Strenghts
1. Being a model in sports science
2. Academic staff quality
3. Training program understanding and trends
4. Relations with national institutions
5. Student selection criteria and approach
6. Internet and databases
7. Young faculty staff
8. Taking place in a fast-growing university
9. Adequacy of classrooms and indoor sports hall
10.Our periodicals (Journal of Sports Sciences)

Weaknesses
1. Lack of importance and support of the university administration for research.
2. Limited number of faculty members and assistants
3. Open space facilities
4. Facility technical infrastructure
5. Low quality and limited number of students applying for undergraduate and graduate education
6. Limited quota for the employment of graduates
7. Limited number of Sports Clubs in the city
8. Lack of mission statement in employees working in sports related units

Opportunities
1. Different disciplines of the sports are attractive.
2. Intense public interest in sports.
3. Health and fitness awareness is constantly being improved.
4. Presence of the faculty members that will have a higher academic degree soon.
5. Development of sport and recreation awareness in the society.
6. European Union relations and compliance activities.
7. Capacity for doctorate programs
8. Good relations with the National Sports Associations and Institutions
9. Our university emphasis on education and research
10. Budget increase of TUBITAK for research projects
11. Effective communication with other departments and prestige in social terms.
12. Capacity to collaborate with oversea universities

Threats
1. Large numbers of sports management departments has been founded.
2. Priority is not given to program students in employment
3. Uncertainities related to Sports Colleges and efforts forHigher Education Law amendment.
4. Budget and staff allocation restrictions of government.
5. Unemployment proplems due to the new sports departments.
6. Decrease in academic career demand due to low salaries.
7. The fact that sports science is a multidisciplinary field is not taken into account in the institutes