[5] This conference was followed by university development committees, which worked under the direction of a Student Trend and Preference Survey and other academic program design activities.

Students deemed to require additional assistance enroll in the Foundations Development Year, which consists exclusively of English and Turkish language courses.

Student success is judged not from examination results but overall performance in the program so they can seamlessly move on to the University Courses with their freshman classmates.

Designed with a multidisciplinary approach, University Courses establishes links between the natural and social sciences as well as among other disciplines.

[10] During freshman year, students take courses that focus on Humanity and Society, Principles of Atatürk and History of Turkish Revolution, Turkish Language and Literature, Science of Nature, Mathematical Functions: Discrete and Continuous, Interfaculty Course: Computational Approaches to Problem Solving and Academic Literacies.

The Sabancı University Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Research and Application Center (SU IMC)[27] was founded in 2016.

SU IMC was built with an investment of $35 million to provide facilities for both fundamental and applied research, product development, graduate and life-long education.

[28] Starting up operations in July 2011, the center's contributing team includes 40 faculty members, about 40 post-doctoral researchers, and hundreds of PhD students.

IPC conducts its research under three main clusters: the Istanbul Policy Center Sabancı University Stiftung Mercator Initiative, Democratization and Institutional Reform, and Conflict Resolution and Mediation.