2024-2025 Fall Semester Lateral Transfer Announcement

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Intra-Institutional Lateral Transfer Between Programmes
(Additional Article 1 – Lateral Transfer Based on Central Placement Score)

In the Fall Semester of the 2024-2025 Academic Year, students will be admitted to the Associate and Undergraduate Programmes of our University through Lateral Transfer in accordance with the provisions of the “Regulation on the Principles Concerning Transfers Between Associate and Undergraduate Level Programmes, Double Major, Minor and Credit Transfer Between Institutions in Higher Education Institutions”.

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR APPLICATION

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

• Current student certificate (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Current certified transcript of records (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Current certified curriculum and course contents
• Current document stating that you have not received a disciplinary penalty (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• ÖSYM result document for the year of the exam
• Detailed ÖSYM result document for the year of the exam
• 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 Engineering and Aviation Sciences, and English Language Teaching! “)

GENERAL PRINCIPLES

• Lateral transfer may be made to equivalent-level degree programmes within the same faculty, school, conservatoire or vocational school, or within another faculty, school, conservatoire or vocational school of the same university, within the quotas determined by the relevant board.
• The terms in which and the degree programmes for which an intra-institutional lateral transfer quota will be determined are decided by the relevant boards, starting from the second semester and up to and including the fifth semester of each degree programme, and for each year in which a quota is announced, in such a way as not to exceed fifteen percent of the student quota stipulated in the ÖSYM Guide. Students studying on a scholarship quota in a programme of a foundation university are deemed to have waived their scholarships when they make a lateral transfer. In determining the intra-institutional transfer quota of higher education institutions that apply transfer to a degree programme after a common programme, the quotas determined by the senate for these degree programmes are taken as the basis.
• Transfers of candidates placed in a common programme with one score type to degree programmes within the same higher education institution that admit students with a different score type are made in accordance with the intra-institutional lateral transfer provisions of this Regulation.
• In order for a student to apply for lateral transfer between degree programmes at the same level within the University that admit students with different central placement score types, the central placement score the student obtained in the score type valid for the degree programme they wish to transfer to, in the year they took the central exam, must not be lower than the lowest base score of the equivalent degree programmes of other universities in Türkiye.
• (Amended sentence: RG-11/1/2023-32070) The applications of all students wishing to make an inter-institutional or intra-institutional lateral transfer are evaluated according to the criteria determined by the senate, taking into account the grade point average and at least 40% of the ÖSYS/YKS score, in the programme’s score type, of the year they enrolled in higher education, and transfers are made according to the allocated quota.
• The candidates’ evaluation scores are calculated with the following formula;
• In lateral transfer evaluations, among candidates with equal scores, priority is given to those with a higher Grade Point Average (GPA).
• For intra-institutional lateral transfer at our University, the grade point average (2.50 out of 4) for the semesters the student has completed in the degree programme in which they are enrolled is determined by the senate.
• Principal and reserve candidates are determined by the senate in line with the announced quota. If principal candidates do not come to register within the registration dates set in the calendar, registration applications are taken from the reserve candidates in their place.

EVALUATION OF APPLICATIONS

• Applications will be evaluated by the board of the relevant units.
• Accepted applications will be announced at www.hku.edu.tr.
• The CANDIDATES whose applications are accepted will be listed in 2 separate lists as principal and reserve candidates.

QUOTAS
To view the quotas, click here.

SCORES
ÖSYM Scores
DGS Scores

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR FINAL REGISTRATION

• Online Application Form
• Current student certificate
• Current certified transcript of records
• Current certified curriculum and course contents
• Current document stating that you have not received a disciplinary penalty
• ÖSYM result document for the year of the exam
• Detailed ÖSYM result document for the year of the exam
• Certificate of success from the preparatory class and/or equivalent foreign language exams ( Footnote: “This document is mandatory for students of the Departments of Civil Engineering, Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Political Science and International Relations, International Trade and Logistics, and English Language Teaching! “)
• High school graduation certificate (e-Devlet)
• Copy of identity card
• Residence certificate (e-Devlet)
• 6 photographs
• Tuition fee receipt
• Document stating that there is no obstacle to lateral transfer

IMPORTANT:

• For departments with compulsory preparatory classes, regardless of the year into which the student is admitted, a  Foreign Language Exemption Exam will be held.
• Students who will register for the Departments of Civil Engineering, Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Political Science and International Relations, International Trade and Logistics, and English Language Teaching; if they have previously completed preparatory education and been successful, they may contact the secretariat of the School of Foreign Languages before registering to obtain information on whether they will be exempt from the preparatory class. 
  

