic management activities are carried out on the basis of the above principles and the university’s mission, vision, goals, success indicators, and stakeholder opinions are publicly available on the web page.
The governance policy is formulated by taking stakeholder views into account and is periodically reviewed and updated by submitting it to the Quality Commission and relevant stakeholders. Policies are monitored through Strategic Plan Performance indicators.
In the 21st century, the rapid development in science and technology has created the need for individuals with different characteristics in societies. The main objective of almost all higher education institutions is to provide students with 21st century skills, which include learning and innovation skills, creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem solving, communication and collaboration, information, media and technology skills, information literacy, media literacy, information and communication technologies literacy, life and professional skills, flexibility and adaptability, entrepreneurship and self-direction, social and intercultural productivity and responsibility, and leadership.
In addition, today, the publications gathered under the title of ’21st century skills’ have provided guidance on how new educational approaches should be in terms of the characteristics that the individual who can adapt to the changing world should carry.
In the process of all these studies, 3rd generation universities and their characteristics, international quality assurance standards and new approaches brought about by the transition from the information age society to the age of creative society have also come to the fore.
However, it will not be easy for students to acquire the skills mentioned above. For this reason, a realistic and accurate preliminary analysis of the institution, the processes leading to the goals, the developments in the processes and the quality of the outputs are of great importance. For example: it is very difficult to state that our students coming from secondary education institutions possess all of the above skills. For this reason, as a higher education institution in our country, we believe that developing the above-mentioned characteristics should also be part of our responsibilities.
As is known, the main purpose of education is to change behavior in a certain area. It is a known fact in terms of education and behavioral sciences how difficult it is to achieve behavioral change in adults. For this reason, the basis of our quality policy in the field of education, including distance education, is to monitor developments in educational sciences and sectoral developments and to contribute to society by integrating these developments into all vocational education programs. In this way, a link is established between the importance our university attaches to research and development and the educational mission that puts student-centered and practice at the center. Our priority studies in this field also include competency (output) based planning of education, learning priority education / training strategies, measurement and evaluation methods. For this reason, continuous education, distance education, flipped classrooms approach are the topics we take into consideration.
In addition, being internationally recognized, establishing MoUs, etc., and increasing the number of international students are also considered as a natural consequence of our quality policy in education.In this field, one of our approaches is to conduct scientific evaluations of the effectiveness of our education programs by increasing research in the field of education, such as program success evaluation, etc. In the field of graduate education, we carry out similar policies and take into account the creation of multidisciplinary fields. Again, increasing the number of graduate programs and students is included in our quality policy. One of the priorities of our quality assurance policy is national accreditations and international accreditations are aimed to be on the agenda in the following period.
The education and training policy has been formulated by taking stakeholder opinions into account and is periodically reviewed and updated by submitting it to the quality commission and relevant stakeholders. Policies are monitored through Strategic Plan Performance indicators.
Our main approach to our university’s Research Policy is to contribute to national and international science and to increase our place in international university rankings. In 2023, our university established the first Research Dean’s Office among foundation higher education institutions and provides the following support:
In this context, it is aimed to provide a free, qualified and inclusive research environment for all researchers, especially in the priority research areas of our university and interdisciplinary studies.
We benefit from numerous international and national research grants and are involved in high budget and multinational research projects.
High Standards and Creative Education for All Ages
Social Integration
Qualified Entrepreneurship
Healthy Society, Quality and Accredited Health Services
Environmentally Friendly Energy Management
Strong Institutional Capacity, Good Governance
Research Policies are formulated by taking stakeholder views into account and are periodically reviewed and updated by submitting them to the Quality Commission and relevant stakeholders. Policies are monitored through Strategic Plan Performance indicators.
Internationalization means not only student and staff mobility, but also the harmonious coexistence of different cultures and habits, and the enrichment of diversity that permeates every individual within the university. In this context, the fact that Altınbaş University hosts international students from many different countries and tries to develop cooperation with higher education institutions in almost all regions of the world is a proof of the importance it attaches to diversity.
As Altınbaş University, we want our graduates to grow up as individuals who have the vision to make use of the job potentials both inside and outside the country and we work in this direction. Every student who grows up at Altınbaş University has the opportunity to receive a quality education in a rich cultural structure, and has the opportunity to benefit from the experiences of others for both academic and social enrichment. Individuals who grow up in a multicultural environment can quickly progress towards becoming individuals who can integrate into the international community more easily, overcome cultural barriers, have high communication skills and serve our social contribution goals. The most important goal of Altınbaş University’s internationalization policy is to bring our country a young generation that can contribute to intercultural dialogue, is raised with these values, contributes to the international community, and prioritizes research.
Although increasing the number of international students and student exchange agreements is the most prominent step in internationalization, the completion of various other elements of this policy is mandatory for internationalization to gain momentum. For this reason, Altınbaş University continues almost all of its academic programs in English, invests in academic and administrative staff who can achieve this goal, provides the necessary technological infrastructure, and strives to create a brand in the field of internationalization in the country.
While creating the internationalization policies of Altınbaş University, both the strategies, experience and leadership of leading universities in the world were utilized and the line set by the Council of Higher Education, which guides the universities of our country, was followed.
