Dear Students,
Today, there is a need for a human power that can respond to the expectations of the society, has a good command of information usage and technologies, can use at least one foreign language in business life, researches, questions and produces; renews itself in every field as well as the information necessary for life, is participatory, can think and work independently in universal dimensions.
Considering the needs of the age, we have established Cyprus Science University in order to provide higher education opportunities to high school and equivalent school graduates, to train the highly qualified human power that TRNC needs and to contribute to the formation of educated human resources.
Cyprus Science University is a higher education institution that will provide you with the knowledge, awareness, entrepreneurial and creative spirit required by the 21st century with its expert teaching staff, privileged, contemporary and constantly renewed programs, contemporary technical equipment, ergonomic physical structure, distinguished solution partners, international education collaborations, unlimited freedom of learning that provides undergraduate and continuing education, and rich social structure.
I wholeheartedly believe that TRNC can rise to the position of leading countries in science, intelligence and technology on your shoulders.
I wish our students to plan their careers as the best in their professions and say hello to a happy future. Our uninterrupted efforts to make these wishes come true are now, “CYPRUS ILIM UNIVERSITY”, which has adopted the mission of being a contemporary, exemplary university in the world and which we believe will play an important role in the educational development of our country; has undertaken the vision of being an entrepreneurial university as a duty and responsibility while continuing the education of young generations who will internalize the goals that constitute the indispensable and unchangeable values of the TRNC.
We have endless faith that Cyprus Ilim University will raise students who have the opportunities and privileged qualities to develop themselves in the international structure, who will represent our country in the best way on the world platform, who will advance in the light of the principles and revolutions of our Great Leader and raise our country to the position of leading countries. We are happy about this and believe that the journey of our country’s modernization will only accelerate with education.
Prof. Dr. Mustafa AYDIN
Honorary President
Who is Prof. Dr. Mustafa AYDIN?
Born in 1956, Prof. Dr. Mustafa Aydın completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Trabzon, his birthplace. He completed his undergraduate education at Cairo University and Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography. He later completed his master’s and doctorate studies in linguistics. He started working in the Turkish Armed Forces in 1975 and served on many domestic and international assignments until his retirement in 1995.
Following his retirement, Prof. Dr. AYDIN started working as a faculty member at Istanbul University and simultaneously established the institutions within the BİL Holding he founded with his investments in the education sector, and he is still the chairman of the board of directors of these institutions.
He continues to provide education services in approximately 150 schools from kindergarten to high school seniors on approximately 40 BİL College campuses within the scope of BİL Educational Institutions, which he established in 1995.
In 2003, he laid the foundations of Istanbul Aydın University, the largest foundation university in Turkey, with 16 faculties, 34 research centers, 40,000 students, 5,000 of whom are international, 2 think tanks, 2 UNESCO chairs, and over 100 very strong technological, informatics and laboratory infrastructures.
In the following years, he established the Cyprus Science University and International Aydın University in the TRNC, as well as the IAU Incubation Center in the Silicon Valley of the USA-San Francisco.