Master's Programs with Thesis

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Architecture

The Master of Architecture program aims to prepare its graduates for a diverse professional activities at the national and international level in the field of architecture. In a wide range from the environmental scale to the details and materials of the architectural product, it is aimed to introduce the students with different design approaches based on the knowledge and practises in many different areas of architecture.

Competence in architectural design is the core of the program, and workshops focus on the issues of architecture and the environment as a whole. Students’ awareness of their roles within the architectural profession and their ability to respond to the problems of architecture with an ethical stance constitute the rationale for opening the program.

Interior Architecture and Environmental Design

In Istanbul Gedik University Interior Architecture and Environmental Design program, there are two different graduate options, with and without thesis. The idea of approaching at the theoretical and academic level to functional, structural and aesthetic solutions that will be brought to the search for unique spaces that appeal to all senses and allow different experiences is the rationale of these programs. It is aimed to enrich the graduate studies in this discipline which has less scientific researches compared to similar fine arts and architecture disciplines. It is also aimed to carry students’ knowledge and skills related to the field of interior architecture to the graduate level,

In today’s world, individuals’ lives continue indoors; Efficient, multifunctional, considering environmental and psychological factors, designed in line with ergonomics and universal design principles; The need for interior designs that offer functions that enable stronger and closer relationships with employees, customers and consumers has increased. While transferring information to meet these requirements in interior design education; The conceptual dimensions of the space are assimilated by graduate studies on a theoretical scale. In this direction, these two programs (with and without thesis) aim to contribute to the training of designers who care about interdisciplinary interaction and discuss original ideas at graduate level by specializing in the fields of space design and space theory.

Electrical – Electronics Engineering

The Master of Science program in Electrical-Electronics Engineering is intended to train students who plan to pursue an engineering career in direct application or in teaching and research positions. Students can engage in study in the following fields.

Electrical machines, servo motors, electrical and hybrid electrical vehicles, industrial variable speed drives systems, solar and wind energy systems, sensorless control techniques, variable inductance measurements.

Model predictive control techniques, artificial neural networks, unmanned aerial vehicles.

Digital signal processing, digital image processing, digital filters, cellular neural networks.

Active network synthesis, signal flow graphs, mathematical modeling.

Electromagnetic fields and waves, microwave technology, biomedical technology.

Civil Engineering

The main purpose of the Civil Engineering graduate program is to train specialist engineers and researchers who can provide solutions to current problems related to civil engineering by educating their students in various fields of civil engineering. Along with the fast developing technology, many technical problems arise. Therefore, well-trained specialists are needed to solve possible current and future problems.

Mechanical Engineering

The aim of Master’s Degree program in Mechanical Engineering can be stated briefly as to educate professional research engineers that can design a mechanical or thermal system within a systematic approach, model an engineering problem in these disciplines and solve them using appropriate mathematical tools, perform interdisciplinary research and produce novel technological solutions, use the theory of technological designs to create new products, who have knowledge about modern technology, scientific research methods and ethics.

Master’s Degree program in Mechanical Engineering has started teaching in Fall semester of 2018-2019 academic year, hence it is less than two years old. A change of curriculum is planned in 2019-2020 academic year where lectures will be added in the fields of new materials technologies, biomechanics, defense technologies and advanced manufacturing. It is aimed to form research groups in these disciplines that will be working on nationally prioritized areas of study.

Mechatronics Engineering

Main elements of the new industrial revolution known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0 are the intelligent factories and digitalization consisting entirely of mechatronic systems. These systems are layered manufacturing, advanced robotic systems, automation and control systems. For this purpose, the aim of the master program with thesis is to enable the student to gain the ability of accessing the information by doing scientific research, evaluating the information and interpreting it.

