| BAHÇEŞEHİR UNIVERSITY 2020-2021 ACADEMİC YEAR ACADEMIC CALENDER FOR ASSOCIATE AND UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE EDUCATION |
|
| This academic calendar has been prepared taking the current conditions into consideration. Making any amendments in the academic calendar and postponing the exams falls under the discretion of the University administration and the Senate. The students, the faculty and the administrative staff may not lay any claim in case of any amendments. | |
| FALL SEMESTER | |
| 20 December 2019 -01 October 2020 Friday-Thursday | Admission and registration period of International Assosiate and Undergraduate students for the Fall Semester of the 2020-2021 Academic year. All admissions, registrations to the University and financial obligations must be completed by 01 October 2020 Thursday. International students must have completed all their visa and University registration procedures by this date. |
| 15 June-01 October 2020 Monday-Thursday | Final registration of the International Associate and Undergraduate Degree students that have been accepted in the Fall Semester of the 2020-2021 Academic year. |
| 30 June 2020 Tuesday | Deadline for students starting their 6th-year (Internship Period) in the Faculty of Medicine to fulfill their financial obligations for the 2020-2021 Academic year. |
| 01 July 2020 Wednesday | Starting date of the (Intership Period) for students in the 6th year of the Faculty of Medicine |
| 13 July 2020 Monday | Deadline for submission of the detailed list of the new courses to be offered in the Fall Semester of the 2020-2021 Academic year to o the Commission of Education. Proposals for any other new courses will not be put on the agenda after this date. |
| 15 July 2020 Wednesday | Democracy and National Unity Day (National holiday) |
| 30 July 2020 Thursday | Sacrifice Holiday Eve (starts in the afternoon) |
| 31 July 2020 Friday | Submission of the detailed list of the new courses to be offered in the Fall Semester of the 2020-2021 Academic year to the Academic Planning Unit. |
| 31 July - 03 August 2020 Friday - Monday | Sacrifice Holiday (3 days) |
| 04 - 28 August 2020 Tuesday-Friday | Applications for special students and transfers (between programs within the university and from other higher education institutions) to Associate and Undergraduate degree programs in the Fall Semester of the 2020-2021 Academic year. Students who have a valid English Proficiency certificate are required to attach this document to their application forms during the registration process. |
| 17-21 August 2020 Monday-Friday | Registration of the students who have been placed in Associate and Undergraduate degree programs by the Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM). (the date will be finalized by ÖSYM ) |
| 30 August 2020 Sunday | Victory Day (National holiday) |
| 31 August 2020 Monday | Deadline for all Assosiate and Undergraduate degree students to fulfill their financial obligations for re-registration in the Fall Semester. The course registration system of the students who have not fulfilled their financial obligations will be closed during the regular course registration period and these students will not be able to register for any courses. |
| 31 August 2020 Monday | Starting date for the professional practice courses of the 4th and 5th year students in the Faculty of Medicine, in the Fall Semester. The internship program will be scheduled, entered into the system and announced to all the students by the respective Faculty. |
| 01 September 2020 Tuesday | English Proficiency Exam for students who have applied for transfer to Associate and Undergraduate degree programs. Written Exam: 09:00; Speaking Exam: 13:30; Place of Exam: Beşiktaş South Campus |
| 02 September 2020 Wednesday | Announcement of the results of the 01 September 2020, Tuesday English Proficiency Exam on the Internet |
| 03-07 September 2020 Thursday-Monday | Assessment of transfer applications by the respective units. |
| 08 September 2020 Tuesday | Announcement of the assessment results for transfer applications to the students. |
| 09-11 September 2020 Wednesday - Friday | Final registration procedures for students whose applications for Transfer have been accepted. Students who fail to complete their registrations will lose their rights. The lists of the students who have completed their registrations to the programs they have applied for, must be submitted to the respective units on the same day so that their course adjustments can be implemented. It is essential that the respective units/departments (which the students have been admitted to) implement the course adjustments of the transfer students who have completed their registrations and enter the students’ course adjustments to the system. The Course adjustments of the transfer students who have completed their registrations must be submitted to the Registrar’s Office by 21 September 2020. |
