2023-2024 Autumn Semester Transfer Announcement Based on Central Placement Score

Additional Article 1 Transfer
(Transfer Based on Central Placement Score)

Students will be admitted to the Associate Degree and Undergraduate Programmes of our University for the Autumn Semester of the 2023-2024 Academic Year through Transfer under Additional Article 1 of the “Regulation on the Principles of Transfer between Associate Degree and Undergraduate Programmes, Double Major, Minor and Inter-Institutional Credit Transfer in Higher Education Institutions”.

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR APPLICATION

Applications will be made online. The requested documents will be scanned and uploaded to the system.

• Current student certificate
• Current, certified transcript of records (Transcript)
• Current, certified curriculum and course contents
• Current document stating that you have not received a disciplinary penalty
• ÖSYM exam result document for the year of the exam
• Detailed ÖSYM exam result document for the year of the exam
• Document stating that you have not previously transferred under Additional Article 1
• High school graduation certificate (e-Devlet)
• Certificate of success from the preparatory class and/or equivalent foreign language exams
  ( Footnote: ” This document is mandatory for the Departments of Civil Engineering, Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Political Science and International Relations, International Trade and Logistics, Aerospace Sciences Engineering, and English Language Teaching! “)
• Equivalence certificate for students who will transfer to our university from higher education institutions abroad

GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND IMPLEMENTATION RULES

1. That the student’s central placement scores in the year of enrolment must be equal to or higher than the base score of another diploma programme in the year of entry;
2. That students who enrolled based on the Special Talent Exam result may also apply if they meet the conditions of the second item, but that applications cannot be made to programmes that admit students through a special talent exam;
3. That students may transfer to associate degree or undergraduate programmes provided that their central placement scores in the year of enrolment meet the central placement score of the higher education programme they wish to transfer to;
4. That students may transfer only once under Additional Article 1, but that students who transfer under that article may return, on later application dates, to the higher education institution in which they earned the right to enrol through the ÖSYS central placement result;
5. That students who enrolled in any higher education programme through the ÖSYS result of the relevant year may also apply for the spring semester;
6. That if the number of students applying under that article does not exceed the quota announced for the spring semester, the candidates will be enrolled, and if the number of applicants exceeds the quota, candidates up to the quota will be enrolled, starting from the candidate with the highest ÖSYM score;
7. That with a DGS score, applications can only be made to higher education undergraduate programmes that graduates of the associate degree fields defined in the DGS Guides may continue, that candidates must hold the DGS score of the programme for the relevant year, and that if no students were admitted through DGS in the relevant year, students cannot apply to that programme;
8. That if the ÖSYS Guide specifies special conditions for enrolling in a programme, students applying for transfer under Additional Article 1 must meet those conditions;
9. That if the diploma programme the student wishes to transfer to did not admit students in the year the student enrolled in the diploma programme in which they are currently studying, transfer cannot be made because no central placement base score exists for the desired programme;
10. That when transferring from a programme taught in Turkish to programmes taught wholly or partly in a foreign language, the student must meet the foreign language requirement, and that students who wish to transfer into the preparatory class or the first year and do not meet the foreign language requirement must take foreign language preparatory education;
11. That students who failed the preparatory class may also apply to other higher education programmes under that article if they meet the conditions;
12. That in evaluating applications, only the ÖSYM central placement scores from the year the student was placed in the programme in which they are enrolled will be taken into account, and that no conditions such as academic success will be required.

