TED Üsküdar Koleji is a school of the Türk Eğitim Derneği, the association that keeps its own list of schools under the TED name and stands as the first section about the school on its site; our own directory of school groups does not hold it yet, so no figures belonging to the group appear on this card. The campus stands in Çengelköy, on the slope above the Bosphorus, in a quarter with a century of history, and the school describes it as a purpose-designed complex where classrooms and activity spaces are built around current technology rather than lessons alone. The campus holds sports facilities, a library, workshops, a health service, a catering service, transport and security; separate pages publish a technical report on the physical structure and the seismic safety of the buildings and guidance on what to do in an earthquake or another emergency. There are also units for assessment, for curriculum development, for counselling and for project coordination.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · DP · National programme
About the fees No amounts are printed on the fees page: the section consists of two links, one to an explanation of fees and the registration procedure and one to the terms of card payment, while figures, stages and any note about value added tax are absent. A separate section covers discounts and scholarships.
Admissions The school invites families to register through a form on its site, next to an explanation of fees and the registration procedure and a section on discounts and scholarships. Requirements for applicants, deadlines and entrance tests are not named on the open part of the site.
Stages and year groups Grades okul öncesi, ilkokul, ortaokul, lise. Four stages share one campus in Çengelköy: pre-school, primary school, middle school and high school. The high school separately describes preparation for Turkish universities and preparation for admission abroad.
Address Çengelköy Mahallesi, Engin Caddesi No:29, 34680 Üsküdar, İstanbul
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · DP · authorised programmeTED Okulları · school is part of the networkThe school is listed in the IB registry with the Diploma Programme, and the stage here is taken from that registry: the school has no section of its own about the International Baccalaureate on its open pages. What it does describe, in separate high school sections, is preparation for Turkish universities and preparation for study abroad, without spelling out the name of the programme.
school is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
IBInternational Baccalaureate
A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: DP (ages 16-19). DP is the final stage, ages 16 to 19: six subjects plus a compulsory core of theory of knowledge, an extended essay and CAS. The diploma is accepted by universities all over the world, and in a number of countries it counts for admission on the same footing as the local leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →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.
TED Okullarıschool network
Schools of Türk Eğitim Derneği - a civil organisation founded on 31 January 1928 under the name Türk Maarif Cemiyeti and calling itself the first civic organisation of the republic in education. The organisation exists separately from the schools and holds, besides them, TED University, founded in 2009 and admitting students in 2012, and the TEDMEM think tank. Since 2020 it has run an accreditation and consultancy of its own for outside schools under the name TED AD, and such a paper does not make a school part of the network. The numbers diverge within the site itself: the history page speaks of 46 institutions, while the list of schools gives 43 working colleges and two more schools whose opening is promised. The cities are Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Bursa, Kayseri, Antalya, Konya, Mersin, Trabzon, Diyarbakır and some thirty more, including a college in Northern Cyprus.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
✓Sports hall
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
✓Catering
✓School transport
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Makerspace
Campus: A complex in Çengelköy with an architecture of its own and classrooms and activity spaces built around current technology. Separate sections describe the sports facilities, the library, the workshops, the catering service, transport and security, and the school also publishes a technical report on the physical structure and the seismic safety of its buildings.
Teaching staff
There is no data for this section yet.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
✓Security staff
·Access controlnot stated on the website
✓Nurse or medical room
·Counsellornot stated on the website
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)82 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data70 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%)no datathe criterion switches on once there is data about the teachers Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data80 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median65 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
The score is counted from 6 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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