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Bahçeşehir University 2016-2017 Academic Year Graduate Degree Education Academic Calendar
| BAHÇEŞEHİR UNIVERSITY 2016-2017 ACADEMIC YEAR GRADUATE EDUCATION ACADEMIC CALENDAR | |
| FALL SEMESTER | |
| This academic calendar has been prepared in consideration of current conditions. The University administration and Senate are authorized to make changes to the academic calendar and to postpone examinations as circumstances require. No student, academic staff member or employee may claim any rights as a result of such changes. | |
| 06 June 2016 Monday - 16 September 2016 Friday |
Start of admissions and registrations of international graduate students for the Fall semester of the 2016-2017 academic year. Application, admission and financial procedures must be completed by Friday, 16 September 2016. |
| 18 June 2016 Saturday | English Proficiency exam for graduate students. The written exam will be held at 09:00 and the oral exam at 13:00 at the ŞİŞLİ campus. |
| 28 June 2016 Tuesday | TURKISH Proficiency Exam for international associate, undergraduate and graduate students admitted to Turkish-taught programs who do not hold a Turkish Proficiency certificate, and announcement of the results. The exam will be organized by the School of Foreign Languages. The written exam will be held at 09:30 and the oral exam at 13:30; the venue will be announced. The announcement will be made by the School of Foreign Languages, and those who wish to take the exam must apply to the School of Foreign Languages. |
| 14 July 2016 Thursday | TURKISH Proficiency Exam for international associate, undergraduate and graduate students admitted to Turkish-taught programs who do not hold a Turkish Proficiency certificate, and announcement of the results. The exam will be organized by the School of Foreign Languages. The written exam will be held at 09:30 and the oral exam at 13:30; the venue will be announced. The announcement will be made by the School of Foreign Languages, and those who wish to take the exam must apply to the School of Foreign Languages. |
| 16 July 2016 Saturday | English Proficiency exam for graduate students. The written exam will be held at 09:00 and the oral exam at 13:00 at the ŞİŞLİ campus. |
| 23 August 2016 Tuesday | English Proficiency exam for graduate students. The written exam will be held at 09:00 and the oral exam at 13:00 at the ŞİŞLİ campus. |
| 24 August 2016 Wednesday | TURKISH Proficiency Exam for international associate, undergraduate and graduate students admitted to Turkish-taught programs who do not hold a Turkish Proficiency certificate, and announcement of the results. The exam will be organized by the School of Foreign Languages. The written exam will be held at 09:30 and the oral exam at 13:30; the venue will be announced. The announcement will be made by the School of Foreign Languages, and those who wish to take the exam must apply to the School of Foreign Languages. |
| 1 September 2016 Thursday | TURKISH Proficiency Exam for international associate, undergraduate and graduate students admitted to Turkish-taught programs who do not hold a Turkish Proficiency certificate, and announcement of the results. The exam will be organized by the School of Foreign Languages. The written exam will be held at 09:30 and the oral exam at 13:30; the venue will be announced. The announcement will be made by the School of Foreign Languages, and those who wish to take the exam must apply to the School of Foreign Languages. |
| 3 September 2016 Saturday | English Proficiency exam for graduate students. The written exam will be held at 09:00 and the oral exam at 13:00 at the ŞİŞLİ campus. |
| 12-15 September 2016 Monday-Thursday | Eid al-Adha (Eve: holiday on the afternoon of Sunday, 11 September; Holiday: 4.5 days) (In accordance with the academic calendar, no academic procedures will be carried out during the week of 11-18 September 2016) |
| 16-23 September 2016 Friday-Friday | Online project, thesis and seminar registration for students in graduate programs who have reached the project, thesis and seminar stage. Students who do not register for project, thesis and seminar during the regular registration period cannot register during or after the ADD-DROP week. |
| 16-23 September 2016 Friday-Friday | Online course registration for students in graduate programs, including international, Erasmus and World Exchange students. Students who have not registered at all during this period cannot make any changes or register during the ADD-DROP period. (The system opens at 11:00 on Friday at the start and closes at 17:00 on Saturday at the end.) |
| 16 September 2016 Friday | Last day for graduate students to fulfill their financial obligations. This is required for online course selection. Otherwise, the courses assigned to the student will be deleted and it will be difficult for the student to take courses. |
| 16 September 2016 Friday | Last day for completing graduate applications and admissions for the Fall semester of the 2016-2017 academic year. Admission and registration procedures for all Turkish citizen and international students must be completed during the regular course registration period. |
| 19 September 2016 Monday | Opening ceremony of the 2016-2017 academic year with the participation of preparatory, associate, undergraduate and graduate students, all parents and other guests. Time: 14:00. Venue: Conference Hall B |
