Abstract:

Education Faculties of the universities in Turkey, Department of Social Studies Education (DSSE) intended to examine the different variables of this research, the case study qualitative research methods was conducted as part of the method. The scope of the research is the state universities in Turkey. The criterion here is the state universities, which are DSSE within the Faculty of Education. Research; 2019 was made in January and February. The data were taken from the Higher Education Council (YÖK) Academic, YÖK Atlas, YÖK Thesis Screening and official web pages of universities. Descriptive analysis method and SPSS 25 package program were used for data analysis. According to the survey of 129 universities in Turkey the moment there are 67 DSSE. 60 of these 67 universities have undergraduate programs, 50 of them have master's degree programs, and 19 have doctoral programs. A total of 523 academic staff, 153 women and 370 men, work in universities with Social Studies Education (SSE). When the staff titles of the teaching staff are examined; most of them are Assistant Professor Doctor, then Associate Professor Doctor. The teaching staff is more specialized in Social Studies Education and History. The minimum number of students enrolled in the DSSE is in Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University (97), and the highest number of students is at Pamukkale University (419). The minimum number of students per lecturer is Muş Alparslan University (15.1), and the highest is Siirt University (99.7). There are 17.076 registered students in DSSE in August 2018 data.  

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