ECONOMICS

Internship is compulsory for all students studying in Economics Turkish Undergraduate Program and Economics 100% English Undergraduate Program. Below is what you need to know about the internship. There is also information on how the internship process will progress.

Things to Know About Internship

• The duration of the compulsory internship for the department of economics is 20 working days.
• You can do your compulsory internship from the end of the second year (4th semester).
• You do not have to do your internship only during the summer period. You can do your compulsory internship from the end of the second year in the summer or during the semester breaks.
• You have the opportunity to do your internship in the summer term at the end of the 4th grade. You can do internship until the fall semester course registrations start.
• You cannot both take courses and do internships during the semester.
• On the days you do your internship, you have to work full-time at the institution or company where you do your internship. Part-time studies are not considered compulsory internships.
• You have to find the company or institution where you will do your internship. Also T.C. You can also take advantage of the Presidential Talent Gate.
• Your internship advisor is the same person as your course advisor. You can find out who your advisor is through the Student Information System.

Internship Process

When you decide to do the internship, you must complete your compulsory internship by following the steps below:

1. After completing and signing the Mandatory Internship Form (Zorunlu Staj Formu), he/she will make approved it by the institution where he/she will be doing internship, the President of the Internship Commission and the Faculty Secretariat, and then he/she will submit it to the Faculty Secretariat along with three photographs and photocopies of his/her identity card.
2. Fills and signs the Health Aid Declaration and Undertaking (Sağlık Yardımı Beyan ve Taahhütnamesini) and submits it to the Faculty Secretariat.
3. Every student who will do internship must make sure that he/she has an insurance against work accidents and occupational diseases, in case of being a non-dependent student, one must take out employment insurance together with work accident insurance to be covered by general health insurance, otherwise his/her internship will be deemed invalid.
4. He/she starts his/her internship by submitting the Internship Evaluation Form (Staj Değerlendirme Formu) to the institution where he/she will do the internship (When the internship is completed, this document will be approved by the workplace internship officer and sent to the internship advisor in a signed and sealed envelope).
5. The student fills in the internship book (staj defteri) daily during the internship.
6. At the end of each month of internship, the student submits the Internship Scoring Chart (Staj Puantaj Cetveli) completed and signed by the workplace to the Faculty Secretariat on the 3rd working day of the following month at the latest.
7. At the end of the internship, the following documents are submitted to the internship advisor in full:
   • Internship book
   • Internship Evaluation Form (When the student starts the internship, this form is given to the institution where he/she will do the internship. When the internship is completed, this document is approved by the workplace internship officer and sent to the internship advisor in a signed and sealed envelope.

Forms to be filled during the internship:

You can find the internship forms here.