| 14 September 2020 Monday | Starting date for the year-long courses of 3rd year students in the Faculty of Medicine. |
| 14-16 September 2020 Monday-Wednesday | Applications for Double major and Minor programs |
| 17 September 2020 Thursday | English Proficiency Exam for students attending programs where the medium of teaching isTurkish but who have applied to Double major and Minor programs where the medium of teaching is English. Written Exam: 09:00; Speaking Exam: 13:30; Place of Exam: Beşiktaş South Campus |
| 17-18 September 2020 Thursday-Friday | Application of Associate and Undergraduate degree students who have met their graduation requirements at the end of the 2019-2020 Summer School Period for the ADDITIONAL Exams which they are entitled to, in accordance with the academic regulations. |
| 18 September 2020 Friday | Announcement of the results of the 17 September 2020, Thursday English Proficiency Exam on the Internet. |
| 21 September 2020 Monday | Starting date for the year-long courses of 2nd year students in the Faculty of Medicine |
| 21-24 September 2020 Monday-Thursday | Assessment of the applications for Double major and Minor programs by the respective Units. |
| 22-23 September 2020 Tuesday-Wednesday | ADDITIONAL Exams for Associate and Undergraduate degree students who have met their graduation requirements at the end of the 2019-2020 Spring semester and are eligible for the Additional Exams in accordance with the academic regulations and the submission of the exam results to the Registrar's Office by the respective Dean’s Offices. |
| 25 September 2020 Friday | Announcement of the results of the assessments regarding applications to Double major and Minor programs to the students. |
| 28 September 2020 Monday | Deadline for the submission of the list of students going abroad with exchange programs (Erasmus, World Exchange, etc.) to the Registrar’s Office. |
| 28-30 September 2020 Monday-Wednesday | Final registration procedures for students whose applications for Double Major and Minor programs have been accepted. Students who fail to complete their registrations will lose their rights. The lists of the students who have completed their registrations to the Double Major and Minor programs they have applied for, must be submitted to the respective units on the same day so that their course adjustments can be implemented. |
| 02 October 2020 Friday | Turkish Placement Exam (for all new international students) Time of Exam: 10:00 Place of Exam: Beşiktaş South Campus |
| 02 October 2020 Friday | Deadline for the submission of course adjustments for Double Major and Minor programs to the Registrar’s Office. These courses will be entered to the system by the Registrar’s Office. |
| 03 October 2020 Saturday | English Placement Exam (for all new International students) Time of Exam: 10:00 Place of Exam: Beşiktaş South Campus |
| 04 October 2020 Sunday | English Placement Exam (for all new TC students) Time of Exam: 10:00 Place of Exam: Beşiktaş South Campus |
| 05-09 October 2020 Monday-Friday | Course registration period. Online registration of the students in the Associate and Undergraduate degree programs (including International, Erasmus and World exchange students). Students who have registered for their freshman/first year courses in the Spring Semester for the first time (irregular students) will be required to register online for some of their courses and some of their courses will be assigned by SAP. During the ADD-DROP week, the newly-registered irregular students may make some changes in the courses that have been assigned by the system. Students in the Faculty of Medicine are required to register for their one (1)-semester courses during this period. |
| 05-09 October 2020 Monday-Friday | The courses of the newly registered first year students who have passed the English Proficiency Exam will automatically be entered into the system by the Student Application System (SAP). These students will not register for any courses. Apart from the incoming first-year/freshman students, all the other students (including Transfer, International and all other students whose course adjustments have been implemented on the system, are required to register online on their own, during the regular course registration period, in accordance with the registration regulations and the academic calendar. |
| 06 October 2020 Friday | Announcement of the results of the Turkish Placement Exam given on 02 October 2020 Friday on the Internet and notification of the students. |
| 06 October 2020 Friday | Announcement of the results of the English Placement Exams given on 03 October 2020 Saturday and 04 October 2020 Sunday on the Internet and notification of the students. |
| 07 October 2020 Wednesday | English Proficiency Exam (for students who have achieved a passing grade in the English Placement Exams given on 03-04 October 2020 and students who have attended the English Preparatory Program in the previous year(s) but failed in the English Proficiency Exam) Written Exam: 09:00 ; Speaking Exam: 13:30 |
