REGULATIONS ABOUT HORIZONTAL TRANSFER BASES AT UNDERGRADUATE LEVELS BETWEEN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTES

Article 1: In students’ transfer from one institute to another this regulation, which was prepared according to the (e) paragraph of the 7^th article of the 2547 numbered Higher Education Law, is applied.

Article 2: Horizontal transfers can be done by the faculty boards between the institutions that have the courses in the same field at the beginning of the academic year or semester before the lessons start.

Article 3: Transfers can be done on condition that the number of the students to transfer cannot surpass the contingent given for that department . However, this number cannot be less than 2 in the programmers that have students up to 50, cannot be less than 3 in the programmers that have 50 to 100 students, and 4 for 100-150 students, 5 for 150-200 students, and 6 for the students over 200.

Article 4: The student has to apply for the  transfer at  least 10 days before the academic year or semester starts.

Considering transfer applications every year, faculty boards assign contingents for the students by considering the contingents of the institutions. Applications are put into rank order separately for each school according to  the rate of success among the students and transfer is done according to the contingent assigned for that institution. If a contingent is not filled, it can be assigned to other institutions by considering the height of the points as the basis.

Article 5: Transfer cannot be done during the first semester or year  of  higher education. In order to transfer to intermediate classes   the student must:

a)             pass all the exams of his previous school,

b)            have an  academic average of  at least 60% or equivalent.

However, the children of the civil servants, who are under 25 can be transferred on condition that their point must be higher than the least point of the institution he will transfer, if their parents are appointed to the city that the school is in.

Article 6: For the transfer to the last class or the last two semesters of the higher education institutions;

a)           the student  has to pass all the exams of the institution he will leave,

b)          his general academic average up to the last grade has to be at least 65% or equivalent,

c)           his passing points to the last grade or the last two semesters must be at least 70% or equivalent,

d)          No transfer can be done to the last grade of Medical Faculties.

Article 7: If a student’s points of entrance to his  institution  is higher than the assigned contingent’s basic point   determined in   article 3 is not filled, relevant school boards can make decisions to reduce the success boarders down to 50%.

Article 8: If the transfer applications are over the contingent number stated in     article 3 of the regulation, ranking of students can be done according to the (b) bond of the 3^rd paragraph of   article 5 and (b) bond of the first paragraph of   article 6. Beginning from the most successful one, the students to be admitted are determined.   Transfers to the beginning of last class or last two semesters, in the case of equal success rate mentioned in (b) bond of the 1^st paragraph of    article 6, success height in the (c) bond is the reason for preference.

In the case of appointment of a civil servant to another place, his wife and children can be admitted according to   contingent stated in   article  3 on condition that their transfer conditions apply for one year and they must fulfil articles 5  and 6 of the regulation. The least contingent after these students’ admittance is filled according to the basis of    article 3.

Article 9: No transfer can be done from Central Open Higher Education or External Higher Education to the Formal Education. 

Article 10: Transfers between the faculties, colleges and departments of a university are regulated by the university boards within the frame of these bases.

Article 11: In order to transfer from foreign higher education institutions to the ones in our country, the student has to finish at least one year (two semesters) except prep-class for foreign language, and has to pass all the exams and  fulfil the conditions in  articles 5  and 6. The contingents to be determined for foreign students cannot surpass one-third of the contingent determined according to    article 3 of the regulation. No transfer can be done from   foreign institutions that have not given exams at the end of the first year. Children of   civil servants and workers who have come back to Turkey forever can apply for transfer on condition that they have studied at least one semester  excluding  prep-class and have passed their exams.

These conditions are also valid for foreign students. However, admission of diplomats’ children in Turkey is done by the school board of the school they have applied to. The contingents of  foreign students is to be determined by the decision of Higher Education General Board and is not subject to the restriction stated in the first paragraph.

Article 12: The regulation is valid from its publication on

Article 13: The regulation rules are run by the Higher Education Council Chairman.

This regulation was published in the Official Newspaper   21 October 1982,   

Regulatýons concernýng the enrollment of two-year undergraduate students of vocatýonal colleges  and  Open-aýr  unýversýty under-graduates to a  four-year undergraduate program

Aim:

Article 1:  The target of this regulation is to determine the principles for the transfer of talented and successful students from a two-year   to a four-year undergraduate program.

Content:

Article 2 : This regulation covers all the principles for the tranfer of students, who have successfully completed their two-year undergraduate program, to a four-year undergraduate program.

Base:

Article 3 : This regulation has been set according to the Higher- Education Law no: 2547,item 7, entry (e).

Required conditions for applicants:

Article 4 :  All the candidates who would like to apply for a transfer to a four-year undergraduate program as mentioned in article 2 should not be those who  graduated more than 5 years ago. Those studying their last year and having no obstacle for graduating except training can also apply . Candidates cannot participate in those exams more than 3 times.

Available place:

Article 5: The higher educational council in cooperation with Universities decides and anounces which four-year undergraduate programs will be opened, which students are going to be accepted to those programs , what the number of available places will be and what  criteria will be applied.

