Dormitories

Dear Students;

60% of Koç University students choose to live on campus, and many of them remain on campus through graduation. Make KU your home, and join this growing community! 

General Information

• Dormitory Application
• Main Campus Facilities
• West Campus Facilities
• Dormitory Fees
• Dormitory Guidelines and Regulations

Dormitory Application

• Students' housing applications are processed by the Dormitory Management, who is solely responsible for all matters pertaining to housing, including placement decisions.
• Prospective exchange students make an on-line application for on-campus housing through Koç University WEB site, using the username and password sent by Koç University Registrar's Office.
• Students are placed in room types of their choice within availability.
• After arriving on campus, if you want to make changes to your housing arrangements, you have to do that during orientation days.
• If you are staying on campus, you must pay your dorm fee and deposit during orientation days latest or the access card to your room will be disabled.
• You are eligible for a full refund of your payments, only if you withdraw from dorms within orientation days. (Number of nights before your withdrawal will be deducted from this refund, depending on the nightly fee of your room type.)
• If you check-out after orientation days you will not get a refund for room fees.
• Dormitory Management refunds students’ deposits at the end of exchange semester in case of early check out after any damage cost deducted.
• Note: We do not assist you finding off-campus housing.

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Main Campus Facilities

• Single, Double, Triple and Quadruple rooms, with or without own bathroom, are available.
• Wireless Internet access, cable-TV and phone-services are available in each room.
• Each dorm room has a refrigerator, bed, closet, desk, chair, bed stand, light, pillow and blanket.
• Students are recommended to bring their own towel, pillow case and sheets.
• Weekly housekeeping services.
• Each building has a laundry room, kitchen and a lounge with TV, computers and printer.
• Outdoor swimming-pool, sports center, indoor ice-skating rink, Students' Center (cafeterias, bank, hair-dresser, post-office, market, bookstore etc.)and parking garage
• 24/7 Health center 
• Address: Koç Üniversitesi, Rumeli Feneri Yolu, 34450 Sarıyer/Istanbul

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West Campus Facilities

• Single and double rooms, with communal bathrooms
• Wireless Internet access, cable-TV and phone-services are available in each room.
• Each dorm room has a refrigerator, bed, closet, desk, chair, bed stand, light, pillow and blanket.
• Students are recommended to bring their own towel, pillow case and sheets.
• Each building has its own laundry facility
• Each building has a TV room on the ground floor, computers and printers on the 1st and 3rd floors
• There is no kitchen facilities on the West Campus—students are served three meals a day in the main cafeteria and also have access to a snack bar/fast-food stand and small market that are open 24/7, on their own expense.
• Indoor swimming-pool, sports center, play-stations, darts, dance hall, pool tables, hair-dresser, post-office, storage room, and parking garage
• 24/7 Health Center
• Weekly housekeeping services
• Regularly scheduled shuttles to and from main campus
  Shuttle schedules change every semester based on course schedules and other factors.  Please visit our website under “Campus Life” for the latest schedule.
• Address: Koç Üniversitesi, Batı Yurdu, Kampus Yolu No.1 - 34450 Sarıyer/Istanbul

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Dormitory Fees

2012 FALL-2013 SPRING RATES  

* Communal Bathrooms

** Refundable deposit 400 TL.

If you would like to pay your dorm-related fees prior to your arrival at Koç University, please wire funds to the following:

             Yapı Kredi Bankası
             Koç University Branch (Branch Code: 938)
             SWIFT Code: YAPITRIS 

             Beneficiary: VKV Koç Universitesi
             Address: Rumelifeneri Yolu, Sarıyer, İstanbul, Turkey 34450

• Instructions for wiring dorm payments:
  (1) Based on your relevant currency, select the appropriate account and IBAN numbers:
  If you are paying in Euros:
  EUR account number: 00 543 7105
  IBAN for EUR: TR 29 00 06 7010 0000000 543 7105
  If you are paying in US Dollars:
  USD account number: 00 540 749
  IBAN for USD: TR 50 00 06 7010 0000 0000 540 749
  If you are paying in Turkish Liras:
  TL account number: 88 601 026
  IBAN for TL: TR 02 00 06 7010 0000 0088 601 026

• (2) Please indicate your name on the transfer.
• (3) Please keep proof of the transaction, or "statement of wire" slip, with you at all times.
• (4) Please direct all wire-related questions to e-mail:  maliisler@ku.edu.tr 
• Payment with credit card:
  Student can use his/her credit card to pay for the dorm. Make sure the credit card limit covers the fee.

* Room allocation rules are not applicable for Graduate & MBA students.

** All dormitory residents are bound to ''KOC UNIVERSITY DORMITORY GUIDELINES & REGULATIONS''.

*** For all other dorm related inquiries please e-mail: yurt@ku.edu.tr

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