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FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES - ECONOMETRICS
Goal And Target

Department of Econometrics aims to employ the mathematical and statistical techniques in modelling and analysing of the economic and finance problems. During the recent years the role and the contribution of economic events on daily life has increased gradually all over the world. As a result especially developing countries like Turkey it become an obligation to develop economy of the country. Economic development is only possible if the economic problems are analysed efficiently and the economy is modelled and predicted properly. Department of Econometrics, following this objective aims to educate the econometricians who have the ability to analyse the economy and the economic problems of the country properly, have the ability to model the economy efficiently and test the models, at the same time it also aims to educate econometricians who have a comprehensive knowledge on the disiplines of econometry, statistics and operations researchs.

The students graduated from Econometrics have opportunities to find career positions in State Planning Organization (DPT), Turkey Statistical Institute (TSI), the Central Bank, the Capital Markets Board (CMB), the Treasury, the Undersecretariat of Foreign Trade, all the banks and the ministries of research units; besides, in planning and budgets departments, research and development (R & D) departments of various public and private organizations active in different areas such as capital market and also in insurance and research companies. Furthermore, they can have the chance to find jobs in the same fields as the statisticians.