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Additional Article 1 Lateral Transfer

(Lateral Transfer Based on Central Placement Score)

In the Fall Semester of the 2024-2025 Academic Year, students will be admitted to the Associate and Undergraduate Programmes of our University through Lateral Transfer under Additional Article 1 of the “Regulation on the Principles Concerning Transfers Between Associate and Undergraduate Level Programmes, Double Major, Minor and Credit Transfer Between Institutions in Higher Education Institutions”.

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR APPLICATION

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

• Current student certificate (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Current certified transcript of records (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Current certified curriculum and course contents
• Current document stating that you have not received a disciplinary penalty (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• ÖSYM result document for the year of the exam
• Detailed ÖSYM result document for the year of the exam
• Document stating that the applicant has not previously made a lateral transfer 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 Engineering and Aviation Sciences, and English Language Teaching! “)

• For students who will make a lateral transfer to our University from higher education institutions abroad (excluding the TRNC);

• Certificate of equivalence
• Entry-exit certificate
• Notarised copies of the Student Certificate, Transcript, Disciplinary Status Certificate, Course Contents and, if available, the Preparatory Class Status Certificate

GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND IMPLEMENTATION RULES

• That the central placement scores of the student in the year of enrolment must be equal to or higher than the base score of another degree programme in the year of entry,
• That students who enrolled according to a 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,
• That students may transfer to associate or undergraduate programmes provided that their central placement scores of the year of enrolment meet the central placement score of the higher education programme they wish to transfer to,
• That students may make a lateral transfer only once under Additional Article 1, but that students who make a lateral transfer under the said article may return, on later application dates, to the higher education institution they gained the right to enrol in through the ÖSYS central placement result,
• That students who enrolled in any higher education programme as a result of the ÖSYS of the relevant year may also apply for the spring semester,
• That, if the number of students applying under the said article does not exceed the quota published for the spring semester, the candidates will be registered, and if the number of applicants exceeds the quota, as many candidates as the quota will be registered, starting from the candidate with the highest ÖSYM score,
• 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 students cannot apply to a programme if no students were admitted to it through DGS in the relevant year,
• That students applying for lateral transfer under Additional Article 1 must meet any special conditions required for enrolling in the programme in the ÖSYS Guide,
• That, if no students were admitted to the degree programme the student wishes to transfer to in the year the student enrolled in the degree programme they are currently studying in, the transfer cannot be made because no central placement base score exists for the desired degree programme,
• That, when transferring from a programme whose language of instruction is Turkish to programmes taught fully or partially in a foreign language, the student must meet the foreign language requirement, and that students who wish to transfer in the preparatory class or the first year must take foreign language preparatory education if they do not meet the foreign language requirement,
• That students who failed the preparatory class may also apply to other higher education programmes within the scope of the said article if they meet the conditions,
• That, in the evaluation of applications, only the ÖSYM central placement scores of the year in which the student was placed in the programme they are enrolled in are taken into account, and no requirement such as achievement is sought,

