Dear students and candidates;

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk punctuates the importance and value of sport by saying: “Just like youth deprived of engagement in sports will not be effective in the course of defending the fatherland, the creature named man whose intellectual development may be advanced in a strong degree will not be able to carry forth that intellect if his physical development is wanting and incomplete!” He is not only emphasizing the importance and value of the sport, but also underlines how important sport is for the individual in terms of intellectual and physical aspects and for the benefit of the country.

As School of Physical Education and Sport of Istanbul Gelisim University, we embrace the importance and the value attributed to sport by Atatürk’s and we contribute through our world class education-training programs, to the continuity of sport and athletes as an indispensable part of human’s life.    
 
Since the first day we are founded as a School, we are providing distingue academic environment, as dreamed by all of our students, under the frame of our education oriented on internationalized targets for all our departments and through the international accreditation assurance we have obtained in education. While we equip our students conceptually in their domains by the infrastructure and enriched class curriculums we provide, we enable our students to get knowledge about business world by our partnerships with re4al sector and universities and we provide them with necessary qualifications to perform their profession like an expert when they are graduated.
 
We are now reputed as an institution that is following international education literature closely, providing not only sport education but also education-training programs along with several related disciplines, having credentials with European and Turkish higher education certificates, operating in harmony with its targets and strategies, ranking on an assertive position among international educational institutions, and a respected position in the sector. We have crowned our success by our graduates who are experts of their professions, believing in universal values, respecting individual differences, defending freedom of thought and expression and scientific freedom, adopting living together in harmony and tolerance, respecting all living creatures’ right to live as a principle, who are able in critical thinking, who questions and who provide ecologic, economic, socio-cultural sustainability.

We would like to have you, our candidates, among our students, so that we can teach and train you as per our targets and reintegrate you into the society. I wish for all our students a continuous success.
 
Asst. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Soyal
Acting Director of IGU School of Physical Education and Sport