TOURÄ°SM MANAGEMENT
Second Cycle Programmes
(Master's Degree)

D.1. General Information about Program

Tourism Management Master Program is a graduate program with thesis which is carried out under the Hacettepe University Social Sciences Institute – Business Administration Department. Program language is Turkish. The courses, midterms, finals, presentations, reports and theses are carried out in Turkish. However, sources in English are also utilized during the lectures. Graduates of this program can proceed to the PhD programs.

D.2 Qualification Awarded

Master's Degree

D.3. Level of Qualification

QF-EHEA: 2
EQF-LLL: 7

D.4. Provisions for Registration

1. Applicants who apply to the program must have completed a four-year Bachelor's Degree.

2. Applicants are required to score at least 60 standard points from equal weight categories of the Academic Staff and Graduate Education Examination (Akademik Personel ve Lisansüstü Eğitimine Giriş Sınavı, ALES) organized by Measurement, Selection and Placement Center (Ölçme, Seçme ve Yerleştirme Merkezi, ÖSYM). Alternatively, applicants are required to submit an equivalent score, determined by the Hacettepe University Senate, in the internationally recognized GRE and GMAT examinations.

3. Applicants are required to score at least 60 in the Foreign Knowledge in Foreign Language Placement Examination (Yabancı Dil Seviye Tespit Sınavı, YDS). Alternatively, applicants are required to submit an equivalent score from other foreign language examinations, held at the national or international level, whose equivalence is approved by ÖSYM.

4. International students' applications are accepted in line within “Hacettepe University Graduate Programme and Exam Regulation" in Official Gazette (29 November 2016, No:29900).

5. Those conditions, which are not included below, are applied in accordance with the related provisions of the Hacettepe University Graduate Education, Instruction and Examination Regulations (Hacettepe Üniversitesi Lisansüst Eğitim, Öğretim ve Sınav Yönetmeliği).

D.5. Qualification Requirements and Regulations

Students who are enrolled in the master program must complete at least 60 ECTS credits within two semester and then should prepare the master's thesis under the supervision of consultant.

D.6. Specific Arrangements for Recognition of Prior Learning

The courses taken at another university either in Turkey or abroad can be accepted as equivalent through the approval of the teaching staff lecturing similar courses, within the framework of relevant articles in Hacettepe University Graduate Education and Examination Regulations.

Academic recognition of the courses taken in another higher education institution as part of an exchange program is made within the framework of relevant articles in Hacettepe University Graduate Education and Examination Regulations.

D.7. Goals and Objectives

Tourism Management Master Program is designed to give comprehensive training especially to Business Administration graduates who plans to specialize in tourism. The aim of this program is not only to make individuals to gain competence in the field of tourism but also to increase their knowledge which will help them to be future managers in related businesses.

D.12. Occupational Profiles of Graduates with Examples

Our graduates are have characteristics of effective communication skills, a sense of social responsibility and flexible to innovation. Graduates of the department are prepared to take their place in Hotels, Tourism Agencies and Accommodation corporations as a potential managers in finance, manufacturing, human resources or marketing departments.

D.13. Access to Further Studies

QF-EHEA: 3
EQF-LLL: 8

D.14. Profile of the Programme

• Number-Rate of Compulsory Courses: 5 - % 50
• Number-Rate of Elective Courses : 5 - % 50
• Elective courses begining year: 1
• Compulsory elective courses outside the department : None
• Internship requirement: None
• Prerequisite courses: None
• The structure of the programme by the years: Students may continue their learning periods by taking compulsory and elective courses from the first year.

D.15. Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading

Her ders için uygulanan ölçme ve deÄŸerlendirme yöntemleri, ilgili öğretim üyesi/leri tarafından hazırlanan ve Bilgi paketinde yer alan “Ders Öğretim Planı”nda tanımlanmıştır. Sınavlar ve ders baÅŸarı notları ile ilgili olarak H.Ãœ. Lisansüstü EÄŸitim-Öğretim ve Sınav yönetmeliÄŸinin ilgili maddeleri uygulanır.

http://www.sosyalbilimler.hacettepe.edu.tr/yonetmelik_02_12_2013.pdf

D.16. Graduation Requirements

Students who are enrolled in the master program must complete 60 ECTS credits course and then should prepare the master's thesis under the supervision of consultant.

Also they have to get a CGPA of 2.5/4.00 and submit their thesis in order to graduate.

D.17. Education Type

1. Full Time Education

D.18. Programme Director

Prof.Dr. Mustafa KILIÇ

Address:

Hacettepe University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Department of Business Administration

Beytepe Campus, B Block 3rd Floor

Çankaya, Ankara 06800

Tel: +90-312-297 87 00

Fax: +90-312-299 20 55