Genetics and Bioengineering

The goal of BLG Bioengineering undergraduate program is to train engineers who can create, adapt, integrate, and spread knowledge in biology, biotechnology, and bioinformatics; be inclined to creative teamwork; possess abilities regarding analytical thinking and sytematic approaches in addition to ethical values; and are conscious of human health and environment with a high intellectual and scientific deposit.

Our students will learn basic engineering principles to analyze biological mechanisms and systems through an engineering perspective. Among the goals of the program are designing new technologies for biological systems and processes and use such technologies in areas like medicine, agriculture, environment, and food.

We provide a broad and flexible curriculum enabling students to choose from a diverse list of areas for specialization. These areas cover a wide range of industrial and scientific spectrum such as computational analysis of life sciences data (e.g. DNA sequencing, gene finding, drug design, etc.), production of functional foods based on genomic effect of nutrients, benefitial recycling of environmental waste, biofuel production, biomedical signal and image processing.

The International Student Recruitment Office at Istanbul Bilgi University is always working on processing and evaluating students’ applications within a short time span.

Applications’ deadline is set to August-end regarding fall-semester applications. Future international students are required to submit their applications as soon as their official documents are ready.

The students who haven’t graduated from High-school and who want to send their application early and during their senior/last year of high school, can do so as follows:

• The evaluation will be done over the complete high school transcripts (3 or 4 years) and if accepted will be issued a ‘Conditional Acceptance Letter’.
• Once the student has graduated and obtained the high-school diploma with the corresponding official transcripts, the student should forward these last documents to the International Student Recruitment Office to issue the ‘Final Acceptance Letter’.