Koç School

It offers boarding for five or seven days a week for students of classes between high school prep to 12th grade at its dorms on its campus.

[1] With the introduction of the programme, many students began to apply to overseas educational institutes with high reputation.

[8] In fact in 2000, the top scorer of the national university entrance examination was a Koç School alumna.

The school also provides an international faculty with teachers from Australia, Britain, Brazil, Canada, India, Ireland, Russia, Scotland, The Netherlands, U.S., New Zealand and Turkey teaching Science, languages, arts.

In the first two years of education, a high school student usually takes the following courses: Turkish Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, English, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Arts, Military Science, Physical Education, Religion and Ethics, History, Health, Geography, Geometry, Mathematics, an elective second language course, an elective from a variety of courses like Movie Studies, Advanced Multimedia, etc.

Among the mandatory and elective courses provided to junior and seniors are: Art History, Biology, Business & Management, Ceramics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Computer Programming, Economics, English, Environmental Systems, French, German, Information Technology in Global Society, Knowledge of Language and Literature, Linguistics, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Photography, Physics, Psychology, Theory of Knowledge, Turkish Social Studies, Turkish Literature, and Visual Arts.

After the exam results are announced several awards (with different categories: Academic Success, Effort, Improvement) are given by the teachers to students.

At the end of each academic year, extracurricular awards are given to students according to the feedbacks of the supervisors of clubs.

The school has a growing number and an increasing quality of publications, among them are literary magazines like Boyut, Fanzin and Mindscapes, a two-week newspaper T.A.W.A, and Philosophy.

Boyut and Fanzin are published by the member students in each journal's clubs with the assistance of the Turkish department.

Mindscapes is published with the assistance of the English language department and it is also open to all contributions after an evaluation process carried by the student and teacher editors.

TAWA[23] was initially the publication/newsletter of the Student Council and later gained an independent position as the school newspaper in 2003.

Students have to write a convincing statement of purpose and score above average at the exam testing general knowledge of the member applicants.

Some of the conferences participated by the Koç School students in the previous years took place in various parts of the world including the Hague, Cairo, Beijing, Brussels and Paris.

"MUNDP".is the first Model United Nations Development Programme conference in the world, whose establishment in 2001 was celebrated by the former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Each year more than 650 participants attend to the conference as delegates, chairs, advisors, admins and executive committee members.

Main Entrance of the High School
Post Construction, 1988
Bird's-eye view of Koç School
Bird's-eye view of Koç School
Atakan Demirseren Hall
Science Building
Koç Arena
The Pool Complex