1) The legal office for the decisions regarding the applications made to the Master's and Doctoral programs of Boğaziçi University Industrial Engineering Department is the Institute of Science and Engineering (FBE). At the end of application period, the applications are compiled by the Department Graduate Studies Advisor according to the criteria presented below and presented to the Academic Board of the Department after consulting with the Department Acceptance Committee. The Academic Board of the Department, then, finalizes the lists for accepted, denied and reserved applications, again according to the criteria presented below, and presents to FBE for approval.

2) FBE Board of Directors is the office also for the graduate studies quotas and minimum application conditions. Related suggestions, generated by the Department Acceptance Committee are finalized by the Academic Board of the Department and presented to FBE Board of Directors, and announced on the dates given on the academic calender. Applications are made to the Registrar's Office on the dates given on the academic calender. Click here to see the general minimum requirements for application.

3) In addition to the minimum conditions determined as described on Article (2), the applications are sought to conform to the relevant articles of the B.U. Regulations on Graduate Education.

4) No students are accepted to the quotas of the Department's Graduate Programs at the School of Foreign Languages during the pre-acceptance periods. That is, applications during the pre-acceptance period are sought to document that "the applicant's English level conforms to the FBE criteria".

5) Following the application period, applicant's Grade Point Average (GPA) from the higher education institution that he/she has graduated (or will graduate), the base point (TB) of the academic program (according to the University Placement Test) that he/she has graduated (or will graduate), Academic Staff and Graduate Education Test grade (ALES) and interview results (M) are taken into consideration in the evaluation procedure as described in Article (1).

6) The applicants must be in top 10% or higher percentile in Academic Staff and Graduate Education Test (ALES) or equivalent tests.

7) Evaluation is perfomed as follows:

a) At the first stage, a pre-elimination is done according to GPA, TB and ALES results. For this purpose, Normalized Grade Point Average (NGPA), Normalized Bse Point (NTB) and Normalized Academic Staff and Graduate Education Test grade (NALES) are used and a Weighed Grade (AN) is calculated for every applicant according to the formula below.

AN = 50 + 10*(0.45*NGPA + 0.28*NTB + 0.27*NALES)

Those applicants with a grade lower than a predetermined level are eliminated.

b) An interview is made with the qualified applicants: every applicant invited for an interview receives an interview grade (M) between 50-100, by the interview jury. Next, for every applicant, Normalized Interview Grade (NM) and Normalized Weighed Grade (NAN) is calculated and the Evaluation Grade (DN) is determined according to the below formula.

DN = 50 + 10*(0.70*NAN + 0.30*NM)

That is, 70% of the factors used in the calculation of "AN" is taken and 30% of "NM" is added on this. The students qualify according to the DN ranking are placed to the relevant classes, taking quotas into consideration.

8) Currently,

a) Minimum Grade Point Average level for the applications to:
Master's Degree Program is 2,50/ 4,00 (or 65/ 100);
Ph.D. Program is 3,00/ 4,00 (or 75/ 100).

9) M.S. students with at least 3.75 average at the end of their coursework may choose to enroll in the Ph.D. program, without having to do an M.S. thesis. Similarly, students with a B.S. degree wishing to apply directly the Ph.D. program must first take the M.S. program courses and can then move on to the Ph.D. program, if their M.S. GPA is 3.75.

All applicants should meet the general requirements of the university. Please see the requirements for admission to graduate programs from registrar's office web page:
http://www.boun.edu.tr/graduate/organization/admission_grad.html