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Social work, aiming to solve the problems that occur in people's interactions with their environment, to strengthen and liberate people, is an applied professional and academic discipline based on human rights, social justice, and respect for diversity. It carries out applications at the micro (individual), mezzo (family and group), macro (organization, community, and society) level based on eclectic knowledge and the theories and approaches it produces to increase the problem-solving capacity of people, to solve socioeconomic and psychosocial problems, and to prevent social risks and makes significant contributions to people's biopsychosocial well-being and public welfare.

The aim of the four-year social work degree program is to train students who have acquired the knowledge, skills, and values of social work within the framework of a generalist social work approach and who can integrate social work theories and approaches with social work practices in a protective-preventive, curative and rehabilitative dimension, and who can conduct research on social problems and their solutions to ensure human and public welfare.

Students who graduate from the program receive the title of "Social Worker".  Education and training activities in the Undergraduate Program of Social Work have been formed to prepare students for the future work environment for social work practices. A practice-based learning model is aimed in line with the level of expertise gained in the field of social work. Social work department consists of elective courses mainly such as  (introduction to social work, human behavior and social environment, social work theory and practices,  interview principles of social work and techniques, human rights, social work legislation) courses required for generalist social work practices, elective courses such as (social work for the disabled, rural problems and social work, social work in the army),  for various social problem areas and social work practices, and courses that provide social work practice skills (field practice). The total ECTS of the Social Work Department Curriculum is 240.

Social work has an extremely wide range of employment areas. Graduates who have completed four-year undergraduate education and training have the opportunity to work in various social work practice areas such as family and child welfare, women's welfare, medical and psychiatric social work, forensic social work, social work in the army, social work with the disabled, youth, refugees and asylum seekers, and the poor,  in institutions and organizations affiliated to the Ministry of Family and Social Services, public and private hospitals affiliated with the Ministry of Health, child monitoring centers, Ministry of Justice Prisons and Detention Houses, Family and Juvenile Courts, Provincial Directorates of Migration,  Turkish Armed Forces, the Juvenile Divisions within the Provincial Police Departments under the General Directorate of Security, Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundations within the Governorships in the Provinces, institutions such as the Red Crescent and Green Crescent, various national and international non-governmental organizations for the welfare of the society, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and World Health Organization