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BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM

In order to be successful today's enterprises can not be content with doing only one thing well. They must be able to simultaneously do a wide variety of tasks properly. The job of the management is to guide the enterprise in these activities and help the company utilize its resources to achieve its goals. It is necessary to approach problems encountered within this process from multiple aspects and take into account all of the effects of any decisions while at the same time keeping track of changing conditions. In order to be successful at their jobs, managers have to possess a very broad range of knowledge from a wide spectrum of areas and additionally, they require specialized knowledge in a few of the functional areas of Business Administration. It is the responsibility of respectable Business Administration Programs to produce graduates that will be successful in this environment.

METU NCC Business Administration B.Sc. Program

The program prepares its students to careers in management by giving them a very wide ranging education. The curriculum has been designed to ensure that students are provided solid foundations in all of the functional areas of Business Administration, as well as, the basics of other economic and administrative sciences. Furthermore, a large number of electives allow students to deepen their knowledge in a number of areas that they choose. As a result, graduates of this program will be well equipped to tackle a wide range of issues they will encounter in their future as successful managers.

Career Opportunities

Graduates of this program will be excellent candidates to work as managers with a strong background business administration and solid foundations in all economic and administrative sciences. This will give them a broad vision and strengthen their ability to understand the rapidly changing world around them. They will be prime candidates for upwardly-mobile positions in companies.

Curriculum (METU NCC Business Administration Program)

FIRST YEAR
First Semester
MAT 101	Mathematics for Social Sciences	(4-0) 4
ENGL 101	Development of Reading and Writing Skills I	(4-0) 4
BUS 111	Fundamentals of Business	(3-0) 3
ECO 101	Microeconomics	(4-0) 4
PSIR 101	Intro. to Sociology and Politics	(3-0) 3
TUR 101 a	Turkish I	(2-0) NC
CNG 100	Introduction to Information Technologies and Applications	(2-0) NC
Second Semester
ENGL 102	Development of Reading and Writing Skills II	(4-0) 4
BUS 142	Financial Accounting	(3-0) 3
BUS 152	Statistics for Social Sciences	(3-0) 3
ECO 102	Macroeconomics	(4-0) 4
PSIR 106	Pre-Modern Civilizations	(3-0) 3
TUR 102 a	Turkish II	(2-0) NC
SECOND YEAR
Third Semester
BUS 221	Org. Beh. and Soc. Psychology	(3-0) 3
BUS 271	Principles of Marketing	(3-0) 3
BUS 281	Principles of Finance	(3-0) 3
PSIR 201	Principles of Law	(3-0) 3
	Elective
HST 201 b	Principles of Kemal Atatürk I	(2-0) NC
Fourth Semester
BUS 222	Organization Theory	(3-0) 3
BUS 232	Info. Sys. and Prog.	(3-0) 3
BUS 242	Managerial Accounting	(3-0) 3
ENGL 211	Academic Oral Presentation Skills	(3-0) 3
	Elective
HST 202 b	Principles of Kemal Atatürk II	(2-0) NC
THIRD YEAR
Fifth Semester
ENGL 311	Advanced Communication Skills	(3-0) 3
BUS 321	Human Resource Management	(3-0) 3
BUS 361	Operations Management	(3-0) 3
	Elective
	Elective
Sixth Semester
BUS 312	Business Law	(3-0) 3
BUS 352	Management Science	(3-0) 3
	Elective
	Elective
	Elective
FOURTH YEAR
Seventh Semester
BUS 431	Information Systems	(3-0) 3
	Elective
	Elective
	Elective
	Elective
Eighth Semester
BUS 400	Graduation Project	(0-6) 3
BUS 412	Strategic Processes and Management	(3-0) 3
	Elective
	Elective
	Elective

(a) Foreign students will take TUR 201 and TUR 202, which may be taken in the first year by the consent of the advisor.

(b) Foreign students will take HST 400 instead of HST 201 and HST 202

The program reserves the right to make changes in the curriculum to include courses and their content.

 

ELECTIVE COURSES:

The curriculum has 14 elective courses, seven of which should be taken from the BUS program.

The list below shows some of the Business courses that may be offered as electives.

• Managing Technology and Innovation
• Business Ethics
• Organization, Work and Society
• International Business
• Turkish Business Environment
• Strategic Games for Managers
• Cases in Quality Management
• Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
• Leadership Theory and Application
• Organizational Influence Processes
• Negotiation Process
• Auditing
• Accounting Theory
• Consumer Behavior
• Advertising
• Marketing Research
• International Marketing
• Professional Selling
• Marketing Strategy
• Financial Control Systems
• Investment Management
• International Finance
• Analysis of Financial Statements
• Financial Institutions and Markets
• Bank Management
• Financial Derivatives
• e- Technologies and Managerial Applications

The list below shows some of the non-Business courses that BUS students can take as electives:

• History of Political Thought
• Constitutional Law
• Introduction to International Politics
• Intermediate Microeconomics
• Intermediate Macroeconomics
• Introduction to Econometrics
• Turkish Economic History
• Economics of Growth
• Economic History
• History of Econ. Thought
• Turkish Politics and Political Structure
• Turkish Foreign Policy
• Theories of Democracy
• International Trade Theory and Policy
• Monetary Theory and Policy
• Principles of Econometrics

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