Hasan Kalyoncu University (HKU) founded in 2008 as a foundation university in Gaziantep Province, Turkey

Hasan Kalyoncu University (HKU) founded in 2008 as a foundation university in Gaziantep Province, Turkey. At the foundation, it was named Gazikent University. The university began to register students in 2009-2010. The name of university was changed as “ Hasan Kalyoncu University” on July 1, 2012. Hasan Kalyoncu University was established as the first foundation university in the Southeastern Anatolia Region in order to become a university focused on education, research and innovation. The university, which hosts many innovations in the region, aims to educate students in the context of science, art and social activities. The university provides different opportunities for students with well-equipped buildings, laboratories, a variety of lunching and dining facilities, sports facilities, and modern dormitories. Also, it serves to the community with research centers such as Special Education Research, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Research, Built Environment Research, Environmental Research, Gifted and Talented Researcher, Middle East Research, Women and Family Practice and Research, Migration, Population, Education and Employment Issues Research Center. Hasan Kalyoncu University has an area of 81.000 m2 in the 500.000 m2 campus area. The language of instruction is Turkish and English. The university, which has 8500 students, has 6500 undergraduate and 1700 graduate students. The university has 214 foreign students and 9 foreign lecturers. Hasan Kalyoncu University is continuing its education with 7 Faculties, 25 Departments. As of 2018, Hasan Kalyoncu University has 25 master’s degree and 12 doctoral programs. HKU has made significant works at (Smart Reference Building and Innovation Center) ARBIM, which integrates intelligent systems, optimizes operating costs with energy efficiency, and can be monitored and managed remotely using information in the way of Industry 4.0, the new industrial revolution in the world. Some of these works are smart building, Research and Development works on the internet of objects, increased and virtual reality, incremental manufacturing technology, robotics, system integration, large data, simulation, cloud technology and cyber security. Working as a central interface that bridges the university and industry, it develops projects for bi-directional information and technology transfer between the sector and the academy. HKU has an incubation center at the Silicon Valley, USA for R&D and innovation activities of the students. HKU gives importance to sports activities so that we have a fitness center on the campus, 1 basketball,1 tennis, 1 football field. Additionally, HKU built the very first and only golf court in the region. HKU, aiming to bring social, cultural, artistic and scientific values to its students, holds more than two hundred events every year. According to the Turkey Students Satisfaction Survey of "The Satisfaction of Campus Life" among 164 universities, HKU took place at the 14th row. Except for the Erasmus agreements, there are many other international partners of HKU. Some of them are Canada, Toronto George Brown College, University of Ottawa, University of Malaysia Pahang, Nevada University, California State University East Bay, Purdue University, University of Science and Technology of China, Myongji University, South Korea and SEOULTECH University. Counseling and Guidance is a program of the department in Faculty of Education. Hasan Kalyoncu University. This program aims to help students gain the advanced knowledge and skills acquired in the field with a critical approach, determine the learning needs and direct the learning and develop a positive attitude towards lifelong learning. Students take compulsory and selective courses related with their profession, general knowledge and other related areas in the undergraduate program. These courses are conducted in both theoretical and applied fashions. Students who are graduated from Counseling and Guidance Program are employed