The Department of Banking and Finance is founded on March 30, 2011 within the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Niğde University which is formerly established with the approval of Executive Board Chairmanship of the Council of Higher Education (YÖK). In the Department of Banking and Finance, 2 Research Assistants are employed. The university’s multinational collaboration and student/lecturer exchange agreements within the framework of ERASMUS Project would be utilized by prospective students/lecturers of our department despite the fact that the department has not accepted any students for education as of 2012. The quota for students to be accepted by our department will be reported to Student Selection and Placement Center (OSYM) Chairmanship after the decision is taken by the unit administrators. International trade becomes more sophisticated due to globalized economics relationships and it requires specialization. On account of rapid improvements in transportation facilities together with geographical position and characteristics of our country, logistics sector is likely to excel. Therefore, the need for qualified personnel who acquire the knowledge of banking transactions and financing patterns are increasing. Corporations today tend to devolve their export and import transactions upon to banking and finance firms. Thus, specialization in banking and finance area is the most important attribution for the purposes of those firms. For that reason, banking and finance appears to be among the most popular careers of today and the future. Today, it is almost impossible to maintain banking without modern financing activities.  It is an advantage for our students to enroll in our department which combines banking and finance. Upon the completion of the undergraduate program which consists of both mandatory and elective courses, our students graduate to be employed by public and private sector institutions with the titles of “Banking Staff Member” and “Financing Staff Member”. Our graduates will be ideal applicants for the sector because of their professional (foreign language, computer software) skills. They may be employed by national/international banks, financial firms, financing departments of corporations or firms that give financial services. Furthermore, considering the academic staff vacancies in this field, they may also apply to various universities to be employed as lecturers.