The Department of Economics at Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, which is among the top 1000 in THE Impact Ranking 2024, an important ranking for world universities, and has a 5-year accreditation certificate covering the 2023/2028 period from the Higher Education Quality Board, offers great advantages for its students in every aspect. In our department, with 1 Professor, 4 Associate Professors, 2 Dr. Faculty Members and 3 Research Assistants, we provide in-depth knowledge on economic theories and applications and all kinds of support are provided for students to make original analyses.
Our experienced academic staff strives to ensure that our students gain analytical thinking, problem-solving and research skills, to train them as future economic experts and to be successful in their professions by having equipment suitable for the needs of the age.
In our department, great importance is given to practical applications as well as theoretical knowledge. Students gain experience in solving real-world economic problems through various seminars, workshop studies and internship opportunities. In addition, thanks to the research projects carried out in our department and international collaborations, our students gain a broad perspective on the global economy and graduate with the equipment to continue their careers in the international arena.
Our University's Department of Economics adopts an educational approach that aims not only to give students academic success, but also to instill ethical values and social responsibility awareness.
Mission
Our fundamental mission is to contribute to meeting the need for qualified human resources in our country. For this, we primarily aim to educate our students as prospective managers who can ponder the economic, social and human problems of their country and the world; more specifically, who have contemporary knowledge and skills to successfully manage private and public sector organizations in today's competitive conditions, who think and act strategically.
Vision
The vision of our department is to equip our students with the knowledge required by contemporary science, to provide our students with equipment in the fields our department is interested in, to provide them with the infrastructure they need to do their own jobs after graduation. On the other hand, it also aims to create a contemporary teaching and working culture that has participatory, sharing, original values by conducting scientific studies that aim to contribute to the production of knowledge in a universal sense.