NEVŞEHİR COLLEGE OF TOURISM AND HOTEL MANAGEMENT

       The Tourism and Hotel Management Department of the college was founded in 1984 and the Tourism Guidance Consultant Departmant founded in 1996.


Tourism and Hotel Management Department
       The program is designed to train administrative personnel for multi-functional modern hotels, restaurants and tourist resorts to fulfill all kinds of requirements, in accordance with the comtemporary tourism concept.

Tourism Guidance and Consultant Department
       This program is designed to train guidance consultants who can inform local and foreign tourists about nature and cultural assets of Turkey.

       The education of the college is supported by a computer laboratory, a language laboratory, Internet facilities, more than 3,500 books, 15 periodical magazines,as well as countless catalogues and journals.

       Social, cultural and sports activities are conducted on a regular basis.

       Students have the oppotunity to find employment in both the private and public state sectors.

       Graduates can find work in hotels, catering services, travel agencies, the Ministry of Tourism, private banks, other private and public enterprises and museums.


PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS COLLEGE

       The Pysical Education and Sports Department was founded in the 1991-1992 Academic Year as a department under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. After a decision accepted in 1995, it was renamed the Pysical Education and Sports College. Three departments and five sub-branches were introduced. Students can enroll only in the Physical Education and Sports Trainership Departments. Educational activities are temporarily carried out in gymnasiums and buildings in the Sümer street campus until its buildings are built on the main campus. The gymnasiums and buildings on the main campus are also used when necessary.

       The education and training given to students at this college is designed to train teachers in physical education and sports for all grades as well as pysical education centers.

       The college annually accepts students through preregistration and special skills exams.

       On graduation, students are given the title of “Physical Education and Sports Teacher.”

       Graduates can be appointed as teachers in schools of the Ministry of Education, in private schools, in enterprises of Directorate General of Youth and Sports, universities, and sports clubs.


KAYSERİ ATATÜRK HEALTH COLLEGE

       The Kayseri Atatürk Health College was founded in the 1997-1998 Academic Year with undergraduate programs of Midwifery and Nursing. As well as these departments, the Nutrition and Dietary Department was opened in the 1998-1999 Academic Year.

       The Departments of Midwifery and Nursery graduated their first students at the end of 2000-2001 Academic Year. The Nutrition and Dietary Department graduates its first students at the end of the 2002-2003 Academic Year.

       The education and training given is designed to train individuals who are equipped with relavant basic knowledge and skills including group work ability, and who have analysis, synthesis and design abilities as well as life-long learning habits.

       After four years of the undergraduate program in the Nursing Department, the students receive the title of “Nurse” and are given diplomas. Graduates of the department can be appointed to state health centers and they can find work in the private centre, as well.

       After four years of the undergraduate program in the Midwifery Department, the students receive the title of “Midwife” and are awarded diplomas. Graduates of the department can be appointed in primary health services as well as family planning clinics of health centers.

       The Nutrition and Dietary Department trains dieticians after four years of education. Graduates can find jobs in all kinds of enterprises that have nutrition services,in health centers, community homes for children and the elderly, maternal and child care centers, places that have general nutrition systems like factories, hotels and restaurants, and also in private nutrition dietary centers.


NEVŞEHİR HEALTH COLLEGE

       The Nevşehir Health College was founded in the 1997- 1998 Academic Year with a Nursing Department in Nevşehir city center. There is a total of 184 students at the college.

       The college benefits from the academic personnel of Erciyes University Faculty of Medicine for the basic lessons in medicine, and the academic personnel of the Nevşehir Tourism and Hotel Management Department assists with the basic tourism lessons which are included in the program to train tourism health nursing . The practical work of the vocational lessons are carried out in laboratories and classrooms in our college, as well as in health centers in Nevşehir, the State Hospital, SSK Hospital, A.Ç.S. Center, Public Health Laboratory, and the summer apprenticeships are carried out at Erciyes University Hospital, Kayseri. Student clubs within the college are organised in order to support students’ pysco-social development and to increase social intrection.

