2025-2026 Autumn Semester Transfer Announcement

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

Transfer admission of students will be made to our University’s Associate Degree and Undergraduate Programmes in the Autumn Semester of the 2025-2026 Academic Year in accordance with the provisions of the “Regulation on the Principles of Transfer Between Associate Degree and Undergraduate Level Programmes, Double Major, Minor and Inter-Institutional Credit Transfer in Higher Education Institutions”.

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR APPLICATION

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

• Up-to-date Student Certificate (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Up-to-date Certified Transcript (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Up-to-date Certified curriculum and course contents
• Up-to-date document stating that you have not received a disciplinary penalty (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Result document for the year of the ÖSYM exam
• Detailed result document for the year of the ÖSYM exam
• High School Graduation Certificate (e-Devlet)
• Certificate of success from the preparatory class and/or equivalent foreign language examinations

( Footnote: ” This document is mandatory for the Departments of Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Political Science and International Relations, International Trade and Logistics, Aviation and Space Sciences Engineering, and English Language Teaching! “)

GENERAL PRINCIPLES

• Transfers may be made to equivalent-level diploma programmes within the same faculty, school, conservatory or vocational school, or in another faculty, school, conservatory or vocational school within the same university, within the quotas determined by the relevant board.
• The semesters and diploma programmes for which an intra-institutional transfer quota will be determined are decided by the relevant boards, starting from the second semester and up to and including the fifth semester for each diploma programme, so as not to exceed fifteen percent of the student quota stipulated in the ÖSYM Guide for each year in which a quota is announced. Students studying in a programme of a foundation university within the scholarship quota are deemed to have waived their scholarships when they transfer. In determining the intra-institutional transfer quota of higher education institutions that have a practice of transition to a diploma programme after a common programme, the quotas determined by the senate for these diploma programmes are taken as a basis.
• The transfer of candidates placed in a common programme with one score type to diploma programmes accepting students with a different score type within the same higher education institution is carried out in accordance with the intra-institutional transfer provisions of this Regulation.
• In order for a student to apply for transfer between diploma programmes at the same level within the University that accept students with different central placement score types, the student’s central placement score, obtained in the score type valid for the diploma programme they wish to transfer to as of the year they took the central examination, must not be lower than the lowest base score of the equivalent diploma programmes of other universities in Turkey.
• (Amended sentence:RG-11/1/2023-32070) The application evaluations of all students wishing to make inter-institutional and intra-institutional transfers are assessed according to the criteria determined by the senate, with the cumulative grade point average and at least 40% of the ÖSYS/YKS score in the programme’s score type in the year of enrolment in higher education included in the calculation, and transfers are granted according to the allocated quota.
• The evaluation scores of candidates are calculated with the following formula;
• In transfer evaluations, among candidates with equal scores, priority is given to those with a higher Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA).
• For intra-institutional transfer at our University, the cumulative grade point average (2.50 out of 4) of the student for the semesters completed in the diploma programme in which they are enrolled is determined by the senate.
• Primary and substitute candidates are determined by the senate according to the announced quota. Substitute candidates’ registration applications are taken in place of primary candidates who do not come to register within the registration dates set in the calendar.

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 substitute candidates.

QUOTAS
To view the quotas, click here.

SCORES
ÖSYM Scores
DGS Scores

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR FINAL REGISTRATION

• Online Application Form
• Up-to-date Student Certificate
• Up-to-date Certified Transcript
• Up-to-date Certified curriculum and course contents
• Up-to-date document stating that you have not received a disciplinary penalty
• Result document for the year of the ÖSYM exam
• Detailed result document for the year of the ÖSYM exam
• Certificate of success from the preparatory class and/or equivalent foreign language examinations( Footnote: “This document is mandatory for students of the Departments of Civil Engineering, Electrical and 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 transfer

IMPORTANT:

• For departments where a preparatory class is compulsory, regardless of the year in which the student is accepted, a Foreign Language Exemption Examination will be held.
• Students who will register for the Departments of Civil Engineering, Electrical and 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, 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 Transfer

(Transfer Based on Central Placement Score)

Transfer admission of students will be made to our University’s Associate Degree and Undergraduate Programmes in the Autumn Semester of the 2025-2026 Academic Year under Additional Article 1 of the “Regulation on the Principles of Transfer Between Associate Degree and Undergraduate Level Programmes, Double Major, Minor and Inter-Institutional Credit Transfer in Higher Education Institutions”.

