Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University School of Physical Education and Sports (BESYO) was established in the 1993-1994 academic year, affiliated to the Faculty of Education. In 1995, it became a School and started to admit students to the Department of Physical Education Teaching since the 1993 - 1994 academic year, to the Department of Coaching Education since the 2000 - 2001 academic year and to the Department of Sports Management since the 2003 - 2004 academic year. With the Presidential Decree dated 17.04.2019 and numbered 968 published in the Official Gazette dated 18.04.2019 and numbered 30749, the School of Physical Education and Sports was closed and the Faculty of Sports Sciences was established.
The general purpose of the Faculty of Sports Sciences is to train Physical Education teachers for primary and secondary education institutions in line with the general purpose of Turkish National Education, to train coaches and managers in various branches for the central and provincial organizations of the Ministry of Youth and Sports and its affiliated organizations and sports clubs, and also to train leaders who can work in various fields (tourism, industry, municipalities, etc.) in the private sector. In addition, the foundations of future academicians who can work at the university level are laid here.