       The college, with its four years of undergraduate program, continues to train qualified health personnel in line with its targets by continous development and hence improvement.

       Graduates may be appointed as nurses in all kinds of health services and they can also find employment in the private health sector.


YOZGAT HEALTH COLLEGE

       The Yozgat Health College was founded in the 1997-1998 Academic Year, enrolling 31 students in the Nursing Department and graduated its first graduates in the 2000-2001 Academic Year.

       The education is carried out in accordance with the necessities of the age in 12 classrooms and fully equipped laboratories. There is a television, a video, a slide machine, a data show, a projection, an episcope, a microscope, and various sketches in the rooms in which practical courses are carried out. There is also a computer laboratory, consisting of 25 computers, in which computer skills lessons take place. In the school library there are over 3,000 books, including journals and research books on health and general knowledge.

       In the colleges there are both theoretical and practical classes. The practical lessons take place in the Yozgat State Hospital, Maternity Hospital, Rural Health Centers, the Mother and Children Care and Family Planning Center and Social Services Department.

       The aim of the college is to educate health staff with a master’s degree in accordance with the necessities of the times. Since there is only a nursing department in the college, it contributes to the formation of a healthy society by educating professional nurses in order to increase the quality of nursing so that our patients can be cured quickly and to protect healthy people.

       The graduates of the college are likely to find work in both state and private health centers.


CIVIL AVIATION COLLEGE

       The Civil Aviation Vocational College was transferred into Civil Aviation College on 17.05.2002. The college consists of three departments; Aviation Power – Plant, Aviation Fuselage, and Aviation Electronics.

       The Aviation Power-Plant and Aviation Electronic Departments were established in the 2001-2002 Academic Year.

       The education period is 5 years including one year of English at the School of Foreign Languages. The main aim of the college is to train technicians who know a foreign language and who are informed and skilled in the area of aviation.

       The education is carried out by professors of other faculties and colleges and by experts of the Second Aviation Reinforcement Maintenance Commandant and the Twelfth Aviation Transmission Main Installation ommandant.

       The facilities of the command of the Second Aviation Reinforcement Maintenance Center are used for practical classes.

       In the college there is an electronic laboratory, mechotronics laboratory, air tunnel laboratory, computer laboratory, a machine workshop, a library and a conference room.

       At the end of every academic year, every student has a practical training which lasts 80 working days in institutions and installations such as THY,TAT,TET, military installations which serve aircraft and civil airways.

       Sometimes foreign professors come to our college to give a week based lecture programme.

       The graduates are likely to find jobs in THY, private airways and in the repair and maintenance centers of ilitary installations.


SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

       Students who have won a place at the Medical Faculty, the Faculty of Architecture, the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, the Civil Aviation College, the Tourism and Hotel Management Department of Kayseri Vocational College must learn English for one year at the School of Foreign Languages prior to attending classes in their faculty/college.

       Students who are enrolled in one of the above mentioned faculties or colleges and do not want to spend one year learning English must take the proficiency exam. If they pass this exam, they have the right to continue in their faculties/colleges. However, if they do not, they have to learn English for one year at the School of Foreign Languages.

       The aim of the programme carried out in the preparatory classes is to prepare the students for the foreign language courses that they take in their faculties by providing them with the basic knowledge and skills of a foreign language such as listening, speaking, reading and writing and to enable them to gain the skill of following scientific and technological developments in their chosen field.

This school is located in an area of 5,500 square meters and has the following:
- an Internet room
- a closed circuit TV / Video room
- an intercom system (A central sound system that makes it possible to give a listening exam in the 55 classes at the same time)
- an internet cafe
- a conference hall for 300 people. (Every week an original English film is shown to students with the aim of improving their listening skill )
- 55 classrooms (maximum 22 students in each classroom)
- a cafe