Frequently Asked Questions

The OSTİMTECH Education Model is a third-generation, entrepreneurial, and innovative university model that emphasizes theoretical knowledge, learning by experience, and entrepreneurship, focusing on producing original projects and solutions. With a university culture based on skills, knowledge, behavior, and competence, OSTİM Technical University reflects a higher education model grounded in research, innovation, and societal development. The curricula support this model by building theoretical knowledge through multidimensional practical approaches and learning through experience. Based on research conducted during its foundation and the local and international academic and sectoral experience of its founding team and board of trustees, the OSTİMTECH Education Model includes several distinctive elements:

• Practice-Based Education Model:

OSTİM Technical University is located in a major business and industrial hub that has made significant contributions to Turkey's industrialization. To benefit from this expertise, practice-based education is emphasized alongside theoretical instruction. From the first year, students will receive hands-on education in international trade and finance departments of companies, taking one practical course each semester, aimed at developing observation, application, innovation, and management skills.

• Entrepreneurship Scorecard:

Designed to instill an entrepreneurial mindset, competence, and skillset in students, the Entrepreneurship Scorecard is a monitoring procedure that evaluates each student based on specific entrepreneurial actions, whether predetermined or newly accepted, and rewards them upon reaching certain milestones. Students who achieve a set score will be provided with support and rewards such as start-up capital for their designs, products, services, or projects; opportunities for business development in OSTİM Technopark; access to business partners; and international internship opportunities.

• Courses that Make a Difference:

Our department’s curriculum includes courses such as Introduction to University Life, Building the Future, and Entrepreneurship Project, which aim to help students adapt easily to university life, support their academic pursuits, guide them toward personal development, and cultivate awareness in intellectual curiosity, cultural sensitivity, and responsibility. These courses also aim to instill entrepreneurial qualities such as innovation, commercialization, and company formation.

By its nature, economics provides a broad perspective on events and deeply analyzes phenomena by incorporating mathematical, political, sociological, and psychological dimensions into its methodology. This comprehensive outlook offers significant advantages to graduates in both the business and academic worlds.

In today’s dynamic and globalized world, decision-making—whether in daily life, business, or governance—requires navigating complex alternatives under constraints. Economics, at its core, studies how to choose the “best” among these alternatives, and thus has gained increasing importance worldwide.

The Department of Economics offers a broad education that equips students with analytical thinking skills and the responsibility of effective decision-making. The program includes economic theory, business theory, and problem-solving skills, all of which strengthen students’ future careers in both the private and public sectors. In addition, students are provided with opportunities to utilize information technologies to succeed in their environments.

Economics is the discipline that aims to ensure the most optimal functioning of economic processes, from production to consumption and distribution. Accordingly, the Department of Economics provides education based on the fundamental principles of this field. Students gain insight into how production, consumption, distribution, and the behavior of firms and individuals occur, and how optimal equilibrium states can be reached through methods developed by economic science.

By mastering these methods, students learn to analyze events and phenomena within cause-effect relationships, drawing on various scientific disciplines. The department aims for its graduates to become professionals who can conduct analysis, generate solutions, and differentiate themselves by offering innovative ideas in the business world.

Graduates of the program have employment opportunities in both the private and public sectors. Students are trained to be eligible for positions in national, international, and global economic institutions, organizations, and private companies. Furthermore, graduates of this department hold the same professional rights as graduates from other economics and administrative sciences departments.

Graduates of the Economics program possess qualifications that make them highly sought-after candidates in both the public and private sectors. The program’s curriculum is aligned with global developments, and the medium of instruction is English, which enables our graduates to find employment in international institutions, organizations, and companies. Examples include the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the United Nations (UNOPS, UNDP, etc.), the World Trade Organization, European Union institutions, multinational companies, and consulting firms.

Domestically, common employers include the Central Bank of Turkey, commercial banks, relevant ministries, stock market companies, NGOs, and research institutes.

Located at the heart of the business world, industry, and public sector, OSTİM Technical University is established in one of Turkey’s most important industrial hubs with strong ties to business, industry, and society.

OSTİM Technical University has developed the “Workplace Experience” program, through which students will spend one designated day each week in a company starting from the second semester of the first year, and the entire final (eighth) semester in a workplace. This system allows students to transfer the knowledge gained through theoretical education to business settings, and vice versa, integrating practical experience into their academic journey.

The Department of Economics offers fundamental courses such as microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance, econometrics, and accounting. These courses provide students with a solid foundation in economics and finance.

To enhance students' analytical thinking and technical skills, the curriculum also includes courses such as Mathematics, Management Information Systems, and Research Methods.

Additionally, to support students' individual interests and specialization, the curriculum offers advanced elective courses in fields like international economics and financial institutions. Teaching methods will include case studies, simulations, workshops, conferences, and teamwork activities, integrated with new technologies.

Through the "Workplace Experience" program, developed under the slogan "Experienced Graduates," you will gain early professional exposure that will better prepare you for your career. You will have the opportunity to apply the general knowledge, theoretical understanding, skills, attitudes, and habits acquired during your education in a real workplace setting starting as early as your first year.

This hands-on experience will significantly enhance your employability in both national and international job markets.

The language of instruction in the department is 100% English. Students who do not meet the required level of English proficiency are required to attend the university’s English Preparatory Program offered by the Department of Foreign Languages.

All newly registered students take an English Placement Test to assess their level. Those who score 60 or above are eligible to take the English Proficiency Exam. Students who score 60 or above on this exam are exempt from the Preparatory Program. Those who do not meet the proficiency level required to begin the departmental courses directly are placed in appropriate levels within the English Preparatory Program.

In accordance with the regulations on Transfers Between Associate Degree and Undergraduate Degree Programs, Double Major and Minor Programs, and Inter-Institutional Credit Transfer in Higher Education Institutions, students at our university are allowed to pursue double majors and minors.

Within this framework, students in the Department of Marketing (for example) may apply for a double major or a minor in other departments within the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences—or in departments from other faculties—provided they meet the specific requirements set by those programs and their relevant YKS score type and ranking.

Applications must be submitted no earlier than the beginning of the third semester and no later than the start of the fifth semester.