Frequently Asked Questions

The Department of Public Relations and Publicity within the Faculty of Communication at Yeditepe University started accepting students in 1996 which is the year that our university was founded.

Students are admitted to the Public Relations and Publicity Department using the Central Placement Exam.

Public Relations and Publicity Department accepts students with the SÖZEL (SÖZ) score type.

The student quota of the Public Relations and Publicity Department is 63 people. From this quota, 50 students are placed in the department with 50% scholarship, 9 students with full scholarship, and 4 students on a paid basis.

The Public Relations and Publicity department is a four year formal education (eight semesters).

The language of instruction of the Public Relations and Publicity Department is 100% English. All courses and professional terms are taught in English. The English preparation procedure applied to the students who will just start Yeditepe University is also applied to the students of the Department of Public Relations and Publicity. For detailed information about our Preparatory School, please click the link.

The Department of Public Relations and Publicity trains students who will lead the communication and public relations sector with its academic staff who have proven themselves with their studies on a national and international scale. We prepare our students, who have the opportunity to study in Europe with Erasmus agreements, as well as the opportunity to do minor and double major in many different departments, as global citizen communication experts who think analytically, can produce creative solutions, are self-confident, adhere to ethical rules, and act with the awareness of their social responsibility.

Yes. As a result of the accreditation application we made to ILAD Communication Research Association in 2021, our department was entitled to receive a 5-year Accreditation Certificate. Our department is the first Public Relations and Publicity Department to win this accreditation directly for a period of five years in Turkey.

The Department of Public Relations and Publicity, under the Communication Faculty of Yeditepe University, offers a training program aimed at educating professionals who are experts in their fields, who can establish strategic relationships between institutions and their target audiences, who can use communication technologies at a high level, who can analyze social dynamics well, who are committed to professional ethical values, who can think in a global perspective and apply it locally. In the curriculum, there are courses in the fields of specialization such as political communication, internet and new media, the basic framework of the public relations and promotion discipline. Our academic staff, which consists of academics who have proven themselves with their studies on a national and international scale, and the leading names of the sector, guide our students with all their knowledge. With the workshops held regularly, students have the opportunity to apply the theoretical knowledge they have learned in the lessons.

Public relations activities are indispensable for institutions and organizations that want to maintain their communication activities, brand and reputation management with the globalizing world. For this reason, the profession of public relations and promotion has taken its place among today's favorite professions and has become one of the most preferred departments of students and will continue to consolidate this position in the future.

Public Relations and Publicity Undergraduate Program is a department that supports interdisciplinary knowledge. Therefore, our graduates who successfully complete their education can work in various professions both at Turkey and abroad. They can work in departments such as corporate communication, public relations, advertising, strategic marketing communication, brand management, human resources, public relations, advertising and social media agencies of national and international private companies, public institutions, non-governmental organizations, media and broadcasting organizations and consulting and research companies operating in different sectors. Graduates have the opportunity to work in roles such as manager, consultant, brand representative, copywriter, strategic communicator, advertising director, content manager, marketing specialist. Graduates, who also have the opportunity to direct their careers as academicians, can continue their graduate and doctoral education.

After taking the theoretical and practical courses, in which they can master the basics of public relations, in the first two years of their education, they can develop their expertise with practical courses in different branches of the field in the third and fourth grades. In this context, our curriculum consists of basic courses, field courses and elective courses. Elective courses, on the other hand, are divided into three groups as field electives that students can choose from all departments of the Faculty of Communication, free electives that they can choose from the university's elective course pool, and concentration area electives that students who want to concentrate more on a field other than communication studies can choose related to that field. You can reach the current curriculum of the Department of Public Relations and Publicity from the link below.

Yes. There is a compulsory internship course that students must complete in the 6th semester of their education. This course is spread over three days of the week and is applied as 42 working days in a semester. The internship course is completed when the student receives a P-Pass grade from the course.

In Public Relations and Publicity Department, our students can choose their internship places if they wish. Our Internship Coordinator provides support to our students who have problems in finding an internship place, in line with the intern demands of the companies.

