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2018-2019 Academic Year Graduate Education Academic Calendar

2018-2019 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.
01 June 2018 Friday - Start of admissions and registrations of international graduate students for the Fall semester of the 2018-2019 academic year. After 17 August 2018, letters of acceptance cannot be sent to international students who need to obtain a visa; they may be sent to students without a visa requirement. Admission, University registration and financial procedures must be completed by Friday, 14 September 2018. All visa procedures and student registrations of international students must be completed, and their registration with the University finalized, by this date.
14 September 2018 Friday
07 June 2018 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. Exam results will be announced on the same day.
09 June 2018 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 Beşiktaş campus (South Campus, Block L).
12 June 2018 Tuesday Announcement of the results of the English proficiency exam held on Saturday, 09 June 2018.
05 July 2018 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. Exam results will be announced on the same day.
07 July 2018 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 Beşiktaş campus (South Campus, Block L).
10 July 2018 Tuesday Announcement of the results of the English proficiency exam held on Saturday, 07 June 2018.
13 July 2018 Friday Submission of the detailed list of courses to be offered in the 2018-2019 Fall semester to the Directorate of Academic Planning.
13 July 2018 Friday Submission of fully completed forms for new courses planned to be offered in the Fall semester of the 2018-2019 academic year to the Education Commission. After this date, no proposals for new courses will be considered.
18 July 2018 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. Exam results will be announced on the same day.
15 August 2018 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 Beşiktaş campus (South Campus, Block L).
16 August 2018 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. Exam results will be announced on the same day.
17 August 2018 Friday Last day for admission procedures and sending letters of acceptance to international associate, undergraduate and graduate students who will come with a visa. Letters of acceptance may be sent to students who will come without a visa, provided that they complete their procedures by 14 September 2018. Students who will not be able to make it to the Fall semester of the 2018-2019 academic year due to visa procedures must be warned. The start of classes and course registration dates are specified in the academic calendars. International graduate students must complete their registration with the University by 14 September 2018.
17 August 2018 Friday Announcement of the results of the English proficiency exam held on Wednesday, 15 August 2018.
20 August 2018 Monday Eve of Eid al-Adha (afternoon off)
21-24 August 2018 Tuesday-Friday Eid al-Adha (4 days)
4 September 2018 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. Exam results will be announced on the same day.
8 September 2018 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 Beşiktaş campus (South Campus, Block L).
17 September 2018 Monday Opening ceremony of the 2018-2019 academic year with the participation of preparatory, associate, undergraduate and graduate students, all parents and other guests. Time: 16:00. The venue will be announced according to the program.
11 September 2018 Tuesday Announcement of the results of the English proficiency exam held on Saturday, 8 September 2018.
14 September 2018 Friday Last day for Turkish citizen and international graduate students to fulfill their financial obligations. If you do not complete this procedure, the system will be closed during the online course selection period and you will not be able to select courses.
14 September 2018 Friday Last day for completing admissions to graduate programs for the Fall semester of the 2018-2019 academic year and for students' registration with the University. Students must be entered into the system for all course registrations. Therefore, admission and registration procedures for all Turkish citizen and international students must be completed before course registrations begin.
17-22 September 2018 Monday - Saturday Online project, thesis and seminar registration for students in graduate programs who have reached the course, project, thesis and seminar stage. Students who do not register for any project, thesis or seminar during the regular registration period cannot register during or after the ADD-DROP week.
17-22 September 2018 Monday-Saturday Online course registration for all 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 for courses during the ADD-DROP period. (The system opens at 11:00 on Monday at the start and closes at 16:59 on Saturday.)
18 September 2018 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 Beşiktaş campus (South Campus, Block L).
19 September 2018 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. Exam results will be announced on the same day.
20 September 2018 Thursday Announcement of the results of the English proficiency exam held on Thursday, 18 September 2018.
