İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, commonly referred to as Bilkent University or Bilkent, is the first private, nonprofit university in Turkey with the fundamental aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research. The name "Bilkent" exemplifies this aim, since it is an acronym of "bilim kenti": Turkish for "city of science". Bilkent University is ranked 112th best university worldwide and 1st best university nationwide according to Times Higher Education World University Rankings of the world's top universities for 2010/2011. Bilkent University was founded on October 20, 1984 by Prof. Dr. İhsan Doğramacı, through the joint resolution of İhsan Doğramacı Education Foundation, İhsan Doğramacı Science and Research Foundation and İhsan Doğramacı Health Foundation. The establishment of this private university was later approved by an act of Parliament. The aim was to create a center of excellence in higher education and research. It had long been an objective of the founder to establish a private university distinguished by its high quality education and research.