Yes. In the Public Relations and Publicity Department students have the opportunity to do a double major with certain departments of different faculties as well as other departments in the Faculty of Communication, if they meet the relevant criteria determined by the university.

Students can apply to a double major program within the periods specified in the academic calendar, at the beginning of the third semester at the earliest, and at the beginning of the fifth semester at the latest. Please click on the link to see the list of departments where our students can do double major.

Yes. In order to apply for the minor program, the student's GPA in the major program must be at least 2.50 at the time of application. It is possible to apply for a minor program within the periods specified in the academic calendar, at the beginning of the third semester or at the earliest in the beginning of the sixth semester. Please click on the link to see the list of departments where our students can do a minor.

Our Department, which has bilateral agreements with many higher education institutions from different countries within the scope of Erasmus+ and Exchange programs, attaches great importance to student mobility, and in this context, it welcomes many students from various world universities every semester and sends students to these universities.

Students who want to apply for the international exchange program and get detailed information can visit the Yeditepe University International Office  at or talk to our relevant department coordinator.

Yes. In our university, three types of lateral transfers are possible: according to the GPA within the institution, between the institutions and according to the central placement score.

Applications for lateral and vertical transfers are made within the periods specified in the academic calendar. You can access the details regarding the horizontal and vertical transition conditions.

Students can benefit from 100% and 50% scholarship opportunities depending on their success in the central placement exam. A total of 94% of our department students receive scholarships. In addition, Yeditepe University supports its students with various scholarship programs such as management scholarships and sportsmanship scholarships. You can get detailed information about departments and scholarship opportunities from the link

Yeditepe University has dormitories for boys and girls with a bed capacity of 3,409 in 26 August Settlement. Detailed information about the campus and social life

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Yes. Communication Agency İLA, operating within the Faculty of Communication and equipped with new technologies, serves as an important application area for students.

Yes, our students can take foreign language courses such as Spanish, German, Chinese and Russian as elective courses. Most of the foreign language courses are taught by native speakers.

Yeditepe University Department of Public Relations and Publicity aims to encourage its students to participate in social responsibility activities with its philosophy of service to society and to enable them to have an instructive and creative education process that is intertwined with the society. In line with the updates made in the undergraduate program of the department in 2007, our students must successfully complete the Social Responsibility Project for Graduation in order to be eligible for graduation. Within the scope of this course, students carry out social responsibility projects that will contribute to the university's establishing sustainable relations with its immediate environment every year. Some of the social responsibility projects realized in this context are as follows:

-   Intergenerational Solidarity Project from 7 to 77

Within the scope of the Project and with the lead of our Founding President of the Department, Prof. Dr. Ayseli Usluata, our students met with the elderly in Kayışdağı Darülaceze. Our students visited the Darülaceze residents at different times of the day every week and spent quality time with them by organizing various activities.

-   We're Breaking the Walls!

Within the scope of the Project and under the supervision of our Founding Head of the Department, Prof. Dr Ayseli Usluata, our students gave lessons in various fields to the children of families residing in Kayışdağı who continue their primary education and helped them with their school education. Thanks to the project, the children, on the one hand, adopted their university sisters and older brothers as role-models, on the other hand, they gained new skills and discovered themselves through activities in fields such as painting, music, English and basketball. Our students, on the other hand, witnessed the teaching profession's ability to "break down the walls" throughout the project, and gained experience in volunteering by gaining a more sensitive view of their environment. 

-   Hello to life

Our students, who took part in the "Hello to Life" project carried out by the International Life Association, visited Ataşehir Yunus Emre Special Education and Application Center at regular intervals and helped with the projects made by the disabled students here. The aim of this project was to ensure the occupational, educational, social and cultural harmony of the disabled and/or disadvantaged groups in the society.

The Career Development and Alumni Communication Directorate within our university supports our students and graduates in their personal development processes and in planning their career journeys that will begin with their graduation, as well as making various suggestions, helping and guiding them to create their own opportunities. Experts and industry representatives who will guide our students in their future planning are invited to the Career Week organized every year. In addition, our academic program is renewed at regular intervals in line with the recommendations of our departmental advisory board members. Thus, it is aimed that our students have the equipment to adapt to the changing world and business life.