Sabancı University (Turkish: "Sabancı Üniversitesi" ), established in 1994, is a young foundation university located on a 1.26 million squaremeter campus which is about 40 km from Istanbul's city center. Its first students matriculated in 1999. The first academic session started on  20, 1999 (1999--T) .
Sabancı University has won awards.