Information

• Application Period: December 2, 2024 – January 22, 2025 (until 16:00)
• English Proficiency Exam: The exam will be held on January 27-28, 2025. (For candidates applying to Master’s programs with an English language of instruction and who do not meet the foreign language requirement). For detailed information, please click here. (The foreign language exam will be held face-to-face for Turkish candidates and remotely for foreign candidates.)
• Science Exam and Interview: On January 31, 2025, written exams will start at 10:00, and oral exams will begin at 13:30. For the location details of the written and oral exams, please click here. (The Science Exam and Interview will be held face-to-face for Turkish candidates and remotely for foreign candidates.)The Science Exam and Interview are applicable only to Master’s and Doctoral programs that require written and/or oral exams (For more information, click the “Admission Criteria” tab.)
• Final Registration:  February 10-11, 2025

• The ALES requirement is not required for non-thesis programs.
• For Turkish (thesis and non-thesis) Master’s programs (except for the Thesis Political Science program), there is no foreign language requirement.
• For English-language Master’s (thesis and non-thesis) and Doctoral programs, a foreign language requirement is applied. Applicants must have a valid score from one of the following exams: YDS or equivalent (YÖKDİL, KPDS, ÜDS, TOEFL-IBT, CAE, CPE, PEARSON PTE Academic).
• For applications to Master’s programs and foreign candidates applying to Doctoral programs, the university’s English Proficiency Exam is also valid.
• Graduates of the university’s English-medium Bachelor’s programs are exempt from the English requirement for Master’s program applications.
• For Doctoral applications, in accordance with the Higher Education Council’s (YÖK) regulations, foreign language exams equivalent to those accepted by YÖK are valid. Language exams conducted by universities are not valid. (For equivalencies, click the “Exam Equivalencies” tab.)
• Detailed application requirements for each department are listed in the table below. Please check the application requirements on the specified dates.

Departments may change the application conditions during the application period. Please check the application conditions again on the relevant dates.

I. Graduates of 4-year higher education institutions for Master’s programs
II. Graduates of Law Bachelor’s degree programs
III. Graduates of 4-year Interior Architecture, Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, Architecture Bachelor’s programs, and those who have taken preparatory scientific courses in City and Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Industrial Product Design, and Industrial Design
IV. Graduates of the 4-year Bachelor’s programs in departments such as Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Automation Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Control Engineering, Energy Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence Engineering, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Physics Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Control and Automation Engineering, Software Engineering, Aircraft Engineering, Space Engineering
V. Graduates of 4-year Bachelor’s programs in City and Regional Planning, Architecture, Civil Engineering, Geomatics Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Economics, Public Administration and Political Science, Sociology, and similar programs
VI. Graduates of 4-year Bachelor’s programs from all Engineering Departments, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Biological Sciences, Molecular Biology and Genetics from the Faculty of Science and Letters
VII. Graduates of Bachelor’s programs in Architecture, Interior Architecture, City and Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture, Industrial Product Design
VIII. Graduates of 4-year Bachelor’s programs in Architecture, Interior Architecture, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Electrical Engineering, City and Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture
IX. Graduates of the 4-year Bachelor’s program in Civil Engineering
X. Graduates of Bachelor’s or Master’s degrees in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, City and Regional Planning, Urban Design, Economics, Public Administration, Political Science, Sociology, Civil Engineering, Geomatics Engineering, Geography, and related programs with a thesis Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning, Urban Design, Urban Policy, etc.
XI. Graduates of Thesis Master’s programs
XII. Graduates of 4-year Bachelor’s programs in Mathematics, Mathematics-Computer, all Engineering and Natural Science departments
XIII. For Thesis Master’s applicants: Bachelor’s degree from all Engineering departments; for non-thesis Master’s applicants: a 4-year Bachelor’s degree; for Doctoral applicants: Thesis Master’s degree in Engineering
XIV. Students will be accepted from departments of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, and Faculty of Science
XV. Graduates of all departments of the Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Faculty of Architecture, Faculty of Agriculture, and the departments of Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
XVI. Applicants must have a GPA of at least 2.80 out of 4.0 or an equivalent for Bachelor’s degree holders. Applicants should select either “Social/Organizational Psychology” or “Cognitive Psychology” as their option.
XVII. A requirement of having graduated from a thesis Master’s program
XVIII. Graduates of Law Bachelor’s and thesis Master’s programs in Law (Minimum GPA of 3.0 out of 4.0 or 70 out of 100)
XIX. A thesis Master’s degree in Social Sciences, Philology, Translation Studies, or English Language Teaching. A minimum GPA of 3.0 out of 4.0 (or the equivalent in the 100-point system) is required
XX. Graduates of Bachelor’s programs in Architecture, Interior Architecture, City and Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture, Industrial Product Design, and a thesis Master’s degree in Architecture, Interior Architecture, or City and Regional Planning.

