DEGREE PROGRAMMES

History

As one of the important sectors of the global economy, tourism requires well-trained manpower. The Master's Program of the Department of Tourism Management aims to prepare students for an academic career as well as training the qualified manpower required by the field of tourism. The program creates an academic and social environment that will provide the necessary knowledge with basic and complementary courses after the undergraduate program. The program creates a platform for students who are working or planning to work in the sector and/or who want to pursue an academic career to take their undergraduate education to the next level. In line with this purpose, it is a well-established graduate program created with the aim of bringing inquisitive and knowledge-oriented individuals to the society by developing students' skills of researching, finding, sharing and interpreting information with compulsory and elective courses.

It is aimed to equip the students who continue the Tourism Management Department Master's Program in the field of tourism with the curriculum and course contents that have been rearranged in line with the stakeholder opinions to meet the requirements of the era. At the end of the program, there is a thesis project where students identify a research question, develop a research plan, and implement it to answer the question. Seminars, conferences, and workshops are organized for students, providing them with opportunities to interact with experts in the field and exchange knowledge on current topics. Technological support is provided to students with library resources for project and thesis-related work, computer labs for student and class use, and wireless network connectivity. The language of instruction for the courses offered in the program is Turkish.

Qualification Awarded

Master's Degree in Tourism Management (MSc.)

Level of Qualification

Second Cycle (Master's Degree)

Specific Admission Requirements

First Cycle Degree in the same or in related disciplines, Transcript, Acceptable score on ALES (Academic Personnel and Graduate Education Entrance Exam) or Equivalent GRE, GMAT score. Acceptable score on Language Proficiency Tests. Acceptable weighted score based on the first cycle cumulative grade point average (GPA) and ALES score. The exceptions to the requirements of ALES and Foreign Language Proficiency scores is announced by the Graduate School. Final admission is based on the evaluation of the related academic unit committee. International student admission requirements are decided by the Graduate School Executive Committee.

Specific Arrangements for Recognition of Prior Learning (Formal, Non-Formal and Informal)

Transfer Students:
The transfer student candidates from Turkish or foreign universities are subject to the YOK Legislation "The transfer, double degree, minor degree and inter-institutional credit transfer" and to the evaluation conditions determined by Dokuz Eylul University Senate.
The transfer quotas are determined and announced by Turkish Higher Education Council (YOK). The evaluation of the candidates are done by the school evaluation commmisin and approved by the management

The Graduate Transfers:
The short cycle graduates are given the right to be admitted to the first cycle programs if they comply with the conditions set by the "The transfer of Short Cycle Program Graduates to First Cycle Programs" Legilation of Turkish Higher Education Council (YOK)
The universities inform YOK regarding the quotas and YOK announces the quotas and conditions in "Graduate Transfer Guide" and the placements are managed by YOK due to the results of nationwide graduate transfer exam.

According to the Regulations of Dokuz Eylül University for Graduate Schools, students are not connected to the right for internal transfer, previously taken courses at another graduate programme by another university with a successful grade may be
recognized by the related programmes after the letter of the students includes course contents and the transcript, and by the recommendation of the head of the departments and by the decision of the Board of Directors. The courses taken by the outgoing
Exchange students have the recognition at the school either as compulsory or elective.

Qualification Requirements and Regulations

2 years, 2 semesters per year, 16 weeks per semester, 120 ECTS in total.

Profile of the Programme

The objective of the Master program in Tourism Management in Dokuz Eylül University is to educate scientists; who internalize scientific thinking and devoted to ethical principles; who can evaluate the developments in tourism sector from humanities and social sciences perspectives; who can interpret any topic in the field from the critical point of view; who can recommend strategic solutions at macro and micro levels to problems generated in tourism field; who can conduct advanced research, discuss the results and is competent to make decisions. Providing support for students to work on projects and thesis, use of library and computer lab with wireless network connection is also available. Language of the courses offered at the program is Turkish.

Key Learning Outcomes

Occupational Profiles of Graduates with Examples

Graduates of Master of Sciences Program in Tourism Management Department can run and manage a business in tourism sector with all dimensions and they can become lecturers in higher education institutes.

Access to Further Studies

May apply to third cycle programmes.

Course Structure Diagram with Credits

Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading

Evaluation and assessment methods for each course is defined in the the Course Description Form which is prepared by related faculty member / s and included in the information package. Exams and course success notes is subject to the relevant articles of the DEU Regulation on Graduate Education.

Graduation Requirements

Second Cycle (Master's Degree) Program with thesis is comprised of courses (at least 55 ECTS), a seminar (2 ECTS) and field study (3 ECTS) and thesis (60 ECTS), in total 120 ECTS credits. Students must have minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 2.50/4.00 and completed all the courses with at least CB/ S / TP grades.

Mode of Study (Full-Time, Part-Time, E-Learning )

Full-time

Programme Director or Equivalent

Head of Department: Prof. Dr. Işıl Özgen
E-mail: isil.goksu@deu.edu.tr
Tel: 0 232 301 8233