Istanbul Aydin University
Master in Business Administration (with/without thesis)

İstanbul, Turkey

DEGREE TYPE

MBA

DURATION

2 years

LANGUAGES

English

PACE

Full time

APPLICATION DEADLINE

EARLIEST START DATE

STUDY FORMAT

On-Campus

* from April 01, until September 30

Key Summary

About : The Master in Business Administration (MBA) offers a comprehensive study of business principles, theories, and practices. It can be pursued with or without a thesis, providing flexibility to fit different academic and career goals. The program equips students with essential skills in leadership, management, and strategic thinking, preparing them for the dynamic business environment.

Career Outcomes : Graduates can explore various career paths, including roles such as business consultant, project manager, or operations director. The program also opens doors to executive positions in corporate settings, entrepreneurship opportunities, and positions within nonprofit organizations, enhancing career prospects across diverse sectors.

The Executive MBA Program is constituted to train the professional executives who are looking for a perfect career. This program aims to provide required academic and analytical information infrastructure for the candidates who have a role as a leader in their companies.

The Executive MBA Program provides for the executives and candidates an efficient and interactive educational atmosphere to accommodate the changing world’s dynamics and to develop their abilities in finding constructive solutions for the management problems.

The program is a 120 ECTS credit program with a duration of 2 academic years, each with 2 semesters. The regular program consists of 8 courses of 21 local credits, a seminar, and a thesis work of 60 ECTS credits with a normal duration of 2 semesters. The institute, upon the request of the program director, may require the prospective student to take additional courses if his/her background is not seen fit to follow the program.

Aims

Executive MBA Program is constituted to train the professional executives who are looking for a perfect career. This program aims to provide required academic and analytical information infrastructure for the candidates who have a role as a leader in their companies.

Objectives

Leaders whose analysis and problem-solving skills are developed, who have critical and creative thinking abilities, can make and maintain effective relations, can apply teamwork in the most efficient way, can take initiative, and administer risk and change.

Year 1

First term	Second term
BUS503 Advanced Accounting SBU532 Research Methods In Social Sciences BUS513 Contemporary Management And Strategic Planning Elective Course Module	SBU532 Research Methods In Social Sciences SBE500-9 Introduction To Thesis And Seminar Elective Course Module

Year 2

Third term	Fourth term
SBE510-3 Master's Thesis-I	SBE500-4 Master's Thesis-II

Upon successful completion of the program designed in accordance with the aims and objectives of the program and the program learning outcomes in terms of knowledge, skills, and competencies given below, students/learners will be able to:

Knowledge

Develop and deepen their knowledge in the same field or elsewhere at the level of expertise, based on their bachelor’s cycle competence.
Deepen the management system knowledge in private and public sectors.
Follow other disciplines closely and analyze and emphasize their relationships with business management.
Develop their professional discipline related to the educational infrastructure of Ph.D. degrees.
Explain the interdisciplinary aspects of the subject field.
Determine, define, formulate and solve the problems in the discipline of business management and apply the appropriate analytical methods and practical knowledge.
Identify the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge to acquire information at an advanced level by processing data required for the field of management.

Skills

Convey the knowledge of the subject field to employees and colleagues.
Motivate and manage people in professional life.
Analyze, interpret and evaluate the knowledge in the field in an analytical and systematical way.
Interpret the knowledge acquired in the field by integrating them with information from different disciplines and formulate new information.
Apply their acquired field knowledge in decision making and other behaviors and present skills on data analysis, problem descriptions, and solution proposals.
Motivate and manage people in professional life.
Solve the problems encountered in the field by using research methods.
Make original oral and written presentations in their field in national and/or international conferences.

Personal & occupational competencies in terms of each of the following groups:

Autonomy & Responsibility

Conduct an independent study that requires expertise in the field.
Assume responsibility according to project goals as a project coordinator or participant.
Develop new strategic approaches to solve complicated and unforeseen problems encountered in the practices of the field and offer solutions by assuming responsibility.
Act as a leader in the settings requiring solutions to problems in the field.
Determine vision, objectives, and goals for an organization/institution.

Learning to Learn

Use the acquired knowledge on the expertise level in critical assessments.
Evaluate the knowledge and skills acquired in the field in a contributive, investigative and productive approach, determine the learning requirements and meet these requirements.
Follow the national and international publications in their field.

Communication & Social

Express knowledge, skills, opinions, and suggestions acquired in the field in spoken or written form.
Convey the current developments and their own studies to groups in and outside of their field in written, oral or visual ways by supporting them with quantitative and qualitative data in a systematical way.
Analyze and develop social relationships and the norms that govern these relationships with a critical approach and change them when necessary.
Use computer software, information, and communication technologies required in their field in an advanced level.

Occupational and/or Vocational

Analyze and conduct efficiently the relationship between the organization/institution and shareholders.
Pursue social, scientific, cultural, and ethical values in the processes of data collection, interpretation, application, and declaration and identify these values.
Develop strategies, policies, and application plans in their field and evaluate the results obtained within the framework of quality processes.
Use the knowledge, problem-solving, and/or practical skills in interdisciplinary studies.