Engineering Management

Today’s technology-driven industrial world brings new complex and competitive challenges to business management. The increase in the number of firms that want to maintain their competitiveness in international markets and produce for foreign companies increases the importance of managerial issues in various fields such as R & D, technology, innovation and strategic human resources management. It is only necessary to meet the need for new professionals who will replace the engineers and managers who have a technical perspective and experience, who cannot see the problems within the business from an integrated perspective. At this point, the Master of Science (MSc) in Engineering Management program will enable the training of professionals required by enterprises with a training program that integrates engineering formation and basic business and management issues.

The aim of the master’s program with thesis is to provide the student with the ability to access, evaluate and interpret information by conducting scientific research. This program consists of at least 8 courses, a seminar course and a thesis study, provided that it is not less than 30 ECTS credits. Seminar course and thesis work are non-credit and evaluated as successful or unsuccessful.

Engineering Management (English)

Today’s technology-driven industrial world brings new complex and competitive challenges to business management. Increasing the number of firms that want to maintain their competitiveness especially in international markets and manufacturing to foreign firms further increases the importance of managerial issues in various fields such as R & D, technology, innovation and strategic human resources management. Only the need for new professionals to replace engineers and managers who have technical perspectives and experience and cannot see the problems within the enterprise from an integrated perspective should be met. At this point, the Master of Science in Engineering Management program will enable the training of professionals who are required by the enterprises with the training program that enables the integration of the engineering formation and basic business and management issues.

Defense Technologies

One of the issues that the Ministry of National Defense (MND) has emphasized in recent years is the development of the domestic defense industry. In this context, MND is working hard to meet the defense system needs of Turkish Armed Forces and security institutions by creating maximum domestic capabilities and capabilities. As a result of the studies carried out to date, it is stated that the needs of the MND are provided by around 50% of domestic facilities. Land, sea and air vehicles that require advanced technologies to meet the needs at higher rates; communication electronics and information systems, electronic warfare and sensors, rocket-missile and ammunition. The most important starting point for the opening of this department in our university has been that this qualified human infrastructure requirement will increase rapidly day by day.

The aim of the master’s program with thesis is to provide the student with the ability to access, evaluate and interpret information by conducting scientific research. This program consists of min. 8 courses, a seminar course and a thesis study, provided that it is not less than 30 ECTS credits. Seminar course and thesis work are non-credit and evaluated as successful or unsuccessful.

Occupational Health and Safety

Occupational Health and Safety PhD Program conducted in Institute of Health Sciences, Department of Occupational Health and Safety, aims to graduate students equipped with skill and knowledge on basic principles and practice of occupational health and safety, to participate in studies aiming to increase health level and quality of life of workers and to contribute to the development of the science of occupational health and safety in Turkey.

The aim of this program is for students to gain to be able to conduct occupational health and safety issues efficiently -based on prevention and protection- in a scientific perspective, to be able to comment on the matter, to reach new synthesis, to be able to do an academic research independently; for them to be able to give lectures in the level of undergraduate and graduate, to raise their knowledge and their competences on taking responsibility at national and international organizations.

Graduates of Occupational Health PhD Program may carry out service and training functions in academic institutions, public and private sector and NGOs related to occupational health and safety, particularly in central and local organizations affiliated with the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, and the Ministry of Health.

Gastronomy and Culinary Arts

Academic studies in the field of gastronomy are progressing rapidly in the world and in our country. In recent years, a wide range of researches have been carried out on defining the fields of gastronomy science and conducting scientific studies in this field. As is known, gastronomy; public health, tourism, relations between cultures and economies of countries are of great importance, especially in intercultural relations. Gastronomy has been studied for many years, but in recent years gastronomy has been developed to address not only a region but also all regions of the world. Nutrition, which is important in human health, is of great importance in the science of gastronomy. Menus and foods to be prepared without losing the quality and value of nutrients are very important in the field of gastronomy. The Master’s program in Gastronomy and Culinary Arts will pioneer scientific studies in this field in our country and will support the academic sta‑ needed in this field. The academicians who will be employed in this program are experts in gastronomy, food and nutrition fields and have educated many master and doctoral students.

