Since its founding in 1996, Isik University has strengthened today to 5 Faculties with 34 undergraduate programs, two Vocational Schools with 20 associate degree programs, Graduate Institutes in Social Sciences and Applied Sciences, a School of Foreign Languages, and a Center for Continuing Education. Isik University conducts all of its academic teaching and training activities at the Sile and Maslak campuses. On these two campuses there are five faculties, two graduate schools and the English Language preparatory school. Except for the programs in the Faculty of Fine Arts and the distance education graduate program e-MBA offered by the Graduate School for Social Sciences, the language of instruction of all programs is English. In the undergraduate level there are 32 academic programs, while in the graduate level there are 17 Masters’ programs including with thesis or without thesis options, and five doctoral programs.