StudyQA — MBA: Executive M(Without Thesis) Program

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Technological developments accelerate, products and services vary, customers do not forgive a mistake in speed, quality and price and rivalry becomes intense in today’s business administration environment that continuously undergoes a change and gets more complicated also with the effects of globalization. Such a complicated environment naturally needs executives who have interdisciplinary knowledge, who are equipped with skills and abilities that will carry their knowledge into practice and in this way that can easily keep pace with the change.

Many success stories in today’s companies belong to heroes coming from different disciplines and equipped with outstanding business administration features.

The aim of this program is to carry executives and executive candidates coming from different disciplines and that have a particular experience in business life to an upper level and get them ready for the global rivalry.

With IUE “Non-thesis Business Administration Master’s Program for Executives it is aimed to provide managerial skills that may be applied in the sector for students experienced in business life who are educated in different disciplines nationwide and to present them the opportunity to combine theory and practice by sector projects. The students graduating from the program are aimed to be prepared for upper administrative level and add value to the institutions they work at.

To see the course details (such as objectives, learning outcomes, content, assessment and ECTS workload), click the relevant Course Code given in the table below.

1. Year Fall Semester
Code	Pre.	Course Name	Theory	Application/Laboratory	Local Credits	ECTS
XMBA 513		Applied Economics for Managers	3	0	3	10
XMBA 520		Accounting for Business Decisions	3	0	3	10
XMBA 567		Managing and Leading Organizations	3	0	3	10
Total :	30

1. Year Spring Semester
Code	Pre.	Course Name	Theory	Application/Laboratory	Local Credits	ECTS
XMBA 505		Strategic Marketing Management	3	0	3	10
XMBA 507		Operations and Process Management	3	0	3	10
XMBA 510		Financial Management for Non Finance Professional	3	0	3	10
Total :	30

2. Year Fall Semester
Code	Pre.	Course Name	Theory	Application/Laboratory	Local Credits	ECTS
ELEC 001		Elective Course I	3	0	3	7.5
ELEC 002		Elective Course II	3	0	3	7.5
XMBA 508		Competitive Strategy	3	0	3	6
XMBA 565		Innovative Thinking	3	0	3	4
XMBA 597		Term Project	0	0	0	5
Total :	30

Elective Courses
Code	Pre.	Course Name	Theory	Application/Laboratory	Local Credits	ECTS
XMBA 509		Strategic Human Resources Management	3	0	3	7.5
XMBA 550		Understanding Financial Statements	3	0	3	7.5
XMBA 552		Corporate Governance and Internal Controls	3	0	3	7.5
XMBA 553		Management Accounting for Non-Financial Executives	3	0	3	7.5
XMBA 554		Customer Relations and Sales Management	3	0	3	7.5
XMBA 555		Brand Management	3	0	3	7.5
XMBA 556		Essentials of Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring	3	0	3	7.5
XMBA 557		Capital Markets & Investments	3	0	3	7.5
XMBA 558		Business Ethics	3	0	3	7.5
XMBA 559		Legal Environment of Business	3	0	3	7.5
XMBA 560		Contemporary Issues in Marketing	3	0	0	7.5
XMBA 563		Human Resource Planning and Development	3	0	3	7.5
XMBA 564		Marketing Research	3	0	3	7.5

The students studying in this second cycle program without thesis are required:

to take a minimum of 10 courses with a minimum of 30 local credits and a non-credit semester project which is graded on a pass/fail basis.

to succeed in all the courses with a letter grade of at least CC/S

to have a Cumulative Grade Point Average of at least 3.00/4.00 with a minimum of 90 ECTS credits.

A-2-FOREIGN NATIONALS:

To hold an Undergraduate Degree Diploma from a (4 year) higher education institution that is recognized by the Higher Education Board, (To graduate from undergraduate program of Department of Psychology to apply for Experimental Psychology master program, to graduate from Faculty of Law for Special Law master program)

To be exempt from foreign language proficiency, students need to meet the below requirements:

To be graduated from a higher education program in which the medium of instruction is the same language as in the master program applied for within three years following their graduation,

To obtain the scores in the exams specified below, or obtain an equivalent score in the internationally recognized foreign language exams that are deemed equivalent to the exams specified below by the Higher Education Board.

Type of Exam	Score
KPDS ( Public Personnel Language Exam )	70 60*
UDS ( Interuniversity Foreign Language Exam )	70 60*
YDS (Foreign Language Placement Exam)	70 60*
IYS (IUE Proficiency in English Exam)	70 60*