History

The Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences was founded in 1992 under the Selçuk University, and the Business Administration department started education with 52 students in 1993-1994 academic year. With the establishment of Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University in 2007, it continues its academic activities within this university.

The Department of Business Administration consists of six major branches: Management and Organization, Accounting and Finance, Production Management and Marketing, Quantitative Methods, Cooperatives, and Commercial Law.

The Department of Business Administration aims to provide business professionals with professional ethics, cultural values, social justice and social responsibility awareness through up-to-date theoretical and practical knowledge, to contribute to their foreign language development and to prepare them for national/international business life.

Qualification Awarded

This department is subject to 240 ECTS credits first stage degree system in Business Science in higher education. When the program is completed successfully and the program qualifications are provided, Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration is obtained.

Admission Requirements

Students wishing to enroll in the department must complete the procedures and pass the exams determined by OSYM, in accordance with the university's academic and legal regulations. Students who have already begun their studies in an equivalent program, either domestically or abroad, may apply for transfer. Admission is reviewed and individually evaluated before the semester begins, taking into account each student's requirements and the degree they have applied for.

Transition to the Upper Level

Graduated students can continue their graduate education by applying to the postgraduate education entrance exam according to Academic Staff and Graduate Education Entrance Exam (ALES), Foreign Language score and graduation average.

Graduation Conditions

To take all the courses in the curriculum determined by the university senate of the undergraduate business administration program and to be successful. In this program, the student must provide a minimum of 240 ECTS credits and of at least a 2.00 GPA.

Students must successfully complete all courses in the undergraduate Business Administration program curriculum determined by the university senate. Students must provide a minimum of 240 ECTS credits and maintain a minimum  2.00 GPA.

Employment Opportunities

The department aims to contribute to the future of the country by providing a high-quality education to its students and by training managers/human resources with the necessary competencies - such as ability to adapt to their environment, analyze the problems using contemporary management approaches, provide rational and scientific solutions to these problems, also equipped with information that can establish its own businesses, make scientific decisions and open to contemporary ideas and developments - that can work in the public and private sectors.

 In the Business Administration, students acquire comprehensive theoretical and practical knowledge in the fields of management-organization, production management and marketing, accounting-finance, numerical methods and law. In addition, our students are given the opportunity to study for at least one semester in different countries within the framework of ERASMUS, FARABİ and MEVLANA exchange programs with different universities of the world.

Graduates of Business Administration have a wide variety of job opportunities in the public and private sector.  Our department graduates can work as public inspectors, accountants, controllers, independent accountants and financial advisors, academicians, bankers, assistant accountants, revenue experts, administrative judges and district governors. In addition to these opportunities, they can work as managers and professionals in various departments of businesses or they can establish their own businesses.

Assessment and Evaluation

Exams are evaluated on a grade of 100. The passing grade is calculated by applying the relative system to the students who take the related course by considering 40% of the midterm exams and 60% of the final exams.