• Applications are only accepted online. For applications, please visit: https://onbasvuru.cankaya.edu.trDocuments to Upload During Application:
• For Master’s applications: University-certified copy of Bachelor’s degree transcript.
• For Doctoral applications: University-certified copies of both Bachelor’s and Master’s degree transcripts.
• ALES exam results document. ALES results are valid for 5 years, and those from December 02, 2019, and later are accepted.
• Foreign language proficiency document. Not required for Turkish Master’s programs (except Thesis Political Science). The document is valid for a maximum of 5 years, and those from July 16, 2019, and later are accepted. There is no time restriction for Turkish Doctoral programs.
• Application fee of 170 $ , deposited into Vakıfbank Meşrutiyet Branch, account number TR 2800 0150 0158 0072 6042 9262 (bank receipt; ATM receipts are not accepted).
• CV (For applicants to Doctoral programs)
• Two reference letters and a statement of purpose (The reference letters will be generated by the system during the preliminary application; the applicant is expected to provide necessary information).
• For applicants to the Interior Architecture Master’s Program: Two reference letters, a statement of purpose, and optionally, a portfolio.
• For applicants to the Interior Architecture Design Doctoral Program: A copy of the Master’s thesis and optionally, a portfolio.
• For applicants to the Psychology Master’s Program: CV, statement of purpose, and two reference letters.
• For applicants to the Thesis Political Science Master’s Program: A statement of purpose.

• For the criteria and weights used in calculating the Entrance Success Score for Thesis and Non-Thesis Master’s Programs, click here.
• For the criteria and weights used in calculating the Entrance Success Score for Doctoral Programs, click here.
• According to the decision of the Higher Education Executive Board (29.04.2020, meeting 25, decision 2020-25), students who are found successful in the evaluation and register for the program will receive a tuition fee scholarship for 15% of the admitted students, based on the order of success.

• Thesis Master’s Programs:
  For both Turkish and international candidates, those who score 40 or more from the exam with the higher weight (written or oral) and a total entrance success score of 50 or more will be considered successful. Successful candidates will be ranked in descending order of their entrance success scores and admitted to the program based on the available quota as either primary or alternate candidates.

• Non-Thesis Master’s Programs:
  For both Turkish and international candidates, those who score 50 or more on the entrance success score will be considered successful. Successful candidates will be ranked in descending order of their entrance success scores and admitted to the program based on the available quota as either primary or alternate candidates.

• Doctoral Programs:
  For both Turkish and international candidates, those who score 50 or more from each written and oral exam, and a total entrance success score of 60 or more, will be considered successful. Successful candidates will be ranked in descending order of their entrance success scores and admitted to the program based on the available quota as either primary or alternate candidates.

Academic Personnel and Graduate Entrance Exam (ALES) and Equivalent Exams

Equivalencies for English Language Exams

The following scores are the minimum required, but higher scores may be requested by the Department as per their decision.

•Home Edition exams are not accepted. 

i. Master’s Programs

For Master’s applications, Çankaya University graduates are exempt from submitting an English language exam document.

ii. Doctoral (PhD) Programs