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							BAŞKENT UNIVERSITY
ANKARA, TURKEY


    GONCA POLAT ULUOCAK, MSW

            May, 2010
National Higher
Education System in
 Turkey
   Four stages of Turkish Educational
    System:
   pre-school education (on-compulsory),
   primary education, (compulsory 8 year
    programme)
   secondary education (High Schools)
   higher education (state and foundation
    universities)
   The higher education Law No. 2547 is the
    main law, which governs the higher education
    in Turkey.

   Admission to higher education is based on a
    nation-wide Student Selection Examination
    (ÖSS ). The examination is held once a year
    and is administrated by the Student Selection
    and Placement Center (ÖSYM).
   Graduate level of study consists of the
    Master’s Degree and the
    PhD’s/Doctorate Degree
   Medical specialization programs are
    equivalent to doctoral level
   The Higher Education System is
    regulated by the Council of Higher
    Education (Yüksek Öğretim Kurulu,
    YÖK).
Introduction to Başkent
University
 In response to Turkey’s need for high
  quality institutions of higher education,
  the Organ Transplant and Burns
  Treatment Foundation, which has been
  in operation since 1980, decided to turn
  its existing complexes into a university
 In 1993 the procedures were begun to

establish Başkent University
   Başkent University has also been
    awarded a Quality System Certificate and
    respectively our education principles are
    designed in accordance with these
    quality standards.
Academic Units
Başkent University has 11 faculties, a
 State Conservatory, 6 Vocational
 Schools and 5 Post Graduate Institutes
   Faculties
   1. Faculty of Commercial
       Sciences
   2. Faculty of Communications
   3. Faculty of Dentistry
   4. Faculty of Economic and
       Administrative Sciences
   5. Faculty of Education
   6. Faculty of Engineering
   7. Faculty of Fine Arts, Design
       and Architecture
   8. Faculty of Health Sciences
   9. Faculty of Law
   10. Faculty of Medicine
   11. Faculty of Science and
         Letters
   12. State Conservatoire
Faculty of Health Sciences
   The Department of Nutrition
    and Dietetics
   The Department of Physical
   Therapy and Rehabilitation
   The Department of Nursing and
    Health Services
   The Department of Health Care
    Management
   The Department of Sport Sciences
   The Department of Social Work
Vocational School of
Health Sciences
 Physiotherapy Program
• Pathology Laboratory Technics Program
 Anesthesiology Program

 Operating Room Services Program
 Paramedic Program

 Elderly Care Program
 Medical Documentation and Secretarial Skills

 Dialysis Program

 Medical Imaging Technics Program

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      3. Institute of Health
     Sciences
   Public Health (M.Sc.)
    Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation (M.Sc.)
    Medical Biology (M.Sc.)
    Nutrition and Dietetics (M.Sc.)
    Exercise and Sport
     Performance (M.Sc.)
    Anatomy (M.Sc.)
    Odiology-Speech and
   Voice Disorders (M.Sc.)
   Nursing (M.Sc.)
   Pharmacology (M.Sc.)
Doctorate level programs
   •Orthodontics (Ph.D.)
   •Prosthodontics (Ph.D.)
   •Periodontology (Ph.D.)
   •Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Ph.D.)
   •Retorative Dentistry an
    Endodontics (Ph.D.)
   Conservative Dentistry
   •Medical Biology (Ph.D.)
   •Public Health (Ph.D.)
   •Pharmacology (Ph.D.)
   •Pedodontics (Ph.D.)
Hospitals and Health Centers
FACULTY OF HEALTH
SCIENCES


  DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WORK
   The Department of Social Work
    was established in the 2002-2003
    academic year in order to run BA
    level education program in social
    work.
   A Social Work Masters Program is
    planning to start in the following
    years.
OBJECTIVES OF THE
PROGRAM
   To enable students to integrate the
    knowledge, values, and skills of the
    social work profession into competent
    practice with various client systems in
    urban and rural areas;
   To prepare students for leadership in
    administration, social planning,
    teaching, consultation, supervision, and
    social research;
   To train professionals who are aware of
    their responsibility to continue their
    professional development.
FACTS ABOUT THE
PROGRAM
   The period of program is four years.
   Students have one-year of Preperation
    Class for English language.
   Besides theoretical work, courses
    involves practices, project works and
    research activities.
   Students are enabled to choose elective
    courses according to his/her field of
    interest.
    A student must complete 149 credits
    during 8 semester.
   35 students are accepted every year. The total
    number of students by 2009-2010 academic
    year is 147.
   Department of Social Work is a member of
    International Association of Schools of Social
    Work (IASSW) and European Federation of
    Schools of Social Work (EASSW).
   The Department is actively enrolled in EU
    Sokrates-Erasmus Exchange program, and
    received and send many students and
    academic staff from/to different Universities in
    Germany, Belgium, Poland, Nederlands and
    Hungary.