| 08 October 2020 Thursday | Turkish Proficiency Exam (for students who have achieved a passing grade in the Turkish Placement Exam given on 02 October 2020 Friday) Written Exam: 09:00 ; Speaking Exam: 13:30 |
| 09 October 2020 Friday | Announcement of the results of the 07 October 2020 Wednesday English Proficiency Exam and 08 October 2020 Thursday Turkish Proficiency Exam on the Internet and notification of the students. |
| 12 October 2020 Monday | Courses start for all Associate and Undergraduate degree students (including students in the English and Turkish Preparatory Programs and first-year students in the Faculty of Medicine). |
| 12 October 2020 Monday | Opening Ceremony for the 2020-2021 Academic year, with the participation of the students in the English-Turkish Preparatory, Associate, Undergraduate, Graduate degree programs; their parents and all the other guests. Time: 16:00 Place: to be announced later according to the program. |
| 12-16 October 2020 Monday-Friday | Orientation program for the newly-registered students at the university, organized by the Student Dean’s Office, Corporate Communication Directorate and the respective departments that the students are registered in. |
| 12-16 October 2020 Monday-Friday | Application of the students who have not been able to register for their courses during the regular registration Period 05-09 October 2020 and who have a justifiable reason for being unable to do so, to their respective departments together with the documentation of their justifications. The students whose justifications are approved will be referred to the Financial Affairs by e-mail. The system is opened during the ADD-DROP Period, provided that these students whose justifications have been approved fulfil their financial obligations and the students themselves are responsible for registering on-line during the ADD-DROP Period in the following week. Students who have paid their course registration fees but have not registered on-line for their courses until the end of the ADD-DROP Period will be regarded as NOT having completed their course registrations for that semester |
| 12-16 October 2020 Monday-Friday | Entering the Course Syllabi into the SAP system. This is very important and a Course Syllabus must be entered into the system for each and every Course. |
| 17-18 October 2021 Saturday-Sunday | Course EXEMPTION Exams. Giving Core Course EXEMPTION Exams to students who have just started university education (students who have registered to the program for the first time, students who have passed the Language Proficiency Exam and started attending their programs and transfer students are not eligible to take exemption exams on core curriculum) and notification of the Registrar's Office about the Exemption exam results. The respective Units will make the necesary annoucements to the students regarding these exams. The General Education Unit is responsible for organizing and giving the exemption exams for the courses TLL1005-1006 offered to International Students. The Course Subject Codes indicate the respective Unit that will be giving the exam. The exam results should be submitted to the Registrar’s Office immediately so that the students will be able to make the necessary changes manually in the ADD-DROP Period. |
| 19-23 October 2020 Monday-Friday | ADD-DROP week. Students must have fulfilled all financial procedures before the add-drop week so that their system will be open and they must have registered for their courses online during the regular registration period. Otherwise, the system will be closed for these students and they will not be able to register for any other courses. |
| 21 October 2020 Wednesday | Elective courses for which there has not been sufficient student registration during the ADD-DROP week will be cancelled on 21 October 2020 Wednesday (at 16:00.). Associate and Undergraduate degree students who have previously registered to one of these cancelled courses are required to register online through the SAP system to some other elective course by 23 October 2020 Friday (until 16:00). Students will not be able to register for or choose any elective courses after this date. Students whose courses have been dropped due to the cancellation of elective courses shall be notified by SMS that they are regarded as having dropped the cancelled elective courses. However, it is the responsibility of the students to enter the system on 22 October 2020 Thursday, to check the courses on their programs and see if there are any courses they may have dropped. Elective courses which are still in demand, even though there has not been sufficient student registration, will not be taken into account regarding the teaching workload or payment to the course instructor. |
