Rapid globalization, evolving financial markets, and economic integration have increased the complexity of financial and economic challenges. The Department of Economics and Finance bridges these disciplines, equipping graduates with the skills and tools to analyze problems and deliver accurate, impactful solutions in this dynamic field.

The program targets candidates for managerial priorities with a strong background in applied microeconomics, macroeconomics, and finance along with thorough knowledge of Turkish and world economies. The program intends to give a vision to the candidates which would enable them to broadly analyze the economic and financial issues they would come across.

The Department of Economics offers a curriculum structured to cover both theoretical and applied aspects of the field.

The mission of the Istanbul Medipol Economics and Finance program is to provide world-class undergraduate education through a curriculum that integrates theory and practice, by a dynamic faculty who have local and international experience in both academia and industry.

The most important feature of the International Trade and Finance Department is organized with interdisciplinary educational content at the common denominator of finance, economics, and business administration. Therefore, graduates will start their careers as an individual who has the qualification to invest in the international markets as well as being a good economist who has the ability for analytical thinking.

In recent years, Turkey has taken on an increasingly significant role in the globalizing economy. Foreign investors, attracted by the financial opportunities available, have launched an ever-growing number of offices in Turkey, particularly in Istanbul.

The purpose of the program is to train students to take part in studies involving extensive observation and experimentation techniques. Collection of data on social, economic, public and other systems as well as in laboratory experiments enables them to analyse and make inferences about the behavior of such systems.

The objectives of the department are to supply an overall and comprehensive outlook on economic issues, to develop analytical skills to understand macroeconomic and microeconomic issues, to provide mathematical and statistical methods in analysing economic phenomena, to improve research skills for analysing economic and social phenomena.

In the Department of Economics, we aim to educate individuals who can understand the various economic phenomena in the economy, and use economic data and information to comment and analyze these phenomena. One of the primary aims of our education is to provide our students with necessary problem-solving skills so that they can develop solutions to economic problems of the individuals and the society by using their knowledge of economics.

Economics is often described as the study of how individuals, groups, societies make or should make choices when resources are scarce. The concepts and tools of economic analysis are increasingly used in a variety of fields such as management science or political science, government, law, or international relations.

The role of financial markets in shaping global economic architecture has gained momentum through the rapid improvements in information and communication technologies. Globalization has led to the standardization of products and technological infrastructure and thus integration and interdependence of the financial markets. Today financial transactions in banking, capital markets, and other financial services take only seconds.

Our undergraduate program provides students with a rich and rigorous foundation in all fields of economics. Equipping students with systematic and independent thinking skills is our primary goal. The courses we offer aim to strike a good balance between providing both an analytical perspective through rigorous courses in economic theory and quantitative skills geared towards policy applications.

Graduate programs in Economics are built on a common solid training in economic theory, statistical methods and econometrics, equivalent in content and rigor to the first year of top graduate programs worldwide. The flexible structure of the programs is designed to meet a wide range of student objectives. Academically oriented students are trained to attain scientific competence and conduct independent and original research conforming with the highest international standards.

The aim of our program is to establish a research and education center with high standards by following innovative economic theory and providing developments in the literature to our students. The Department of Economics values international communication with the world’s leading universities. Our target is to give our graduates the ability of understanding and analyzing the contemporary subjects and problems of the Turkish and world economy with the appropriate methods.

İbn Haldun University's Master of Arts in Economics program is expected to contribute to students coming from different undergraduate majors to gain the ability to understand and evaluate the changes in local and global economics. In addition to the core courses for two years, a variety of elective courses will allow the participants to apply theory to the current economic issues and prepare the theses. As the medium of instruction in the program is English, the graduates are expected to be employed at national and international organizations.