The program is designed to enable its students to develop a management approach with a national and international level of functionality and a deep-rooted scientific research culture by transferring the modern business applications required in the modern business world where the theoretical approaches form the basis of the challenging and competitive business applications. The program aims to equip students with qualifications required for top-level executive candidates for public and private sectors, entrepreneurs as their own managers and academic career orientations. It is among the basic priorities of the program that its students acquire the vision and ability to produce scientific knowledge that will contribute to the development of business science at national and international level by synthesizing this knowledge and research culture that they will acquire within the scope of the program. For this reason, our students are expected to internalize the creative thinking culture that makes it possible to produce the systematic work discipline, ethical approach and scientific knowledge required by the program and to adopt this culture as a philosophy of life in their careers as researchers or practitioners.
The program is composed of compulsory and elective courses that will allow the students to specialize within the framework of different career goals, based on the basic functions of business science. With the courses offered in different specialties, students are provided with the opportunity to study and research within interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary topics. The program is very popular among international PhD students from all over the world and this multicultural structure helps students to learn and understand different cultures.
The Department of Business Administration is in active cooperation with the leading universities in Europe, and the World, and each Ph.D. student can take courses or conduct their research from at least one, at most two academic semesters. Within the framework of the program, students are offered the opportunity to study for one semester at the leading universities of various countries of Europe by using the European Union – Erasmus Student Exchange Program and the opportunity to gain research experience in international academic institutions.
PhD in business program requires a thesis study. To graduate from the program, students must successfully complete 7 courses and the seminar lecture, proficiency exam, and a thesis study. Three of these 7 courses offered in the program, namely, ‘Scientific Thinking and Research Ethics’, ‘Qualitative Research Methods’, and ‘Quantitative Research Methods’ courses are compulsory. Students are to select the rest of 4 elective courses from the elective courses pool where maximum 2 courses may be selected from other disciplines. Following the completion of the courses, a semester for proficiency study is followed by 5 semesters of thesis study. For graduation, the completion of 240 ECTS is required. Thus, students who have achieved all their courses with a grade of minimum B- or S and minimum CGPA of 3.00 over 4.00, are qualified to obtain a Doctorate degree.