| 23 October 2020 Friday | Deadline for students, who have registered for a course by some means or other, to fulfil their financial obligations. Course registrations of the students who have failed to fulfil their financial obligations will be cancelled and in that case these students will be regarded as “not having registered for a course” in that semester. The students themselves are liable for any courses that are not dropped (from their course program) by this date, whether the system has assigned the course or the students themselves have registered for that course. Especially, scholarship students should pay due care and attention to such course registrations. |
| 23 October 2020 Friday | Since any courses that the student has previously failed are assigned by the system, SCHOLARSHIP students who do not register for their courses themselves are STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to enter the system at the end of the ADD-DROP period and check the courses they are registered to in their programs. Any objections or requisitions made at the end of the semester will be disregarded. |
| 03 November 2020 Tuesday | English Proficiency Exam for students who have applied to go abroad with Erasmus & World Exchange programs. |
| 29 October 2020 Thursday | Republic Day (National holiday- starts on 28 October Wednesday afternoon. No classes will be held on Wednesday) |
| 30 October 2020 Friday | Scheduling of the mid-term exams for the Fall Semester and their announcement by the respective academic units. In accordance with the academic regulations, at least one written mid-term exam must be scheduled for each course. Submission of the decisions reached by the Faculty/School boards regarding how the mid-term /final exams- other than the written exams - are to be administered (i.e. oral, homework) to the Academic Planning Unit. In the event of an appeal made for re-evaluation of an exam, it is essential to provide documented evidence to support the appeal (such as a jury report, camera recording, etc.). See Regulations for Mid-term Examinations. |
| 10 November 2020 Tuesday | Commemoration of Atatürk |
| 01 December 2020 Tuesday | Submission of the drafts of the Final Exam Schedules to the Academic Planning Unit by the respective Dean’s Offices. |
| 18 December 2020 Friday | Deadline for withdrawing (W) from a course that you have registered for in the Fall Semester. You are required to take this course the next time it is offered in your program. |
| 18 December 2020 Friday | Deadline for submission of the fully completed forms of the new courses planned to be offered in the Spring Semester of the 2020-2021 Academic year, to the Commission of Education. Proposals for any other new courses will not be put on the agenda after this date. |
| 21 December 2020 Monday | Deadline for the announcement of the 2020-2021 Fall Semester Final Exam schedule to the faculty members. Notification of the Academic Planning Unit by the respective departments for the correction of any errors that may have occurred by 24 December 2020 Thursday. Personal requirements cannot be demanded. |
| 25 December 2020 Friday | Deadline for preparing the detailed lists of all the courses to be opened in the Spring Semester and submitting them to the Academic Planning Unit; updating of departmental electives, non-departmental electives and elective course pools for the Spring Semester, by the heads of the respective departments. |
| 01 January 2021 Friday | New Year's Day (1 day) |
| 07 January 2021 Thursday | Deadline for Associate and Undergraduate degree students who have financial problems to resolve their problems. Students who have not been able to settle their financial problems by this date will not be able to see/display their academic standings after the Fall Semester Final exams and they will not be able to register for any courses in the Spring Semester. |
| 11-15 January 2021 Monday-Friday | Early Final exams for Associate and Undergraduate degree students who are studying at our University within the scope of Erasmus, World exchange, winter school or other similar programs and for students who will be going abroad within the scope of the same programs. The departure dates of the students who are eligible for these exams must have been finalised and need to be verified by a document from their respective schools or faculties. NOT all the students going abroad are eligible for these exams. Students can take these exams only if there is an overlapping in their academic schedules. The International Students Office (ISO/UOD) is required to submit the list of the students who are eligible for these exams to the Office of the President by 25 December 2020 Friday; to be forwarded to the respective Units.The students on these lists are notified of the exam dates scheduled by their respective departments. Students who are entitled to take early final exams are required to take all their final exams during the early final exam period. These students cannot take their final exams during the regular final exam period. |
