GENERAL APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

GENERAL APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

1.       Candidates must have a four-year undergraduate degree to apply for masters and integrated doctoral / arts qualification programs; They must have a postgraduate diploma in order to apply to doctorate / arts proficiency programs.

2.       Candidates who will apply for the doctorate / arts competency program examination must have a minimum graduation score of 2.50 / 4.00 and those who will apply to the postgraduate doctorate / arts proficiency program should be 3.50 / 4.00.

3.       Candidates who are graduated from medicine, pharmacy, dentistry and veterinary faculties and who studied at these departments for at least ten semesters except for preparatory classes and candidates who have expert authorization in accordance with the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Health are considered having a graduate degree and can directly apply to PHD programs.

4.       Candidates are required to submit at least 55.00 points above and above the ALES * score for graduate programs without thesis / dissertation; Doctoral programs must have a score of at least 60.00 from ALES and equivalent to GRE / GMAT (GRE / GMAT) given by the Higher Education Council.

Candidates must have pre-registration by applying to the Institute in person if not having the scores of exams (GRE / GMAT, ÖSYM equivalent accreditation exams) that can not be transferred through the Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM) system. New criteria might be determined later above the private conditions and/or minimum criteria projected on this regulation with the suggestion of the Academic Board and/or the Board of the Institute related to department/art majors student admissions.

* See. Appendix 1: Click for  ALES Note  Conversion Table .

5.       ALES score is not required for graduates of fine arts faculties, conservatorial graduates and equivalent programs of other faculties with acceptance of students in the department of Fine Arts and Conservatory of the institute.

6.       The validity period of ALES exam results is 5 (five) years from the examination date.  (2012 ALES Fall Semester and the following years’ results are accepted.) New criteria might be determined later above the private conditions and/or minimum criteria projected on this regulation with the suggestion of the Academic Board and/or the Board of the Institute related to department/art majors student admissions.

7.        For applications to doctoral / artistic qualification programs, it is required to have a score of 55 or more from KPDS / ÜDS / YDS / e-YDS / YÖKDİL or TIPDİL (for graduate and PHD programs for dentistry or medicine) or 55 from ÖSYM equivalent accreditation exams and 75 or more on postgraduate integrated doctoral / artistic qualification programs. New criteria might be determined later above the private conditions and/or minimum criteria projected on this regulation with the suggestion of the Academic Board and/or the Board of the Institute related to department/art majors student admissions.

8.        The validity period of  KPDS,ÜDS,YDS, e-YDS and TIPDİL exam results is 5(five) years from the examination date. In addition, the condition of having a foreign language document determined by the academic boards of the relevant department of education, and/or the base scores of these examinations are announced at the institute web pages.

9.        Candidates are required to have received at least 55 points from a second foreign language examination in programs conducted on foreign languages.

10.        Foreign candidates wishing to do a Master’s degree with their own funding are admitted to the graduate programs in accordance with the procedures determined by the University Senate provided that they fulfill the conditions stated in the announcements of the institutes.

11. Foreign nationality applicants applying for integrated PHD or graduate programs are obliged to present their original undergraduate diploma and transcript with their Turkish translations; for other candidates, their master’s with thesis diploma and transcript with their Turkish translations must be presented. Applicants of foreign nationals must have a minimum of C1 (minimum) in the Turkish Language Teaching, Application and Research Centers (TÖMER) which must be submitted to the institute.

12.       Candidates can apply to two programs at most within Gazi University.  The Institute is not liable if the entrance examination hours of the applied programs overlap.

13.       Except for non-thesis postgraduate programs, candidates can not register and continue to study more than one graduate program at the same time, even if they enter both programs.

14.       Students enrolled or graduated from graduate programs without thesis before February 6, 2013 may apply to doctorate programs.

15.       Candidates who are Turkish citizens and have completed tertiary education in Turkey should be registered with the Higher Education System (YOKSIS) for their previous higher education graduation information.

NOTE: For the control of your Higher Education Graduation Information;

·        Log in to https://www.turkiye.gov.tr/

·        In the upper right corner of the address bar, click on the "Login to System" button and enter your TC identity number and your password.

·        Click "e-Services" link on the page that opens.

·        At the end of the page, please click on the link " Higher Education Graduation Certificate " under the heading of " Higher Education Council Presidency" .

·        If your graduation information does not appear in e-Government, please contact your higher education institution.

16.     Graduation grades of candidates who are determined to graduate with a grade point system in YÖKSİS will be converted to quadrature system. However, the point value in the system will be used in the evaluation process. In case candidates have a common grade point average of four and a half or a grade point average grade of only four, the YOK Note Transformation Table * will be used to convert them into a hundred grade system.

* Annex 2: Click for YOK Note Conversion Table.

17.     Applications to the post-graduate programs will be made online.

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