Department of Public Finance
HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT


History of the Department
30 October 2024 Wednesday

Our department, which started accepting students for the first time in the 2011-2012 academic year, was established to meet the need for trained personnel in financial matters in both the public and private sectors. In line with its contemporary mission and vision, the Finance Department aims to train bureaucrats, academics, and entrepreneurs who will achieve significant successes in their fields. With its experienced and scientifically proven academic staff, the department is taking important steps toward becoming a successful department that produces respected finance professionals in accordance with universal university culture, academic discipline, and quality understanding.

The main objective of the Finance Department is to provide its students with the necessary scientific and professional skills to take on responsibilities as middle and senior-level managers and auditors in the public sector. In this context, our department consists of four main fields: Financial Law, Financial Economics, Finance Theory, and Budget and Financial Planning. To achieve its goals, our department implements a detailed program that allows for a comprehensive understanding of public economics, public finance, public budgeting, and tax law in all its dimensions. Courses in economics, law, business, mathematics, statistics, and computer usage are also included in the curriculum. The interdisciplinary nature of our undergraduate program is one of the key factors that gives our graduates an advantage in career exams.

Through the four-year education provided in the Finance Department, students are expected to gain skills in analyzing economic and financial events, proficiency in accounting practices and legislation, building legal knowledge relevant to business life, and developing analytical analysis and problem-solving abilities regarding financial policies. Graduates who successfully complete our program have opportunities to find jobs in both public and private institutions, such as the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Labor, public and private banks, regulatory authorities, the Treasury Undersecretariat, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Customs Undersecretariat, universities, Court of Accounts, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Justice, the Prime Ministry, private sector organizations, audit institutions, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, and the Social Security Institution. Additionally, although there is no mandatory internship requirement among our faculty's graduation criteria, students who wish to do so have the opportunity to intern at the institutions listed above.