Exam-guide and application procedures:

Article 6:  The ÖSYM ( Student selection and  and placment center) prepares a guide showing which two-year undergraduates will be allowed to apply to which program; what the conditions and the number of available places will be. In this guide one will find the related rules about how to apply, how  students will choose their  four-year undergraduate programs, what  exams to take , how the exams will be evaluated and how they will be placed and what procedures the administrators of vocational colleges will follow. This guide is enforced with the approval of the higher-educational council. The administrators of vocational colleges have to check and approve the suitability of candidates, prepare  a list showing the grades students have made in their subjects  and to send the applications to ÖSYM in the first week of July.  

Exams and evaluation:

Article 7: All candidates whose applications have been accepted according to this regulation will be given a test consisting of a statistical and verbal

unit. The grade taken into consideration while placing a student will be calculated depending on the grade students will get from the talent test, the ÖSS grade, which has  enabled them to enroll their vocational college, and from their grade they  have made at the end of  their two-year undergraduate program. The ratio of the above mentioned 3 grades in fixing the placement grade is determined every year by ÖSYM  and is put into the guide. The average undergraduate success grade is determined by ÖSYM by cosidering the average grade students have scored in the talent tests and this formula is put into the guide.  

Placement :

Article 8:  The ÖSYM places students considering their preferences, placement grade, the places available and  conditions asked for by the undergraduate program in question. In no other case will there be an extra placement for the remaining places available.

Prep-Program in graduate programs:

Article 9 :  Those students who are accepted to a graduate program at a university have to go through a prep-program. In this program students receive all the courses they lack. During this program the stuýdents have to follow all the regulations set by the university in question. Students who succeed at the end of this prep-program obtain the right to enroll in the third class; those unsuccessful students will be dismissed from the university. This prep-program consists mostly of  3 semesters.During this period students benefit from all student rights.

Students accepted into English medium programs have to be successful in the proficiency exam or attend and pass a language prep-program before starting their major. Unsuccessful students will be dismissed from university.  

 Transfer to Open –Air university:

Article 10 : Graduates of vocational colleges and open-air two-year undergraduate programs are not obligated to follow this regulation when they have the desire to continue their studies atan open-air   undergraduate programs. These candidates have the  right to apply directly to a faculty related to their subjects.

Regulation no-more in act:

Article 11 :  The regulation concerning the ‘Transfer of vocational college graduates to graduate programmes’ has been cancelled and announced in the Official Paper no:18034,date 28-04-1983. Temporary Article 1 : Students who will graduate in the year 2000-2001 and  have the necessary conditions mentioned in this regulation have the right to take this exam 3 times ;   in the academic years 2000-2001, 2001-2002 and 2002-2003.

Validity:

Article 12 : This regulation was put into act on 15-10-1999 after having been  published in the Official Paper no : 23837 and is valid for the years 2000-2001.

             Enforcement:

This regulation is enforced by the chairman of the Higher Educational Council.  

            REGULATION FOR THOSE  WHO HAVE NOT  BEEN ABLE TO  COMPLETE OR DO NOT WANT TO  COMLETE THEIR GRADUATE PROGRAMS  AND ASK FOR AN UNDERGRADUATE DIPLOMA OR WANT TO BE PLACED IN A VOCATIONAL COLLEGE PROGRAM.

Aim and content:

Article 1: The aim of this regulation is to provide undergraduate diplomas for students who have not been  able to or do not want to complete their graduate programs. It also determines the principles of transfer for those students to vocational colleges.

Basis:

Article 2: This regulation is based on first article of law no 3511 which changed the  article 44 of the Law of Higher Education.

Pinciples for obtaining an undergraduate diploma:

 Article 3: Except for those who have been legally punished for having comitted crime against the Turkish State, which is clearly stated in the second book of the Turkish Law for crime, and who have been dismissed from school; all students who have successfully completed at least  4 semesters as stated in the law no. 2547 have the right to ask for and obtain an undergraduate diploma. There is no time restriction to  apply  for a diploma.

Transfer principles for vocational colleges:

Article 4 : Those who have completed at least  two semesters or have been successful in at least % 60 of their four-year graduate programs and did not or could not continue their education will have to apply within  six months after their leaving in order to be placed in an undergraduate program.

  These students are required not to  have  any punishment mentioned in article 3 of this regulation.

Enrolling and graduating vocational colleges.

Article 5: If  the number of students applying for a transfer should be more than the available places, the students will be enrolled according to their achievement grades

Those who are described in the third article of this regulation have to take the courses determined for them in the first semester and be successful to get the right for a vocational college diploma.

The arrangement of academic program, degree of success,  transfer and  courses to receive for the above mentioned students is laid by the     vocational college boards.

Validity:

Article 6: This regulation will be enforced  after being published in the Official Paper.

( It was published on 18-03-1989 in the paper  no :20112)

Enforcement:

Article 7:

 This regulation is enforced by the chairman of the Higher Educational Council.