Faculty of Economics | International Relations (English)

The graduates of International Relations Bachelor Degree Program are employed at a wide variety of jobs in different career areas such as public and private sectors, international organizations, universities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), media corporations and banking sector.

The career that has priority for the graduates of International Relations is the diplomatic mission. The graduates are assigned the title “diplomat”. They can be employed as attaché, consul, consul general and ambassador. They are employed as officials and specialists responsible for foreign affairs of our country at public institutions firstly at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Trade and Ministry of Industry and Technology. Also our graduates are preferred to be employed at the “Directorates of Foreign Affairs, Directorates of European Union and Foreign Affairs” at the other ministries and public institutions.

Another career field where mostly IR graduates are employed is the international organizations. At United Nations (UN) and its affiliated institutions like UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, UNCHR their central offices abroad and representative offices in Turkey graduates are employed. Also they can work as specialists and consultants at international financial institutions like the World Bank and IMF and at international NGOs.

At the private sector, one of the fields IR graduates are preferred is banking and financial sector. They can work at big corporations and small and medium sized enterprises as administrators, consultants and specialists. Especially at multinational corporations (MNCs) and firms that have foreign trade relations, our graduates are mostly preferred.

A significant number of IR graduates can prefer to study at postgraduate programs such as Masters and PhD degree programs and have academic career at national or international institutions. Besides higher education institutitons they have job opportunities at think tanks that conduct academic research in the country and abroad. They can work as administrators and project coordinators at NGOs; specialists and researchers at think tanks and research centers.