Yalova University, a young and dynamic university, was established in 2008. As a rapidly growing new university, Yalova University has attracted attention among the newly established universities with its studies, achievements, and differences, and has become competing with well-established universities in a short time. The university has strong academic and experienced administrative staff, strong national and international relations, and geographical advantage. The university is located close to the important centres of Turkey such as Istanbul and Bursa.

The core values of Yalova University are student orientation, participation, quality, transparency, honesty, originality, innovation, entrepreneurship, and scientific and ethical values. The university aims to increase the level of success by fulfilling all the requirements of universal education besides specializing in agricultural sciences and technologies.

Yalova University has 2 institutes, 5 faculties, 1 college, and 4 vocational schools. The university has 29 associate, 57 undergraduate, 43 graduate, and 11 doctoral programs. Approximately 15,000 students study at 5 campuses of Yalova University and 525 academic staff work. The University has an International Student Coordination Office that deals with all kinds of foreign students. Yalova University has opened 480 foreign quotas for this year.

The university library provides uninterrupted service and provides rich online resource access. The technical devices and materials of the university classrooms and laboratories are sufficient in quality and quantity. Since the University of Yalova is situated in an important industry zone, it has industry-university cooperation possibilities. The university has a distance education centre, hybrid engineering branches, education at global standards, and versatile sports facilities. 

Yalova University offers education in English in Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Economics, Business Administration, Polymer Engineering, and International Relations departments and in Arabic in Islamic Studies and Basic Islamic Sciences departments.

Yalova city, which has one of the most beautiful coasts of the Marmara Sea, is an important port city in terms of combining sea, thermal, and nature tourism. The university offers a peaceful university environment with its central campus surrounded by sea and forests. The city of Yalova is close to major cities such as Istanbul and Bursa and is on important transportation routes. Yalova, where health and sea tourism are common, offers a peaceful and safe city life and awaits foreign students from every country.