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR APPLICATION

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

• Up-to-date Student Certificate (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Up-to-date Certified Transcript (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Up-to-date Certified curriculum and course contents
• Up-to-date document stating that you have not received a disciplinary penalty (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Result document for the year of the ÖSYM exam
• Detailed result document for the year of the ÖSYM exam
• Document stating that no transfer has previously been made under Additional Article 1
• High School Graduation Certificate (e-Devlet)
• Certificate of success from the preparatory class and/or equivalent foreign language examinations

( Footnote: ” This document is mandatory for the Departments of Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Political Science and International Relations, International Trade and Logistics, Aviation and Space Sciences Engineering, and English Language Teaching! “)

• For students who will transfer to our university from higher education institutions abroad (excluding the T.R.N.C.);

• Certificate of equivalence
• Entry-Exit certificate
• Student Certificate, Transcript, Disciplinary Status Certificate, Course Contents and, if any, Preparatory Class Status Certificate, notarised

GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND IMPLEMENTATION RULES

• 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 its entry,
• That students who enrolled according to the Special Talent Examination 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 examination,
• That students may transfer to associate degree or bachelor’s degree programmes provided that their central placement scores in the year of enrolment meet the central placement score of the higher education programmes they wish to transfer to,
• That students may transfer only once under Additional Article 1, but that students who have transferred under the said article may return to the higher education institution in which they gained the right to register through the ÖSYS central placement result on later application dates,
• 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 announced for the spring semester, the candidates will be registered, and if the number of applicant candidates exceeds the quota, as many candidates as the quota will be registered, starting from the candidate with the highest ÖSYM score,
• That with the DGS score, applications can only be made to the higher education bachelor’s degree programmes to which the associate degree fields defined in the DGS Guides may proceed, 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 through DGS in the relevant year,
• That if there are special conditions required for registration to the programme in the ÖSYS Guide, students applying for transfer under Additional Article 1 must meet these conditions,
• That if no students were admitted to the diploma programme the student wishes to transfer to in the year the student enrolled in the diploma programme in which they are currently studying, transfer cannot be made because the central placement base score of the diploma programme to be transferred to has not been established,
• That in transfers from a programme whose language of instruction is Turkish to programmes that provide education 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 must take foreign language preparatory education if they do not meet the foreign language requirement,
• That students who have 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 evaluating applications, only the ÖSYM central placement scores of the student in the year of placement in the programme in which they are enrolled are taken into account, and no success or similar requirement is sought,

TRANSFER TO OUR UNIVERSITY FROM HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS ABROAD

