In the Science Education Department, education is carried out with a total of 263 students, 12 lecturers and 1 research assistant, and lecturers from other programs.
Science Education Department is a program opened to meet the science teacher needs. In this program, which accepts students since 2003-2004 academic year, students are given field knowledge, general culture and general education courses. As of the 2011-2012 academic year, II. Students started to be accepted for education and in the same year, with the decision of YÖK, II. The teaching program has been closed. II. No other students were admitted to the curriculum until they graduated. Students are still being accepted to the primary education science teaching program.

Students who attend all of the required and elective courses in the program (equivalent to a total of 240 ECTS) and successfully complete these courses and achieve a grade point average of at least 2.0 out of 4.00 are awarded a bachelor´s degree in Science Education.

First Cycle

Candidates must have a high school diploma or an equivalent school diploma, and have obtained sufficient points in the form of numerical score from the University Student Selection Exam. In addition, during placement in teaching programs, there is a condition that candidates who have a placement score below the placement score of the candidate who is in the 300 thousandth place in placement score type cannot be placed in the program even if they are first in the school.

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.

In order to obtain a bachelor´s degree in the field of Science Education, students must successfully complete all of the compulsory and elective courses (equivalent to a total of 240 ECTS) in the program and their cumulative grade point average must be at least 2.0 out of 4.00..

MISSION
It is committed to universal, national, spiritual, human and ethical values; To train science teachers and experts who are innovative, entrepreneurial, expert in their field, questioning and analytical, sensitive to environmental, country and world problems, and who are science and technology literate.
VISION
To become a nationally and internationally preferred education program that trains teachers and academicians who can conduct education and research in the field of science education on a global scale.

Aims and goals
Purpose 1: Conducting qualified and high value-added R&D studies that will strengthen the vision of a research university
Goal 1.1. To increase the number of qualified national, international and institutional scientific research projects and publications carried out by academic staff,
Objective 1.2. To increase the number of citations in national and international indexed publications (journals, books, etc.),
Goal 1.3. To train academicians with scientific competence and values and to carry out regular educational activities for this,
Purpose 2: To give qualified graduates by increasing the quality of education
Objective 2.1. To gain knowledge and skills that can do all experiments in secondary school curricula,
Objective 2.2. To gain the understanding of inquiry-based teaching,
Target 2.3. To increase the quality of postgraduate education,
Target 2.4. To increase and strengthen international relations agreements in order to increase the rate of foreign students,
Goal 2.5. To regulate the scope and functioning of the courses in the science teaching curriculum in order to gain special field competencies,
Objective 2.6. To actively participate in national level program development studies,
Goal 2.7. Encouraging scientific and social activities that faculty members and students can jointly carry out,
Target 2.8. Increasing the number of events that will strengthen the corporate sense of belonging of graduate students,
Target 2.9. To organize sustainable trainings in order to inform lecturers about new approaches and techniques,
Target 2.10. Enriching physical and digital learning infrastructures,
Target 2.11. To increase the success of graduates in national and international central exams,
Target 2.12. To ensure that graduates continue to graduate programs,
Purpose 3. To contribute to the society with the awareness of social responsibility,
Target 3.1. Increasing the number of activities that will create social awareness
Objective 3.2. To increase projects that support disadvantaged groups,
Target 3.3. Increasing activities that encourage social entrepreneurship,
Goal 3.4. To increase the number of volunteer students participating in social responsibility projects,