LATERAL TRANSFER TO OUR UNIVERSITY FROM HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS ABROAD

• A quota may be determined by university senates for lateral transfers from higher education institutions abroad. If a quota is determined, the quotas for higher education institutions abroad, set so as not to exceed half of the inter-institutional lateral transfer quota for each programme, and the application conditions determined by the university senate, are notified to the Council of Higher Education together with the inter-institutional lateral transfer quotas, by the end of working hours on the thirtieth day of June at the latest. The quotas for international students of all higher education institutions, together with the application conditions and evaluation calendar, are announced on the website of the Council of Higher Education.
• For transfers from higher education institutions in foreign countries to higher education institutions in Türkiye, the inter-institutional lateral transfer success conditions specified in the second paragraph of Article 11 of this Regulation (Amended phrase: RG-10/6/2020-31151) are required of the student.
• In lateral transfers from higher education institutions abroad, students who hold the base score for admission to the relevant year of the degree programme at the higher education institution to which they wish to transfer may apply for lateral transfer without any success requirement being sought in all courses they took during their higher education abroad. The lateral transfer applications of students applying in this way are evaluated outside the scope of the lateral transfer quota for students from abroad, within the framework of the principles determined by the university senate.
• In applications from universities abroad, it is required that the higher education institution abroad where the student studied, and the programme in which the education was provided, be recognised by the Council of Higher Education as an institution authorised to award associate or undergraduate degrees, and that the equivalence of the degree programme in which the student is enrolled to the associate or undergraduate degree programme applied to for lateral transfer be accepted by the relevant university.
• The minimum scores in the Student Selection and Placement Examinations conducted by the Student Selection and Placement Centre, to be used in evaluating the applications of students who began higher education abroad for transfer to higher education programmes in Türkiye, together with the exams and scores accepted as equivalent to them, are announced by the Council of Higher Education together with the lateral transfer quotas for students from abroad determined by the universities. In order to apply for lateral transfer, candidates must hold scores at or above the announced scores.
• (Added: RG-18/3/2016-29657) In lateral 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 percent of the quota for students from abroad for the relevant year of that programme. In calculating 15 percent, numbers below 1 are rounded up to 1. If the part after the decimal point is less than 5, it is rounded down to the lower whole number; if it is 5 or above, it is rounded up to the next whole number.
• (Added: RG-21/12/2019-30985) The Council of Higher Education may determine additional conditions, apart from the provisions of this Regulation, concerning lateral transfer from higher education institutions established abroad, including the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, to programmes of higher education institutions in Türkiye for which a success ranking requirement is sought. (Added phrase: RG-9/4/2021-31449) In order to make a lateral transfer from a higher education institution abroad to a programme in our country for which a success ranking requirement is sought;

1. (Added: RG-9/4/2021-31449) (Amended: RG-16/7/2023-32250) The university in which the student is enrolled must, in the year the student began higher education, be within the first four hundred band in the ranking organisations taken as the basis by the Council of Higher Education (Times Higher Education (THE), QS World University Rankings, Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), CWTS Leiden Ranking) in at least three of them, and the student must meet the semester/year and success conditions of this Regulation,
2. (Added: RG-9/4/2021-31449) If the student is enrolled at a university outside the first four hundred band;

1) Those who completed their secondary education in Türkiye must in any case have taken the central placement exam and met the success ranking requirement in the relevant score type of the programme for which a success ranking requirement is sought, as of the year of enrolment,

2) Those who completed at least the last two years of their secondary education abroad must have successfully passed at least four semesters, excluding the preparatory class, of the degree programme in which they are enrolled,

is required.

EVALUATION OF APPLICATIONS

• Applications will be evaluated by the board of the relevant units.
• Accepted applications will be announced at www.hku.edu.tr.
• The CANDIDATES whose applications are accepted will be listed in 2 separate lists as principal and reserve candidates.

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR FINAL REGISTRATION

• Online Application Form
• Current student certificate (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Current certified transcript of records (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Current certified curriculum and course contents
• Current document stating that you have not received a disciplinary penalty (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• ÖSYM result document for the year of the exam
• Detailed ÖSYM result document for the year of the exam
• Document stating that the applicant has not previously made a lateral transfer 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 Engineering and Aviation Sciences, and English Language Teaching! “)

• High school graduation certificate (e-Devlet)
• Photocopy of identity card
• Residence certificate (e-Devlet)
• 3 photographs
• For students who will make a lateral transfer to our University from higher education institutions abroad (excluding the TRNC) ;
• Certificate of equivalence
• Entry-exit certificate
• The originals and notarised translations of the Student Certificate, Transcript, Disciplinary Status Certificate, Course Contents and, if available, the Preparatory Class Status Certificates must be submitted at the time of registration.
• The student’s registration will not be considered complete until the originals of the documents declared in the application have been verified and the missing documents have been submitted within the specified period.

SCORES

For ÖSYM Scores click here.

For DGS Scores click here.

