← Back to the rankingYükselen Koleji, Aydın Genç Yerleşkesi
Ankara, Turkey · est. 2002 · Private
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Yükselen Koleji is a private school in Ankara; its Aydın Genç campus stands in the Çubuk district, at the eleventh kilometre of the Ankara to Çubuk road near the airport, and opened in the 2002-2003 school year. It was founded by two dentists, Gülsen and Mehmet Yüksel, who put together their family savings to build a school where children of middle income families could get a good education too. This campus holds the upper levels only, an Anadolu Lisesi and a Fen Lisesi, plus a boarding high school with a 140 bed dormitory. The school gives the campus area as 11,363 square metres and its capacity as 500 pupils. English runs on the school's own Level Up programme and German on the Unterwegs programme, both from middle school upwards. Since 2015 the school has worked on Microsoft 365 and calls itself the first in Turkey to apply that system as a whole. The campus holds the eTwinning School title, and the school's own international office advises senior pupils free of charge on applying to the foreign universities it has direct agreements with. The institution calls itself Yükselen Eğitim Kurumları and holds two further sites in Ankara, in Mamak and Altındağ.
Key facts
Programmes
AP · National programme
Languages of instruction
Turkish
Languages taught
English, German
About the fees No figures are published. In its early enrolment section the school speaks only of instalment plans on partner bank cards, and warns that the banks change those campaigns and their terms themselves, so a family should confirm eligibility with its own bank.
Admissions Admission runs through a call-back form on the site, where a family picks the level and the campus. The school also runs its own scholarship exam, Geleceğin Yükseleni 2026, and publishes its rules, scholarship and enrolment terms, calendar and results; it states that the exam weighs effort and attitude to learning as well as academic results. For pupils in grade eight the national LGS result counts, and the school keeps a separate score calculator.
Stages and year groups The Aydın Genç campus holds two high school levels, an Anadolu Lisesi and a Fen Lisesi, with a boarding high school alongside them. Stream subjects and electives are set out from grade nine, and intensive YKS exam preparation for grades eleven and twelve. There are no lower levels on this site: the kindergarten, primary and middle schools sit on the institution's two other sites.
Address Havalimanı, Ankara - Çubuk Yolu 11. km, 06760 Çubuk / Ankara
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
College Board · authorised programmeThe school is listed in the College Board AP Course Ledger for 2025-2026 under code 696390, and the entry is made for the Fen Lisesi. The school's own site never mentions the AP programme. The only international standing it claims is the eTwinning School title, which the campus earned for its projects and European quality labels, and that is a distinction for school projects rather than an accreditation of the school.
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
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
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 pool
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
✓BoardingA 140 bed dormitory on campus, run as a separate boarding high school with its own daily routine, study schedule and sport and culture hours.
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Art studio
Campus: The Çubuk campus covers 11,363 square metres and is built for 500 pupils. Lessons run with interactive boards; supervised study and problem-solving areas stay open through the day, and the administrative offices, the guidance service and the staff room sit on every floor.
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)63 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 data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data90 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 Value for money (6%) scored at the median80 "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 7 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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