24 September 2018 Monday Start of Fall semester classes for all graduate students.
26 September 2018 Wednesday English Proficiency exam (Erasmus and World Exchange outgoing students)
01 - 06 October 2018 Monday - Saturday ADD-DROP week. Graduate students who could not register for courses during the course registration period of 17-22 September 2018 for a serious reason must apply to their own unit (Institutes), attaching supporting documents. For those whose reasons are found to be serious and accepted, information is sent to Financial Affairs by e-mail so that their system access can be opened. Provided that students whose reasons are accepted fulfill their financial obligations between 24 September and 04 October 2018, the course registration system is opened during the ADD-DROP period, and the student is responsible for registering for courses online during the ADD-DROP period. No manual registration will be made by petition. Paying the fee alone does not count as completing course registration. A student who has paid the registration fee but has not registered for courses online is considered not to have registered for courses for that semester. Courses such as project and thesis must also be registered in the same semester. After completing your registration, you must log in to your system and check which courses you have registered for. Courses dropped after this date are considered withdrawals. The system opens at 11:00 on Monday at the start and closes at 20:59 on Saturday.
02 October 2018 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 Beşiktaş campus (South Campus, Block L).
03 October 2018 Wednesday Announcement of the results of the English proficiency exam held on Tuesday, 02 October 2018.
03 October 2018 Wednesday Elective courses that still do not have sufficient enrollment during the ADD-DROP week will be closed on Wednesday, 03 October 2018 (at 17:59). Courses taken by students who selected courses without sufficient enrollment will be dropped. Graduate students registered in the closed courses must select other courses by 20:59 on Saturday, 06 October 2018. No elective course selection will be made after this date; the system will be closed and no manual assignment will be made. 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, 04 October 2018 and verify whether any course has been dropped.
04 October 2018 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. Exam results will be announced on the same day.
19 October 2018 Friday Last day for midterm exam dates for the Fall semester to be scheduled and announced by the Deans' Offices or relevant units. Each course must have at least one written midterm exam.
29 October 2018 Monday Republic Day (classes scheduled on Monday will not be held).
30 October 2018 Tuesday Start of graduate applications and admission registrations for the Spring semester.
10 November 2018 Saturday Atatürk Commemoration Day.
16 November 2018 Friday Deadline for submitting planning and special requests regarding Fall semester final exams to the Academic Planning Unit. Requests cannot be accommodated after this date.
01 December 2018 Saturday Last day to apply to the Office of Student Affairs to withdraw (W) from a course registered in the Fall semester. Withdrawal from a course is not possible after this date.
07 December 2018 Friday Last day for announcing the Fall semester exam schedule to the teaching staff. Applications for correcting any errors must be made by 17:00 on Wednesday, 12 December 2018.
13 December 2018 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. Exam results will be announced on the same day.
14 December 2018 Friday Last day for advisors supervising project, master's and doctoral 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 and the names and programs of the students.
15 December 2018 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 Beşiktaş campus (South Campus, Block L).
17-22 December 2018 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 Monday, 03 December 2018 at the latest.
18 December 2018 Tuesday Announcement of the results of the English proficiency exam held on Saturday, 15 December 2018.
21 December 2018 Friday For students for whom the formation of project, master's and doctoral thesis defense juries has been requested, last day for the relevant institute to form the thesis and project juries in accordance with the regulations and for a sufficient number of written copies of the thesis or project to be distributed to the juries to be submitted to the Institute.
21 December 2018 Friday Last day for announcing the Fall semester (final) exam schedule to graduate students.
27 December 2018 Thursday Last day for distributing to the jury members the written copies of theses or projects reviewed by the Institute and found suitable for defense.
29 December 2018 Saturday Last day of Fall semester classes in graduate programs (Saturday). Excluding project and thesis work.
01 January 2019 Tuesday New Year's holiday (one day).
07 - 12 January 2019 Monday - Saturday End-of-semester (final) exams of graduate courses offered in the Fall semester of the 2018-2019 academic year.
11 January 2019 Friday Letters of acceptance for international graduate students for the Spring semester of the 2018-2019 academic year: after 11 January 2019, letters of acceptance cannot be sent to international students starting in the Spring semester who need a visa; they may be sent to students without a visa requirement. Admission, University registration and financial procedures must be completed by Wednesday, 30 January 2019. All visa procedures and student registrations of international students must be completed, and their registration with the University finalized, by this date. Students who do not complete their procedures by this date cannot be admitted for the Spring semester.
12 January 2019 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 Beşiktaş campus (South Campus, Block L).
15 January 2019 Tuesday Announcement of the results of the English proficiency exam held on Saturday, 12 January 2018.
16 January 2019 Wednesday Deadline for entering Fall semester final grades (until 17:59). All grades must be entered by the specified date and time so that make-up exams can be scheduled.
