Abstract:

This study was conducted for the purpose of examining postgraduate theses in the field of public finance. Council of Higher Education's National Thesis Center database has been analyzed with the technique of examining 1714 undergraduate theses documents conducted in the "Public Finance", "Financial Law" and "Finance and Economics" departments the period of 2003-2017. Postgraduate theses are comparatively analyzed by the topics of  types of thesis, distribution according to years, gender distribution of thesis authors, dissertation of thesis authors, consultant distribution, consultant title distribution, jury distribution, permission status distribution, minute distribution, partial number distribution, page number averages, the most frequently used words in the headline and abstracts, the distribution of content and methods. It is aimed that this research will lead researchers to determine the content, shape and elements of study of graduate theses to be carried out in future field of public finance.

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