Higher education policies and their effects on institutional success

This dissertation aims at exploring the linear correlation between financepolicies used by faculties and faculty success rates. From this point, the relationbetween individual budgets of the faculties and success rates of undergraduate studentsat KPSS (Civil Servants Selection Exam) have been taken into consideration and acomperative analysis has been made.By taking into consideration the published data related to the total resources ofuniversities, placement grades of students taken from ÖSS (Student Selection Exam)and KPSS grades, this study can be classified as descriptive from the quantitativeresearch methods, and document analysis from the qualitative analysis methods. SPSS(Statistical Packages For Social Scienses)13.1 package program has been used for thedecoding of the data. ANOVA, t test, frequency analysis and REGRESSION (linear)analysis have been used for the analysis of data.In the first section of this dissertation, the concept of higher education and itsinstitutional frames, higher education institutes in Turkey and its types, aims,responsibilities and functions and historical development of higher education in Turkeyhas been studied.In the second section, higher education finance policies and methods in Turkey,financing and operating higher education in some European countries, financialstructure of higher education in Turkey, higher education allocations of the total budgetfrom 1980 to 2005 and legal acts about financing higher education, decisions in thedevelopment plans ve National Education Advisory Board Assembly aims havesummarized.In the final section, gathered data is analyzed and it is seen that faculty budgetsinfluence KPSS (Civil Servants Selection Exam) success.Key words: Higher education in Turkey, financing higher education, finance policies,success of instutitions