Middle East Technical University is founded under the name of “Orta Doğu Yüksek Teknoloji Enstitüsü” (Middle East High Technology Institute) on November 15, 1956 to contribute to the development of Turkey and Middle East countries and especially to train people so as to create a skilled workforce in the fields of natural and social sciences. “Arrangements and Procedures as for the Foundation of METU, Law No 6887” was enacted on January 29, 1957. Finally, “Foundation Act No 7307”, which sets forth the particular standing of METU and describes the conditions rendering METU as a juridical entity, was enacted on May 27, 1959.
METU, as a pioneer of high quality university education in Turkey, introduced new methods and innovations in research to the Turkish higher education system. As a distinguished research university, METU has been committed to excellence in science and top-quality higher education since its foundation. Today, the University is proud to employ about 791 faculty (professors, associate professors etc.), 225 academic instructors and 1.273 research assistants. It is a great pleasure to offer education to over 28.000 students. The total number of the alumni now is above 120.000.
Academic: GPA of 3 or above on their studies to date
English Language:
– IELTS: 6,5
– TOEFL iBT: 79
– Duolingo English Test: 92
25 September 2023 – 19 January 2024
Applicants
Applicants : 551 students
GPA : 3.00-4.00
TOEFL iBT Score : 94
IELTS Score : 6-7.5
Duolingo English Test Score : 0-140
Awardees
Awardees : 10 students
GPA : 3.44-3.93
TOEFL iBT Score : –
IELTS Score : 7
Duolingo English Test Score : 135-140
Available Courses
Economic analysis for engineering and managerial decision making. Techniques for evaluating the worth of prospective projects, investment oppurtunities and design choices. Interest and time value of money, methods for evaluation of alternatives: present worth, annual equivalent worth, rate of return, benefit cost ratio method, and payback method. Replacement analysis, inflation and cost estimation. After tax economic analysis, and methods of financing. Sensitivity and risk analysis.
Inquiry and research. Methods of science. Fundamental systems concepts and notions. Systems thinking as a mode of inquiry; historical and methodological account. Contrasting and clarifying the systems position vis-à-vis science. The relation between systems thinking and operational research. Principal stains of systems thinking and the systems approaches
Course Content
This course aims to provide better understanding of purposes and processes of communication in business. Cases and projects improving students` skills in a collaborative communication are provided. With the help of exercises, including videotaping, students have opportunities to improve and evaluate their oral communication skills.
Course Objectives
This course will help you develop communication skills that will assist you throughout your studies and as you build a career. In this course you will develop an understanding of today’s dynamic business environment and the importance developing the ability to communicate ideas in a variety of mediums. Of special focus are the completion of memos, reports, online and oral presentations.
Course Content
This course aims to provide better understanding of purposes and processes of communication in business. Cases and projects improving students` skills in a collaborative communication are provided. With the help of exercises, including videotaping, students have opportunities to improve and evaluate their oral communication skills.
Course Objectives
At the end of the course, the students will have developed a critical understanding of the implications of different national cultures for business and management practice in domestic and international markets and have improved their teamwork and presentations skills through interactive learning.
Course Content
This course aims to broaden the approach to Organizational Behavior that has been primarily taught with an U.S. based understanding. Variations across cultures and their impact on organizations are discussed.
Course Objectives
This course has three goals:
• To pursuit a critical study of scholarly and literary works documenting and analyzing environmental, economic, political, social, and cultural transformations in the world
• To discuss how different approaches are put to work to study the role of nature and environment in statemaking, economic, political, social, and cultural transformations.
