Sabancı University European Studies MA Program
provides a comprehensive study of historical and
contemporary developments in Europe, specifically
of the European integration process, from a
multi-disciplinary perspective. The students will
acquire theoretical and practical knowledge of the
European political and administrative systems as
well as historical and philosophical foundations of
modern Europe. They will also gain the necessary
skills to compete for increasing opportunities in
careers within the newly emerging institutions of
Europe as Euro-bureaucrats and policy-makers, as
representatives of and/or analysts/consultants to
governments, NGOs and the private sector in all
matters relating to the European Union.
Given Turkey's candidacy, there is a pressing need
for advancing EU studies in Turkey and generating
an awareness in the Turkish public opinion as well as
the policy-making circles about the European Union, its
decision-making procedures, its institutions. This is
reflected in the increasing demand coming from the
private sector to employ specialists who know how
decisions are made within EU and how they might be
effectively pursued and shaped. Private sector
organizations in Turkey will require all the human
resources they can find to compete in the increasingly
complex European and related global markets.
Similarly in the government sector, the prospects
of the start of accession negotiations imply an
immediately growing need for a new breed of able
and knowledgeable public servants specializing in
the European related issues.
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