Visual Communication Design

The Master’s Program in Visual Communication Design (with thesis) is an original and competent program that provides education at the level of expertise.

Increasing business volume and globalization of competition requires effective advertising-promotion-design and public relations studies to accompany digital design. The branding process and the need to create corporate identity, besides being present in social media, require using, designing, applying and putting forth products in the interactive media environment with the support of digital design tools, audiovisual-moving images and writing technologies.

The aim of the Master’s program in Visual Communication Design is; The course aims to specialize in the use of all interdisciplinary components of visual communication design, digital and interactive environments, social media, internet broadcasting, computer game platform, experimental and analytical approach to investigate, research, design and practice.

Visual communication design expertise training; scientific-artistic, aesthetic, social-cultural, economic, conceptual and mathematical aspects of research, research, creativity, originality and personality, entrepreneurship, ethics, and aims to be all people-oriented solutions. It aims to train experts in designing and managing communication systems, which enable the development and change of digital and interactive media design.

These experts and professional managers; can work in all kinds of national and international areas, public or private organizations, sector, enterprises and non-governmental organizations, competent in design and art, creative, original, experimental; they can take responsibility in areas that require management, make decisions, take risks, creatives, entrepreneurs, and take their place as people with features that can design experience.

Business Administration

The aim of our Master of Business Administration Thesis/ Non-Thesis Programs is to provide a strong foundation for graduates of different undergraduate programs and / or working in different sectors to become professional managers. The Master Business Administration with Thesis Program supports the competence of independent and original scientific research for individuals and professionals intending to pursue academic studies and PhD.

With the globalization and technological developments, professional business management competencies required by constantly changing business environments are constantly changing and updated. To comprehend the technological, socio-economic and political processes and transformation dynamics of enterprises and to capture innovations is undoubtedly very important in terms of ensuring the efficient functioning of enterprises and enterprises in total. Therefore, our program aims to meet the different career needs of executive and entrepreneurial students who will be active in private sector, public institutions and NGOs with its course and content related to the theory and practice of renewed management competencies.

Business Administration (English)

Public Law Master’s With Thesis

The Public Law Master Program is a program for those who aim to specialize in the field of public law and gain in-depth knowledge. In addition, it is designed to prepare lawyers who seek an academic career for doctoral education.

The Public Law Master Program has a rich catalog of courses covering various current and important topics that students can address according to their areas of interest, such as constitutional law, criminal and criminal procedure law, administrative law, international law and general public law.

In addition to these, those who have graduated from other faculties than law and have studies and occupations in the field of law (such as conciliators, judicial law enforcement, forensic scientists, financial advisor etc.) can also be accepted as students.

Political Science and Public Administration

Vision – Mission

The program involves teaching subjects of Public Administration, Turkish Public Administration, Comparative Public Administration, Turkey’s Political Structure, Local Administration, Local Policies, and Urbanization. The major components of our department are Political Science, Administrative Sciences and Local Governments.

Target Group:-master-with-thesis

All employees working in state organizations and institutions and in the public sector.

The Masters Program of Political Science and Public Administration with thesis constitutes at least of 7 courses, a non-credit seminar-course, and the Masters thesis. The non-credit seminar course is graded as “successful” or “unsuccessful”.

International Trade

Our International Trade Master’s Program with Thesis is for students graduating from different undergraduate programs, individuals aiming to pursue a Ph.D and professionals working in different sectors. The content of the program aims to meet the different career conditions of managers, entrepreneurs, and researchers that will operate in the private sector, public sector, universities, and NGOs.

Private Law

The Private Law Master Program has a rich catalog of courses covering various current and important topics that students can address according to their areas of interest, such as civil law, obligations law, commercial law, labor law, civil procedure law.

