SAKARYA UNIVERSITY 2019-2020 ACADEMIC YEAR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

ADMISSION PRINCIPLES

THE TIME SCHEDULE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ADMISSION

Online Application 20 May -23 June 2019

Announcement of Accepted Students 16 July 2019

Registration Dates 17 July-09 August 2019

ADDITIONAL PLACEMENT

Online Application 26 August-08 September 2019

Announcement of Accepted Students 23 September 2019

Registration Dates 24 September-11 October 2019

1. TERMS OF APPLICATION (Presidency of Higher Education Council General Principles For

International Students Admission)

Who can apply?

a) On the condition that they are final year students at High school or already graduate. 1)

1) Foreign Nationals

2) Turkish citizen by birth but permitted to be denationalized by the ministry of internal affairs (blue card holders)

3) Those foreigners by birth but becoming Turkish citizens afterwards/ dual citizens under this circumstance.

4) Those who completing their secondary education in a foreign country (apart from TRNC) including students finishing their educations abroad (apart from TRNC) at Turkish schools operating under the Ministry of Education (MEB),

WHO CANNOT APPLY?

1) Those who hold Turkish citizenship but completing whole high school education in or TRNC,

2) Those who hold the citizenship of the TRNC (Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus)

3) Who hold a dual citizenship one of which is Citizenship of Republic of Turkey by birth as defined in the article a item 2 (except for those fulfilling the requirements article a item 4)

4)Those who hold the citizenship of TR or a dual citizenship, one of which is the citizenship of the TR by birth, as stated in article 2 item a ,and who have completed their secondary education at institutions with an embassy or in other foreign institution in Turkey.

2. DETERMINING THE QUOTA.

Quotas;

Quota is determined by the Senate on condition that it does not exceed 50 % percent of the quota that appear in the previous year of OSYS (student’s selection and placement test) General Guideline of Higher Education Programs and Quotas.

Those who will have gained to register at first placement cannot apply for Additional Quota.

Sakarya University is free to fill or not to fill the quotas.

3. ONLINE APPLICATION PROCEDURES (1) Application can be made on SAU website that is specified dates on Academic Calendar.

(2) During the application students should fill the required information and they should upload the documents to the system.

(3) Application documents must be Turkish or English

(4) Any application with missing documents or information will not be evaluated.

(5) Candidates who will apply with high school graduation grade should necessarily upload a document proofing up High School graduation grade.

(6) The original copies of documents shall be uploaded during the application and shall be submitted to registration officers during the exact registration.

(7) Each candidate can only have right to make one application and during this application candidates can choose maximum 3 programs. If more than one application is detected all applications shall be canceled.

(8) It is recommended that Candidates should examine the Special conditions and explanations of preferred programs carefully that is indicated in the quota table.

4. ENTRANCE POINT

Accepted Exam Types and the base Points are listed in Table 1/ Table 2 /Table 3 Table 4.

After each candidate’s exam note that applies has been converted to a points on "100" the percentages in terms of Exam types (Table 1/Table 2 /Table 3 / Table 4.) are taken and entrance points are calculated.

Candidate who will apply to Faculty of Education, Department of English Language Teaching must need to have result of the YDS-YOKDIL ( Foreign Language Exam ) at least 75 point or over, TOEFL IBT at least 84 point or over, PTE Academic at least 75 point or over. The Result of the Foreign Language Exam does not effect calculation of the Entry Point.

%100 of exam scores that are listed in Table 1 and Table 2 Are taken.

Table 1 İnternational Exam Base Point for Dentistry Base Point for Other Validity and Medicine Faculty Programs Period

ACT Math, Science Reasoning Math, Science Reasoning 2 Years and Total (Composite) min and total (Composite) 27 Score min 21 Score SAT 1 Min.640Math., Min. 300 Min.300Math., Min. 300 2 Years Reading and Writing Reading and Writing Evidence based score, Evidence Based score, ABITUR Min. 2,0 Min. 3,3 İndefinite

AUSTRIA MATURA Min. 2,0 Min. 3,3 İndefinite

FRANCE BAKALORYA which is Min. 15 Min. 10 İndefinite held in France

Table 2 Other Exams Base Point for Dentistry Base Point for Other Validity and Medicine Faculty Programs Period

