SWOT Analysis

    Strengths 

1. Young academic staff

2. Being a popular department

3. Various job opportunities in public and private sectors

4. Having M.A and PhD programs

5. Easy team work possibility

6. Availability of domestic and international student exchange programs

   Weaknesses

1. Small number of papers in international publications

2. Not being able to host symposiums and congress

3. Lack of enough academic staff

4. Not enough academic staff participating in EU Erasmus programs

5. Small number of national projects

6. Not enough academic staff in Administrative Sciences

7. The administrative workload causing difficulty for academics to allocate time to scientific research

8. Insufficiency in the number of academics working in the field of law.

9. Many students who have not received education in the field of social sciences due to the removal of the university entrance exam barrier enrolling in the program.

10. A very low number of professors.

   Opportunities

1. Having junior academic staff who will have upper academic title within short term

2. Having various job opportunities

3. Good and effective communication with other disciplines and departments and respect

4. Capacity to cooperate with universities on abroad

   Threats

1. Lack of cultural and social activities of the city and facilities for academic staff

2. Not completing to be an international department according to EU standarts

3. Not having EU students within Erasmus programmes

4. Declining number of qualified students