BURSA ULUDAG UNIVERSITY

KARACABEY VOCATIONAL SCHOOL (BUUKVS)

 General Information:

Our goal is to educate students as highly skilled, medium-level staff who specialize in specific areas needed by the national industries. Our city is located in the south of the Marmara region, where the agricultural and livestock production is significantly higher than in other parts of Turkey. Dairy cattle production is a significant income for the farmers in this region. The biggest milk processing companies, such as SUTAŞ, EKER and NESTLE, have milk processing plants in our city. Only SUTAŞ can process 900 million litres of milk annually in its four production facilities in Turkey. We have education and internship protocols with all these major milk processing companies.

Since there is a high demand in the area, it has been decided to establish a vocational school in Karacabey as a unit of Bursa Uludag University to educate highly skilled medium-level (EQF Level 5) technical staff who are needed for our region and country in the areas of agriculture and livestock production.

Our school was established in 1992 and started education in 1995-1996. BUUKVS is a vocational school that specialises in pre-bachelor (technical staff) degrees at the end of two years or four terms of education. Under the frame of Bursa Uludag University's educational principles and industrial needs in the area, we have a very close relationship with SUTAŞ dairy processing company.  Our students can do their practical courses at their TARFAS dairy farm, which has IQnet of EU certification.  In addition to this educational protocol, SUTAŞ supports successful students with scholarships.

As of 2021, students choosing BUUKVS have higher grades, and our Veterinary Technician and Food Processing programs hold number 1 status nationwide.

The BUUKVS building has been merged with the Sadık YILMAZ student dormitory, built by SUTAS in 2007 with 196 student capacity. By Bursa Uludag University’s Senate, an honorary doctor title has been given to Mr Sadık YILMAZ due to his valuable efforts in supporting education on May 24 2007.

Our school also have educational protocols with Inoksan (Commercial Kitchen Cookware equipment company), Papirus Patisserie Company and Matlı Feed Production Company.

Our students have opportunities to do their workplace training and internships at different farms, feed production, and dairy processing companies to acquire the skills needed by commercial companies.

In our school, there are 8 programs under six departments with 25 academic, 15 administrative and five assisted service staff, as a total of 45 full-time staff.  There is also 2 professors, 2 associate professors, 4 assistant professors, 9 PhD lecturers, 7 lecturers. Three food technology laboratories, 2 information technology laboratories, a library and a conference hall is located in BUUKVS. 

The departments and their programs of BUUKVS are as follows: 

Department of Computer Technologies
        Computer Programming Programme

Department of Crop and Animal Production
        Dairy and Fattening Husbandry Programme
        Organic Agriculture Programme
        
Department of Food Processing
        Food Technology Programme
        Milk and Dairy Products Technology Programme

Department of Accounting and Tax
        Accounting and Tax Applications Programme 

Department of Veterinary
        Laboratory and Veterinary Health Programme 

Department of Business Management and Organization
        Business Management Programme