The principles for acceptance are:
a) Horizontal transfers and transfers between Associate Degrees and Bachelor Degrees within Higher Education Institutions, Joint Honours Degrees and Major/ Minor Degrees are carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Regulation of the Transfer of Credit Between Institutions. The commitees of the relevant academic units inform the Rectorate of the determined quotas at latest by June for the fall semester and at latest by December for the spring semester.
b) Verticle transfers of graduates from Vocational Schools are carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Regulation of the Continuance to Bachelor Degrees of Associate Degree Graduates of Vocational Schools and the Open University published in official gazette dated 19/2/2002 with official number 24676.
The principles for equivalency and credit transfer are:
a) Students placed to an academic unit of the university by The Student Selection and Placement Board who have previously graduated or before completion of education at an Institute of Higher Education, have the right to apply to the relevant office of the Dean/ Director with a petiton stating the request to recieve equivalency along with a list of courses, their credits and course contents within the first two weeks of the academic calender.
b) On application of equivalency for courses with similar course content, the decision on equivalency of a course/courses is taken by the relevant commitee on gaining a positive decision from the relevant academic member of staff and department/programme/division. The credit levels of courses for which equivelency is to be given is evaluated in terms of existing courses within the relevant academic unit.
c) The mark gained by the student at the Institute of Higher Education in which the course was successfully completed is the mark which is accepted on equivalency. However, in order for the course to be counted towards equivalency, the mark gained must be at least sixty.
ç) Marks given with the hundred-point scale in the Institute of Higher Education from which transfer is occurring are accepted without changes. Marks which are awarded with a co-efficient are determined in accordance with Article 25 of this Regulation based on the table of the comparision of the four-point scale and hundred-point scale prepared by the Senate.
Marks given with a letter or degree are converted into the hundred-point system according to the approved document from the Institute of Higher Education from which the student has transferred. If this cannot be proved with documentation, the mark is determined as the mid point of the relevant grade according to Article 25 of this regulation
d) If the level of credit to be given equivelency to the student’s department or programme exceeds 70% of the total credit required in one semester, the student can be transferred to a higher academic year or semester by the relevant academic committee on the approval of the Head of Department. The semesters/ academic years of students who are transferred to a higher semester for which they have gained equivalency are accepted as a part of their educational period.
e)The evaluation of course equivalency is carried out according to clause (b) of this paragraph for students who register with the verticle or horizontal transfer system.
f) Students who transfer with horizontal transfer are regarded as exempt from courses for which they have been awarded equivelency and the marks recieved for exempted courses from the Institute of Higher Education from which transfer occurred are shown on the transcript, However, these marks are not counted in the calculation of the academic average.
g) For students who transfer with verticle transfer, all marks recieved from the Institute of Higher Education from which transfer occurred are shown on the transcript. However, these marks are not counted in the calculation of the academic average.
ğ) In the evaluation of courses for which equivalcency has been applied for equivelency is not given at Bachelor degree level for courses taken at Associate degree level or the Open University and also at Associate degree level for courses previously taken at the Open University, except for courses in Article 5, paragraph 1, clause (ı) of Law numbered 2547,
h) In the evaluation of requests for equivalency for students who wish to participate in a summer school programme of a different Institute of Higher Education, students must submit a petition stating the course wished to be taken which has been approved by the relevant Head of Division or Head of Department to the relevant Dean/ Director before the relevant course has begun.
