Yaşar Bayboğan was born in Karaisalı, Adana in 1937.He was the founder of the first Foundation University in Anatolia, and the son of a farmer.

After graduating from Adana Commercial High School, he went to İstanbul University to study economics .He also did his Master's Degree at the same university. In this period, he also gave lectures at İstanbul University. During this period, he also became the president of Çukurova Community .At that time he solved the ongoing problem of providing dormitories with a zero-based budget by buying two dormitories; one in Ankara, and the other in İstanbul.

 On graduating from university, he became a bank examiner at Emlak Bank, and was the youngest manager in the Adana Central Drictory. That branch of the bank, of which he was the manager, was recognised as the most profitable branch. Besides, Bayboğan had an important role in setting up the Commercial Academy in Adana. He also desired to see Çukurova as a university city. After that he became the manager of the Aegean region. He had been in the finance sector for 17 years. Before retiring, he started working in the private sector and at that time he was the general director of the Paktaş factory, which was the biggest textile factory in the Middle East and the Balkans.

After completing his task in the private sector, Yaşar Bayboğan exported cotton and sesame from his own company. He had always believed and said "we shouldn't expect everything from the government". With this in mind, he founded Çağ College which consisted of a kindergarden, a Primary school, an Anatolian High School and a Science High School in 1986. Five years later, he established the Bayboğan Educational Foundation. In 1997 he established the first Foundation University of Anatolia. In the same year, he also founded the first Law Faculty of our region. By founding this, he proved that he had fulfilled his goals in education.