Program Objectives
Office management and executive assistance; Secretarial work refers to departments that will equip you with the basic skills and core competencies required to work as a secretary.
Apart from business life and operational structures of businesses, it is a department that aims to train personnel who will take part in the implementation and follow-up of all kinds of activities that should be carried out in order to ensure that the team that keeps the business can be together and to protect organizational health.
Graduation Requirements
In the Office Management and Executive Assistant Associate Degree Program, students who have taken 120 ECTS credits and successfully completed all the courses can graduate. It is not possible to graduate with missing credits below these credits.
Students who fulfill the graduation requirements in the Office Management and Executive Assistant Associate Degree Program receive the "Office Management and Executive Assistant Associate Degree Program".
Vertical Transfer Opportunities
Students who graduated from the Office Management and Executive Assistant Associate Degree Program must take the Vertical Transfer Exam (DGS) conducted by the Measurement, Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM) in order to continue their undergraduate education from the 5th semester of formal education or open education undergraduate programs.
Students who graduate from this program can access detailed information from the Vertical Transfer to Undergraduate Education Exam (DGS) Guide for Graduates of Vocational Schools and Open Education Associate Degree Programs, which shows the undergraduate programs they can apply for within the scope of vertical transfer, the conditions of these programs and the number of students to be admitted to these programs. In this guide, there are principles and rules about how candidates can apply, how to make their undergraduate program preferences, examination, evaluation and placement procedures, the procedures to be carried out by the vocational school directorates and the units to which the open education associate degree programs are affiliated.
Students who want to complete their 2-year associate degree to 4-year undergraduate diploma with the Vertical Transfer Exam (DGS);
- Public relations
- Public relations and advertising
- Public Relations and Promotion
- Business Information Management
- Advertising and Public Relations
- Healthcare Management
- Management information systems
If they get enough points in their departments, they can complete their diploma.
In addition to these, graduates of office management and administrative assistant departments have the right to transfer to the following open education departments, which are taught in open education and / or distance education faculties of Anadolu, Atatürk and Istanbul universities, with DGS.
- Labor Economics and Industrial Relations
- Economy
- Public administration
- Finance
- Healthcare Management
- International relations
- International Trade and Logistics Management
- Business
- Hospitality Management
- Public relations and advertising
- Public Relations and Promotion
- Management information systems
Job opportunities
Those who complete the Office Management and Executive Assistant Associate Degree Program can obtain many opportunities in institutions and organizations with their strong office management and executive assistant knowledge and skills. They can work in all types of companies, from education to tourism, whether small or large, national or international, service sector or manufacturing sector.
