Bogazici University vs Istanbul Technical University - ITU vs IFA Paris – International Fashion Academy vs Bülent Ecevit University vs Koc University Graduate School of Business
Side-by-side comparison from 114 verified student reviews. Scan one row at a time — winners are highlighted
- +World-class faculty and supportive professors
- +Enriching academic and campus experience
- +Strong career preparation and diverse opportunities
- +strong academic programs & STEM focus
- +beautiful campus and modern facilities
- +supportive environment and vibrant social life
- +Comprehensive and applicable curriculum blending theory and real-world experience.
- +Affordable tuition with accessible and supportive online learning.
- +Strong focus on fashion marketing with creative and strategic development.
- +Vibrant city location
- +Strong community and friendships
- +Challenging and high-quality education merging Eastern and Western values
- +Knowledgeable and approachable faculty
- +Modern facilities
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- -Administrative and management issues create significant frustration.
- -Outdated facilities and poor maintenance are frequently mentioned.
- -Communication problems and lack of clear information cause confusion.
- -Administrative and management issues cause significant frustration.
- -Outdated facilities and a lack of modern resources are common complaints.
- -The curriculum is perceived as irrelevant or poorly structured by many students.
- -Administrative and management issues are prevalent.
- -Facilities are outdated and campus changes are frequent and unannounced.
- -Program legitimacy and staff English proficiency are concerns.
- -Administrative and management issues are a frequent complaint.
- -Outdated facilities and poor campus maintenance are often criticized.
- -Lack of support services and academic resources frustrates many students.
- -Administrative and management issues cause significant frustration.
- -Outdated facilities and equipment hinder learning experiences.
- -Lack of communication and unclear expectations lead to confusion.
- -Excessive tuition hikes with no perceived improvement in education quality.
- -Subpar academic program quality compared to other institutions.
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This academic institution receives commendable ratings across several key aspects. Notably, **Location** stands out with the highest score. **Student Life** and **Value** also perform strongly, indicating positive student experiences and perceived benefits. However, **Accomodation** is identified as the weakest area, suggesting room for improvement in this category. Other evaluated aspects like Facilities, Professors, and Internationality are rated favorably.
Considering university performance metrics, **location** stands out as the strongest aspect, achieving a remarkable 4.63. **Value** and **professors** also garnered high marks, both above 4.3. Conversely, **accommodation** received the lowest rating at 3.74, indicating this area may require the most attention. The university generally performs well across other assessed categories, including facilities, student life, and internationality.
This institution presents a varied performance across key metrics. Its strongest areas are Internationality, receiving a rating of 2.67, and Professors, with a score of 2.5. Conversely, the university's weakest aspects are Location and Student Life, both scoring a low 1.6. Facilities and Accomodation also received below-average scores.
This institution demonstrates notable strengths in its facilities, student life, and accommodation, all receiving the highest possible rating. Conversely, the university's professors and internationality offerings are rated moderately well. Location and value for money stand out as the least strong aspects, with moderate scores in these areas.
Exceptional marks are evident across every surveyed category, indicating a consistently outstanding experience. The institution excels uniformly, with perfect scores in Facilities, Professors, Location, Student Life, Accommodation, Internationality, and Value. No specific area stands out as significantly stronger or weaker than others, as all aspects have received the highest possible rating.
This institution presents a moderate overall performance. Strengths are notable in its professors and location, both receiving solid scores. Conversely, accommodation and internationality are areas needing improvement, with lower ratings. Student life and facilities also fall within the average range, suggesting room for development across multiple aspects.
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The university receives overwhelmingly positive feedback (~100%) from students, highlighting world-class academics, supportive professors, and enriching campus life. A small amount of negative feedback (~0%) was noted.
With a 4.3/5 average rating from 67 reviews, ~85% are positive. Students highlight strong academics, modern facilities, beautiful campuses, and extracurricular activities. There are no negative reviews.
Approximately 33% of reviews are positive, highlighting comprehensive curriculum and affordable online options. However, ~67% are negative, citing issues with program recognition, unprofessional management, and communication problems.
With a 4/5 average rating, the sole review is positive (~100%). Students appreciate the university and its city, though some note limitations in facilities and the campus environment.
With a perfect 5/5 average rating from one review, this university is highly praised for its unique educational approach blending Eastern values with Western quality. Students find the studying environment challenging.
With one positive and one negative review, feedback is split. Positive comments highlight dedicated faculty and modern facilities, while negative remarks criticize tuition increases and education quality.
