Our institute, which is intended to conduct postgraduate education, scientific research and practice in related disciplines, was established in 2007 with Law No. 5662. The first director was appointed on 17.09.2008.

In the fall semester of the 2009-2010 academic year; Department of History, Master of Science Program, Department of Business Administration Master`s Program, Master of Business Administration Non-thesis Master`s Program, students started to teach.    

The first graduates of our institute were given 10 people in the spring semester of 2010-2011 academic year.    

In 2011-2012 Academic Year Fall Semester; 2011-2012 Academic Year Spring Semester, Department of Economics Master of Science with Thesis; 2013-2014 Fall Semester in Philosophy Master of Science Program; 2014-2015 Academic Year Spring Semester, Turkish Language and Literature Department Master Program with Thesis and 2015-2016 Academic Year Fall Semester Geography Department Master Program with Thesis, 2016-2017 Academic Year Information and Document Management Master Program in Fall Semester , 2016-2017 Academic Year Fall Semester Ph.D. Program in Geography, 2017-2018 Academic Year Fall Semester, Sociology Master of Science Program, 2018-2019 Academic Year Fall Semester, Information and Document Management Doctoral Program, Fall 2018-2019 Academic Year In the semester of 2018-2019 Academic Year, students were admitted to the Ph.D. Program in Information Management and Geography.     

As of 2018-2019 Academic Year Spring Semester, 755 graduate students and 45 doctoral students are