Akdeniz University Min. 80 Min. 50 2 Years

Ankara University Min. 80 Min. 50 2 Years

Atatürk University Min. 80 Min. 50 2 Years

Bursa Uludag University Min. 80 Min. 50 2 Years

Ege University Min. 80 Min. 50 2 Years

Erciyes University Min. 80 Min. 50 2 Years

İstanbul University Min. 80 Min. 50 2 Years

Karadeniz Teknik University Min. 80 Min. 50 2 Years

Samsun 19 Mayıs University Min. 80 Min. 50 2 Years

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Min. 80 Min. 50 2 Years University Selcuk University Min. 80 Min. 50 2 Years

The YOS Exams of the above Universities that have an Exam Result Validation Page (on 100)

%80 of exam scores that listed in Table 3 Are taken. Table 3

Other Exams Base Point for Dentistry Base Point for Other Validity and Medicine Faculty Programs Period

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Min. 4 Min. 3 Indefinite MATURA

KOSOVO MATURA Min. %80 Min. %50 Indefinite

GREECE HIGH SCHOOL Min. 15 Min. 10 Indefinite COMPLETION EXAM

INDONESIA UJİAN Min. 85 Min. 60 Indefinite NASİONAL (UN)

ENDONEZYA UJİAN SEKOLAH Min. 85 Min. 70 Indefinite BERSTANDART NASİONAL (USBN) WAEC HIGH SCHOOL 6 courses to related to at 6 Courses related to at Indefinite COMPLETION EXAM least 3 programs total 9 least 3 programs total point. 24 point.

%40 of graduation scores that listed on Table 4. Are taken.

Table 4

Other Exams Base Point for Dentistry Base Point for Other Validity Period Medicine Faculty Programs

High School Graduation Cannot apply. Min. % 60 İndefinite Score (Except for Citizen of Republic of Yemen )

(Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Syrian nationalities cannot apply with High School Diploma.)

5. EVALUATION Candidates Evaluation of the process and placement will be made according to the Entry Point Those who meet minimum terms of requirements on this basis.

In case the Placement scores are equal -the priority is given those who were born before -Then those recently having high school degree are preferred. Admitted students list will be announced on this website http://www.studyinsau.sakarya.edu.tr/tr .

Candidates who are eligible to register will be informed to have their Invitation Letter and Registration Dates. Candidates may receive the Invıtation Letter on application page. The documents which are clearly indicated below should be submitted to International Student Office to complete their exact registration. Those who are unable to apply to complete at specify dates for exact registration can lose the rights of registration.

6. REQUIRED DOCUMENTS FOR REGISTRATION Registration shall be done personally at the Student Affairs Department. No other person than the applicant is eligible to make registration. -Those who are under the age of 18 to complete his/her exact registration should submit the Letter of Consent. (1) The original High School diploma and its translation approved by Turkish Representative Office. (2) Those who has a Turkish nationality or Dual nationality need to submit the document to demonstrate that they have completed their high school education in a foreign country (except Northern Cyprus and Turkey) (3) “Equıvalency Certificate” showing that the candidates’ high school diplomas are equivalent to Turkish High School Diploma taken from the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Education or Turkish Embassy in that country. (4) Original Transcript and its approved translation that is taken from Turkish Embassy or Consulate in their countries. (5) Those who apply with their SAT results: if their documents are not delivered to College Board during the registration candidates should confirm their scores by signing into SAT College Board official website with their usernames and passwords. Those who fail to confirm their scores online their application is not take into consideration. -Those who apply with ACT result and placed need to confirm his/her ACT exam result with their user names and passwords. Applicants, who are unable to confirm the requested information their registration shall not be accepted. - Those who apply and admitted with their YOS results shall be controlled on the validation page of the Conducted University. If the verification page is not active or available on the registration dates. Candidates will lose the registration rights. - Those who admitted with WAEC Exam Result must keep the exam entrance card for the verifying their result. (6) Turkish Language Proficiency Document that is taken from (Universities TOMER Center and Yunus Emre Institution). The Center which do not have the validation page the document shall not be accepted. (7) Foreign students shall be controlled whether they are legal students in Turkey or not. *Foreign students shall be checked the day of the entrance into Turkey. If their visa exemption is finished their application shall not be accepted. * The visa exemption periods are implemented differently for each country. *Students can learn the period of the stay in a Country from consulate, by the internet or from the Provincial Directorate of Migration Management (8) Blue Card photocopy for Blue Card holders (9) Identity register copy for students who have dual citizenship (It can be taken from Civil Registry) (10) 6 pieces 4.5x6 cm size photo. (11) Those who are admitted to at the Faculty of Education, department of English Language Teaching programme will be asked to verify their Foreign Language Certificate and official document. (12) Candidates who are admitted to the Faculty of Healthy Services Departments of the Nursing and Midwifery need to take a Committee Report from full-fledged official hospital and/or an institution that the university suggests, on this certificate it should be indicated that candidate has no physical and mental disability for doing these professions after and during education. (13) Tuition fee receipt (shall be deposited to the bank in Campus with the number that is taken from the Student Affairs)

