SWOT ANALYSIS

Strengths

 The fact that students prefer the Guidance and Psychological Counseling undergraduate program (the quota is 100% filled every year),

 Graduates can find jobs,

 Sending students to various European countries (such as Poland, Spain, Slovenia) every year through Erasmus,

 Opportunity for graduate students who have completed their undergraduate education,

 Diversity of academic staff's areas of expertise (career counseling, school counseling, family, marriage and couple counseling),

 Instructors have training in systemic psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychodrama, acceptance and determination therapy,

 Teaching staff to have experience abroad,

 The faculty members have a large number of publications in international (SSCI) peer-reviewed journals.

 Existence of an Optional Foreign Language Preparatory Program to be carried out at the School of Foreign Languages.

Weaknesses

 Lack of a doctoral program,

 No students coming from abroad to the undergraduate program through Erasmus,

 Inadequate psychological counseling rooms required for practice courses,

 Inability to organize events such as symposiums and congresses at the domestic and international level,

 Insufficient number of projects,

 Insufficient number of faculty members.

Opportunities

 Having the capacity to open a doctoral program,

 Instructors and students have the capacity to cooperate with universities abroad

Threats

 Very high student quota (70 or 80 per year)