Business Administration Department

Our success is backed by our academic staff, which includes 8 full-time Professors, 2 Associate Professors, 2 Assistant Professors, 3 Research Assistants, and 1 Project Assistant, all of whom have received their education at well-known universities in Turkey and around the world, and who possess private sector experience.

In our Business Administration Department, we offer education at the undergraduate, dual degree (UNCW), thesis and non-thesis Master's levels in Business Administration, thesis Master's in Accounting and Finance, and Doctorate programs. Approximately 1000 students are currently enrolled in our department. We support our undergraduate education with Erasmus, Minor and Certificate Programs, and alongside long-term internships, we have voluntary internship programs, specialized courses, and entrepreneurship training supported by simulations, all aimed at increasing our students' entrepreneurial abilities and practical experience.

In the Department of Business Administration, which offers education at undergraduate, Dual Degree (UNCW), Master of Business Administration (Thesis/Non-Thesis), Master of Accounting and Finance (Thesis), Executive MBA (Thesis/Non-Thesis), and Doctoral levels, approximately 1,000 students are currently enrolled.

Our undergraduate program, supported by Erasmus, Double Major, and Minor programs, includes initiatives aimed at enhancing students' entrepreneurial skills and work experience. These initiatives include long-term internships, voluntary internship opportunities, branded courses, and entrepreneurship training supported by simulations.

For detailed information about the Yeditepe Business Administration program and course content, you can refer to our Bologna Package.

Vision

To be an institutional structure whose education is based on contemporary science, which takes into consideration the needs of society and transforms research into production, which is based on national awareness in the development of student talents, and whose programs and trainers comply with national and international quality systems.

Mission

To raise researcher, creative, original, self-confident and entrepreneurial students that the society needs through international quality education in all science fields, to create a research and education area together with international students and faculty members, and to create an environment that provides lifelong education for the society.

Basic Values

Contemporary science and education, carried out with the belief of serving society based on Atatürk's principles and the Republican Renaissance, are our core values.

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What is Business Administration?

The Department of Business Administration, which admits students based on their equal-weighted scores, is one of the most popular departments within the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. It offers its graduates extensive job opportunities in various fields. Students are prepared for the business world, enabling them to work for multinational corporations, while also providing a strong foundation for those who wish to start their own businesses through entrepreneurship training.

The Business Administration Department is a program where practical and theoretical knowledge required to understand a company's general working principles, establish and manage small and medium-sized enterprises, enhance these businesses, and manage large-scale enterprises is acquired. The department facilitates an easy transition for its graduates into the business world by providing the essential knowledge they need throughout their education. In this context, students not only take business department courses but also need to take courses from other departments, such as economics, law, and information systems, to have a broad vision. Over the course of their 4-year undergraduate education, students learn to both master and keep up with technology, aiming to provide a different perspective to the business world by better understanding and implementing new generation practices.

Studying Business Administration at Yeditepe University

By closely following the innovations in the science and business world, Yeditepe Department of Business Administration aims to raise its students as graduates who are ready for the conditions and needs of the time they graduate.

The opportunities we offer for this purpose:

• We ensure that they receive a diploma through an internationally recognized academic teaching framework.
• Our students can receive one-on-one support from their academic advisors on academic issues throughout the entire education period.

•  Our students can choose from Department Elective and Free Elective courses, which are constantly updated in line with the developments and expectations in the business world, in line with their interests.
• Our business students are offered the opportunity to do a Double Major and a Minor through various programs.
• Our students have the opportunity to participate in exchange programs at 34 universities in Europe with the Erasmus Programme. In addition, they have the opportunity to interact both academically and socially with students who come to our department with the same program.
• Within the scope of the 40 working days Compulsory Internship, our students are provided with the opportunity to gain experience integrated into the course program. Additionally, our students have the opportunity to do a Volunteer Internship if they wish.
• With our social responsibility course, which has existed since the establishment of our department, our young people are given the experience of starting and completing a social responsibility project. In this way, it is aimed for them to continue this habit in the businesses they manage in the future, to develop social responsibility projects and benefit the society.
• Within the scope of our cooperation with GYİAD Academy, many business people participate in our entrepreneurship courses as speakers, sharing their experiences and offering mentoring opportunities to our students.
• With the international simulations used in senior courses, our students gain experience in managing a real business in an environment of competition and changing market conditions.
• Thanks to branded courses held in cooperation with well-known institutions and organizations in the sector, our students are offered the opportunity to obtain certificates in different fields in addition to their diplomas.
•  Within the scope of the Quality Management Certificate Program carried out in cooperation with Yeditepe University and KalDer, certificates are given to our students who complete 3 elective courses on quality.
• In the Entrepreneurship (KOSGEB) course, "Traditional Entrepreneurship Training" is provided in accordance with and parallel to the subjects of "Entrepreneurship Support Program" with KOSGEB. Students who complete their courses have the right to receive a certificate by taking the KOSGEB exam via e-government. These certificate holders will be able to benefit from KOSGEB's Traditional Entrepreneurship grant support for two years if they establish their businesses.
• Our TİDE (Turkish Internal Audit Institute) Seminars course is carried out together with the leading names of the internal audit world and our students who successfully complete the course are given a certificate of participation by TİDE.
• Within the scope of the activities of Yeditepe University Management Application and Research Center (YUVAM), which carries out interdisciplinary applied studies in management-related fields in the public and private sectors and aims to improve relations between the university and the business world, our students have the opportunity to closely follow the current approaches in the business world.

