Beykent University is a private university in Istanbul, Turkey, teaching in English. The typical enrolment is 15,000 students. It has four faculties comprising 28 academic departments in the fields of Engineering and Architecture, Fine Arts, Science, Economics and Administrative Sciences; a school of foreign languages; and Institutes of Social Sciences and Science and Technology. The University offers both graduate and postgraduate programmes together with certificate programmes, international winter/summer schools and international workshops. It was founded by the Beykent Education Foundation and established in 1997. Beykent University has agreements with European universities under the Socrates and Erasmus programmes, which allow university students to continue their education in a European university and foreign students to study in Turkey. It was built by Adem Çelik in 1990 and donated to Ministry of National Education of the Republic of Turkey. Adem Çelik - Beykent Education Foundation was founded by Adem Çelik in 1996. Beykent University, which belongs to this institution, is a foundation university.