Political Science and Public Administration

I am Professor Ilyas Fırat Cengiz. I am the Vice President of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Yalova University. I have been working at Yalova University since 2017. The Department of Political Science and Public Administration opened in 2017. After completing recruiting its academic staff, it started to take in students as of 2009. Our annual quota is currently around 50. In our department, political science, local governments, law courses such as Constitutional Law, Administrative Law are provided. There is no official internship program in our department. However, we encourage our students to do internships. We want our students to benefit from their teachers’ experience. We tell our students how to do internships in institutions and that internships are important. Our department also offers Erasmus exchange. The university has made many agreements. Activities organized by our department are available for all to attend. We visit public institutions which are related to the department. During these visits, we try to show how the subjects that our students have theoretically seen in their courses are implemented in practice. To give an example: In 2020, we visited the Yalova Provincial Administration Office with our students. Students who graduate from our department can work in many fields. In this sense, we strive to train people who can be senior managers, especially within public administration bodies. For example: governorship is one of the most well-known professions. Again, our students can work in specialist level and inspector level positions in ministries. Besides, we shouldn't limit our department to the public sector alone. We try to provide employees for the private sector. Let's not skip the NGOs. In our country, NGOs are quite developed. We train our students for the administrative positions. Our department has been around for a long time. It is an important department. We want students to know what they are getting into when choosing this department. If they do so, our students can thrive. I suggest you choose this department with a career plan for the future. Otherwise, you may just waste your time and have some difficulties after you graduate. So I suggest they come here with a plan. Yalova University is a new university. Our teachers have graduated from the best universities of Turkey and around the world. Therefore, this brings a certain quality to the university. Our professors are in touch with the students. This may not be possible at large universities. It is a great advantage that they can reach out to these teachers and have better relations with them and ask questions after class has ended. They can take advantage of that. Again, when we think of Yalova University in terms of its geographical location, it is located in the middle of The Marmara Region and Istanbul, Kocaeli and Bursa, where a large part of the country's population lives. Therefore, our university provides a great advantage in accessing academic opportunities in these cities. The Department of Political Science and Public Administration is quite new. If a student comes here with a plan, we will be sure to help them develop their skills and all possible ways. At the same time, the city has many facilities. By using these, our students can plan their future in order to get a good education without any problems. We welcome everyone to our university and department.