Cultural studies started with the establishment of the Birmingham Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies in 1964 as a critical and interdisciplinary project in England. Founders of this center include Richard Hoggart, Raymond Williams, Edward P. Thompson and Stuart Hall. Later on, cultural studies, that have sought to become a scientific discipline with the name British cultural studies, have concentrated their research on culture and cultural politics. Therefore, cultural phenomena, which has been the most basic field of anthropology and sociology, has become the basic interest of the cultural studies. The institutionalization of cultural studies in Turkey, unlike the West, coincides with the aftermath of 1999. The discipline finds a place in Western languages /philology in particular, and the English language and literature departments. Both institutionalization and literature of cultural studies point to Western languages/ philology departments. From this point of view, it can be said that philology is the main focus of cultural studies and the cultural studies progressed as the transfer of English-American literatures into Turkish. When we look at the institutionalization process of cultural studies in Turkish universities; first it started at a foundation university namely Sabancı University in 1999, at undergraduate and graduate level, then at Bilgi University, Boğaziçi University, and Middle East Technical University at the graduate level, and finally at the City University, at the graduate level. These programs provide degrees to undergraduate and graduate students. In this study, the process of institutionalization of cultural studies established in Turkish universities was limited to the five universities in which this field was first established.