Management Non-Thesis

Overview

The ever-complex nature of business environment makes it necessary for people with diverse backgrounds to be unified around the same organizational goal. Hence, there is a need for individuals who can understand all the functions in a business and take responsibility in various departments or as a manager. The main purpose of this program is to equip students coming from various disciplines with the methods, techniques and academic knowledge that help to cover businesses with this holistic approach.

Graduate programs in Management within the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences exist for more than thirty years. The master program admits students who are expected to learn and do research in various fields of business management such as sales and marketing, accounting and finance, management and organization, production, project management, quantitative tools, technology and law.

While the program without thesis mostly targets people who seek professional career, the program with thesis is more suitable to people who would like to handle business problems with an academic perspective and do research.

Goal

The main goal of the program is to endow students with theoretical and applied knowledge about the major disciplines of business management. Hence, students with different academic backgrounds (such as engineering, economics or social sciences) will acquire managerial skills that help them assume responsibility during planning, organization, management and controlling or create their own business.

GraduatesJob Opportunities

Graduates have the opportunity to work in many different fields. The program has a structure that emphasizes entrepreneurship and top management regardless of any area. In addition, the program with thesis is designed for those who seek academic career or researcher positions.

Target Audience

The master program is open to all applicants with an undergraduate degree except the graduates of ITU Management Engineering and ITU Industrial Engineering departments.

Program Outcomes

Developing and enhancing the knowledge related to management concepts, research methods, and applications, based upon the competency in undergraduate level (ITU i).

Interpreting the knowledge gained from management field via combining the knowledge from other disciplines, comprehending the interdisciplinary interactions, conducting interdisciplinary research, and creating new types of knowledge (ITU ii, iv, xvi).

Detecting complex problems in certain areas within the field, collecting and analyzing data in order to fix these problems, developing strategic approaches and solutions by using research methods and conceptual knowledge, which are unique to the field (ITU iii, v, vii, x, xv).

Participating in team work, and fulfilling the leader role when it is necessary, using information technologies and presenting the findings in Turkish or in English in oral, visual and written forms (ITU viii, x, xii, xiii).

Interpreting the specialized knowledge and skills gained from the Management field critically, and conducting independent research that may contribute to the existing knowledge and applications (ITU vi, ix).

Understanding the relationships and interactions among people, organizations and societies, internalizing the ethical values, contributing to the society through emphasizing both the technological and social developments in the field, and the sustainability constraint (ITU xi, xiv).

(For the program with thesis) To communicate the current developments in Management and one’s own work orally, visually and in written forms, by supporting them with quantitative and qualitative data and to present them to other groups in and out of the field in international arenas with competence, at least, in one foreign language and required computer program (ITU xvii).

1. Applicant’s official transcripts including all undergraduate and/or graduate level courses and their grades issued by the universities that the applicant graduated or will be graduated from.
   
   Applicantwho will apply for PhD programs afterhis/her undergraduate degree has to have at least 3.0 Cumulative GPA out of 4.00 .
2. One of the Score Documents from Academic Personnel and Graduate Level Entrance Exam (ALES), GRE or GMAT including the related scores (ALES, GRE and GMAT scores are valid for 5 years.)
   
   Applicants for Master's Programs are required to have Numerical score minimum 55 from ALES . Applicantswho will apply for PhD programs aftertheirundergraduate level degree arerequiredto have Numerical scoreminimum 80FROM ALES (ALES minimum score is not required for the Social Sciences Institute Music programs)
   
   The minimum score required from Quantitative section of GRE is 610 (in the new system is minimum 149).
   
   Applicants for Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences Programs can apply with GMAT certificate. GMATwitha minimum score of 450is required for these applicants.
3. One of the Documents of English Proficiency that is accepted according to ITU Senate principles.

English Proficiency Documentsand the required minimum scores are given at the table below:
MASTER’S PROGRAMSAPPLICATION	PhD PROGRAMS APPLICATION
Exam	Min.Score	Exam	Min.Score
İTÜ English Proficieny Exam	65	-	-
YÖK Language Exam	65	YÖK Language Exam	65
TOEFL (Paper Based)	523	TOEFL (Paper Based)	523
TOEFL (Computer Based)	183	TOEFL (Computer Based)	183
TOEFL (Internet Based)	70	TOEFL (Internet Based)	70
e-YDS	65	e-YDS	65
YDS	65	YDS	65
ÜDS	65	ÜDS	65
KPDS	65	KPDS	65
PTE (Academic)	60	PTE (Academic)	60

TOEFL IBT/PBT,PTE, İTU English Proficiency Exam valid for 2 years.
ÜDS,KPDS,YDS, e-YDS test results are valid for 5 years . TOEFL ITP is not accepted.

English certificate is not mandatory in the Master applications.
The students admitted to any master program can complete their registration without an English certificate, but they cannot take courses until the submission of a valid English certificate. The applicants for a PhD program must deliver English certificate up to the registration period. If they do not submit a valid English certificate in the registration, they will not be registered.

ABOUT TOEFL IBT EXAM
Inaccordance with the decision taken at the meeting of ITU University Board of Directors dated 15.12.2011 and numbered 914 ; dating from the fall semester of the 2012-2013 academic year, IfTOEFL and IBT test results are from the testing centers in Turkey ,only the results from the exams conducted in the centers in state and private universities are accepted by ITU. TOEFL home edition can be used due to the pandemic.

4. Statement of Purpose
5. Curriculum Vitae
6. Recommendation Letter
   
   For each applied program two recommendation letters are required.For MSc applications, oneof these recommendation letters is required to be prepared by an academic instructor who the student worked with. For PhD applications, one of the recommendation letters must be supplied from the supervisor that the candidatesare planning to study together during their doctorate education.
   Reference letter is uploaded to the system by the person who is giving the reference, not by the candidate
   P.S. 1:Required ALES, GRE, GMAT minimum scores and minimum cummulative GPA may differ according to Master’s and Ph.D. programs . Requirements for programs and quotas are given at the Registar’s Office Web page :https://www.sis.itu.edu.tr/