Founded as Sakarya Engineering and Architecture in 1970, it was renamed to Sakarya State Engineering and Architecture Academy in 1971. It started Master of Science and Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) programs in 1980. The programs were executed by İTÜ (İstanbul Technical University) Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences. It was bounded to İstanbul Technical University as Sakarya Engineering Faculty in 1982. Vocational Schools of Sakarya and Düzce were bounded to her at same year. Finally It left from ITÜ and became Engineering Faculty of Sakarya University in 1992. Düzce Vocational School left from Sakarya Engineering Faculty and bounded to Abant Izzet Baysal University at the same year. Finally, Sakarya University was established according to the Law No. 3837 dated 3 July 1992.