QUOTAS

To view the quotas, click here.

FEES

To view the fees, click here.

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Lateral Transfer to Equivalent Degree Programmes at the Same Level

In the Fall Semester of the 2024-2025 Academic Year, students will be admitted to the Associate and Undergraduate Programmes of our University through Lateral Transfer in accordance with the provisions of the “Regulation on the Principles Concerning Transfers Between Associate and Undergraduate Level Programmes, Double Major, Minor and Credit Transfer Between Institutions in Higher Education Institutions”.

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR APPLICATION

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

• Current student certificate (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Current certified transcript of records (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Current certified curriculum and course contents
• Current document stating that you have not received a disciplinary penalty (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• ÖSYM result document for the year of the exam
• Detailed ÖSYM result document for the year of the exam
• 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 Engineering and Aviation Sciences, and English Language Teaching! “)

• Certificate of equivalence for students who will make a lateral transfer to our University from higher education institutions abroad
• For students who will make a lateral transfer to our University from higher education institutions abroad (excluding the TRNC);

• Certificate of equivalence
• Entry-exit certificate
• Notarised copies of the Student Certificate, Transcript, Disciplinary Status Certificate, Course Contents and, if available, the Preparatory Class Status Certificate

GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND IMPLEMENTATION RULES

• Lateral transfer cannot be made to the first and last semesters of associate degree programmes, or to the first two and last two semesters of undergraduate degree programmes.
• In order to transfer from open and distance education to formal education programmes, the student’s grade point average in the programme in which they are studying must be 80 or above out of 100, or the central placement score of the year of enrolment must be equal to or higher than the base score of that year of the degree programme of the university they wish to transfer to.
• Higher education institutions located outside the borders of the Republic of Türkiye will be considered higher education institutions abroad.

INTER-INSTITUTIONAL LATERAL TRANSFER

• Lateral transfers to our University are made from equivalent degree programmes at the same level in other higher education institutions.
• (Amended sentence: RG-11/1/2023-32070) The applications of all students wishing to make an inter-institutional or intra-institutional lateral transfer are evaluated according to the criteria determined by the senate, taking into account the grade point average and at least 40% of the ÖSYS/YKS score, in the programme’s score type, of the year they enrolled in higher education, and transfers are made according to the allocated quota.
• The candidates’ evaluation scores are calculated with the following formula;
• In lateral transfer evaluations, among candidates with equal scores, priority is given to those with a higher Grade Point Average (GPA).
• The grade point average for the semesters the student has completed in the programme in which they are enrolled must be at least 60 out of 100 or at least 2.29 out of 4.
• Candidates who cannot meet the success condition in the fifth paragraph but whose central placement score is equal to or higher than the base score of the degree programme they wish to transfer to may apply for lateral transfer.
• In converting success grades obtained under the four-point or hundred-point system into one another, the conversion tables determined by the Council of Higher Education Executive Board are used.
• The results of the inter-institutional lateral transfer evaluation, with the names of all candidates who have a valid application ranked according to the scores taken as the basis in the evaluation, are announced on our University’s website.
• Principal and reserve candidates are determined in line with the announced quota. If principal candidates do not come to register within the registration dates set in the calendar, registration applications are taken from the reserve candidates in their place.

