Plato Vocational School

Hello, I'm Bahadır Elal. I am the director of Istanbul Topkapı University, Plato Vocational School. Plato Vocational School was established in 2009 with 3 programs. Currently, it offers 56 programs, and has over 6000 students and more than 15 thousand graduates. There are 56 programs in our school such as Design, Health, Aviation, Informatics and Management. Of these 56 programs, 28 are primary, 18 are secondary, 8 are distant and one is in English. Especially for our working students, secondary education and distance education programs provide great convenience. Each program has both theoretical and applied courses. After taking their theoretical courses, our students also receive applied trainings covering their professions in the infrastructure of our university. We have workshops and laboratories for the hands-on training of each program. It would take a lot of time to count them one by one, but the main ones are health laboratories, computer laboratories, fashion workshops, and gyms. All of them are equipped with the latest technology in Kazlıçeşme Campus of our university. There is a compulsory internship program for at least 20 days in each program. Our working students have internship exemptions if they can prove that they are working. Our students present a product or a project as a result of the practical training they receive with the graduation project, or they show their expertise in their fields by putting forward a graduation thesis as a result of the theoretical training. Each of our programs has an ERASMUS agreement. Our students, for internship or education, can participate in the ERASMUS Student Exchange Program in European countries abroad. Education mobility lasts for one semester, and the internships are done for a minimum of 20 days and a maximum of 2 months. Our administrative staff and our previous students help our students with an active counseling system so that our students can benefit from these exchange programs in the most efficient way.