The Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University (RTEU) was founded on April 28, 2008. The Faculty comprises of nine departments: the Department of Management, Department of Economics, Department of Public Finance, Department of Public Management, Department of Political Sciences and International Relations, Department of Labor Economics and International Relations, Department of Social Work and Department of Management Information Systems.

The Bachelor Degree in Social Work is awarded to the graduates who have successfully completed all courses in the curriculum.

The general requirements explained in “General Admission Requirements” of the Higher Education Council (YOK);Information in the Institution part are applicable for the admission of students.

The rules and regulations for recognition of formal prior learning are well defined. Transfer can be made among the institutions, of which equivalency is recognized bythe Higher Education Council. Also successful vocational school graduates to continue their education to obtain Bachelor’s degrees if they are successful in the selection and the placement examination (DGS, i.e. vertical transfer examination) are admitted. The courses to be taken by these students are determined by the relevant department, on the basis of courses they have completed in the programs from which they have graduated. Recognition of prior non-formal and in-formal learning is at the beginning part of the Turkish Higher Education Institutions. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University and hence of the Department is not an exception to this. However, exams of exemption are organized at the start of each year at the University, for the courses of English Language and Computer Skills. The students who have completed the proficiencies for these courses on his/her own or through other means, and believe that they have achieved the learning outcomes specified are given the right to take the exemption exam. The students who achieve a passing grade from these exams are held exempt from the related course in the curriculum.

Students must obtain a grade point average of at least 2.00 out of 4.00 and successfully pass all courses on the program (equivalent to a total of 240 ECTS).