Frequently Asked Questions

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Economics is a social science that examines the production, consumption and trade activities of goods and services that will meet the needs of people in order to sustain their lives and investigates how unlimited human needs should be met in the most effective way with scarce resources. Therefore, it examines all activities of people from production to consumption from a behavioral social perspective. Usually, the relationship with money comes to mind first, but money is only a means of payment.  At the core of almost every activity of people and societies is the need to use a resource in an optimum (EFFECTIVE) way.

Economics is a natural part of every aspect of our lives. Studying economics helps us better understand the world we live in, the government policies and businesses of a wide range of countries, the use of land, labor and physical capital resources, and the importance of productivity. You can learn, understand and explain everything from how prices change in the markets for goods, services, employment and money to why income levels and living standards differ between countries. Economics has an impact on every aspect of life and on every group of people. For this reason, economists can conduct research on a wide range of social issues, from public economic policies to poverty and income distribution, environmental economics, etc. On the other hand, societies' social reforms need to be supported by economic reforms. Studying economics helps us to become more competent citizens who are better able to decide how and when to carry out these reforms.

Yeditepe University and Huron University at Western Ottawa (Canada) have a Joint Undergraduate Program Protocol (Double Degree) in Economics. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 paid students chose our program and filled the available quota. Students who choose this program will study the first 2 years at Yeditepe University and the 3rd and 4th years in Canada.

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Students who choose the Joint Undergraduate Program in Economics between Yeditepe University and Huron University at Western (Canada) should pay attention to the fact that the code of this program (Joint Undergraduate Program) is different from the code of Yeditepe University Department of Economics (English) program, and the code of the joint undergraduate program should be processed at the preference stage.

Yeditepe University Department of Economics aims to educate individuals with critical thinking and ethical values who can analyze and interpret the economic developments and problems in Turkey and the world and the social consequences of these developments from a broad perspective and can independently produce solutions from an analytical point of view by teaching students the logic and basic concepts of economics. We provide quality education to students who want to work in both private and public organizations or who want to pursue an academic career with our expert academic staff.

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Yeditepe Economics department aims to provide students with an analytical perspective as well as a full grasp of systematic and critical thinking through basic economics courses such as International Political Economy, Global Economics, Economic Growth, Development, Turkish Economy, Money and Capital Markets, Monetary Economics, Public Finance and History of Economic Thought. Our quantitative courses such as statistics, mathematics, econometrics and statistical package programs and data collection aim to strengthen the analytical infrastructure of this theoretical perspective.

On the other hand, our program is supported by a total of 13 elective courses, 6 of which are Free and 7 of which are Economics, in order to enable our students to specialize in other fields of Social Sciences or in sub-specialty areas of Economics and to develop themselves in their areas of interest.

Yeditepe University Economics Department has an academic staff of 5 full-time professors, 4 associate professors and 2 assistant professors, a total of 11 academicians and 2 research assistants who have studied at prestigious universities in Turkey and abroad and each of whom are experts in their fields. Economics education, as a basic science, is the intersection point and the basis of disciplines such as Political Science and International Relations, Finance, Public Administration, Business Administration, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology. With the individual characteristics they develop in our active learning processes, our students gain the ability to analyze current issues in economics and these intersecting fields from an academic, scientific and critical perspective and to develop solutions. In the Project Course in the last year of the program, our students have the opportunity to prepare a research project together with their advisor faculty members, bringing together the knowledge they have gained during their four years of education and training and completing this knowledge with a rigorous, original and concrete project. They gain the ability to express their work effectively orally, in writing and visually and defend their thesis in front of a jury of 3 faculty members at the end of the semester.

Description. Since economics can be associated with many departments, we offer Double Major or Minor opportunities with many departments of our university in order to provide students of the Department of Economics with knowledge and skills in other disciplines in addition to their specialization in economics and to ensure that they grow as fully equipped individuals and increase their employment opportunities. In this way, students can, if they wish, graduate with two diplomas by studying a second department of their choice, or they can obtain an additional certificate to their diploma by doing a Minor in the department they prefer. In addition, Yeditepe Economics Department does not limit its students to the existing Double Major Minor agreements. If our student wants to do a Double Major / Minor with a department other than the departments listed below, they can apply to the department coordinator and request a Double Major / Minor agreement between the two departments. However, it should be noted that it is not possible to do a DMP / Minor with exceptional Faculties / Departments such as Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, School of Nursing. In order to do a DMP in the Department of Economics or to do a DMP in another department while you are a student of the Department of Economics, please contact the department's DMP / Minor coordinator, Dr. Assist. You can contact with Hatice Kerra GELDİ.

