Academic Unit: Department of Political Science and International Relations

Program Objectives: In accordance with the integrated nature of human and social sciences, the program provides its students with the proper formation to conduct original, critical, and comparative researches on social and political theories and issues to train qualified researches and scholars. For this aim, the program offers a wide-ranging curriculum, including courses on Social and Political Theory, Turkish Politics, Global Politics, Comparative Politics, and Area Studies. The courses are conducted in the form of seminars, focused on examining current scholarly discussions

The program encourages PhD students to determine their own research topics, based on their own areas of interest and knowledge. By allowing a wide sphere of freedom with regards to academic supervision, courses, research facilities and thesis research, the program allows them to develop their own academic identities. Students who complete the program can work as researchers, experts and consultants at national and global scale private and public institutions.

Medium of Instruction: Turkish

International Student Quotas: International student quotas are announced on the Graduate School of Social Sciences web site (http://www.sbe.yildiz.edu.tr/en) before the applications are open, each fall and spring semesters.

Admissions Calendar: Admissions calendar is announced on the Graduate School of Social Sciences web site (http://www.sbe.yildiz.edu.tr/en) before the applications are open, each fall and spring semesters.

Application Link: https://lisansustu.yildiz.edu.tr/sbe/en/ (Applicants are advised to check the academic calendar first and send their applications only during the application period.)

Admission Requirements: Admissions requirements announced on the Graduate School of Social Sciences web site (http://www.sbe.yildiz.edu.tr/en) before the applications are open, each fall and spring semesters.

Who can apply?

Compulsory Courses:

Elective Courses:

Academic Staff:

• Prof. Dr. Esra DANACIOĞLU
• Prof. Dr. Elçin MACAR
• Prof. Dr. Cengiz ÇAĞLA
• Prof. Dr. Mehmet HACISALİHOĞLU
• Prof. Dr. Ester RUBEN
• Prof. Dr. Gülnur AYBET
• Prof. Dr. Mehmet Akif OKUR
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Çiğdem NAS
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fuat AKSU
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aslı DALDAL
• Asst. Prof. Dr. Laçin İdil ÖZTIĞ
• Asst. Prof. Dr. Fulya MEMİŞOĞLU
• Res. Asst. Dr. Ahmet CONKER
• Lect. Dr. Türkan Ayda GÜRKAN
• Res. Asst. Yetkin BAŞKAVAK
• Res. Asst. Elif BALİ
• Res. Asst. Elisabeth Elif PEKER
• Res. Asst. Kahraman SÜVARİ
• Res. Asst. Abdurrahman Gümüş

Graduation Requirements:

In order to graduate from this program;

• Students who were admitted to the PhD program with an MA degree are required;
  • to take at least 7 courses (21 local credits/ 240 ECTS), two of which are required by the department,
  • to take Seminar and Research Methods and Scientific Ethics courses,
  • to pass all courses with at least BB grade and have at least 3.0/4.0 GPA,
  • to pass the PhD Qualifying Exam, to submit a thesis proposal and 3 thesis follow-up reports,
  • to comply with the publication requirement,
  • to pass the PhD thesis defense successfully,

• Students who were admitted to the PhD program with a BA degree are required;
  • to take at least 14 courses (42 local credits/ 300 ECTS), two of which are required by the department,
  • to take Seminar and Research Methods and Scientific Ethics courses,
  • to pass all courses with at least BB grade and have at least 3.0/4.0 GPA,
  • to pass the PhD Qualifying Exam, to submit a thesis proposal and 3 thesis follow-up reports,
  • to comply with the publication requirement,
  • to pass the PhD thesis defense successfully.

PhD Publication Requirement: PhD students are required to make both of the following publications about their thesis in cooperation with their thesis supervisors:

a) An oral presentation at a national/ international refereed academic congress

b) At least one article published or accepted for publication at a national/ international refereed academic journal

Location: Davutpaşa Campus, Esenler, Istanbul, Turkey

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