17 January 2019 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. Exam results will be announced on the same day.
17 January 2019 Thursday Announcement of Fall semester final grades (at 15:00).
21-23 January 2019 Monday-Wednesday Last day for completing graduate students' applications for horizontal transfer, transfer between thesis and non-thesis programs, course exemption and admission of special students to the program.
22-23 January 2019 Tuesday - Wednesday Make-up exams of graduate courses offered in the Fall semester of the 2018-2019 academic year. The directive on make-up exams must be communicated to students at the beginning of the semester and before the final exams. Make-up exam grades must be reported in writing to the relevant Institute without delay and forwarded by the Institute to the Office of Student Affairs without delay.
24 January 2019 Thursday Last day for corrections of clerical errors and for submitting incomplete (I) grades for the Fall semester of the 2018-2019 academic year, until 17:59. VERY IMPORTANT FOR STUDENTS' SPRING SEMESTER COURSE REGISTRATIONS.
25 January 2019 Friday Last day for completing the evaluation and announcing the results of graduate students' applications for horizontal transfer, transfer between thesis and non-thesis programs, course exemption and admission of special students to the program.
25 January 2019 Friday Entry of make-up exam grades. Make-up exam results must be sent to Student Affairs without delay, by 14:00 on 25 January 2019 at the latest. Entering grades without delay will make course registrations easier. YOUR ATTENTION IS KINDLY REQUESTED.
25 January 2019 Friday Last day for holding master's project or thesis defense examinations and submitting the results to the institute. Last day for holding doctoral thesis monitoring committee meetings, doctoral thesis defense examinations and qualifying examinations and submitting the results to the institute.
25 January 2019 Friday Last day for doctoral thesis monitoring committee reports, holding doctoral thesis defense and qualifying examinations, and submitting the results to the institute.
30 January 2019 Wednesday Last day for Turkish citizen and international graduate students to fulfill their admission, registration and financial obligations for the Spring semester. If you do not complete this procedure, your system will be closed during the online course selection period and you will not be able to select courses.
31 January 2019 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. Exam results will be announced on the same day.
05 February 2019 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 Beşiktaş campus (South Campus, Block L).
06 February 2019 Wednesday Announcement of the results of the English proficiency exam held on Tuesday, 05 February 2019.
01 March 2019 Friday Last day for students who have passed the graduate 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
30 January 2019 Wednesday Last day for Turkish citizen and international graduate students to fulfill their admission, registration and financial obligations for the Spring semester. If you do not complete this procedure, your system will be closed during the online course selection period and you will not be able to select courses.
04 - 09 February 2019 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 16:59 on Saturday at the end.)
11 February 2019 Monday Start of Spring semester classes for graduate programs.
18 - 23 February 2019 Monday-Saturday ADD-DROP week. Graduate students who could not register for courses during the course registration period of 5-9 February 2019 for a serious reason must apply to their own unit (Institutes), attaching supporting documents. For those whose reasons are found to be serious and accepted, information is sent to Financial Affairs by e-mail so that their system access can be opened. Provided that students whose reasons are accepted fulfill their financial obligations between 11-21 February 2019, the course registration system is opened during the ADD-DROP period, and the student is responsible for registering for courses online during the ADD-DROP period. No manual registration will be made by petition. Paying the fee alone does not count as completing course registration. A student who has paid the registration fee but has not registered for courses online is considered not to have registered for courses for that semester. Courses such as project and thesis must also be registered in the same semester. After completing your registration, you must log in to your system and check which courses you have registered for. Courses dropped after this date are considered withdrawals. (The system opens at 11:00 on Monday at the start and closes at 20:59 on Saturday at the end.)
18-23 February 2019 Monday - Saturday Elective courses that still do not have sufficient enrollment during the ADD-DROP week will be closed on Wednesday, 20 February 2019 (at 17:59). Courses taken by students who selected courses without sufficient enrollment will be dropped. Graduate students registered in the closed courses must select other courses by 20:59 on Saturday, 23 February 2019. 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, 21 February 2019 and verify whether any course has been dropped.
19 February 2019 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 Beşiktaş campus (South Campus, Block L).
20 February 2019 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. Exam results will be announced on the same day.
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