EXPLANATIONS

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Warning: Candidates who were Turkish citizens by birth in accordance with the Turkish Citizenship Law but lost their Turkish citizenship by obtaining permission from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to renounce their Turkish citizenship, candidates who document that they have a blue card, which is given to those who have lost Turkish citizenship upon their request, and candidates who completed their entire high school education in high schools abroad (except TRNC high schools). Candidates with dual citizenship and Turkish nationality, one of whom is Turkish nationality, cannot make a choice because the quotas allocated to the Pharmacy and Dentistry programs are full, in accordance with subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (c) of the second article of the Principles Regarding the Admission of Students from Abroad-A General Principles.

A. APPLICATION

a) Application, Placement and Temporary Registration procedures for international students for the 2024-2025 academic year are completed online between the specified dates.

b) Before candidates apply; It will be useful for them to carefully review www.ktu.edu.tr/oidb/uluslararasiogrenci, which contains information about the placement calendar, application requirements, tuition fees and how many points the candidates got into which program they were placed in last year, during the application and registration process.

c) Candidates who are placed in the main (initial) recruitment for the 2024-2025 academic year cannot apply again, regardless of their temporary registration (online) to our University.

d) Candidates who upload incomplete, incorrect or incorrect documents during the application evaluation process will be sent an error message via the e-mail they registered to the system. For this reason, candidates should check their e-mail addresses frequently during the application process and, in case they receive an error message, complete the specified deficiencies and update their application. The application of the candidate who does not make the necessary adjustments between the application dates despite receiving an error message will be deemed invalid.

e) If candidates who submit false information/documents during the application process are definitely registered at our University, regardless of their education stage, if they are detected, their registration will be deleted from our University and legal proceedings will be initiated against these people.

f) The photo that the candidates will upload to the system will later be used as a student card etc. Since it will be used in all official transactions, the photo must be 4.5x6 in size, taken biometrically within the last six months.

g) It is necessary to obtain a Seafarer Qualification Health Report for final registration to the Maritime Transportation Management Engineering (30% English, undergraduate), Marine Machinery Management Engineering (undergraduate) and Marine Machinery Management (associate degree) Programs, and a Seafarer's Wallet is required to complete the internship of the Program.( Seafarer wallets, which are documents that replace passports, can only be used by citizens of the Republic of Türkiye, or citizens of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus who have received and/or graduated from maritime education in the Republic of Türkiye or the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, or  It can be given to foreigners of Turkish origin within the scope of the Law No. 2527 dated 25/09/1981 on Foreigners of Turkish Origin being able to practice their professions and arts freely in Türkiye and being employed in public, private organizations or workplaces. As foreign citizens, students who are/will receive education in maritime-related associate and undergraduate programs at higher education institutions in our country have the right to take the proficiency certificate exams as a result of the maritime education they have received, and training certificates can be issued in accordance with the training they have received. However, seafarer's wallets cannot be issued to foreign nationals. Foreign nationals must request a seafarer's wallet from their country of citizenship. Accordingly, since some countries do not give female students Seaman's Wallet , it would be in their advantage to learn from the relevant authorities of their own country before making their choice whether they can get the Seaman's Wallet.)

h) Student candidates who are placed in the Pharmacy Program are required to bring a Health Report along with their registration documents during final registration, stating that they do not have any illnesses that would prevent them from completing their Pharmacy education.

i) The application fee is 1000 TL (Turkish Lira) and the application fee will be paid online by credit card/debit card. You can pay the application fee by following the steps in the APPLICATION SYSTEM. Applications of candidates who do not pay the application fee will not be evaluated. Application fee; It will not be refunded to those who made incorrect payments, to those whose applications were accepted but could not be placed, or will not be deducted from the tuition fees of the candidates who were placed.

h) Candidates who paid the application fee in the first application but could not be placed in any program or whose application was rejected because it was incomplete, faulty or incorrect will not be charged a re-application fee. They will be able to update their application documents and make their preferences by logging into the system with their existing passwords.

j) For candidates who will apply, the exams approved by the Council of Higher Education; There is no limitation on the validity periods of ABITUR, INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE, GCE, TAWJIHI and similar exams that have the status of high school graduation exams. However, the validity period of SAT, Türkiye International Student Admission Exam (TR-YÖS) and similar exams, which have university entrance exam status, is two years.

k) Students must upload Turkish or English translations of their documents during the application process.

Documents to be uploaded online for application:

1. Passport or Identity Document

2. Exam Result Certificate

3. Secondary Education (High School) Graduation Certificate. (Turkish copy approved by the Turkish Embassy, ??Consulate in their country or notary authorities in Türkiye. Secondary education senior students who will graduate must upload documents showing their student and grade point average approved by the high school directorate.)

4. Document Showing Secondary Education GPA (Transcript, Turkish copy approved by the Turkish Embassy, ??Consulate in their country or notary authorities in Türkiye)

5. Blue Card (Candidates who have renounced Turkish citizenship and received a blue card will upload it)

6. Population Registration Sample (Candidates who are Turkish citizens or who have renounced Turkish citizenship will upload it.)

7 Citizens of the Republic of Turkey who completed their secondary education in an institution that provides formal education abroad and candidates with dual nationality whose first nationality is the Republic of Turkey must have a document showing that they have been in the country where the diploma was received during their high school education or that they entered and exited this country (certified passport or police records).

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Success Requirement (Table-1)

NOTE: Candidates who will apply for the GCE (A Level) exam will obtain their exam result score by adding the numerical values corresponding to the letter grades specified below and dividing by the number of courses.

Numerical equivalent of letter grades: A&A+ =100, B=90, C=80, D=70, E=60, F=50

Formula for Converting Secondary Education Score into a 100-point System:

Equivalence in the Hundred System = Secondary Education Grade Point Average /

Full Score in the Graduated System X 100

Formula for Converting TRYÖS Score to 100 System:

Equivalent in the Hundred System = (TRYÖS Score -100) / 4

B. EVALUATION AND PLACEMENT

At the Higher Education General Assembly Meeting dated 23.11.2023; It has been deemed appropriate to cancel the principles regarding their own exams and the exams held by universities ( International Student Admission Exam  (YÖS) )and to accept Türkiye International Student Admission Exam (TR-YÖS) in accepting students from abroad. In this context, students will not be accepted based on the exam results ( International Student Admission Exam (YÖS) ) conducted by our University and other universities.

a) Priority order in placements:

 It will be done according to the exam scores in Group A defined in Table-1, B if there is a vacant quota, and C if there is a vacant quota.

b) In case of equality in placement scores, placement is firstly done according to the secondary school GPA (for A and B groups), and in case of equality again, placement is made in order of preference. In case of equality at the end of these, the younger candidate is preferred. (for group A B and C)

c) The 20% threshold of being from the same country will not be applied.

d) Placement results are announced on the Student Affairs Department website on the specified date and the placed candidates are informed via e-mail. Additionally, written notification is not made.