A. Application and Acceptance
Q1- When do the applications start?
Students are admitted to our Institute for the Fall and Spring semesters, and please follow our access page for application calendar information from the first week of June for the Fall semester and from the first week of December for the Spring semester.
Q2- Should I submit any documents to the Institute for application?
Applications are made online. Therefore, you are not required to deliver any documents. If you win the program, you must submit the documents required for final registration on the final registration date.
Q3- Do I need to have a certain master’s degree to apply?
No grades are required for you to apply for doctoral programs.
Q4- Which programs can I apply for?
In the application guide for the relevant semester announced on our access page, the student source of the master’s programs with the thesis is explained, and only those who have graduated from the specified undergraduate program can apply.
Q5- Can I apply to more than one different doctoral program at the same time?
No. You can only apply for one doctoral program at a time.
Q6- Are graduation requirements required during the application?
Candidates who will apply to doctoral programs must graduate from a master’s program until the last day of the application date announced by our Institute at the latest. Qualifying for graduation is not a sufficient condition to apply.
Q7- Is the language certificate and ALES certificate required during the application?
Yes. If you qualify for final registration, your language score and ALES score that you will submit to our Institute are also requested during online application procedures.
Q8- What should be my minimum ALES score to apply?
In the application guide for the relevant period published on our access page, it is announced according to which ALES score type the doctoral programs will accept applications. You must have received at least 60 points according to the ALES score type of the program you want to apply for. ALES scores are not required from people who have previously graduated from any doctoral program.
Q9- What language documents can I apply with?
In the admission of students to doctoral programs, it is obligatory to obtain at least 55 points from the central foreign language exams accepted by the Council of Higher Education or an equivalent score from the international foreign language exams whose equivalence is accepted. The scores obtained from the exams conducted by the DEU School of Foreign Languages and the Faculty of Theology cannot be used in doctoral applications.
Q10- How long is the validity period of the ALES score?
The validity period of the ALES exam is 5 years from the date of announcement of the exam results.
Q11- How long is the validity period of the YÖKDİL score?
The validity period of the central foreign language exams is 5 years from the date of announcement of the exam results.
Q12- Where can I find out the time and place of the science exam?
It is announced on our access page before the exam.
Q13- What documents do I need to have with me when taking the science exam?
You must have your Exam Entrance Document and Special Identity Document with you. Identity cards, driver’s licenses, and passports are accepted as Private Identity Documents. Identity documents with a cold stamp on the photo and obtained from an official organization are also acceptable. Identity documents that do not have a cold stamp on them, even if they are obtained from an official organization, are not accepted.