| 21 September 2016 Wednesday | English Proficiency exam for graduate students. The written exam will be held at 09:00 and the oral exam at 13:00 at the ŞİŞLİ campus. |
| 22 September 2016 Thursday | TURKISH Proficiency Exam for international associate, undergraduate and graduate students admitted to Turkish-taught programs who do not hold a Turkish Proficiency certificate, and announcement of the results. The exam will be organized by the School of Foreign Languages. The written exam will be held at 09:30 and the oral exam at 13:30; the venue will be announced. The announcement will be made by the School of Foreign Languages, and those who wish to take the exam must apply to the School of Foreign Languages. |
| 24 September 2016 Saturday | Start of Fall semester classes for all graduate students. |
| 29 September 2016 Thursday | TURKISH Proficiency Exam for international associate, undergraduate and graduate students admitted to Turkish-taught programs who do not hold a Turkish Proficiency certificate, and announcement of the results. The exam will be organized by the School of Foreign Languages. The written exam will be held at 09:30 and the oral exam at 13:30; the venue will be announced. The announcement will be made by the School of Foreign Languages, and those who wish to take the exam must apply to the School of Foreign Languages. |
| 01 October 2016 Saturday | English Proficiency exam for graduate students. The written exam will be held at 09:00 and the oral exam at 13:00 at the ŞİŞLİ campus. |
| 03 - 08 October 2016 Monday-Saturday | Add-Drop week for all graduate students. Students who did not complete any course registration during the regular registration period cannot register for courses during the add-drop period; the system will be closed for these students. Therefore, you must settle your financial matters and register for your courses during the regular course registration period. Courses dropped after this date are considered withdrawals. (The system opens at 11:00 on Monday at the start and closes at 21:00 on Saturday at the end.) |
| 07 October 2016 Wednesday | Elective courses without sufficient enrollment will be closed on Wednesday, 05 October 2016 (at 18:00) and dropped from the students who registered for them. Graduate students registered in the closed courses must select other courses by 21:00 on Saturday, 08 October 2016. No elective course selection will be made after this date. Students whose courses are dropped will be informed by SMS; however, it is the student's responsibility to check the courses taken in the system on Thursday, 06 October 2016 and verify whether any course has been dropped. |
| 17 October 2016 Monday | Start of graduate applications and admission registrations for the Spring semester. |
| 28 -29 October 2016 Friday-Saturday | Republic Day (no classes after 13:00 on Friday, 28 October, and all day on Saturday). Because the week is interrupted, no graduate classes have been scheduled between Monday, 24 October and Saturday, 29 October 2016. |
| 10 November 2016 Thursday | Atatürk Commemoration Day. |
| 03 December 2016 Saturday | Last day to apply to the Office of Student Affairs to withdraw (W) from a course registered in the Fall semester. |
| 12-17 December 2016 Monday-Saturday | Early final exam dates for students who came to our university through Erasmus, World Exchange or other programs and for our students who will go abroad within the same programs. The departure of students taking these exams must be confirmed and documented by their institutions. This exam is not given to every student going abroad; it is given only in cases of conflicting academic dates. A list on this matter must be sent by the International Office Directorate (UOD) to the Office of the President by Thursday, 01 December 2016 at the latest. |
| 12 December 2016 Monday | Last day for advisors supervising project and thesis work to notify the relevant institute in writing of the names of the jury members they propose for the project and thesis defense examination juries, together with the thesis and project titles. |
| 17 December 2016 Saturday | English Proficiency exam for graduate students who will start their studies in the Spring semester. The written exam will be held at 09:00 and the oral exam at 13:00 at the ŞİŞLİ campus. |
| 23 December 2016 Friday | Last day for the notified institute to form the relevant jury and for the written form of the thesis or project to be distributed to the jury to be submitted to the institute |
| 26 December 2016 Monday | Last day for distributing the written form of the thesis or project to be defended to the jury members. |
| 01 January 2017 Sunday | New Year's holiday, one day. |
| 07 January 2017 Saturday | Last day of classes in graduate programs (Saturday). Excluding project and thesis work. |
| 09 -22 January 2017 Monday-Sunday | Final exams of graduate courses offered in the Fall semester of the 2016-2017 academic year. |
| 23 January 2017 Monday | Last day for entering final exam grades, until 23:00. GRADE ENTRY MUST BE COMPLETED. |
| 24 January 2017 Tuesday | Announcement of final grades at 15:00. |
| 25 January 2017 Wednesday | Last day for corrections of clerical errors and for submitting incomplete (I) grades for the Fall semester of the 2016-2017 academic year, until 18:00. VERY IMPORTANT FOR STUDENTS' SPRING SEMESTER COURSE REGISTRATIONS. |
