Senate Decision on Determining the Application, Acceptance, and Registration Conditions for Graduate Programs Affiliated with Istanbul Medeniyet University Graduate Education Institute for Foreign National Applicants
1- Application Conditions for Foreign National Candidates for Doctoral and Thesis Master's Programs:
a) Foreign national candidates applying to the thesis master's program must have a bachelor's degree from a faculty or vocational school. Candidates who have obtained their bachelor's degree from abroad must submit a recognition or equivalency document obtained from the Higher Education Council (YÖK).
b) Foreign national candidates applying to the doctoral program must have both a bachelor's and a thesis master's degree. Candidates who have obtained their bachelor's and/or master's degrees from abroad must submit a recognition or equivalency document obtained from the Higher Education Council (YÖK).
c) ALES or an equivalent exam result document is not required from foreign national candidates applying to and registering for the thesis master's or doctoral programs.
d) In the evaluation of applications from foreign national candidates for thesis master's or doctoral programs, ranking is based on 50% of the graduation grade and 50% of the student admission exam grade.
e) Foreign national candidates must, in their applications, have obtained a sufficient score from a centrally recognized foreign language exam in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Persian, accepted by the Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM) from languages other than their native language as required by the program they are applying for. If the candidate has graduated from a bachelor's/master's program where 100% of the education is in a foreign language or from a bachelor's/master's program in the official language of a country where the language is not their native language, no language document is requested.
f) Foreign national candidates must submit a document proving that their Turkish language proficiency is at level C1 from Istanbul Medeniyet University Turkish Education Center (TÖMER) to be able to register for graduate programs where the language of instruction is Turkish. TÖMER Certificate is not required from those who have graduated from undergraduate and/or graduate and/or doctoral programs in Turkish in Turkey or from graduates of Turkology programs abroad.
2- Application Conditions for Foreign National Candidates for Non-Thesis Master's Programs: a) Foreign national candidates applying to non-thesis master's programs must have a bachelor's degree from a faculty or vocational school. Candidates who have obtained their bachelor's degree from abroad must submit a recognition or equivalency document obtained from the Higher Education Council (YÖK). b) ALES or an equivalent exam result document is not required from foreign national candidates. c) Foreign national candidates must submit a document proving that their Turkish language proficiency is at level C1 from Istanbul Medeniyet University Turkish Education Center (TÖMER) to be able to register for graduate programs where the language of instruction is Turkish. TÖMER Certificate is not required from those who have graduated from undergraduate and/or graduate and/or doctoral programs in Turkish in Turkey or from graduates of Turkology programs abroad.