Research Article / Araştırma Makalesi Cite as/ Atıf: Erdoğan, M. (2020). Türk üniversitelerinde siyaset bilimi ve kamu yönetimi bölümünün lisans ders planlarının nitel analizi. Turkish Studies - Economy, 15(4), 2001-2016. https://dx.doi.org/10.47644/TurkishStudies. 43148 Received/Geliş: 23 April/Nisan 2020 Checked by plagiarism software Accepted/Kabul: 20 December/Aralık 2020 Published/Yayın: 25 December/Aralık 2020 Copyright © INTAC LTD, Turkey CC BY-NC 4.0 Türk Üniversitelerinde Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümünün Lisans Ders Planlarının Nitel Analizi  Qualitative Analysis of Undergraduate Course Plans’ the Department of Political Science and Public Administration in Turkish Universities Melike Erdoğan ** Abstract: Public personnel is one of the basic elements for occuring public administration and doing effective public service in a country. Therefore, it is important that the sates have qualified public personnel. The states foundated departments educating and training public administration field at the undergraduate level in universities for public personnel necessity. There are states universites and foundation universities that provide training about public administration in Turkey. Public administration education is given twenty-four departments of public administration and eighty-six departments of political science and public administration in Turkey. The aim of this study is to analysis undergraduate lessons plans of political science and public administraion of selected six universities. The sample of the research is political science and public administration department of six universities established in 1992 and selected from different regions. . In this study, eight-semester-lessons plans at undergraduate level of political sciences and public administration departments of Adnan Menderes University Nazilli Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Faculty of Political Sciences, Kafkas University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Kırıkkale University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Süleyman Demirel University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences were evaluated. Syllabuses were analyzed qualitatively with MAXQDA program the method of document review. Politics, administration, city, environment, law, social, foreing language ve supportive lessons themes were made in this sudy. The findings were obtained by analysing sub-codes under these themes. As a result of analysis the evidence that there is different among local government, city and environment, politic and social sciences, management sciences, law sciences ve foreign language in the politic science and public administration’s plans obtained. Number of practical lessoons isn’t enough in their lesson plans. The number of students per academic staff is quite high. It is necessity that more academic staff should be employed and should be updated in the universities’ plans in order to a balanced distribution among the departments.  Bu çalışma 21-23 Şubat 2019 tarihleri arasında Kayseri’de gerçekleştirilen 16. Kamu Yönetimi Forumu (KAYFOR) da sunulan bildirinin genişletilmesi ve güncellenmesi sonucunda hazırlanmıştır. ** Dr. Öğr. Üyesi, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi, Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü Asst. Prof. Dr., Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Political Science and Public Administration 0000-0001-6822-7445 melike.erdogan@comu.edu.tr