Message from the Head of Department

Dear Students,

Today’s businesses are undergoing a major transformation from local to global; while looking for the most effective ways to use their financial and human resources by making more realistic plans, they also need to build business structures that can withstand global competition. Business science remains the greatest guide in meeting these needs.

In recent years, business science has gone through important stages in parallel with global developments and has taken its place at the centre of a very important profession called management. Our Department of Business Administration aims to train the entrepreneurial minds sought by the business world, the visionary bureaucrats the public sector can employ, and the qualified academic candidates expected by the academic world. It has enriched its compulsory and elective course groups with education programmes addressing all three sectors.

Candidates with leadership and entrepreneurial ability, an inclination towards academic thinking, and an interest in disciplines such as marketing, production management, human resources, finance and accounting, sociology and psychology are advised to choose the Department of Business Administration. In addition, since a businessperson by the nature of their role is in close contact with the other staff of their institution and with the public, they should be sensitive to human needs, patient, understanding, tolerant and have strong communication skills.

Our Department of Business Administration has an academic staff that aims, with a student-centred approach, to raise students with high academic achievement, ethical and aesthetic values, a commitment to lifelong learning, an entrepreneurial spirit and a sense of responsibility and compassion towards their environment. This experienced staff works with a mission devoted to following developments in their fields, expanding their knowledge and applying it, to raise students with entrepreneurial and leadership qualities. To this end, renowned managers and company owners from the business world are invited to the University so that students can benefit from practical experience.

Students in our department have the opportunity to study at foreign universities with which our University has agreements, within the scope of Erasmus-type study abroad programmes. An advisory system is also run in the department to ensure effective communication and the prompt resolution of student problems. Students who wish to improve their foreign language are offered the opportunity to benefit from the preparatory school and to earn a second diploma.

By maximising our students’ participation in various activities from their first year, we provide an environment built on open communication, respect for personal views and individual differences, classrooms where better teaching techniques are applied, and a working environment in which performance is evaluated.

Department curricula are updated in parallel with contemporary developments, and competencies are strengthened through courses such as office software and business communication skills, which are most needed in businesses. Our department supports our students in continuing their postgraduate education by carrying the knowledge and experience gained in undergraduate programmes into master’s and doctoral programmes. It also includes extracurricular and social activities to contribute to raising their level of knowledge.

Believing that our Department of Business Administration prepares its students to be ready for developments in their fields in the global business world, we will be glad to see new students among us.