Department Double Major and Minor Coordinator

Assist. Dr. Hatice Kerra Geldi
e-mail: hkerra@yeditepe.edu.tr
Inline: 1722
Office: FEAS- 514

Our department currently has DMP agreements with 17 different departments.

In the 2020-2021 academic year, we had 5 100% scholarship and 28 50% scholarship quotas. The scholarship opportunity continues regardless of academic achievement during the normal education period in the department (9 semesters in 4-year programs), including the Compulsory Foreign Language Preparatory period. In addition, Merit Scholarships are available for the first (75%), second (50%) and third (25%) place winners of each year. The Merit Scholarship ends at the end of the academic year. The scholarship is also available for Double Major (DMP) and Minor studies, provided that a certain grade point average is achieved, and one semester is added to the normal education period (9 semesters).

The Department of Economics is a department that offers students many different alternatives. If you wish, you can focus on purely quantitative modeling, statistics and econometrics, financial econometrics, or you can focus on purely verbal, social science-related fields (such as politics, public administration, sociology, psychology and history). In general, the department is based on combining quantitative knowledge with the behavior of individuals and societies. The fact that students are interested in both sides will enable them to enjoy their studies in the department. At this point, we recommend that students review the Department's Academic Program and the Free and Economics elective courses offered by the department.

Students who graduate from the undergraduate program of the Department of Economics find a wide range of job opportunities in the private or public sectors. Rather than providing education for a specific profession, economics education provides the basic knowledge and skills that will enable its graduates to pursue different professions.

In addition to firms in the manufacturing sector, graduates can work in the service sectors of banking and all financial market institutions and organizations (e.g. stock exchange and securities companies), insurance companies and foreign trade (import/export) companies as specialists, assistant specialists, inspectors, financial advisors, accountants, accountants, sales and marketing professionals and later in their careers as management trainees and managers. They can find job opportunities in treasury departments or branches in the headquarters of private and public sector banks. In addition, multinational companies often utilize the expertise of economists when implementing their economic activities.

Another opportunity is to work in international institutions and organizations (World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), United Nations (UN), Organization for Economic, Development and Cooperation (OECD). In addition to the professional business life in the private sector, academicianship is another option that our graduates can choose after completing their master's and doctoral studies. Our students can start working immediately after graduation, no certificate or exam is required. In addition, they can be employed in public institutions and organizations such as the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, the Ministries of Treasury and Finance, Economy (Trade) and Development, the Undersecretariat of Treasury, the Competition Authority, the Capital Markets Board and the Banking Supervision and Regulation Agency.

The most important qualifications for studying economics are an interest in social phenomena and the behavior of individuals and a love of analytical thinking. If students have a "why" question in their minds about the decisions made by individuals, companies and governments and their consequences, and if they want to feel the power of responding to this question with an analytical framework, then they will both enjoy studying Economics and be successful in their studies. Economics students are prepared for real life by devoting their learning time to both teamwork and independent study. They learn to take responsibility for their own development, which will be a great asset in their professional life.

We have designed our program to be flexible and open to innovations. By keeping our compulsory courses to a minimum, we have created 6 Free Elective and 7 departmental elective courses in the curriculum of our Department. In our university-wide Free Elective courses, our students can choose courses from all disciplines under the umbrella of management sciences (business administration, public administration, political science and international relations), as well as from other faculties of our university such as Fine Arts, Communication, Science and Literature, Commercial Sciences. In our Economics Department Elective courses, we try to keep our program up-to-date with courses on different topics of economics. For example, in the elective Cinema and Economics course, students associate the abstract economic theories and models they have seen in their compulsory courses with concrete real economic events such as the global crisis. After the economic issues are presented through the eyes of the directors and actors in the films, they are discussed and social solutions are produced by using academic books and articles on the subject and economic knowledge.