Transfer to Our University from Higher Education Institutions Abroad

1. University senates determine quotas for transfers from higher education institutions abroad. If a quota is set, for each programme it is determined by the university senate, together with the quotas for higher education institutions abroad, in such a way that it does not exceed half of the inter-institutional transfer quota.
2. For transfer from higher education institutions in foreign countries to higher education institutions in Türkiye, the inter-institutional transfer success requirements specified in the second paragraph of Article 11 of this Regulation (Amended phrase: Official Gazette-10/6/2020-31151) are required.
3. In transfers from higher education institutions abroad, students who hold the base score for admission to the relevant year of the diploma programme at the higher education institution they wish to transfer to may apply for transfer without a success requirement in all courses they studied abroad. The transfer applications of students applying in this way are evaluated outside the scope of the quota for transfers from abroad, within the framework of the principles determined by the university senate.
4. For applications from universities abroad, it is required that the higher education institution where the student studied abroad and the programme of study be recognised by the Council of Higher Education as an institution authorised to award associate degrees or undergraduate degrees, and that the equivalence of the diploma programme in which the student is enrolled to the associate degree or undergraduate diploma programme applied to for transfer be accepted by the relevant university.
5. The minimum scores in the Student Selection and Placement Examinations conducted by the Measuring, Selection and Placement Centre, and the examinations and scores accepted as equivalent to them, which will be used in evaluating the transfer applications of students who started higher education abroad to higher education programmes in Türkiye, are announced by the Council of Higher Education together with the quotas for transfers from abroad determined by the universities. In order to apply for transfer, candidates must hold at least the announced scores or higher.
6.  In transfers from higher education institutions abroad, the number of students who can transfer from the same higher education institution abroad to each year of a programme cannot exceed 15 per cent of the quota for transfers from abroad for the relevant year of that programme. In calculating 15 per cent, numbers below 1 are rounded up to 1. If the part after the decimal point is less than 5, the number is rounded down to the whole number below; if it is 5 or above, it is rounded up to the next whole number.
7. The Council of Higher Education may determine additional conditions, beyond the provisions of this Regulation, regarding transfers from higher education institutions established abroad, including the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, to programmes of higher education institutions in Türkiye that require a success ranking.
8. In order to transfer from a higher education institution abroad to a programme in our country that requires a success ranking, in the year the student started higher education, the university in which the student is enrolled must

1. be within the first four hundred in the world rankings determined by the ranking organisations taken as the basis by the Council of Higher Education, and the student must meet the semester/year and success requirements of this Regulation;
2. if enrolled at a university outside the first four hundred;

1. Those who completed their secondary education in Türkiye must in any case have taken the central placement exam and, as of the year of enrolment, the success ranking required for
2. Those who completed at least the last two years of their secondary education abroad must have successfully completed at least four semesters, excluding the preparatory class, of the diploma programme in which they are enrolled.

EVALUATION OF APPLICATIONS

• Applications will be evaluated by the board of the relevant units.
• Accepted applicants will be announced at www.hku.edu.tr.
• Accepted CANDIDATES will be listed in 2 separate lists as primary and reserve candidates.

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR FINAL REGISTRATION   

• Online Application Form
• Current student certificate
• Current, certified transcript of records (Transcript)
• Current, certified curriculum and course contents
• Current document stating that you have not received a disciplinary penalty
• ÖSYM exam result document for the year of the exam • Detailed ÖSYM exam result document for the year of the exam
• Document stating that you have not previously transferred under Additional Article 1
• Certificate of success from the preparatory class and/or equivalent foreign language exams
  ( Footnote: ” This document is mandatory for the Departments of Civil Engineering, Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Political Science and International Relations, International Trade and Logistics, Aerospace Sciences Engineering, and English Language Teaching! “)
• High school graduation certificate (e-Devlet)
• Copy of identity card
• Residence certificate (e-Devlet)
• 6 photographs
• Tuition fee receipt
• For students who will transfer to our university from higher education institutions abroad: Entry-Exit Certificate

The student’s registration will not be considered complete until the originals of the documents declared in the application are verified and any missing documents are submitted within the specified time.
SCORES
For ÖSYM Scores click here.
For DGS Scores click here.

QUOTAS
To view the quotas click here.

CONTACT INFORMATION

For the Student Information System Transfer Application Guide  Click here.