• To examine primary, secondary, and tertiary historical sources to question various methodologies and theoretical approaches of environmental and economic history, political economy and ecology, historical geography, environmental archaeology and anthropology
Course Content
• The study of human interactions with the wider natural world in a comparative historical perspective. Historical patterns in human societies caused by environmental changes; the effects of historical geography and anthropology on economic and political institutions; and the consequences of historical processes of various property regimes on economic, social, and environmental change.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
• learn reading environmental texts critically and to make connections between key concepts, main themes, approaches, and methods of environmental history
• develop research skills and evaluate critically a range of primary, secondary and tertiary sources through individual and group work
• understand how the world is environmentally intertwined
Course Content
This course provides the introductory conceptual framework for the study of politics. Definition of the basic concepts of authority, power, sovereignty, legitimacy, and ideology will be followed by the examination of major political ideologies; classical liberalism, conservatism, Marxism and fascism. This course also studies political regimes and systems, pressure groups, political parties, elections and voting behavior.
The course introduces students to the role of Europe within the internationnal context. The course identifies and analyses the key areas in which Europe is becoming an increasingly important actor, and also assesses some of the key relationships the European Union enjoys with other states. With the increasing complexity of issues arising in the international domain, a re-thinking of Europe s role in a globalized world is called for.
The course aims to provide an understanding on the relations between society, culture(s), and markets. This course complements the management curriculum by providing a link between macro and micro approaches to marketing. In other words, rather than focusing on firm or consumer level understanding, course delineates the societal role of marketing and consumption practices. On the one hand, marketing’s role as a cultural practice and social institution in our everyday social life is introduced to students. On the other, a critical look to the role of marketing in contemporary society is presented. To accomplish this goal, the course will introduce the concept of culture, development of modern culture, markets, and consumer culture, some of the key institutions of culture, and a sociocultural critique of marketing and consumption. The course aims to train students as prospective marketers, who are reflexive towards marketing and consumption.
Course Objectives
This course will analyze the main parameters of the environment within which businesses take place in Turkey. The main purposes of the course are (1) to understand the historical background and the current situation of Turkish economy and related to that how economic environment/policies affect business environment and force firms to create sustainable competitive advantage, (2) to review the features and recent problems of the main industries of Turkey: manufacturing, agriculture, and services, and (3) to learn about different sectors in terms of their historical development and the importance of the sector in the Turkish business environment, number of firms, market shares, concentration ratios, characteristics of products, characteristics of consumers, entry/exit barriers, resources, capabilities of firms, Porter’s six forces analysis, SWOT analysis, government policies (e.g., antitrust laws, tariffs, price regulations), and international competition.
Course Content
This course analyzes the main parameters of the environment within which business takes place in Turkey. To this end, it aims at understanding the historical background as well as the current context Turkish firms have been operating in as well as assessing the environment-related factors that cause firms to create, sustain, or lose competitive advantage.
Course Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the students will be able to
• Understand the general business environment by looking at economic, social, and cultural environment of Turkey through reading and discussing several reports, web sites, and books.
• Understand Turkish public and private sectors: mainly agricultural, service, and manufacturing.
• Analyze a specific sector in terms of competition, structure, and various characteristics.
• Apply the knowledge about the structures of the different Turkish Industries to the managerial problems they may face in their own sector that they will be working at.
This course aims at a comprehensive study of contemporary Eurasia with a special emphasis on historical and world context. Focusing upon the great transformation Eurasian societies have experienced, the course will cover the following issues: social, cultural and political effects of transition to free market economy; the rise of nationalism and ethnic cleavages; religious entities, demography, family, migration patterns and other related issues.
This course is designed to provide Economics students with a strong humanities background. An interdisciplinary social science emphasis on the origins and evolution of economic activities and institutions against the background of a history of civilization.
Course Objectives
Topics in Social Psychology (Forensic Psychology) class gives students the opportunity to learn the applications of psychology associated with the legal system along with issues and problems that arise when psychology is applied. Students will have the opportunity to learn through a combination of lecture-based teaching. Within forensic-related modules, students can gain an understanding of the motives, mind-sets, and behaviours of people who commit various crimes, as well as the assessment and treatment of offence-related risk factors.
Course Objectives:
– to define deviance/crime theories,
– to explain the “possible reasons” of crime in individual and social context ,
– to discuss forensic psychology in practise : offender risk analysis, criminal profiling, offender treatment programmes,
– to discuss the characteristics of “victims of crime”,
– to define different types of crime/criminals/offenders.