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What I love the most about Boğaziçi is of course the amazing campus and the view of the beautiful Bosphorus. The campus life in Boğaziçi is what I will miss the most when I graduate. I also really enjoy my degree, I like the quality of the courses that are taught in my department. The professors are available and easy to communicate with most of the time. The student clubs are also very active and I’m lucky to be a part of the activities organized by the clubs. The workload is usually way more than the other European universities but it only allows you to achieve more and learn more.
After one year there on Erasmus+ programme I am proud to say I studied there. ITU is a huge university with several campuses around Istanbul providing the best facilities and education on engineering in Turkey and Middle Eastern countries. The evaluation system encouraged the continuous work through a diverse distribution of the final marks: midterm exams, quizzes, homework etc Besides, professors, and assistants were always helpful and interested in their students. It also fosters the implementation of project learning methods which leads to a higher entrepreneurship development within its students. Finally, it was quite easy to make a learning agreement both because the education is in English and there is a great interaction between different faculties allowing you to find your perfect schedule. Definitely a place where I would go for MSc and PhD.
Honest and insightful review of a fashion design & technology student who attended this academy. Let me start by saying that if I could I would give 0 stars. This has been the worst three academic years of my life and I fully regret it. I would not recommend this place to anyone. The lack of responsibility and lack of respect towards the student is just unimaginable. As stated on the Website it says “...we aim to imprint within our students the values of rigor, elegance, precision and creativity”, this has not been the case at all during my three years course. Diversity is there but this is not necessarily a positive aspect. The age gap and difference between the students in the classroom is very high, I was 21 and placed with people who were ten years older than me, this does not create a positive dynamic ambience within the classroom. This academy is very far from the luxury sector, as wrongly stated on their website.(“teaching them the best methods and practices in the luxury sector in general, and particularly in the fashion sector”). I have not experienced anything near luxury, while attending this academy, quite the opposite. At the start of my first year of Fashion Design & “Technology” there were four different classes, two in French and two in English, 25 people each. And by the end of the first academic year, the four classes had to be combined into one because most of the students had left, about a third of the student body. This reveals everything you need to know about this academy. I specifically write “ Technology ” because throughout the whole program I have not experienced nor understood why this is integrated in the title of the Bachelor. We had a short term “technology” class which lasted three months, after that the teacher left and we never picked up that term again. This shows the unseriousness and the lack of responsibility from the school direction towards the students. -teachers and the academical aspects- First of all I would like to mention that the teachers are the same ones that you have throughout the three year program such as in Pattern Making (T.W), Sewing (J.G) and Fashion Design (L.P). This place has no pedagogical principles and this is clearly noticeable in the classroom, throughout the whole program, and especially between the student-teachers. Throughout the whole Bachelor, my creativity was questioned, pulled down and made fun of. It got to the point that the Fashion Design teacher was bullying me in front of my classmates and nothing was done against that, she still works there, to “solve” my situation (caused by IFA) they simply changed the teacher for me but at that teacher was pregnant and not even present in school, this was little to no help at all. The whole Staff such as the Director and the Teachers are very unprofessional when it comes to solving a problem, especially when the problem involves a Bachelor student in her final year of studies. As a student I felt unheard and very unfairly treated with no one to turn to. Here at IFA, you as a Student are discouraged and discarded. Most teachers in this Bachelor are very unmotivated, uneducated, rude and unhelpful. There is a lack of creativity, engagement and interaction with the students. The atmosphere in the school is also very discouraging and unpleasant. Most classes are very basic, as students we were told to copy the process and not shown how to do the “savoir-faire” nor how to develop our own strategy. If we asked “why” or “how” we were not given a detailed answer, this showed lack of motivation from the teachers towards the students. In Fashion Design it is crucial to have a teacher to turn to when working on the projects but I can assure you that at IFA you have to teach yourself and work closely with youtube because there is no help from the teachers, and I am talking about personal experience. There is no communication between the Teachers and the Directors, so teachers just do what they want, this is an inconvenience for the student body. Poor english skills, no visible effort from the teachers. Several Projects get lost because they are either stolen or misplaced by the teachers. So all of the effort for nothing. -organization- It is safe to say that the organization inside the academy is very unprofessional, starting from the admissions process till the graduation process. I was under the impression that it was all over the place, teachers leaving and school “requirements” changing. For example, in the middle of the course, the school wanted 500 Euros from all of the Students to “finance the mannequins”. If these were new Stockman Mannequins it would have been a great investment but the reality was that the