Izmir University of Economics (IUE) was founded in 2001 by the Izmir Chamber of Commerce Education and Health Foundation. It is the first foundation university that aims to train creative individuals to be came entrepreneurs. The university is committed to Ataturk’s principles and reforms. Izmir University of Economics is home to state-of-the-art facilities, the university currently has 8 faculties, as well as 2 schools, 3 vocational schools, 4 graduate schools, 10 research and application centres. The school strives to provide a multicultural and welcoming learning environment; internationalization is very important, therefore the school has ERASMUS programme agreements with 171 academic partners in 26 countries and an academic cooperation protocol with 47 universities abroad. Izmir University of Economics offers a wide range of courses and degree programmes. Currently 32 different associate degree programmes, 35 undergraduate programmes, as well as 38 different graduate programmes and 9 different PhD programmes are on offer. The academic staff are highly qualified professionals, eager to pass on their knowledge in their chosen fields of expertise. The academic staff includes international professors. International staff and students are more than welcome at IUE. The courses are taught in English (except the Faculty of Law), and students have to learn a second language throughout their undergraduate studies, they can choose between German, French, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Greek and Portuguese). The school makes sure that graduates are ready for employment. The large alumni network can vouch for that. The school has already produced 8,000 alumni and today, it has 7,500 students studying towards associate degrees, in undergraduate and graduate programmes. IUE even offers 7 dual degree programmes in cooperation with State University of New York (SUNY). Associate degree programmes accept students through student selection and placement centre, the Department of Culinary Arts and Management, and the Department of Fashion and Textile Design accept students through pre-registration.
Based on the EDUopinions rankings, the Izmir University of Economics rating is 4.3. If you want to know more about this school, read the student reviews on our website.
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I was luck to have very good teachers in my university. Also my I owe my English proficiency level to my school.
The school environment was also beautiful.
I could had access any information that I needed .
I have completed both my undergraduate and graduate degrees at Izmir University of Economics. Thanks to the invaluable teaching staff of Izmir University of Economics, I gained knowledge that will help me throughout my life. If I have to say anything bad about the university, I wish there were a little more trees and green space. But I also know that this will not happen because the university’s land is small.
View moreI am satisfied with the education provided by our school. Everything is as it should be, except that there is no midterm and final week and we do not have the right to make-up exams. I think it would be appropriate to conduct more activities related to law and virtual court practices.
View moreI completed my MBA at this university. My overall GPA was 3.8 I wish I would never have enrolled in this University.
A few reasons to not enrol in this university.
1. I like the MBA department professors but the graduate department is not organized and doesn’t bother to understand your problem and try to solve it.
2. the staff have difficulty speaking English
3. if you don’t speak Turkish they would treat you entirely differently
4. the rules keep changing and every staff would follow them without asking or discussing them with the dean or university chairman.
The one thing that I would advise to those who plan to study at Izmir University of Economics is to check twice all information you get from anyone working there. Administrative staff of Graduate School of Social Sciences lack basic English skills. Moreover, they lack knowledge of the University rules! They often provide wrong information, which might have detrimental effects on your student’s status. It also happens that they loose documents that students provide.
The worst thing that the University does is changing tuition fee payments as it suits them (at least for PhD program in Political Science and IR). During my two years there, they charged me as international student first, then as Turkish student and when Turkish Lira devaluated in 2018, they started charging me as international student again. They asked for Dollars in cash only. I informed Vice Rector, Head of the Department and International Office but nobody investigated this suspicious changes. Nobody reacted. Ms Hulya Icekara from International Office first accused me that I made those payments myself and when I showed her payment history on the University website, she said “rules changed”. Potential students should know that things like this might happen depending who “rules” the University. Everything might change the day “new cadre” takes over the University.
You will not receive any kind of guidance when problems occur; the person who supposed to be a contact between international students and the University lacks basic people’s skills and treats students with no respect.
Always save the receipts of tuition payments. Take screenshots of your online student profile. You will need it when some payments disappear from your profile and you will be asked to pay missing money from your total tuition. Never give up on your rights and be persistent, otherwise they will suck all money you have. They will tell you then “it was a mistake”.
Lack of professionalism and competence results in negligence of basic duties such as opening necessary courses on time, which means a student spends longer time in the program than necessary. Nobody takes responsibility for this kind of negligence.
The positive thing is that the University have some good professors, who in fact, are too good and too accomplished to teach there.
Many students at undergraduate and master level do not speak English enough to follow the lectures and often professors need to repeat some parts in Turkish.
Izmir University of Economics does not recognize their own education. If you took some courses from them before, and then you want to come back to the program after one or two semesters, they do not recognize those courses. They ask you to take half of them again, which basically means you pay for them again!
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