In addition to being informed about the theoretical subjects in their courses, students have the opportunity to meet businessmen, entrepreneurs or faculty members who are invited as guest speakers from Turkey and abroad and benefit from their experience, knowledge and expertise within the scope of the Traditional Economic Talks conferences we organize every semester.

In addition, we organize many social events every semester with both our active students and alumni.

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In the curriculum of the Department of Economics, the Internship course is in the 7th semester and our students start their careers by gaining sector experience through internships. Our students do their internships as long term in the summer following their 6th semester. After completing their internships, they fulfill their internship obligations by submitting their internship reports in the internship course they will take in the following Fall semester. In addition to their compulsory internships, students can also do voluntary internships in order to increase their sectoral experience. Our internship coordinator advises our students before, during and after the internship.

Department Internship Coordinator

Prof. Dr. Alper ALTINANAHTAR
e-mail:  aaltinanahtar@yeditepe.edu.tr
Inline: 1789
Office: FEAS 518

The Department of Economics hosts many foreign students every semester with both Erasmus and Exchange agreements and many of our students participate in exchange programs, especially in Europe. Our department is among the departments that send and accept the most exchange students in proportion to the number of students. In this way, our students have the opportunity to study in different countries and develop their vision by getting to know different cultures with foreign students in our department. Our Erasmus / Exchange Coordinator helps our students at every stage of the process.

Department Erasmus Coordinator

Assoc. Dr. Ayşe SEVENCAN
e-mail: ayse.sevencan@yeditepe.edu.tr
Inline: 3029
Office: FEAS - 506

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The Department of Economics is one of the most suitable departments for entrepreneurship at Yeditepe University. Because the Department of Economics provides the ability to follow and interpret the economic activities of states, companies, institutions or organizations. In addition, by teaching basic economics knowledge and analysis methods, the Department of Economics is able to develop the ability of our students who want to become entrepreneurs to follow the economic developments in Turkey and the world, and to develop the research, analysis and evaluation skills required in the process of entrepreneurial activities. This knowledge and skill will ensure efficient results from entrepreneurial activities.

Entrepreneurship Club

Yes, entrepreneurship is related and connected to school. Because entrepreneurship is an activity that can be learned, developed and gained by working. With the entrepreneurship courses given at our university, we try to provide our students with the knowledge and skills related to entrepreneurship.

The world's most comprehensive entrepreneurship project Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) - Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Project was initiated for the first time under the leadership of Yeditepe University - Department of Economics in 2006 and since that year the project has been carried out under the leadership of KOSGEB with the technical support of Yeditepe University.

For the first time with the contributions of Yeditepe University Department of Economics:

• Turkey's entrepreneurship profile was determined,
• Turkey's entrepreneurship profile was compared with other participating countries,
• The opportunity to make suggestions for increasing the entrepreneurship potential in Turkey was provided, and
• The experiences of other countries on entrepreneurship were utilized by participating in an international project.

"BBA 412 Entrepreneurship (KOSGEB)" course, which is on the elective course list of the Department of Economics

It is given as "Traditional Entrepreneurship Training" in parallel and in accordance with the subjects of KOSGEB's "Entrepreneurship Support Program". At the end of the course, students will be entitled to receive a certificate (entrepreneurship certificate) by taking KOSGEB's exam via e-government. Students with this certificate will be able to benefit from KOSGEB's Traditional Entrepreneurship grant support if they establish their business.

Yes, Economics questions contribute to 116 out of 120 different score types in KPSS. In this respect, being an Economics graduate gives Economics graduates a significant advantage compared to other social science fields.

No, on the contrary, studying Economics as an undergraduate gives graduates an advantage in all fields of Social Sciences, from Sociology to Finance, Anthropology to Journalism, Political Science to Business Administration. Economics is the foundation of Social Sciences. Just as mathematics is the foundation of the physical sciences, Economics is the foundation of the social sciences.

The importance and demand for multidisciplinary education is increasing all over the world. Therefore, in Yeditepe Economics Department, we encourage our students to become "visionary, multidisciplinary, innovative" individuals, which is a necessity of the age, either by doing a double major or minor during their undergraduate education or by doing their master's degrees in other fields.