mannequins were broken and in very bad shape, also it was supposed to be school property so we would have not been allowed to take the mannequin with us after graduation. In conclusion, 500 Euros would have been lost for us. This made absolutely no sense for anyone in our class, and thankfully, after all the students came together this “idea” was quickly canceled. However, we were faced with these sorts of problems and changes, every now and then. I can assure you that this is not a reliable nor trustworthy aspect. The evaluation process of absences for each class is very unorganized. During the three years I had an accident and I was walking to class with crutches. I had doctors appointments and certificates about my injury, nevertheless I was asked to come to Paris during the summer to “retake” the course. Me and my family were in utter shock, since I was missing class due to my accident and surgery. They said that there was no other option than traveling to Paris to resolve this problem. I spent 600 Euros for my trip to come to the school, just for them to tell me that they were not aware of my accident. I provided the doctor certificates and the validated absences. This, again, displays the extreme lack of organization and disinterest in the students well-being. -school equipment- As a paying fashion design student I assumed that I would have the equipment ready for the three years, which was not the case. First of all, the mannequin has to be shared with other students from other academic years. Second of all, most of them get stolen or are broken. If your work is placed on the mannequin it is not supposed to be tossed away by other students, this shows that there is a lack of material, hence the necessity of “sharing” the equipment. Additionally, most of the sewing machines are broken and the ironing boards are burned and very used. Keep in mind that this was our “student working space”, and I have to say it was very disgusting to iron the freshly made garments on those ironing boards. Lockers are very tiny, taking into consideration the size of the material that is needed as a Fashion design student. Apart from that, I can tell you that this school has broken chairs, -mannequins, -ceilings, -floors, and damaged and scratched tables and card boards (also seen on the photo) all over the school, which is impossible for a student to work on, especially for pattern making where you need a clean and neat table. Personal objects such as school material, mannequins or backpacks/personal belongings are very often stolen. You have to label every single pen in order to have your material under control, just like in Kindergarten. -the place itself- Do extensive research about this academy, visit the place before you apply. Learn about the area and especially about the arrondissement because as a fashion design student you will be staying until 7-8pm and that's when the area turns into a frightening area (not a “vibrant and artistic neighborhood” as mentioned on the website), especially as a female it can get scary leaving the school at night. There is no security, that means anyone can come into the campus and steal your laptop and nobody would know because there are no cameras (this actually happened to a student in my class, she never found her laptop again) and the code at the entrance does nothing since once the door is open someone can come in and leave again just as easy as that. -“the cafeteria”- This is an open space with three microwaves where 100 students warm up their food around the same time, one after the other, the unpleasant smell that is left behind spreads all around the campus. -hygiene- The non-existent hygiene is seen throughout the whole campus. The photos that are attached are from the woman’s bathroom. From the Sink, underneath the sink and next to the toilet seat. The photos speak for themselves. Also there are huge water issues around the whole school which makes the wallpapers loose (also visible on the photos) and it is filled with green fungal (which is toxic). Also water and electricity (sewing machines/irons) are not a favorable combination if you want to avoid a fire. -additional information about the “foundry lab”- Although the Foundry Lab is built inside the campus, it is not accessible for students. It’s only for projects from outside. Provides absolutely no benefit to the student body. All in all, I had a really disappointing experience and I took the time to write this review in order to help other individuals like me when I first started, who are about to start their University years, to find a good place to study fashion and to develop their creativity, not demolish it. I wish I would have read such an honest and insightful review about IFA before applying and starting there. Hopefully, this reaches as many soon to be students. Don't study at a place where your creativity is questioned and made fun of. It took me a few years to write this because of the immense trauma IFA has caused me especially with my Projects and Creations. Art is not possible to be evaluated by people who are placed as teachers. Art is versatile and some might like it, others not, but that doesn't mean that the creations that are made by a student should be torn down. In my experience, I was bullied and accused of not being the one creating my garments/collections and then my pieces were chosen to be displayed in the campus. This was such controversial behavior from the Fashion Design student teacher, and sadly this behavior went on from the first till the third year. As an International Baccalaureate Diploma Student I have felt discouraged and disrespected during the three years at IFA and that is why I would not recommend this place to anyone, I am ashamed of this academy. If I could go back I would choose a different place to study Fashion Design. Choose wisely folks.
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Don't go to this university, it's a waste of money. They will raise the tuition by a third for nothing. The quality of education, especially architecture is terrible, the program at state universities is a level higher
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