Program Information
Aim: Yeditepe University is part of a world-class city centrally located in a geo-politically strategic region with easy access to Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The Ph.D. Program in Political Science and International Relations aims to recruit students from the neighboring regions in addition to Turkish nationals, and educate them in the fields of domestic and international politics with skills and abilities to be employed by universities, and public or private sectors at home or abroad since 2004. Only one fifth of the applicants at the doctoral level have been accepted to the programs, as a measure to increase the quality of the graduate studies.
Targets: The curriculum not only embraces an interdisciplinary approach but also allows room for specialization through elective courses with a focus on Turkish foreign and domestic policies, security and intelligence, and Middle Eastern studies. The courses are designed as seminars in which students must actively participate through presentations, discussions, projects and so forth. Besides, the curriculum is being reshaped in accordance with the responses we hear from the advisory board of the department, which was established as part of Bologna process and includes some prominent members of public and private sector in Turkey. The board has already begun to play a role of mediator between the department and the general public.
