BUSINESS DEPARTMENTS OF STATE UNIVERSITIES IN TURKEY: LAST FIVE YEARS, CURRENT SITUATION AND FORECASTING FOR THEIR FUTURE

In recent years, when increasing numbers of universities all across the country and accordingly increasing the number of university faculties and departments and rising unemployment rate considered together, a threatening phase will arise about future of some departments in higher education. This future concern has become a common issue intensely in business departments. In the first part of the study, preference percentages, placements of success, minimum and maximum scores and filling rate of quotas in business departments of state universities between 2010 - 2014 are analyzed. According to last five years of business departments are examined and suggestions have been developed with predictions for its future. Second part of the study contains forecasting for business department using the first part’s parameters which are preference percentages, placements of success, minimum and maximum scores and filling rate of quotas. Linear regression model has been applied as a forecasting method for the study and those results have been compared with actual data. Ultimately, future of business department, which should be highly favorable, will be displayed and necessary precautions have been mentioned which have to be done immediately.