The graduate program in Political Science at Sabancı University provides integrated training at MA and PhD levels. It offers a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the major fields of Political Science and provides the students with a rigorous multi-dimensional conceptual framework, basic analytical tools and sound methodological training in the discipline, aiming to prepare students for a productive academic and professional life after graduation. The program covers the major fields of Political Science (Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory) with the focus on Turkish Politics, Middle East Politics, European Politics, as well as Normative Political Theory, Formal Analysis, and Public Policy.

Students take the MA so as to deepen and extend the work they have carried out at the undergraduate level, and develop their research and communication skills. In many cases, they use these attainments to enhance their careers in business, public administration, or other professions, for which the MA is an important self-standing qualification. In other cases, the MA is an essential prerequisite for those proceeding to enrollment for the PhD. Being in an integrated graduate program our students easily use their MA training as a step towards continuing for their PhD degrees.

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