Robert College of Istanbul (Turkish: T.C Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı İstanbul Amerikan Robert Lisesi), is one of the most selective independent private high schools in Turkey. Robert College is a co-educational, boarding school with a 65-acre (260,000 m) wooded campus on the European side of Istanbul between the two bridges on the Bosphorus, with the Arnavutköy district to the east, and the upscale Ulus district to the west. The 148-year-old institution is the oldest American school still in existence in its original location outside the United States. Robert College is accredited by the New York State Association of Independent Schools. Robert College has a long list of notable alumni, including entrepreneurs, politicians, journalists, artists, one Prime Minister, and one Nobel Prize recipient, Orhan Pamuk. The School is a member of the G20 Schools group. In 1863, Robert College was founded in Bebek by Christopher Robert, a wealthy American and a philanthropist, and Cyrus Hamlin, a missionary devoted to education.