| 27 January 2017 Friday | Last day for holding master's project or thesis defense examinations and submitting the results to the institute, and for holding doctoral thesis monitoring committee meetings, thesis defense and qualifying examinations and submitting the results to the institute. |
| 1 February 2017 Wednesday | Last day for submitting to the institute the reports of Doctoral Qualifying, Doctoral Thesis Proposal and Doctoral Thesis Defense examinations and the Doctoral Thesis Monitoring Reports evaluated in the 2016-17 Fall semester. |
| 1 February 2017 Wednesday | Last day for graduate students' applications for horizontal transfer, transfer between thesis and non-thesis programs, course exemption and admission of special students to the program. |
| 06-11 February 2017 Monday-Saturday | Fall semester make-up exams. Students must complete their course registration during the course registration week. Students who cannot complete their registration during the course registration week due to an excuse will complete any missing steps during the add-drop week. Students with excuses must log in to the OIS system during the course registration week and register for the courses available to them. The system will be closed during the add-drop week for students who have not registered for any courses or who have financial problems. |
| 27 February 2017 Monday | Last day for a student who has passed the thesis examination to submit the required number of printed and digital copies of the thesis, prepared in accordance with the writing guidelines, to the institute. |
| SPRING SEMESTER | |
| 12 January 2017 Thursday | TURKISH Proficiency Exam for international associate, undergraduate and graduate students admitted to Turkish-taught programs who do not hold a Turkish Proficiency certificate, and announcement of the results. The exam will be organized by the School of Foreign Languages. The written exam will be held at 09:30 and the oral exam at 13:30; the venue will be announced. The announcement will be made by the School of Foreign Languages, and those who wish to take the exam must apply to the School of Foreign Languages. |
| 14 January 2017 Saturday | English Proficiency exam for graduate students. The written exam will be held at 09:00 and the oral exam at 13:00 at the ŞİŞLİ campus. |
| 26 January 2017 Thursday | Last day for applications and admissions to graduate programs for the Spring semester. Admitted students must complete all financial and academic procedures and register for courses during the regular registration period. |
| 30 January–04 February 2017 Monday-Saturday | Online course registration for graduate students. Students who do not register for courses during the registration period cannot register during the ADD-DROP period. The system is closed to them. (The system opens at 11:00 on Monday at the start and closes at 17:00 on Saturday at the end.) |
| 06 February 2017 Monday | Start of Spring semester classes for graduate programs. |
| 13 February 2017 Saturday | English Proficiency exam for graduate students. The written exam will be held at 09:00 and the oral exam at 13:00 at the ŞİŞLİ campus. |
| 13 - 18 February 2017 Monday-Saturday | Course Add-Drop week for all graduate students. Students who did not complete any course registration during the regular registration period cannot register for courses during the add-drop period; the system will be closed for these students. Therefore, you must settle your financial matters and register for your courses during the regular course registration period. Courses dropped after this date are considered withdrawals. (The system opens at 11:00 on Monday at the start and closes at 21:00 on Saturday at the end.) |
| 15 February 2017 Wednesday | Elective courses without sufficient enrollment will be closed on Wednesday, 15 February 2017 (at 18:00) and dropped from the students who registered for them. Graduate students registered in the closed courses must select other courses by 21:00 on Saturday, 18 February 2017. No elective course selection will be made after this date. Students whose courses are dropped will be informed by SMS; however, it is the student's responsibility to check the courses taken in the system on Thursday, 16 February 2017 and verify whether any course has been dropped. |
| 16 February 2017 Thursday | TURKISH Proficiency Exam for international associate, undergraduate and graduate students admitted to Turkish-taught programs who do not hold a Turkish Proficiency certificate, and announcement of the results. The exam will be organized by the School of Foreign Languages. The written exam will be held at 09:30 and the oral exam at 13:30; the venue will be announced. The announcement will be made by the School of Foreign Languages, and those who wish to take the exam must apply to the School of Foreign Languages. |
| 06 April 2017 Thursday | Start of admissions and registrations of international graduate students for the Fall semester of the 2017-2018 academic year. Application, admission and financial procedures must be completed by Friday, 25 August 2017. |
| 14 April 2017 Friday | Last day to apply to the Office of Student Affairs to withdraw (W) from a course registered in the Spring semester. |
| 17 April 2017 Monday | Last day for advisors supervising project and thesis work to notify the relevant institute in writing of the names of the jury members they propose for the project and thesis defense examination juries, together with the thesis and project titles. |