Physical Education and Sport Sciences

The purpose of the program; In the field of physical education and sports sciences, with a scientific researcher direction, equipped with theoretical and applied information, knowledge equipped with current technology, aware of the social and individual values of the age, able to contribute to science at the national and international level, possess creative scientific thinking, graduate and doctorate degree in the field. envisages training sports training scientists.

On top of the undergraduate level studies of Physical Education and Sports Sciences which envisages an integrated education; It is an interdisciplinary program that aims to capture the scientific thinking dimension, to perceive the concepts and applications of sports education science, to develop knowledge and skills, to create methods by synthesizing the field accumulation and to gain competence at the level of expertise in all kinds of technical subjects. In addition to the core compulsory courses, elective courses from different disciplines are also included in the program.

Science Areas Covered by Physical Education and Sports Sciences Discipline

Movement and Training Sciences

Physical Education and Sports Teaching,

Psycho-social fields in sports,

Physical Activity for the Disabled,

Sports Management and Recreation

Sports and Health

Clinical Psychology

The specialty of clinical psychology is lifelong support and assistance to individuals and society in physical, mental and social areas, in case of disruption of mental health and daily functionality.

Clinical Psychology involves a wide range of physical, psychological and social contexts of the study area, first of all it requires knowledge of the concepts related to all the fields of psychology. Therewith, mental health protection needs competent, professional staff with concept, technical and theoretical knowledge and application skills to support the individual in case of disruption in this broad framework.

The Clinical Psychology Master’s Program, conducted by the Institute of Social Sciences of Istanbul Gedik University, aims to train qualified professionals, Clinical Psychologists, to meet the increasing need in this field as well as in our country.

For this purpose,

To be aware of the principles of clinical psychology profession and ethical responsibility, sensitive to individual and intercultural differences, needs,

To be able to conduct information and protection activities for the community about mental health,

To be able to look at new ideas as well as his / her own thoughts critically and to follow the innovations in the field of clinical psychology from this critical point of view,

Observing and identifying the bio-psycho-social problems that may arise during human life,

Know and apply basic psychological assessment, psychological help and intervention techniques

By synthesizing the similarities and differences between psychotherapy approaches, learning and applying intervention techniques of a specific psychotherapy approach under supervision,

To be able to conduct and conduct research, to interpret the results of the research data, to produce new assumptions, to reflect clinical applications to the scientific field,

To be able to work within their own discipline and with other disciplines,

To train graduates who can follow the national and international literature and follow the innovations and developments in the field are the aims of the program.

The program is designed to develop the students’ theoretical knowledge and skills related to the profession of psychology.

The program includes theoretical and practical courses aiming to gain basic clinical skills in the field of mental health and compulsory courses related to scientific research methods, as well as a wide range of elective courses that students can take according to their preferences.

T.C. Istanbul Gedik University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Clinical Psychology provides students with Master’s degree level and the title of Clinical Psychologist.

Statistics and Data Science Thesis (English)

Today, almost everything has started to be measured and stored in parallel with the computer capacities strengthened by industrial and technical advances. The analysis of large numbers of data collected and the elimination of uncertain mechanisms in events have always been the tasks of Mathematical-Statistics Science. Obtaining data-based information gained importance and Data Science techniques were created in order to take precautions and make predictions about the future according to the analysis made by instantly evaluating the collected data. As a combination of disciplines such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Engineering, Data Science has become more important and popular than ever before. As a result of these developments, the world's leading universities have added Data Departments to their Master's programs. Data Science includes methods at the intersection of computational AI process, machine learning, statistics and database systems. Graduates of these Master's Programs around the world easily find jobs in business, government, financial services, biology, medicine, risk and intelligence, science and engineering, and data mining. Istanbul Gedik University Data Science Master's Program, unlike its counterparts, focuses not only on Data Science Techniques, but also attaches importance to Data Analysis theory. As it is known, there is no theory without practice and no practice without theory. On the other hand, when mathematical-statistical information is given only as pure theory, it cannot raise problem-solving staff in practice.

