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Istanbul, Turkey · est. 2022 · State
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A state vocational and technical Anatolian high school in the Bagcilar district of Istanbul, opened in 2022 to carry the experience of the country's largest media group into schooling. The school calls itself the first and only media high school in Turkey and says its artificial intelligence department is the first such department at high school level in the country. By its own figures it has 173 students and 9 teachers and runs a full school day. There are two departments, artificial intelligence and radio and television. Students work in the media group's newsroom alongside people from the industry, and the school writes that the group covers their educational needs. AP courses sit in the curriculum, and the school separately prepares students for TOEFL, SAT and IELTS and for the state YKS examination. Under its Erasmus+ accreditation it sends students on placements in Europe and takes part in eTwinning; for research it names TUBITAK 2204 and 4006 projects, Teknofest contests, the ministry robot competition and an FRC team. No school group stands behind it: this is a separate state institution with its own code.
Key facts
Programmes
AP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Turkish
Languages taught
English, German, French
About the fees Tuition is free: this is a state high school of the Turkish Ministry of National Education. The school writes that the media group covers its students' educational needs, and the site does not name the cost of school transport.
Admissions Admission goes by the state LGS examination, separately for each of the two departments: 18 places for artificial intelligence and 18 for radio and television, 36 in all. The school does not publish entry scores on its pages.
Stages and year groups Grades 9-12, 8 classes. A state vocational and technical Anatolian high school with eight classrooms and one workshop, running a full day from 09:00 to 16:00. There are two departments, artificial intelligence and radio and television, with 18 places each, 36 in all. The first year is an English preparatory programme taught by teachers whose first language is English; the school names German and French as second languages.
Address 100. Yıl Mah. 2264. Sk. Demirören Medya Center Blok No 1, Bağcılar / İstanbul
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
College Board · authorised programmeThe College Board entry in the AP course register carries number 183518, and the school confirms it in its own words twice. Its list of research activity names an item reading AP (Advanced Placement) Programi, and its history page says outright that AP courses are in the curriculum and that beyond them the school prepares students for international examinations such as TOEFL, SAT and IELTS. Separately the school names its Erasmus+ accreditation for vocational education; that is a European Union mobility programme rather than a school accrediting body, and it is not shown as a badge. The school's own institution code in the state system is 769068.
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College BoardCollege Board, the AP programme
An American organisation that allows a school to put the letters AP on a pupil's transcript. The permission is granted course by course and tied to a particular teacher, it has to be renewed every year, and College Board reads the course syllabus before granting it.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run advanced AP courses - not the school as a whole, but one by one: by subject and by teacher. Governance, safeguarding and the primary years are not part of that check. Which subjects are actually approved is visible in the ledger. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
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Advanced Placement: American advanced courses for the senior years. The exam for a course is set and marked by the College Board, not by the school. A good result is counted by American universities as a first-year course already passed, which saves a student time and money.
What this means for this school. A school does not get to call a course AP automatically: the College Board reads the course syllabus and approves it separately for every subject and every teacher, and the permission has to be renewed each year. Every approved school in the world is listed in the open AP Course Ledger, and this school's entry there stands as a line in the accreditation block above. How many courses a school is approved for, and in which subjects, the ledger does not show in its general listing. AP has no leaving certificate of its own: it sits on top of the school's main programme rather than being a separate system.
National programme
The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
Facilities from the school's official website
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·Sports hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
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·Boardingnot stated on the website
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Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
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