MCBU POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - GENERAL INFORMATION

Manisa Celal Bayar University Department of Political Science and Public Administration within the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences has been accepting students since 2011-2012 academic year. Currently, 1 full-time professor, 3 associate professors, 1 assistant professor and 7 research assistants continue their teaching and research activities at MCBU FEAS.

The basic aim of the public administration undergraduate program is first and foremost to train students to become good persons, good citizens and good professionals, as well as providing them with a public management perspective so that they will be equipped with the skills to take office in various positions of central and provincial organizations of the state, local governments, administrative courts, and national and international policy positions.

The undergraduate program offers comparative courses on policy making, managerial sciences, local governments, public law, and international politics, which aims at teaching students how to do research, and facilitating their comprehension and problem-solving skills through multidimensional thinking and decision-making.

In this context, our undergraduate program in Political Science and Public Administration offers distinct concentrations in “Urbanization and Environmental Problems”, “Administrative Sciences”, “Law Sciences” and “Political and Social Sciences” programs.

Graduates can be found in a wide variety of public organizations, including district governor, diplomat, and judge among others. They could also be employed as public officers and government executives in various cadres of bureaucracy and can work for the private sector as managers.