| 23 April 2017 Sunday | National Sovereignty and Children's Day (Sunday, 23 April 2017 is an official holiday; no exams or classes will be held.) |
| 28 April 2016 Friday | Last day for the notified institute to form the relevant jury and for the written form of the thesis or project to be distributed to the jury to be submitted to the institute |
| 01 May 2017 Monday | Labor and Solidarity Day (Monday, 01 May 2017 is an official holiday; no exams or classes will be held.) |
| 03 May 2016 Wednesday | Last day for distributing the written form of the thesis or project to be defended to the jury members. |
| 09 - 11 May 2017 Tuesday-Thursday | May Festival |
| 13 May 2017 Saturday | English Proficiency exam for graduate students. The written exam will be held at 09:00 and the oral exam at 13:00 at the ŞİŞLİ campus. |
| 15 May 2017 Monday | End of classes for graduate programs (including Monday). Excluding project and thesis work. |
| 18 May 2017 Thursday | TURKISH Proficiency Exam for international associate, undergraduate and graduate students admitted to Turkish-taught programs who do not hold a Turkish Proficiency certificate, and announcement of the results. The exam will be organized by the School of Foreign Languages. The written exam will be held at 09:30 and the oral exam at 13:30; the venue will be announced. The announcement will be made by the School of Foreign Languages, and those who wish to take the exam must apply to the School of Foreign Languages. |
| 19 May 2017 Friday | Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day (Friday is an official holiday; no exams or classes will be held.) |
| 20-27 May 2017 Saturday-Sunday | Final exams of graduate courses offered in the Spring semester of the 2016-2017 academic year. |
| 28 May 2017 Sunday | Deadline for entering Spring semester final grades, until 23:59 . GRADE ENTRY MUST BE COMPLETED FOR SUMMER SCHOOL. |
| 29 May 2017 Monday | Announcement of Spring semester final grades at 15:00. |
| 01 June 2017 Thursday | Submission of the rankings of students graduating with honors to the ÖİDB by decision of the institute executive boards. Time: 15:00 |
| 02 June 2017 Friday | Last day for holding master's project or thesis defense examinations and submitting the results to the institute, and for holding doctoral thesis monitoring committee meetings, thesis defense and qualifying examinations and submitting the results to the institute. |
| 06 June 2017 Tuesday | Last day for submitting to the institute the reports of Doctoral Qualifying, Doctoral Thesis Proposal and Doctoral Thesis Defense examinations and the Doctoral Thesis Monitoring Reports evaluated in the 2016-17 Spring semester. |
| 04 June 2017 Sunday | Diploma and Graduation Ceremony |
| 15 June 2017 Thursday | TURKISH Proficiency Exam for international associate, undergraduate and graduate students admitted to Turkish-taught programs who do not hold a Turkish Proficiency certificate, and announcement of the results. The exam will be organized by the School of Foreign Languages. The written exam will be held at 09:30 and the oral exam at 13:30; the venue will be announced. The announcement will be made by the School of Foreign Languages, and those who wish to take the exam must apply to the School of Foreign Languages. |
| 17 June 2017 Saturday | English Proficiency exam for graduate students. The written exam will be held at 09:00 and the oral exam at 13:00 at the ŞİŞLİ campus. |
| 30 June 2017 Friday | Last day for a student who has passed the thesis examination to submit the required number of printed and digital copies of the thesis, prepared in accordance with the writing guidelines, to the institute. |
| 13 July 2017 Thursday | TURKISH Proficiency Exam for international associate, undergraduate and graduate students admitted to Turkish-taught programs who do not hold a Turkish Proficiency certificate, and announcement of the results. The exam will be organized by the School of Foreign Languages. The written exam will be held at 09:30 and the oral exam at 13:30; the venue will be announced. The announcement will be made by the School of Foreign Languages, and those who wish to take the exam must apply to the School of Foreign Languages. |
| 15 July 2017 Saturday | English Proficiency exam for graduate students. The written exam will be held at 09:00 and the oral exam at 13:00 at the ŞİŞLİ campus. |
| SUMMER SCHOOL | |
| 13 May 2017 Saturday | English Proficiency exam for graduate students. The written exam will be held at 09:00 and the oral exam at 13:00 at the ŞİŞLİ campus. |
| 18 May 2017 Thursday | TURKISH Proficiency Exam for international associate, undergraduate and graduate students admitted to Turkish-taught programs who do not hold a Turkish Proficiency certificate, and announcement of the results. The exam will be organized by the School of Foreign Languages. The written exam will be held at 09:30 and the oral exam at 13:30; the venue will be announced. The announcement will be made by the School of Foreign Languages, and those who wish to take the exam must apply to the School of Foreign Languages. |
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01-09 June 2017 Saturday-Friday |
Course registration for graduate students who will take courses in the Summer School. There is no ADD-DROP period in the summer term. Students cannot withdraw from registered courses. |
| 03 June 2017 Saturday | Start of Summer School classes. Summer School finals in the last w
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