Course Content
Each topics course is designed to deepen the students knowledge in a selected issue-oriented subarea of the field. The course may involve analysis of current theoretical debates, a detailed treatment of a subarea, which may appear as a chapter in a regular survey course or by getting acquainted with the skills required for in-depth analysis.
Course Objectives
This course is designed to introduce students to the history of economic thought. We focus on essential ideas of prominent economists and schools of economic thought relating them to real-world problems and when applicable to present-day problems. The course also brings to light the social and economic conditions associated with the emergence of different schools of economic thought. While exploring the economic thought of renowned economists, connections with philosophy and other disciplines will be spelled out. The dynamics of shifts from the prominence of one school of thought to another will also be explored. In this context, the rise and demise of classical political economy and the subsequent rise of marginalist approach will constitute the main axis of the course content. Major controversies over the definition of the objectives, scope, and methodology of economic theories will be surveyed. Various critical departures from the dominant theory will also be taken up.
Course Content
The evaluation and improvement of the tools of analysis of economic phenomena within a historical perspective; Mercantilism, Physiocrats; beginning of Classical School, Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, Mill and Marxian economic
The course investigates leadership as part of a larger ecosystem. It aims to show the interconnectedness within the system and to explore ways to mobilize the adaptive capasity of an organization/entity to thrive and adopt to changing environments and to effectively respond to recurring and/or novel problems in a more halistic way. This approach helps organizations deal with VUCA-volatility, unknown, complexity and ambiguity-by concentrating on possibilities rather than certainties. This course draws upon systems thinking, theory-u and adaptive leadership and discusses how to put these in use in organizations.
This is an introductory course exploring issues of culture, social institutions and social relations from a sociological viewpoint. It aims to familiarize non-sociology majors (particularly students specialising in political science, economics and international relations) with the fundamental concepts and terminology of sociological analysis. In this context, topics such as culture, socialisation, family, marriage and divorce, gender, ethnicity, stratification and mobility, mass-media, education, religion and urbanisation are covered with the aim of comprehending the `world in change` through a comparative and historical perspective. The course also tries to relate the personal to the social and is particularly sensitive to such pressing concerns of contemporary life as gender issues.
The aim of this course is to familiarize the students with the main themes and issues in conceptualizing state-society relations in modern Turkey. The main focus will be on the patterns of democratization and democratic consolidation, the role of military in Turkish politics and society, formation and development of civil society, discourses and practices of human rights, women’s problems, the role of religion in society and the impact of the EU on Turkish societal and political transformation.
The course also aims to provide the students with an introductory knowledge about societal and political transformation of Turkey with reference to the processes of democratization and democratic consolidation.
The course aims to help student-teachers become aware of the relation between culture and language, and the role of culture(s) in language teaching. Course participants will explore key concepts related to intercultural communication, intercultural competence, and intercultural development with particular links to issues in international mobility and education.
Course Objectives
This course is designed to introduce students to the essential basics of conducting original research in
education. Students are expected to engage in data collection and conduct small-scale data analysis which will lead to the production of a full-length research paper at the end of term.
More specifically, the course will involve choosing and narrowing down a topic for investigation, finding and reviewing credible sources in existing literature, developing original research questions and/ or hypotheses and a suitable research design (qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods) that takes into account factors such as reliability and validity. The rest of the course will focus on hands-on practice in developing/adapting data collection tools, collecting and analyzing the data (using specialized statistical software and procedures) and synthesizing the results and formulating sound conclusions. Emphasis in the class will also be placed on the know-how of writing a good research paper. With this aim, students will be instructed on and given opportunities to practice their summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting, citing and referencing skills. They will be introduced to the “APA style manual” to ensure their conformity to widely accepted academic standards when writing up their research.
The terminology of the new economy is defined by the new industrial revolution/industry 4.0 and the world of innovation,level of technology,entrepreneurial capacity and the talent pool you have. Turkey s challenge with innovation,entrepreneurship and technology based competitive business World.