OFFICE MANAGEMENT

The Office Management Program was established in1997 and aims to offer a two-year program in order to train students as qualified office managers for the business world. The Program of Office Management is the only school that is specialized in Office Management procedures in the TRNC. This program is specialized so as to provide the students with practical and comprehensive knowledge of all the basic functions of Office Management within two years. In addition, students are required to attend a 45 day summer training -industrial training, which will help to give the students practical skills in Office Management applications for their future career.

The main policy of the program is to educate students in a practical way rather than theoretically, therefore a great emphasis is being given to practical courses. Since this is a 2-year program, the courses have been designed to give the students all the knowledge and expertise necessary, which will be useful in the market. Another aim of this program is to enable students to be able to immediately enter to business market on graduating by offering the students essential knowledge of Office Management skills required by the market. It supplies industry and government with intelligent, dedicated graduates who are practically oriented, immediately useful, and capable of further personal development whether through advanced formal education or by promotion to senior job responsibility.

The curriculum of the department covers Secreterial Procedures, Applied Computer Techniques, Keyboarding, Office Machines, Accounting, Business Writing, Business and Management courses. Furthermore students are required to complete a 45 working day summer training program that aims to develop the student s practical skills in Office Management.

The graduates of this department will go into the business world and will find complete satisfaction in their progress which will lead to greater responsibilities. The students are not simply learning theoretically but learning how to operate proactively.

English Preparatory School
Since the medium of instruction is in English, students will have to study for one year in the English Preparatory School to acquire a sufficient English background in order to be able to follow the classes in the program. The students who have internationally accepted certificates to prove their English proficiency or who are successful in the English proficiency exam, presented by the Eastern Mediterranean University can directly register to the first year of the School of Computing and Technology (Office Management Program).

Admission
Those students graduating from Commercial High School and intending to enter the Office Management program, may enroll with the Preparatory School without any entrance exam. The students who have internationally accepted certificates to prove their English proficiency or who are successful in the English proficiency exam presented by the Eastern Mediterranean University can directly register to the first year of the School of Computing and Technology -Office Management Program.