The department was established in 1982 within the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Uludağ University. Initially, it commenced its academic activities with three divisions: Econometrics, Statistics, and Operations Research. Since 2019, the department has continued its educational activities with the Statistics and Operations Research divisions.

Doctorate program in Econometrics main science branch is subject to 240 credits first stage system. After the program is completed successfully and program´s qualifications are met, first cycle degree is achieved.

First Cycle

Candidates are required to hold a high school diploma or an equivalent qualification and to have obtained a sufficient score on the national university entrance examination.

The provisions in “Regulation on Transfer among Associate and Undergraduate Degree Programs, Double Major, and Subspecialty and the Principals of Credit Transfer among Institutions in Higher Education Institutions” are applied.

To obtain a Bachelor’s Degree in Econometrics, students must successfully complete the compulsory and elective courses specified in the programme curriculum, corresponding to a total of 240 ECTS credits.

It is aimed to improve the basic knowledge of econometrics, statistics and operations research science branches that is taken in the Bachelors level and second cycle level to more advance level. Thus, econometrician, statistician and operation researchers that can use advance level techniques are educated. In schedule, advance level courses of econometrics, statistics and operations research science branches are existed. Students who were not graduated from econometrics in both first and second cycle are taught in scientific preparation course and so required basic knowledge are taught. Students are up skilled to write scientific paper and scientific dissertation. Also, knowledge that can devise projects in solving public and private sectors are presented to the students.

Job opportunities are available in both public and private sectors. In public sector it can be worked at some institutions such as state planning organization and Turkish statistical institute and in private sector it can be worked at some institutuions such as research firms, finance, banking and insurance.

Graduates, who have successfully completed first cycle degree can be in the educated in the second cycle programmes under the condition that they completed their applications and succeeded interviewing.

Each student is required to register for courses at the beginning of the semester and to take the examinations. Students are subject to both midterm and final examinations for each course. All examinations are evaluated on a 100-point scale. To be considered successful, students must obtain a minimum score of 50 on the final examination. Students who receive one of the following letter grades—AA, BA, BB, CB, or CC—are considered to have successfully completed the course.

To be eligible for graduation, a student must: *Have taken and successfully completed all compulsory and elective courses defined in the curriculum for each semester, *Have completed a minimum of 240 ECTS credits, *Have a minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 2.00 out of 4.00.

Full-Time

Adres: Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Ekonometri Bölümü, 16059 Nilüfer/BURSA.
Bölüm Başkanı: Prof. Dr. Nuran BAYRAM ARLI
Tel: 0 224 294 1126
Faks: 0 224 294 11 99
E-posta: nuranb@uludag.edu.tr
Bologna Koordinatörü: Doç. Dr. Vesile Sinem ARIKAN KARGI
E-posta: vesa@uludag.edu.tr
Erasmus Koordinatörü: Prof. Dr. Sevda GÜRSAKAL
E-posta: sdalgic@uludag.edu.tr

Education language is Turkish. Courses are taught at clasrooms that have projections and smart boards.
10 Professors Dr., 3 Associate Professor Dr., 3 Assistant Professor Dr., 3 Research Assistant work at the Department.