KAYSERİ VOCATIONAL COLLEGE

       This school was founded in 1975 under the management of the Ministry of Education; It started enrolling students in the 1975-1976 Academic Year and in 1981 it was transferred to Erciyes University.

       The college moved to the main university campus in the 1986-1987 Academic Year and has been using its own building in the campus since the 1991-1992 Academic Year. The Kayseri Vocational College is included in the HEC-World Bank “Improving the Vocational Colleges Project”.

       The college provides teaching-learning service with the opportunities provided by HEC- World Bank with 20 modern equipped studios and laboratories, with staff who know the needs of the industry and the business environment and have had experience abroad.

       The college consists of two departments, the Technical Programs Department and the Economics and Business Administration Programs Department.


TECHNICAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT

       A curriculum of theoretic and practical lessons mainly related to the profession is applied for two years on this program. Our students have an eight-week industry based teaching study every academic year. Students who are successful in all their lessons and in a sixteen–week industry based teaching study and are awarded a diploma and the title of technician. Our graduates as a technician are equipped with the knowledge and skills to serve the needs of the industry.


ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT

       A curriculum of theoretical and practical lessons mainly related to the profession is applied for two years at this program. Our students who fulfill the requirements to graduate have a 40-workday apprenticeship related to their branch and can then graduate from their department as an expert.

       Our aim is to meet the deficit of skilled staff of Turkey in these professions and to increase the productivity of our state and private sector by training our students as expert. Most of our graduates can easily find employment in the state and private sectors in Kayseri and anywhere in Turkey.


YOZGAT VOCATIONAL COLLEGE

       This college was founded under the management of the Ministry of Education in the 1976-1977 Academic Year and transferred to Erciyes University in 1982.

       The goal of the college is to train qualified man-power to the needs of our country and the graduates are able to find jobs related to their fields in both the state and private sectors.

       The college is located on an area of 400,000 square meters, and has 6,500 square meters of laboratory, studio, and administration building, 3,500 square meters of classes, 2,000 square meters of prefabricated studios and classes, a 300 square meters guest house and a 600 square meters social facilities building. It also has a football field, and volleyball and basketball courts on the premises.


HALİL BAYRAKTAR HEALTH SERVICES VOCATIONAL COLLEGE

       The Erciyes University Health Services Vocational College opened in 1989. The school moved to its new building built by Hüseyin Bayraktar from Kayseri at the beginning of the 1995-1996 Academic Year and the name of the school was changed to Halil Bayraktar Vocational College of Health Services.

       Our college serves teaching-learning facilities at seven programs. The education course is two years (four semesters), and those who are successful at the end of this period are awarded a diploma with the title of health
technician.

       Practical lessons and summer apprenticeships are carried out at Erciyes University Gevher Nesibe Hospital and at other health organizations in our city.


RADIOLOGY PROGRAM

       The aim of this program is to train staff to help the specialist using X-ray equipment during the identification and treatment of illnesses. Those who successfully graduate from the program are awarded a diploma and the title of health technician (Radiology). Graduates of the program can work at the university hospital, public hospitals and Social Health Insurance Institution hospitals or in private hospitals and clinics.


MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION AND SECRETARIAL PROGRAM

       The aim of this program is to train staff to collect data gathered by research assistants on medical and health technology branches to put them in order and serve the need of the research assistants.

       The graduates are awarded a diploma and the title of health technician (Medical Documentation and Secretarial). Graduates can find jobs at university hospitals, public hospitals, village clinics, private hospitals and clinics.


MEDICAL LABORATORY PROGRAM

       On this program students are trained to work in analysis laboratories of health organizations. Those who are successful in all lessons and in their apprentices are awarded a diploma and the title of health technician (Medical Laboratory). Graduates can carry out tests and analyses at the university, public and Social Health Insurance Institution hospitals, village clinics, private clinics and private analysis laboratories.


ANASTHESIA PROGRAM

       This program aims to train assistant health technicians to assist anesthesia specialists. Those who successfully finish the program are awarded a diploma and the title of health technician (Anesthesia). The graduates of Anesthesia program can carry out the necessary medical methods to anesthetize patients during any operation under the supervision of the anesthesia specialist.


BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM

       For the repair and maintenance of medical and other instruments and their periodic care, the health staff that will use this equipment are trained on this program. Those who are successful in all lessons and the apprenticeship are awarded a diploma and the title of health technician (Biomedical Equipment Technology).


AMBULANCE / EMERGENCY CARE TECHNICIAN PROGRAM

       Emergency care technicians who carry out emergency care at a professional level outside the hospital are trained on this program. Ambulance and emergency care technicians, who are trained as multi dimensional manpower, also get their special driving license to drive the Ambulance.