LATERAL TRANSFER TO OUR UNIVERSITY FROM HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS ABROAD

• A quota may be determined by university senates for lateral transfers from higher education institutions abroad. If a quota is determined, the quotas for higher education institutions abroad, set so as not to exceed half of the inter-institutional lateral transfer quota for each programme, and the application conditions determined by the university senate, are notified to the Council of Higher Education together with the inter-institutional lateral transfer quotas, by the end of working hours on the thirtieth day of June at the latest. The quotas for international students of all higher education institutions, together with the application conditions and evaluation calendar, are announced on the website of the Council of Higher Education.
• For transfers from higher education institutions in foreign countries to higher education institutions in Türkiye, the inter-institutional lateral transfer success conditions specified in the second paragraph of Article 11 of this Regulation (Amended phrase: RG-10/6/2020-31151) are required of the student.
• In lateral transfers from higher education institutions abroad, students who hold the base score for admission to the relevant year of the degree programme at the higher education institution to which they wish to transfer may apply for lateral transfer without any success requirement being sought in all courses they took during their higher education abroad. The lateral transfer applications of students applying in this way are evaluated outside the scope of the lateral transfer quota for students from abroad, within the framework of the principles determined by the university senate.
• In applications from universities abroad, it is required that the higher education institution abroad where the student studied, and the programme in which the education was provided, be recognised by the Council of Higher Education as an institution authorised to award associate or undergraduate degrees, and that the equivalence of the degree programme in which the student is enrolled to the associate or undergraduate degree programme applied to for lateral transfer be accepted by the relevant university.
• The minimum scores in the Student Selection and Placement Examinations conducted by the Student Selection and Placement Centre, to be used in evaluating the applications of students who began higher education abroad for transfer to higher education programmes in Türkiye, together with the exams and scores accepted as equivalent to them, are announced by the Council of Higher Education together with the lateral transfer quotas for students from abroad determined by the universities. In order to apply for lateral transfer, candidates must hold scores at or above the announced scores.
• (Added: RG-18/3/2016-29657) In lateral 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 percent of the quota for students from abroad for the relevant year of that programme. In calculating 15 percent, numbers below 1 are rounded up to 1. If the part after the decimal point is less than 5, it is rounded down to the lower whole number; if it is 5 or above, it is rounded up to the next whole number.
• (Added: RG-21/12/2019-30985) The Council of Higher Education may determine additional conditions, apart from the provisions of this Regulation, concerning lateral transfer from higher education institutions established abroad, including the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, to programmes of higher education institutions in Türkiye for which a success ranking requirement is sought. (Added phrase: RG-9/4/2021-31449) In order to make a lateral transfer from a higher education institution abroad to a programme in our country for which a success ranking requirement is sought;

1. (Added: RG-9/4/2021-31449) (Amended: RG-16/7/2023-32250) The university in which the student is enrolled must, in the year the student began higher education, be within the first four hundred band in the ranking organisations taken as the basis by the Council of Higher Education (Times Higher Education (THE), QS World University Rankings, Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), CWTS Leiden Ranking) in at least three of them, and the student must meet the semester/year and success conditions of this Regulation,
2. (Added: RG-9/4/2021-31449) If the student is enrolled at a university outside the first four hundred band;

1) Those who completed their secondary education in Türkiye must in any case have taken the central placement exam and met the success ranking requirement in the relevant score type of the programme for which a success ranking requirement is sought, as of the year of enrolment,

2) Those who completed at least the last two years of their secondary education abroad must have successfully passed at least four semesters, excluding the preparatory class, of the degree programme in which they are enrolled,

is required.

EVALUATION OF APPLICATIONS

• Applications will be evaluated by the board of the relevant units.
• Accepted applications will be announced at hku.edu.tr.
• The CANDIDATES whose applications are accepted will be listed in 2 separate lists as principal and reserve candidates.
• The candidates’ evaluation scores are calculated with the following formula;

 Evaluation Score= [(Candidate’s ÖSYS/YKS Score)×0.40)] + [(Candidate’s Grade Point Average)×0.60)]

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR FINAL REGISTRATION

• Online Application Form
• Current student certificate (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Current certified transcript of records (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Current certified curriculum and course contents
• Current document stating that you have not received a disciplinary penalty (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• ÖSYM result document for the year of the exam
• Detailed ÖSYM result document for the year of the exam
• Document stating that the applicant has not previously made a lateral transfer 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 Engineering and Aviation Sciences, and English Language Teaching! “)

• High school graduation certificate (e-Devlet)
• Photocopy of identity card
• Residence certificate (e-Devlet)
• 3 photographs
• For students who will make a lateral transfer to our University from higher education institutions abroad (excluding the TRNC);
• Certificate of equivalence
• Entry-exit certificate
• The originals and notarised translations of the Student Certificate, Transcript, Disciplinary Status Certificate, Course Contents and, if available, the Preparatory Class Status Certificates must be submitted at the time of registration.

QUOTAS
To view the quotas, click here.

SCORES
ÖSYM Scores
DGS Scores

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For the Student Information System Lateral Transfer Application Guide,  Click here.

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