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Life at IHU

Our Campuses

Education at Ibn Haldun University continues at Başakşehir, Süleymaniye, and Bakırköy Taş Mektep Campuses.

Başakşehir Campus: Başakşehir Campus, our main campus, is home to preparatory and undergraduate education. 

Historical Süleymaniye Campus is home to the graduate and doctoral departments of Basic Islamic Sciences and Religious Sciences and the Alliance of Civilizations Institute. The historical Unkapanı Mill, the foundation of which was laid in 2024, is planned to be renovated as the IHU Süleymaniye Campus. 

Bakırköy Taş Mektep Campus: Taş Mektep Campus in Bakırköy serves as Ibn Haldun University Continuing Education Center. 

School of Languages 

IHU School of Languages is one of Turkey's best language education institutions. It offers preparatory classes in Turkish, English, Arabic, and French as well as 10 different languages from French to Chinese. 

Student Center 

Shaped according to the needs of students, academics and staff, the IHU Student Center caters to all kinds of needs on campus, from the movie theater to the dining hall, from the marbling workshop to the supermarket.

The building, which was designed by being faithful to the campus texture inspired by the classical architecture of the university, has all the necessary technical infrastructure and equipment for its intended use, while everything has been considered for a comfortable atmosphere.

Ibn Haldun University Student Center, which offers students the opportunity to socialize and have fun within the boundaries of the campus where they study, includes lounges specially prepared for undergraduate and graduate students, a movie theater, club and recreation rooms, dining hall, rehearsal rooms, music classrooms, game halls, hobby workshops, supermarket, barber and hairdresser.

Dormitories

There are girls' and boys' dormitories in Ibn Haldun University Complex, and 743 students, 361 girls and 382 boys, can stay in the dormitories. Dormitory rooms are for 3 persons. Every comfort has been considered for our students in the rooms and in our dormitories in general. In addition to private study areas, recreation areas, social-cultural activity areas and a library, there are aerobics rooms for girls and fitness centers for boys, as well as hobby kitchens inside the dormitory buildings. An astroturf field, basketball court and tennis court are also available for the use of our students right next to the dormitory buildings.

Various workshops can also be held in the dormitories in line with students' requests, and social and cultural activities are organized.

Library 

Housing 58,420 printed and 2,271,488 books, IHU Library offers an ideal working environment with its individual study rooms, group study rooms, seminar room, e-library, book café, and comfortable seating areas. All kinds of library services such as consultation, access to information, lending, internet use, use of audiovisual information resources, use of electronic databases, and user training are provided by professional librarians. The library puts its information resources into service with this understanding so that researchers can benefit from information resources 24/7. Students can benefit from all electronic resources and services of the library with their Ibn Haldun University e-mail username and password.

Sports Center 

With its 9600 m² area, IHU Sports Center, the largest sports center in Başakşehir region, serves its members with its experienced instructors who have adopted healthy living as an ideology. Within the Sports Center, there is an information unit, instructor rooms, indoor gym, fitness center, indoor swimming pool, archery area, carpet field, indoor tennis court, spa center, spinning area, reformer pilates hall, group lessons area, measurement room, table tennis area, children's playground, private parking lot for members, bicycle path, Sports Café, resting areas and dressing rooms.

International Student Environment

One of the founding goals of our University, which admits around 150 undergraduate students each year to its departments with limited quotas, is to have one third of its undergraduate students and half of its graduate students be international students. Today, the ratio of international students to all students at IHU is 35.74% and outstanding students from 77 different countries study in our undergraduate and graduate programs. This colorful student environment offers our students the opportunity to meet different cultures of the world.

Student Clubs

Student Clubs are an integral part of campus life. Our university supports students' creativity by providing them with a social atmosphere where they can develop themselves as well as quality education. Clubs are organizations established entirely by our students to develop their individual talents, to work as a team, and to realize extracurricular activities to meet social and cultural needs. Students can become a member of the club of their choice or take an active role in the establishment of a club of their choice within the framework of the procedures. Ibn Haldun University has 22 active student clubs. 

Detailed information about the clubs and their activities can be found on the website https://sks.ihu.edu.tr.

New clubs can be established in line with the demands of our students and the relevant legislation.

Culture, Art and Sports Activities

IHU students gain not only academic knowledge but also a cultural awareness of our country and the world. Both clubs and academic and administrative units organize many cultural activities, from extracurricular seminars to reading groups, from trips to bazaars, taking into account the demands of our students.

Art courses are one of the privileged features of our University. Courses in the fields of ney, oud, baglama, violin, piano, calligraphy, painting, percussion instruments and wood carving have been opened in different periods, and such artistic activities continue in different contents every year with the organization of the Department of Arts, Culture and Sports (SKS) and related clubs in line with the interests and demands of our students.

IHU also supports our students to engage in sports activities. Our students prepare for sports competitions and trainings by training with the relevant sports instructor. Indoor Football, Archery, Wrestling, Arm Wrestling, Rowing, Rowing and Dragon Boating, Table Tennis are some of the sports activities organized. In addition, our student athletes participate as a team in various competitions and tournaments in Turkey and abroad.

Detailed information: sks.ihu.edu.tr

Health Center

All undergraduate and graduate students benefit free of charge from our health center within IHU.

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