Econometrist Bachelor's Degree
First Cycle
AU Department of Econometrics 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 Econometrics and qualified AU departments’ students can transfer to the Department of Econometrics 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.
AU Department of Econometrics accepts undergraduate students if their accreditations of grades are approved by the accreditation of Higher Education Council. Associate degree graduates are also accepted for undergraduate education if they are able to pass the necessary transition test. Adaptation of prior succeeded courses of vocational college is also provided by the Department. If the course contents demonstrate complience and approved by faculty/vocational college/higher education Board of Directors, students are able to exempt from the corresponding courses.
As addressed by Ataturk University Education Regulation, undergraduate students should succeed all provided courses of the Department to be eligible to graduate.
Department aims to train qualified economists, econometricians, statisticians and operation researchers who have ability of analyze and synthesis, are able to easily follow economic litterateur, do scientific research on his/her area or close areas.
Graduates of the Department can find a suitable job in various public and private institutions.
Undergradute students can apply for graduate programms when they carry out application requirements.
One or two mid-term exams, quiz exams, home works and one final exam are required for every class offered at the department. 60% of the final exam and 40% 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
Department’s of Econometrics 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 240 ECTS in Department of Econometrics excluding the common obligatory classes.
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