Department of Public Administration offers formal and secondary education programs in Turkish. Students completing four years of undergraduate program that involves 240 ECTS equivalent of course study as well as a 60 work days of summer internship with a minimum 2.00 GPA out of 4.00 are awarded the Bachelor”s Degree.
First Cycle
AU Department of Public Administration accepts high school graduates who are qualified to submit sufficient quantitative scores of YGS and LYS exam, both are administered by Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM). Also, either Vocational High School graduates or both the other universities Department of Public Administration and qualified AU departments’ students can transfer to the Department of Public Administration after the 3rd semester. All these transfers are coordinated by a guideline, and the students can only transfer in accordance with the announced instructions to define the quota and required qualifications.
Students enrolled in Atatürk University might be exempted from certain courses within the framework of certain regulations. A student can be exempted from a certain course provided related course content previously received from another institution complies with that of Ataturk University, which is subject to approval and verification by the Board of faculty/graduate school/school.
Students must be successfull and/or pass all courses on the programme that are explained education and exam regulation of Ataturk University.
The Department of Public Administration aims to educate administrators and managers equipped with contemporary knowledge and the ability to follow developments in his/her country and the world. Furthermore, making a contribution to the development of the city, region and the country by providing prospect managers having the ability to direct the enterprises working at local and regional level, to enter into new markets, to apply the modern management techniques to traditional organizational structures and to contribute to the institutionalization of these enterprises is also included among the aims of the Department.
Graduates can work in the public and private sectors. There is a very wide range of fields of study. Both public and private sector officials, technical staff, specialists, and administrators work as administrative assistant. Generally, areas in which district istihtam the interior ministry, the administrative judge, ministry of finance, both public and private banks, comptroller and so on.
The graduates holding Bachelor’s Degree are eligible to apply to Master’s Degree programmes at national level and /or international level both in the same and in related disciplines. Students who are high honor students are also eligible to apply to doctorate degree at Ataturk University.
One or two mid-term exams, quiz exams, home works and one final exam are required for every class offered at the department. 40% of the final exam and 60% of the other exam grades define the final grade of the class. Student has to meet the requirements defined by the guidelines to be eligible to take the final exam. All exams are graded out of 100 points, and relative grading system is used to determine the student’s success grade. For this purpose, course lecturer converts the mid-term, final exam and other grades to the letter grades by means of a statistical evaluation of these based on the rules defined by the guidelines. Students who can not meet the 2.00 GPA minimum for two consequent semesters are not allowed to enroll the following semester’s classes. Any student who gets AA, BA, BB, CB and CC grades from a course is considered to be successful. On the other hand, DC and DD grades are evaluated based on the student’s cumulative GPA. If student’s cumulative GPA is above the minimum GPA, then student is considered to be successful in all courses with DC and DD grades. FF grade is assigned to a student who is assumed to be unsuccessful in a course. A student with a FF grade in a particular course is supposed to re-register for that course first time it is offered with the same attendance and exam requirements. M and G grades are not accounted through the GPA calculation.
Departments of Public Administration education guideline requires the successfully completion of all the course work, applications, and similar studies as well as having a 2.00 minimum GPA score to get the degree. Education program consists of theoretic classes and/or practice, seminar, and other activities (research, homework, project and etc.). Total credit hours required for graduation is 143 credit hours in Department of Econometrics excluding the common obligatory classes.
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