The Banking and Finance program aims to provide knowledge and skills relevant to the banking and wealth management sectors. The program delivers exposure to a more in-depth approach to financial planning and builds students’ necessary skills and professionalism to build a career in the banking and management industry.
1. Develop critical and strategic thinking, improve analytic skills and techniques, and enhance effective decision-making
2. Demonstrate ability for team-working, collaboration and leadership
3. Understand social and legal issues both within local and global environments
4. Acquire proficiency in English and utilize effective communication skills
5. Gain IT skills which are conducive for research using various resources and databases
6. Put knowledge acquired into practical experience through on-site internship(s) before graduation
7. Gain ethical consciousness and behavior required by the finance discipline
8. Possess the knowledge and skills required in the management of commercial banks and financial institutions
9. Analyze financial statements of the institutions mentioned above andevaluate their performance with respect to profitability, liquidity, activity, risk and solvency
10. Review and utilize interest rate concepts and theories, asset pricing and security valuation models as they apply to the financial decision-making processes in a managerial position in banking and finance
11. Analyze credits and their terms and conditions as they pertain to evaluation of agricultural, commercial, consumer and real estate loan applications
12. Analyze and select the types of securities that businesses acquire for their short and long term investment portfolios
13. Analyze, evaluate and select investment projects in addition to making sound capital budget decisions
14. Demonstrate the knowledge and managerial skills required in international banking and finance through use of hedging, speculation, swaps, futures, options, leasing, factoring and forfeiting
15. Review and analyze various cases, scenarios or actual situations and make sound decisions in the sector
On successful completion of the Bankıng and Finance programme and gain competencies, a student will be awarded the Bachelor of Science in Banking and Finance.
The Banking & Finance Department provides contemporary knowledge and professional skills that will enable students to succeed in a variety of jobs in banking sector as well as in other financial institutions. Through various courses of banking and finance delivered both at domestic and international levels, students will acquire all the necessary concepts, principles and skills which should allow them not only to obtain positions in local financial markets and institutions but also in international ones. The graduates of this programme may also continue their academic studies by proceeding with a master’s degree in Banking and Finance or in a related field of study.
The courses of the programme aim to establish a firm knowledge in business and banking & finance; educate students with a good command in written and oral English and build strong communication skills much necessary in the local and global financial world. The programme’s duration is eight semesters and during this period each student is expected to fulfil a thirty calendar day internship at a financial organization approved by the Faculty so as to be able to acquire some limited practical knowledge in his/her chosen area of interest.
The four-year BSc programme in Banking and Finance is a structurally well-balanced programme requiring the completion of 120 credit hours (240 ECTS credits). In the first two years of the programme, students are equipped with a strong foundation in the fundamental concepts of business management, business law, computer applications, accounting, economics and statistics. Upon this foundation, the students of banking and finance department continue to build a more thorough knowledge in business finance, international finance, commercial bank management, international banking, more advanced accounting concepts and management information systems in their last two years of study. Students’ knowledge is also broadened with three departmental and four non-departmental elective courses all of which are encapsulated within the four-year programme.
| CODE | COURSE NAME | T | P | C | ECTS | Prereq. | Syllabus | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUS465 | Special Topics in Finance | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||
| BUS213 | Business Ethics | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||
| BUS422 | Project Evaluation and Investment Management | 3 | 3 | 6 | BUS307, BUS308 | |||
| BUS425 | Portfolio Theory and Management | 3 | 3 | 6 | BUS307, BUS308 | |||