In line with the targets set in the 12th Development Plan, Altınbaş University adopts internationalization in higher education as one of the fundamental elements of institutional development. In this context, increasing the number of international students and academicians, supporting a multilingual and multicultural learning environment, and expanding joint diploma and research programs are among the priorities of the university. Altınbaş University encourages student and staff exchanges through Erasmus+ and other international mobility programs and contributes to Turkey’s goal of increasing its global competitiveness in higher education by strengthening academic collaborations. The University continues to work in line with the vision of the 12th Development Plan with its qualified internationalization approach.
The Council of Higher Education (CoHE) has determined the goals to be achieved in this field and continues its efforts to support the goals through exchange programs, international collaborations and international activities.
The following Higher Education Council of Higher Education (YÖK) targets have been adopted for our university, taking into account the developments in higher education and our vision.
– Increasing the number of qualified international students, academic staff and students and academic staff benefiting from exchange programs,
– Identifying pilot state universities to be supported in the context of internationalization of Turkish higher education,
– Increasing the number of Turkish universities in the top 500 in international rankings,
– Increasing the number of foreign language programs,
– Identifying target/focus countries and focusing on these countries,
– Identification of priority areas of education and cooperation in the context of target/focus countries,
– Increasing the number of cooperation agreements signed with foreign governments and multinational organizations,
– Training foreign lecturers to work in universities in their home countries,
– Increasing the accommodation capacity for international students,
– It is aimed to diversify scholarship opportunities.
Our internationalization policy includes increasing international visibility, developing cooperation with international universities, increasing the number of international students and faculty members, developing joint projects in the undergraduate and graduate fields, intercultural communication, exchange programs, and our work on our goals in these areas continues. In addition, raising our ranking in university rankings, joint diploma programs, obtaining international accreditations, diploma equivalence and recognition are among our strategic goals.
The internationalization policy has been formulated by taking stakeholder views into account and is periodically reviewed and updated by submitting it to the Quality Commission and relevant stakeholders. Policies are monitored through Strategic Plan Performance indicators.
One of the primary responsibilities of higher education institutions is to transfer their knowledge potential to society and to benefit society. Lifelong learning activities, priority research areas in line with national regional targets, consultancy or health services can be given as examples. The main headings of our Social Contribution Policy are as follows.
“Social responsibility projects” based on education and research activities are carried out both for the stakeholders of our own university and for those living in the districts where the university is located, and social contribution activities are integrated into our strategic plan.
The Social Contribution policy has been formulated by taking stakeholder views into account, and its review and updating is carried out periodically by submitting it to the Quality Commission and relevant stakeholders. Policies are monitored through Strategic Plan Performance indicators.
The information technologies policy of our university covers the following items.
Information Security Policy
In the areas where we provide services; It is of great importance for University employees to access information assets in a timely, complete, accurate and uninterrupted manner in order to meet the requirements of legal legislation, to realize service delivery in a way that meets the needs and expectations of the people we serve, to receive quality, fast and secure service, and to protect their rights and benefits.
Our institution is responsible for meeting the requirements of the legal legislation in the areas where it provides services, and realizing them in a way that meets the needs and expectations of the users. The confidentiality, integrity and availability of information at the required time is directly related to the service quality, uninterrupted service and professional image of our University.
It is very important for our University to protect and manage its information assets consciously and systematically. Information security is a corporate responsibility. For the healthy operation of information security processes, all units using the information processing infrastructure, users and service, software or hardware providers providing technical support to information systems, especially the employees of the Information Technologies Department, are responsible for security.
Our security policy goal is to protect information against unauthorized access, to ensure the confidentiality of information, to ensure that information is not deliberately given to unauthorized persons, to ensure the integrity of information, to ensure that authorized users can access information when needed, to provide information security training to all employees and to report all information security gaps and suspected weak points to responsible persons.
All employees of our organization are obliged to comply with this policy and other procedures and operations of the information systems that implement this policy.
The internet network usage policy is carried out within the framework of the following principles;
The Information Technologies policy is formulated by taking stakeholder views into account and is periodically reviewed and updated by submitting it to the Quality Commission and relevant stakeholders. Policies are monitored through Strategic Plan Performance indicators.
At Altınbaş University, which has adopted the mission of internationalization and sustainability as its educational approach and has the vision of continuing its activities with a sense of dedication and focusing on high technological developments, business processes are carried out effectively thanks to qualified and experienced human resources.
The staff of our university, which grows with its graduates and progresses towards becoming a World University and sets excellence in human resources as a strategic goal, consists of full-time teaching staff, part-time teaching staff and administrative staff. In addition, human resources services are received from companies for supporting services.
Our Human Resources Mission: To educate individuals who create value through the employment of graduates with international human resources practices and who are beneficial to society through educational activities that include the production of scientific knowledge with a multidimensional approach to working life.
Our Human Resources Vision: In parallel with the strategic plan and target cards of our university; to support the improvement of the business results of all academic and administrative units with human resources management, to contribute to the creation of value for all stakeholders by creating and promoting a high performance culture with its publications and works.
Our Human Resources Goal: To realize world-class practices with the principle of equal opportunity for all employees in order to make human resources sustainable on a national and international scale. It is aimed to recruit dynamic candidates with high foreign language skills, individual talents, different aspects from their peers, education level, success motivation and social qualities, entrepreneurial, open to development, technology and innovations, aiming to improve themselves and their work, and to create career planning within our University.
In this context, Altınbaş University:
The Human Resources policy is formulated by taking stakeholder views into account and is periodically reviewed and updated by submitting it to the Quality Commission and relevant stakeholders. Policies are monitored through Strategic Plan Performance indicators.