       Those who graduate from this program are awarded a diploma and the title of health technician (Ambulance / Emergency Care).


AUDIOMETER PROGRAM

       The technical health staff who can determine the hearing and its deficiencies are trained on this program. The graduates of the program are awarded a diploma and the title of health technician (Audiometer). The graduates can find work under the supervision of the audiometer specialist or the ear-nose and throat specialist at audiometer clinics of state or private hospitals.


RADIOTHERAPY PROGRAM

       The staff who assist the onchology specialist during the treatment of cancer patients are trained on this program. The graduates of the program are awarded a diploma and the title of health technician.



SAFIYE CIKRIKCIOGLU VOCATIONAL COLLEGE

       Safiye Çıkrıkçıoğlu Vocational College was founded in the 1990-1991 Academic Year. It has a two year professional program which includes both theoretical but mostly practical courses. The students who complete their educational program successfully become graduates with the title of technician.

The college consists of:
Stockbreeding and Health
Meat Industry
Milk and Diary Products
Gardening-Agriculture
Poultry-breeding
Apiculture

       Our principal aim is to train qualified staff needed in these fields in Turkey and to increase the productivity in both the state and private sectors.

       The graduates may obtain employment opportunities in the Ministry of Agriculture and Village Affairs, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of the Environment, Departments of Municipality Veterinary, in the Meat and Fish Institutions, Integrated Food Industry, private livestock businesses, markets and supermarkets, and they may also set up and run their own business.

The college has research and application units in the vicinity of Karpuzatan and Yavaş.


KOCASINAN VOCATIONAL COLLEGE

       The college was founded in the 1997-1998 Academic Year with the carpet - weaving programme. The carpet-weaving programme, which carried out the first year lessons in Kayseri Vocational college, beginning with the 1998-1999 academic year was moved to the school building together with the Textile Programme that worked under the management of the same college for six years.

       As a result of the research and assessment which was carried out in the region, the carpet weaving programme proved that rugs, as much as carpets, show characteristics and differences. Therefore, with the admission of rugs into the curriculum, its name was changed to ‘Carpet-Rug’ the next year. During their education, the students learn to use the weaving types; carpet-rug, light-rug, zili and sumach techniques one by one or several together, and to identify the materials which are used.

       In the textile programme which is diverged into two branches in the second year, students are given joint vocational lessons to form textile’s base during the first year, whereas applications are carried out in computer, physics and chemistry laboratories. Students of Dye Technology investigate dyes and techniques that should practically be applied to materials like cloths and fibers, and learn about dyeing methods of various dyestuffs, application techniques of dyed material tests and laboratory color studies on different materials. Apart from application studies, students technically learn about dyeing machines and dyeing with natural stuff. Thus, they are shown a wide perspective by comprehension of a dyeing technique and the possibility of dyeing techniques for other kinds.

       Through education, students in the Computer Assisted Design Programme interrogate and examine the design concept and improve themselves by means of remarkable practices. They have the ability of understanding the contemporary technology and applying their designs to computer medium. After analyzing Kayseri and its surroundings, it is understood that although the city has a high potential it lacks qualified personnel and our college responds to this requirement by training students in graphic design. Students study design principles, basic art concepts, computer hardware and the usage of softwares, photography and graphic design and are trained in application workshops as well as computer assisted design laboratories.

       Graduates can be employed in enterprises that develop graphic adjustments, and industrial products that conduct animation activities as well as textile sector.


NEVŞEHİR VOCATIONAL COLLEGE

       The Nevşehir Vocational College has a 7,500 m2 closed area on the Erciyes University Nevşehir Campus, and has an associate degree institution in the city of Nevşehir which has 22 classrooms and 6 labaratories.

       In this college, there are five programs in the Department of Economics and Administration, and eight programs in the Technical Programs Department.


Department of Economics and Administration Programs;

- Office Administration and Secretarial Skills
- Marketing
- Tourism and Hotel Management
- Tourism and Travel Management
- Accounting (Evening Classes)

Technical Programs Department ;

- Electrical Program (Eve. Clas.)
- Industrial Electronics (Eve. Clas.)
- Machinery (Eve. Clas.)
- Automotive (Eve. Clas)
- Textile (Eve. Clas.)
- Hand-made Arts (Eve. Clas.)
- Graphics (Eve. Clas.)
- Furniture and Decoration (Eve. Clas.)

       Students who graduate from the Department of Economics and Administration Programs are given the title of “Vocational Personnel”, and those who graduate from the Technical Programs Department are given the title of
“Technician”.