| 11-15 January 2021 Monday-Friday | Period for assessing the work of the students taking graduation project/internship courses and submission of the results/their grades. |
| 11 January 2021 Monday | Announcement of the Final Exam Schedule for the Fall Semester of the 2020-2021 Academic year to the students. |
| 15 January 2021 Friday | Last day of courses in the Fall Semester of the 2020-2021 Academic year (except for the year-long courses and internships in the Faculty of Medicine). |
| 18 January 2021 Monday | The courses scheduled for 28 October 2020 Wednesday will be held on this date. |
| 19 January 2021 Tuesday | The courses scheduled for 29 October 2020Thursday will be held on this date. |
| 20 January 2021 Wednesday | The courses scheduled for 01 January 2021 Friday will be held on this date. |
| 22 January 2021 Friday | Last day of courses in the English Preparatory Program for the Fall Semester. |
| 25 January - 07 February 2021 Monday-Sunday | 2020-2021 Academic year Fall Semester Final exams for Associate and Undergraduate degree programs. Students attending the Faculty of Medicine will take the final exams of their one semester courses (other than their year-long courses) between these dates, as scheduled. |
| 29 January 2021 Friday | Last day of courses in the Turkish Preparatory Program for the Fall Semester. |
| 29 January 2021 Friday | Last day of professional practice courses in the Fall Semester for the 4th and 5th year students in the Faculty of Medicine |
| 02 February 2021 Tuesday | English Proficiency Exam – Written Exam: 09:00; Speaking Exam: 13:30 |
| 03 February 2021 Wednesday | Turkish Proficiency Exam -Written Exam: 09:00; Speaking Exam: 13:30 |
| 05 February 2021 Friday | Announcement of the results of the 02 February 2021 Tuesday English Proficiency Exam on the Internet. |
| 05 February 2021 Friday | Announcement of the results of the 03 February 2021 Wednesday Turkish Proficiency Exam on the Internet. |
| 08 February 2021 Monday | Start of Professional practice courses for the 5th-year students in the Faculty of Medicine in the Spring Semester |
| 09 February 2021 Tuesday | Deadline for entering the Fall Semester Final (exam) grades (until 09:00). |
| 09 February 2021 Tuesday | Announcement of the Fall Semester Final (exam) grades (until 23:59). |
| 12 February 2021 Friday | Last day of the year-long courses in the Fall Semester, for the 1st-2nd-3rd year classes in the Faculty of Medicine. |
| 15-21 February 2021 Monday-Sunday | Make-up exams for the Fall Semester of the 2020-2021 Academic year. (The system will be open for entering results of the Make-up exams.) |
| 15 February 2021 Monday | English Preparatory Program Spring Semester Courses Begin |
| 15 February 2021 Monday | Turkish Preparatory Program Spring Semester Courses Begin |
| 15 February 2021 Monday | Start of Professional practice courses for the 4th-year students in the Faculty of Medicine in the Spring Semester |
| 23 February 2021 Tuesday | Deadline for entering the Fall Semester Make-up Exam grades (until 09:00). |
| 23 February 2021 Tuesday | Announcement of the Fall Semester Make-up Exam grades (until 23:59). |
| 23 February 2021 Tuesday | The make-up exam results must be entered into the system promptly, by 23 February 2021 Tuesday until 10:00 at the latest. The make-up exam results will be displayed in the system as soon as they are entered. |
| 23 February 2021 Tuesday | Updating the GPAs according to the results of the 2020-2021 Academic year Fall Semester Make up exams. (Must be completed by 23 February 2021 Tuesday, until 23:59 at the latest) |
| 23-24 February 2021 Tuesday-Wednesday | Applications for Special student, Double major and Minor programs, and Transfers to Associate and Undergraduate programs. In the announcement, it should be clearly indicated how the applicants are to be notified of the results for their applications. The applicants are required to upload their transcripts, the course contents of the courses in their curriculums and any Language Proficiency certificates that they may have into the system. |
| 24 February 2021 Wednesday | Deadline for the submission of the list of students going abroad with exchange programs (Erasmus, World Exchange, etc.) to the Registrar’s Office. |
| 24-25 February 2021 Wednesday-Thursday | Application of the students in the Associate and Undergraduate programs who have met their graduation requirements at the end of the 2020-2021 Fall Semester, for the ADDITIONAL exams that they are eligible for, in accordance with the academic regulations. These students can register for the Spring Semester courses. If they are successful in the ADDITIONAL exams, they can apply to the Registrar's Office to withdraw from those courses and can get a full refund of their course fees.
|
TR