• Quotas may be determined by university senates for transfers from higher education institutions abroad. If a quota is determined, the quotas for higher education institutions abroad, which are set at no more than half of the inter-institutional transfer quota for each programme, and the application requirements determined by the university senate shall be notified to the Council of Higher Education, together with the inter-institutional 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 requirements and the 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 Turkey, the inter-institutional transfer success requirements set out in the second paragraph of Article 11 of this Regulation (Amended phrase:RG-10/6/2020-31151) are required.
• In transfers from higher education institutions abroad, students who hold the base score applicable to the admission of students to the relevant year of the diploma programme at the higher education institution to which they wish to transfer may apply for transfer without any success requirement being sought in all the 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.
• In applications from universities abroad, it is required that the higher education institution where the student studied abroad and the programme in which the education was conducted be recognised by the Council of Higher Education as an institution authorised to award associate or bachelor’s degree diplomas, and that the equivalence of the diploma programme in which the student is enrolled to the associate or bachelor’s degree diploma programme for which the student is applying for 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 for transfer to higher education programmes in Turkey of students who started higher education abroad, together with the examinations accepted as equivalent to them and their scores, are announced by the Council of Higher Education together with the quotas for transfers from abroad determined by the universities. In order to be able to apply for transfer, candidates must have at least the announced scores or higher.
• (Added:RG-18/3/2016-29657) In transfers from higher education institutions abroad, the number of students who can transfer to each year of a programme from the same higher education institution abroad cannot exceed fifteen percent of the quota for students from abroad for the relevant year of that programme. In calculating fifteen percent, numbers below 1 are rounded up to 1. Fractions are rounded down to the lower whole number if the part after the decimal point is less than 5, and rounded up to the next whole number if it is 5 or above.
• (Added:RG-21/12/2019-30985) The Council of Higher Education may determine additional requirements, beyond the provisions of this Regulation, for transfers from higher education institutions established abroad, including the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, to programmes of higher education institutions in Turkey for which a success ranking requirement is sought. (Added phrase:RG-9/4/2021-31449) In order to 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 be within the first four hundred band in at least three of the ranking organisations taken as a 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 the year the student started higher education, and the student must meet the semester/year and success requirements of this Regulation,
2. (Added:RG-9/4/2021-31449) If enrolled at a university outside the first four hundred band;

1) Those who completed their secondary education in Turkey must in any case have taken the central placement examination 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 registration,

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,

is required.

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 substitute candidates.

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR FINAL REGISTRATION

• Online Application Form
• Up-to-date Student Certificate (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Up-to-date Certified Transcript (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Up-to-date Certified curriculum and course contents
• Up-to-date document stating that you have not received a disciplinary penalty (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Result document for the year of the ÖSYM exam
• Detailed result document for the year of the ÖSYM exam
• Document stating that no transfer has previously been made under Additional Article 1
• Certificate of success from the preparatory class and/or equivalent foreign language examinations

( Footnote: ” This document is mandatory for the Departments of Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Political Science and International Relations, International Trade and Logistics, Aviation and Space Sciences Engineering, and English Language Teaching! “)

• High School Graduation Certificate (e-Devlet)
• Photocopy of Identity Card
• Residence Certificate (e-Devlet)
• 3 photographs
• For students who will transfer to our university from higher education institutions abroad (excluding the T.R.N.C.) ;
• Certificate of equivalence
• Entry-Exit Certificate
• The originals of the Student Certificate, Transcript, Disciplinary Status Certificate, Course Contents and, if any, Preparatory Class Status Certificates, and their notarised translations, must be submitted during 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 submission of missing documents has been completed within the specified period.

SCORES

For ÖSYM Scores, click here.

For DGS Scores, click here.

QUOTAS

To view the quotas, click here.

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Transfer to Equivalent Diploma Programmes at the Same Level

Transfer admission of students will be made to our University’s Associate Degree and Undergraduate Programmes in the Autumn Semester of the 2025-2026 Academic Year in accordance with the provisions of the “Regulation on the Principles of Transfer Between Associate Degree and Undergraduate Level Programmes, Double Major, Minor and Inter-Institutional Credit Transfer in Higher Education Institutions”.

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR APPLICATION

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

• Up-to-date Student Certificate (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Up-to-date Certified Transcript (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Up-to-date Certified curriculum and course contents
• Up-to-date document stating that you have not received a disciplinary penalty (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Result document for the year of the ÖSYM exam
• Detailed result document for the year of the ÖSYM exam
• High School Graduation Certificate (e-Devlet)
• Certificate of success from the preparatory class and/or equivalent foreign language examinations

( Footnote: ” This document is mandatory for the Departments of Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Political Science and International Relations, International Trade and Logistics, Aviation and Space Sciences Engineering, and English Language Teaching! “)

• For students who will transfer to our university from higher education institutions abroad, certificate of equivalence
• For students who will transfer to our university from higher education institutions abroad (excluding the T.R.N.C.);

• Certificate of equivalence
• Entry-Exit certificate
• Student Certificate, Transcript, Disciplinary Status Certificate, Course Contents and, if any, Preparatory Class Status Certificate, notarised

GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND IMPLEMENTATION RULES

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

INTER-INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFER

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

TRANSFER TO OUR UNIVERSITY FROM HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS ABROAD

• Quotas may be determined by university senates for transfers from higher education institutions abroad. If a quota is determined, the quotas for higher education institutions abroad, which are set at no more than half of the inter-institutional transfer quota for each programme, and the application requirements determined by the university senate shall be notified to the Council of Higher Education, together with the inter-institutional 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 requirements and the 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 Turkey, the inter-institutional transfer success requirements set out in the second paragraph of Article 11 of this Regulation (Amended phrase:RG-10/6/2020-31151) are required.
• In transfers from higher education institutions abroad, students who hold the base score applicable to the admission of students to the relevant year of the diploma programme at the higher education institution to which they wish to transfer may apply for transfer without any success requirement being sought in all the 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.
• In applications from universities abroad, it is required that the higher education institution where the student studied abroad and the programme in which the education was conducted be recognised by the Council of Higher Education as an institution authorised to award associate or bachelor’s degree diplomas, and that the equivalence of the diploma programme in which the student is enrolled to the associate or bachelor’s degree diploma programme for which the student is applying for 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 for transfer to higher education programmes in Turkey of students who started higher education abroad, together with the examinations accepted as equivalent to them and their scores, are announced by the Council of Higher Education together with the quotas for transfers from abroad determined by the universities. In order to be able to apply for transfer, candidates must have at least the announced scores or higher.
• (Added:RG-18/3/2016-29657) In transfers from higher education institutions abroad, the number of students who can transfer to each year of a programme from the same higher education institution abroad cannot exceed fifteen percent of the quota for students from abroad for the relevant year of that programme. In calculating fifteen percent, numbers below 1 are rounded up to 1. Fractions are rounded down to the lower whole number if the part after the decimal point is less than 5, and rounded up to the next whole number if it is 5 or above.
• (Added:RG-21/12/2019-30985) The Council of Higher Education may determine additional requirements, beyond the provisions of this Regulation, for transfers from higher education institutions established abroad, including the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, to programmes of higher education institutions in Turkey for which a success ranking requirement is sought. (Added phrase:RG-9/4/2021-31449) In order to 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 be within the first four hundred band in at least three of the ranking organisations taken as a 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 the year the student started higher education, and the student must meet the semester/year and success requirements of this Regulation,
2. (Added:RG-9/4/2021-31449) If enrolled at a university outside the first four hundred band;

1) Those who completed their secondary education in Turkey must in any case have taken the central placement examination 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 registration,

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,

is required.

EVALUATION OF APPLICATIONS

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

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

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR FINAL REGISTRATION

• Online Application Form
• Up-to-date Student Certificate (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Up-to-date Certified Transcript (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Up-to-date Certified curriculum and course contents
• Up-to-date document stating that you have not received a disciplinary penalty (e-Devlet or wet-signed document)
• Result document for the year of the ÖSYM exam
• Detailed result document for the year of the ÖSYM exam
• Document stating that no transfer has previously been made under Additional Article 1
• Certificate of success from the preparatory class and/or equivalent foreign language examinations

( Footnote: ” This document is mandatory for the Departments of Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Political Science and International Relations, International Trade and Logistics, Aviation and Space Sciences Engineering, and English Language Teaching! “)

• High School Graduation Certificate (e-Devlet)
• Photocopy of Identity Card
• Residence Certificate (e-Devlet)
• 3 photographs
• For students who will transfer to our university from higher education institutions abroad (excluding the T.R.N.C.);
• Certificate of equivalence
• Entry-Exit Certificate
• The originals of the Student Certificate, Transcript, Disciplinary Status Certificate, Course Contents and, if any, Preparatory Class Status Certificates, and their notarised translations, must be submitted during 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 submission of missing documents has been completed within the specified period.

QUOTAS
To view the quotas, click here.

SCORES

For ÖSYM Scores, click here.

For DGS Scores, click here.

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

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