The Graduate School of Social Sciences, founded in 1982, is a post graduate institution which aims to improve itself constantly, provides post graduate education and research at master (second cycle) and PhD level (third cycle). The Graduate School having trained numerous scholars and academics since its foundation, currently offers post graduate education to 5348 students in 30 departments with 52 thesis master programmes, 32 non-thesis master programmes and 23 doctorate (PhD) programmes. Our Graduate School continues to its teaching and research activities with 27 full time academic and administrative staff. In addition, we also publish Journal of Graduate School of Social Sciences which is a blind peer-reviewed academic journal being abstracted and indexed by national (ULAKBIM and ASOS) and international databases (EBSCO, DOAJ, ULRICH).

Dokuz Eylül University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Department of Total Quality Management was established in 2000. When the Department of Total Quality Management was established, Total Quality Management Masters Program and Total Quality Management Non-Thesis Masters Program were opened as programs of interdisciplinary graduate program. In the academic year of 2010-2011 the names of Total Quality Management Masters Program and Total Quality Management Non-Thesis Masters Program changed to the Quality Management Masters Program and Quality Management Non-Thesis Masters Program. This program aims to contribute to the training of specialized personnel which can act important role in quality planning, control and improvement activities in manufacturing and service industry sectors.