| BUS426 | Financial Institutions and Markets | 3 | 3 | 6 | BUS307 | |||
| BUS438 | Financial Derivatives in Corporate Decision Making | 3 | 3 | 6 | BUS307 | |||
| BUS445 | Workshop in Import and Export | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||
| BUS447 | Comparative Banking Regulations | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||
| BUS464 | Accounting for Banks | 3 | 3 | 6 | BUS203, BUS204 | |||
| Total | 27 | 54 |
| CODE | COURSE NAME | T | P | C | ECTS | Prereq. | Syllabus | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ECON101 | Intro. to Economics 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | ||||
| COMP103 | Computer Application l | 3 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| SOCY100 | Sociology | 3 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| MAT101 | Business Mathematics l | 3 | 3 | 8 | ||||
| EGL101 | Development of Reading Skills | 3 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| NH001 | National History 1 | 2 | ||||||
| TFL101 | Turkish as a Foreign Language l (for non-natives) | 4 | ||||||
| Total | 15 | 34 |
| CODE | COURSE NAME | T | P | C | ECTS | Prereq. | Syllabus | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ECON102 | Intro. to Economics ll | 3 | 3 | 7 | ||||
| COMP104 | Computer Application II | 3 | 3 | 4 | COMP103 | |||
| BUS108 | Principles of Management | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||
| MAT102 | Business Mathematics II | 3 | 3 | 7 | MAT101 | |||
| EGL102 | Development of Writing Skills | 3 | 3 | 4 | EGL101 | |||
| NH002 | National History II | 2 | NH001 | |||||
| TFL102 | Turkish as a Foreign Language II (for non-natives) | 4 | TFL101 | |||||
| Total | 15 | 34 |
| CODE | COURSE NAME | T | P | C | ECTS | Prereq. | Syllabus | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ECON203 | Intermediate Microeconomics | 3 | 3 | 6 | ECON101, ECON102 | |||
| BUS203 | Financial Accounting l | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||
| BUS205 | Statistics l | 3 | 3 | 6 | MAT101, MAT102 | |||
| BUS207 | Introduction to Law | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||
| CS201 | Communication Skills l | 3 | 3 | 4 | EGL101, EGL102 | |||
| TURK001 | Turkish l | 2 | ||||||
| Total | 15 | 30 |
| CODE | COURSE NAME | T | P | C | ECTS | Prereq. | Syllabus | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ECON204 | Intermediate Macroeconomics | 3 | 3 | 6 | ECON101, ECON102 | |||
| BUS204 | Financial Accounting II | 3 | 3 | 6 | BUS203 | |||
| BUS206 | Statistics II | 3 | 3 | 6 | BUS205 | |||
| BUS208 | Business Law | 3 | 3 | 6 | BUS207 | |||
| CS202 | Communication Skills II | 3 | 3 | 4 | EGL101, EGL102 | |||
| TURK002 | Turkish II | 2 | TURK001 | |||||
| Total | 15 | 30 |
| CODE | COURSE NAME | T | P | C | ECTS | Prereq. | Syllabus | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUS301 | Organizational Behavior | 3 | 3 | 6 | BUS108 | |||
| BUS303 | Human Resource Management | 3 | 3 | 6 | BUS108 | |||
| BUS307 | Business Finance l | 3 | 3 | 6 | MAT101, MAT102, BUS205 | |||
| BUS315 | Principles of Marketing | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||
| ECON305 | Money & Banking | 3 | 3 | 6 | ECON101, ECON102 | |||
| Total | 15 | 30 |
| CODE | COURSE NAME | T | P | C | ECTS | Prereq. | Syllabus | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUS304 | Operations Management | 3 | 3 | 6 | BUS205, BUS206 | |||
| BUS306 | Management Info Systems | 3 | 3 | 6 | BUS108 | |||
| BUS308 | Business Finance II | 3 | 3 | 6 | BUS307 | |||
| ECON306 | Business Cycles & Forecasting | 3 | 3 | 6 | BUS205, BUS206 | |||
| BUS411 | Cost Accounting | 3 | 3 | 6 | BUS203, BUS204 | |||
| STJ 030 | Internship - 30 calendar days | 1 | ||||||
| Total | 15 | 31 |
| CODE | COURSE NAME | T | P | C | ECTS | Prereq. | Syllabus | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUS412 | Financial Statement Analysis | 3 | 3 | 6 | BUS 203, BUS 204, BUS 307, BUS 308 | |||
| BUS423 | International Finance | 3 | 3 | 6 | BUS307 | |||
| BUS424 | Commercial Bank Management | 3 | 3 | 6 | BUS 203, BUS 204, BUS 307 | |||
| DEL | Departmental Elective | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||
| NONDEL | Non-Departmental Elective | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||
| Total | 15 | 30 |
| CODE | COURSE NAME | T | P | C | ECTS | Prereq. | Syllabus | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUS404 | Strategic Management | 3 | 3 | 6 | BUS 203, BUS204, BUS303, BUS304, BUS307, BUS308, BUS315 | |||
| BUS410 | Auditing | 3 | 3 | 6 | BUS 203, BUS 204 | |||
| BUS427 | International Banking | 3 | 3 | 6 | BUS203, BUS204, BUS307 | |||
| DEL | Departmental Elective | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||
| NONDEL | Non-Departmental Elective | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||
| Total | 15 | 30 |