Faculty of Business and Administrative Sciences

Designed to train future business professionals and entrepreneurs, the Okan Business program is being implemented in Istanbul, a natural Business laboratory, in a way that combines theory and practice in business education. Based on the principle of building the realities of business life together with business life on a strong theoretical infrastructure, the modular business education structure aims to offer positive advantages to Okan Business graduates.

Business education has gained special importance depending on the developments in the global and Turkish economy and business world. Economic-political and technological changes are differentiating new business models and career opportunities. The most important feature of future managers will be their ability to "adapt to and manage change".

Okan Basic principles of business education

• Academic program design specific to future-oriented business needs
• Focused on developing basic managerial and leadership competencies
• Creating a solid theoretical infrastructure with a strong academic staff
• Modular program application with rich sub-specialization areas
• Branded elective field courses given together with sector stakeholders
• An approach centered on innovation and entrepreneurship
• Providing management infrastructure suitable for the 4th Industrial Revolution
• Offering internship and job opportunities to students with COOPerative Learning-Workplace Education during the education phase
• Differentiating with internationalization relations and solutions
• Gaining work experience in a simulation environment and using a permanent learning model
• Providing values of social responsibility at a level of consciousness that can contribute to the formation of a sustainable future
• Raising competent graduates who have learned how to learn, have the success of producing innovative solutions, high communication skills and self-confidence

Our academic program aims to help our students; It consists of courses that aim to shape basic managerial and leadership competencies, courses and practices focused on developing intellectual and multicultural competencies, and modular courses in rich sub-specialty areas suitable for the field of interest and the targeted sector. Sub-specialty areas that our Business Department students can choose in their education:

• Finance
• Accounting and auditing
• Marketing
• International business
• Supply chain and logistics management
• Entrepreneurship

A one-year English Preparatory program is mandatory in our program, and starting from the third year, one of Russian, German, Arabic or Chinese is offered as a second foreign language option. In order to use modern educational technologies, TradeMaster Finance Lab. and Business Strategy Lab. have been opened to our students.

Believing that the success of our graduates in their careers and lives is the real accreditation of our department and program, we experience the pleasure and pride of training competent entrepreneurs and professionals with our student-focused and business-integrated program.