 If any Forge documents are detected by the registration office, Candidates students’ rights will be cancelled.

7. TURKISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY LEVEL

(1) Turkish Language Proficiency level;

C1 Level:  Turkish is sufficient. The student can start his/her education at our university. B2 Level: • Student’s level of Turkish language can improve in a short time. The student starts receiving education, but he/she has to increase his/her level of proficiency of Turkish language to C1 level until the graduation by attending Turkish courses given by Sakarya TÖMER.

B1- A2-A1 Level: • Turkish is insufficient .The student will have permission for 1+1 year. (For those who cannot raise the level of Turkish at the end of one year 1 more year is given as additional time. But, this additional time is counted within the study period.)At the end of this time, Turkish proficiency levels should be raised to the B2 level

At the end of the specified period those not presenting Turkish Language Proficiency Documents are expelled from the university.

(2) Candidates have to certify their level of Turkish Language proficiency. (TÖMER certificates of universities or Yunus Emre Institute are valid.) Level of Turkish Language proficiency of candidates who cannot present this document is determined by Turkish Language Proficiency Exam organized by Sakarya TÖMER • TÖMER Certificate must be taken within the last 2 years as the date of register. • For Students who graduate from Turkish High Schools of Ministry of National Education it is considered that their Turkish levels are sufficient.  Those who start at Secondary Education abroad and complete their education in Turkey must submit to Turkish Language Proficiency Exam.

8. FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY LEVEL

(English-German-Arabic)  If Candidates are accepted for programs which provide education/partly education in foreign language those students have to present document of International Foreign Language Exam results which are accepted by Interuniversity Council at registration. (Equivalences for these exams are determined by the commission.) Students who cannot present this document have to take Language Proficiency Exam.  If students who are registered in programs providing education/partly education in English, German and Arabic do not present Foreign Language Proficiency certificate or if they are unsuccessful in Foreign Language Proficiency Exam, they shall continue foreign language education according to Regulations.

The Preparatory class is determined as 2 years according to regulation Law numbered 6569. All preparatory education (Turkish and English/Germany/Arabic) must be complete within a set of a period. Those who are unable to do their registration can be expelled from University.

9. RESPONSIBILITIES OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

Those who come to Turkey for studying or still living in Turkey as foreigner for studying.

(1) According to the Turkish Law foreigners should obtain the necessary documents (Foreign İdentification Number etc.)

(2) Receiving a residence permit from Sakarya Governorship Provincial Directorate of Migration Management. (within 1 month after the entrance with student visa),

(3) Based on the residence permit that is taken from Provincial Directorate of Migration Management during the study they should submit Student Certificate to Provincial Directorate of Migration Management every year.

(4) Notifying the Educational Status (Change the Faculty, Department etc..) to Provincial Directorate of Migration Management

(5) Notifying changes of personal details, marital status and state of education to the Directorate of Student Affairs within 10 days.

(6) Those who wish to extend their residence permit, before the end of the written period within the 60 days or within 10 days after at the end of the written period, on condition that they must certify to continue their education to Provincial Directorate of Immigration Office to take the new one.

(7) By applying immediately for taking a new residence permit or passport in 10 days if the students lose these document,

(8) Notifying changes of telephone number, residential address or education institution, within 20 working days, changes are obliged to report to local Provincial Directorate of Immigration offices.