Public Relations and Publicity

Public Relations and Publicity Department, which started its academic activities by taking its first students in 1999, is among the most favored majors in the field of communication in Turkey.

Our department provides education-teaching with its distinguished academic staff. In addition, industry's leading experts come together with our students through lectures and / or seminars.

As Public Relations and Publicity Department, our mission is to educate a businessperson who can use Turkish well and know a foreign language satisfactorily, follow professional developments, think creatively and in a versatile manner, interpret the subject and issues related to the field from a critical perspective, and adhere to professional ethical values.

Our senior students can cope with internal and external communication projects with an original perspective in ordinary and extraordinary conditions by associating the theoretical knowledge they have learned during their 4-year education with research data and the necessities. They also leave as graduates who can run media planning with their communication studies, are aware of national and international legal issues framing the profession, take responsibility in social issues, express their opinions well, pay attention to health and safety issues, have high social skills, and can conduct individual and group studies across disciplines.

Our students graduate from the Department of Public Relations and Publicity by doing their internship, which is an important application area of ​​the education they receive.

Graduates at the graduation stage are obliged to design communication campaigns that can be actualized as a part of "Graduation Project" courses. They complete two different campaigns in both Fall and Spring terms with a 360 degrees approach. In addition, “Public Relations and Publicity Department Final Year Students Graduation Project Sector Jury” is held every fall and spring, which has been traditionalizing and continuing for eight years. The jury members consist of the Department Faculty Members and experts from the communication sector and our graduates working in this sector. The feedback of the jury members about the studies allows us to mutually understand the sector's expectations and to review the teaching objectives and concurrently, it is a very important experience for our students who will work in the sector. In this context, we also have cooperation agreements with many companies.

Our department has agreements with an increasing number of different universities every year as part of the Erasmus + student exchange program. Our students can spend some of their studies abroad with these exchange programs.

Our department's undergraduate program, has been entitled to be accredited on 27 February 2020 by the Communication Research Association (İletişim Araştırmaları Derneği-İLAD) which is recognized by the Higher Education Quality Board.

In addition to the four-year undergraduate education of the Public Relations and Publicity Department, there is also a Marketing Communication Master Program and a Public Relations and Advertising Doctorate Program affiliated to the Public Relations and Publicity Department within the service of Graduate Education Institute of Maltepe University.

Doç. Dr.  Gülseli Aygül ALAN

Head of Public Relations and Publicity Department