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Bilkent MBA Program Details

Pre-program

One-week BilCamp (1 credit course)

We offer a one-week "Bilcamp" immediately before the Fall semester to prepare the 1st year students to our program.

This is an extended MBA orientation.  It is used to review some important background and for team building.  It is a one-credit orientation course held during the week before classes start in September.  Possible skills components to be included are:

• Intermediate Excel (modeling)
• Presentation skills
• Group skills (teamwork)
• Research skills
• Leadership skills
• Emotional intelligence
• Career Planning workshop
• Case Analysis workshop
• One day outdoor activity in Bolu

Full Time Program

First-year Fall and Spring terms

The first two semesters provide students with foundations of business education as well as an introduction to functional areas via the following courses (the number of credits are given in parantheses).

Remainder of the program

·         Students take two additional required courses: business policy and business practice.  The business practice course consists of a 3.5-month project - either a management consulting project or a business plan for a company.

·         Students complete the program by taking 20 credits in electives . 

·         Bilkent MBA students can take maximum advantage of the summer by either completing an internship or taking as many as six short electives mostly offered by visitors from abroad.

·         During the Fall term of the second year, students can take the business policy and business practice courses as well as electives, go on an exchange, or complete an internship.

·         Students can take any remaining courses in the Spring term of the second year.  

Summer

Summer electives: Students can take 2-credit electives during June and July.  These courses meet for two weeks at a rate of 12 hours/week (3 hours/day, 4 days/week).  We plan to offer up to three courses per day (9:00 - 12:00, 1:00 - 4:00, and 5:00 - 8:00). The exact schedule depends on the schedule of visitors as well as the conference schedules of our faculty. 

Year 2

There are two required courses in Year 2 which can be taken in either term:

• Business Strategy (4)

• Business Practice (4)

The strategy course includes at least one ethics case or a case with a strong ethics component.  It also includes a multi-session business simulation exercise. 

The practice course requires students to either complete a management consulting project or a business plan for an organization (not necessarily in Ankara).  Projects will be completed in groups.  There are preparatory lectures in the first two weeks, a progress report presentation in Week 8 and a final presentation at the end of the semester.  The instructor, the client, and peers all contribute to the evaluation. 

In addition, a large number of electives are offered in the Fall and Spring semesters of Year 2:

Electives
Finance
MBA 512 Managerial Accounting
MBA 513 Financial Statement Analysis
MBA 514 Financial Modeling and Applications
MBA 515 Financial Institutions and Markets I
MBA 516 Financial Institutions and Markets II
MBA 520 Risk Management I
MBA 521 Risk Management II
MBA 524 Investment Analysis I
MBA 525 Investment Analysis II
MBA 526 International Finance
MBA 527 Financial Intermediation I
MBA 528 Financial Intermediation II
MBA 529 Real Estate Finance I
MBA 583 Real Estate Finance II
MBA 621 International Financial Markets and Management

Marketing
MBA 530 Marketing Research I
MBA 531 Marketing Research II
MBA 533 Marketing Strategy
MBA 534 Marketing Internationally
MBA 535 Consumer Behavior I
MBA 536 Consumer Behavior II
MBA 537 Brand Planning
MBA 538 Integrated Marketing Communication
MBA 539 Integrated Marketing Communication
MBA 580 Sales Management
MBA 581 Retail Management
MBA 582 New Product Design
MBA 631 Competitive Marketing Strategy
MBA 632 E-Commerce and Internet Marketing
MBA 676 Globalization, Branding, and Emerging Markets

Organizational Behavior
MBA 560 Job Design
MBA 563 Group Processes and Team Dynamics I
MBA 564 Group Processes and Team Dynamics II
MBA 565 Business Ethics
MBA 566 Change Management I
MBA 567 Change Management II
MBA 568 Entrepreneurship
MBA 569 Innovation Management
MBA 584 Speacial Topics in Business Administration
MBA 586 Organization Design
MBA 587 Work Motivation
MBA 661 Business Negotiations

Quantitative Methods
MBA 540 Manufacturing Strategy
MBA 541 Procurement and Inventory Systems
MBA 543 Pricing Strategies and Tactics
MBA 544 Revenue Management
MBA 545 Service Operations Management
MBA 546 Supply Chain Management I
MBA 547 Supply Chain Management II
MBA 548 Project Management
MBA 549 Quality Management
MBA 550 Service Operations Management II
MBA 554 Quantitative Business Research
MBA 641 Routing and Location Problems
MBA 642 Logistics Management
MBA 675 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems: Strategy and Practice

International Business
MBA 570 International Business
MBA 571 Business Law
MBA 572 European Union and Turkey: Trade and Policies
MBA 573 International Business II
MBA 574 European Integration
MBA 575 Small and Medium Enterprises
MBA 576 Business Plan Development
MBA 577 Business Law II
MBA 584 Special Topics in Business Administration
MBA 633 International Franchising
MBA 662 International Human Resource Management
MBA 671 Growth Througt Globalization:Creating and Managing The International Enterprize
MBA 672 Leadership for International Managers
MBA 673 International Business Strategy
MBA 674 Global Supply Chain Strategy
MBA 677 Negotiating Skills for International Executives

Exchanges: About half our current MBA class goes on an exchange during the Fall semester of Year 2.  We expect this pattern to continue as we increase the number of our partner schools.  The availability of the required courses in either semester makes it easy for our students to go on exchanges.  We have exchange programs with 45 universities in 23 countries and we intend to increase the number of partners in the coming years. 

For more detail on exchanges, please visit our exchange web.

Part-time Program

The flexibility of our program makes the part-time MBA degree easy to complete. The following sample schedule allows a working student to complete the degree in 3 years as required by YOK without having to take more than 2 courses in any semester. It is possible to complete this program in 16 months.   

*Note that 8 credits in electives can be completed in 8 weeks in June and July.