What Does a Business Administration Graduate Do? 

Graduates of the Department of Business Administration have the opportunity to find employment in many public and private sector enterprises. Within the framework of the wide range of job opportunities, which is one of the biggest advantages of the department, students can establish their own workplaces and companies, as well as take on middle and senior level positions in the private sector or public institutions.

Among our graduates, there are many entrepreneurs who have established and developed their own businesses and are among the leading companies in Turkey today. While we have many graduates who work as senior managers in international and national companies in the fields of human resources and marketing, we also have many graduates who have improved themselves in accounting and finance and have become senior managers in banks, auditing and consultancy firms.

Double Major and Minor Opportunities

Department of Business Administration students can also benefit from double major and minor programs in addition to their undergraduate education. The Department of Business Administration is a stepping stone for students who have an entrepreneurial spirit and want to do their own business, and for those who want to become managers in professional business life. Regardless of the student's discipline, he or she can gain the opportunity to find employment in a wider range of areas after graduation, thanks to gaining competence in the management-organization, marketing-production management and accounting-finance sub-fields of the business.

What are Double Major and Minor programs?

Double major is a program that allows students who meet the success requirement and other conditions to take courses from two diploma programs of the same higher education institution simultaneously and receive two separate diplomas. Students can graduate by completing their course loads in both departments.

A minor is a program that provides a document (minor certificate) that does not replace a diploma by taking a limited number of courses in a specific field within the scope of another diploma program within the same higher education institution, provided that the student enrolled in a diploma program meets the specified conditions.

When can application be made for Double Major and Minor programs?

For double major programs, students can complete their studies in the third semester at the earliest and in the fifth semester at the latest; For minor programs, students can apply at the beginning of their third semester at the earliest and at the beginning of their sixth semester at the latest.

Departments that have double major aggrements with  Business Administration Department :

• Advertising Design and Communication
• Tourism Management
• Agricultural Trade and Management
• International Finance
• Logistics Management
• Public Relations and Publicity
• Psychology
• Information Systems and Technologies
• Management Information Systems
• Public Administration
• Arts and Culture Management
• Interior Architecture

• Economics
• Political Science and International Relations (EN)
• Pharmacy
• Gastronomy and Culinary Arts
• Software Development
• Industrial Engineering
• E-Commerce Management
• Law
• Mathematics Education
• Radio Television and Cinema
• International Trade and Business

Business Administration has minor degree agreements almost with all departments at the university.

What are the basic requirements for doing a Double Major and Minor?

• Must have successfully completed all the courses taken in the major program in which he/she is registered by the semester he/she applies. Courses completed before starting a double major cannot be adjusted.
• At the time of application for a double major program, the GPA in the major program must be at least 2.75 and the student must be in the top 20% of the relevant class of the major program in terms of success ranking. In order to study with a double major scholarship, a GPA of 3.25 out of 4 is required.
• To apply to minor programs, the overall GPA must be at least 2.5 out of 4. Students with a GPA of 3.00 and above can enroll in minor programs with a full scholarship.
• It is not possible to enroll in more than one second major program at the same time. However, it is possible to enroll in a minor program with a second major diploma at the same time.

What are the attendance requirements for Double Major and Minor programs?

• During the double major education, the student's second major GPA may decrease to 2.50 only once. A student whose GPA falls below 2.50 for the second time will be deregistered from the second major diploma program.
• In order for the student to continue in the minor program, the GPA in the major program must be at least 2.30. A student who cannot meet this requirement will be deregistered from the minor program.
• A student who does not take courses in a double major and minor program for two consecutive semesters will be deregistered from the second major and/or minor program.

What are the graduation requirements from the programs?

• In order to graduate from the second major program, the second major GPA must be at least 2.70 and the graduation requirements of the programs must be met. Adaptation and graduation procedures will be based on the protocol valid on the date of starting the double major.
• In order to receive a minor certificate, the major GPA must be at least 2.30.
• A student who continues a double major or minor program is given a second major diploma or minor certificate if he/she graduates from the first major program he/she continues.

Which document will the student who is eligible for graduation be entitled to receive?

A second major undergraduate diploma is given to the student who has the right to graduate from the major undergraduate program in which he/she is registered and who completes the double major program, and a minor certificate is given to the student who completes the minor program.