The Istanbul University School of Business , which is one of Europe’s leading and contemporary symbols of business administration training;

set up the Institute of Business Economics, a major part of its own, to be the first postgraduate business school in Turkey and Europe.
• is the first Business School in Turkey.
• founded the first Transportation and Logistics school in Turkey.
• applied the ‘Case Method’ for the first time in business administration training at its Institute.
• published the first scientific journal  (www.ifdergisi.org) in the field of business administration in Turkey.
• is the owner of the above mentioned scientific journal that used the ‘TAG’ technology for the first time in the world.
• is the first institution to suggest and spread the concept of marketing in Turkish.
• published another scientific journal called ‘The World of Marketing’ to be first in this field.
• first held the traditional national marketing congresses in 1976.
• established the first Institute of State Business school in Turkey.
• founded the first Institute of  Marketing in Turkey.
• founded the first Institute of Accounting.
• started up the first postgraduate education and established the first Business School in Azerbaijan.
• introduced the idea of holding symposiums in the education of accounting the first of which to be held in 1979.
• signed the first scientific agreement between Turkey and Austria.
• owns the Business Administration Club established by voluntary students to be the first of its type to have an ISO certificate.
• developed and applied the first  ”Strategic Marketing Decisions Game”.
• is the representative of CRANET, an important organization in the field of HR Management.
• is the first business school  to own a psycho-technical laboratory.
• started up the education in health care management to be the first in Turkey .
• started up the education in construction management to be the first in Turkey.
• started up certificate programs in the field of business administration to be the first in Turkey.
• organized the first Production Research Symposiums in Turkey.
• produced the first publications to raise and spread environmental as well as social awareness in the field of business administration in Turkey.
• established the first departments in the field of business administration.
• published the first books in business administration categories.
• pioneered the implementation of uniformity in the accounting system in Turkey.
• set up non-governmental  organizations, unions in Turkey.
• first suggested the implementation of psycho-technical theories in traffic regulations in Turkey.