Metallurgy and Materials Engineering

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department, one of the oldest departments of Istanbul Gedik University, which was established in 2010, has been contributing to our country and international scientific literature with the projects and academic studies developed by the students it has trained, as well as the faculty members and their assistants since the year it was founded. In this context, Istanbul Gedik University, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department, which is constantly expanding and incorporating faculty members from different disciplines, is a department that develops both in education and research. The engineering education provided by our department has been accredited by the Engineering Education Programs Evaluation and Accreditation Association (MÜDEK) as of 2020. We want to take this experience and knowledge gained by our department in education and research over the years a step further with our Master's Education. In this way, we aim to bring to the industry the expert and highly trained manpower needed in order to develop today's technologies, especially in our country and in the world. The Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Thesis Master's Program aims to train researchers who will contribute to the production and dissemination of new technologies in academic and industrial fields, and have a deep knowledge of material design, manufacturing, analysis and synthesis. On this occasion, the program carries out its studies with a sector-oriented and interdisciplinary approach. In our program, Surface Treatments, Electrometallurgy, Casting Methods, Polymer Technologies, Laser Material Processing, Sintering Theory, Inspection Methods in Welded Structures and so on. There are many courses that are carried out together with applied work in both metallurgy and materials fields, such as Our graduates have the opportunity to find jobs in many sectors that produce machinery industry, polymer materials, ceramic materials, composite materials, advanced technology materials, biomaterials, nanomaterials, especially iron and steel, automotive, defense, aerospace, welding and casting sectors.

Civil Engineering (English) Thesis

Political Science and International Relations (English) Thesis

Our aim with the Master's Program in Political Science and International Relations (English) at Istanbul Gedik University is to provide our students with the skills to acquire knowledge and skills in their own fields, to conduct scientific research individually or as a member of a group, to access information, to evaluate and interpret information. With this program, our students who want to carry their academic education to the master's level will be able to specialize in certain areas by choosing different elective courses according to their interests and the sectors they want to work in. With the Master's Thesis they will write at the end of the program, they will reinforce their knowledge and experience and develop their skills of synthesizing theory and practice. Our graduates will be able to find various job opportunities in international organizations, non-governmental organizations, public institutions, national and international companies and academia, thanks to their knowledge in Political Science and International Relations and their advanced command of English.

Artificial Intelligent Engineering

Artificial Intelligence Engineering develops engineering applications that mimic human behavior and intelligence using machine learning algorithms and deep learning methods. Today, in the world where technology and information age is experienced and digitalization makes its importance felt very much, there is a great need for high artificial intelligence engineers. The vision of our Artificial Intelligence Engineering Master's Program is to train qualified field personnel in our country and abroad by providing the necessary knowledge to individuals who will do research in the technological sense, as well as to contribute to the training of high artificial intelligence engineers who can lead the studies to be done. Our students acquire knowledge and skills related to topics such as advanced machine learning algorithms, data mining, big data analysis, statistics, information management and security, and various software programs.

Obstetrics and Gynecology Nursing Thesis

Obstetrics and Gynecology Nursing Master's Program with Thesis aims to train graduate students who are equipped with advanced knowledge and skills, who can incorporate evidence-based nursing approaches into their care processes, and who are open to research and scientific studies. The main goal of the program is to have the skills to reach information, present information, share and discuss; To educate graduates who are open to innovations, who can produce solutions by applying up-to-date analytical tools, who have professional and ethical values, and who have strong communication skills. General view of women's health, pregnancy process and self-care, fetal evaluation, risky situations related to pregnancy, situations that make pregnancy risky, normal and risky birth, normal and risky puerperium, diagnosis and treatment methods in gynecology, fertility problems. It is aimed to provide up-to-date information and skills in care of sexual health, structural problems of reproductive organs, functional problems of reproductive organs, adolescent and menopause and gynecological tumors.