Graduating around the globe
MEHMET FATIH TAŞAR & JALE CAKIROGLU
Turkey
In Turkey, graduate/doctoral degree-awarding universities have academic units called an “institute” in different research fields (e.g., Institute of Science, Institute of Social Sciences, Institute of Educational Sciences, Institute of Medical/Health Sciences, Institute of Information Technologies [IT], etc.), instead of one graduate school as is the case in the USA. Tasks and procedures such as student acceptance, registration, student affairs, and graduation are conducted by each institute separately. Students are not allowed to register and/or enroll in more
than one graduate program concurrently. However, a student can take courses from another university’s institute and have it included in her/his total credit count. In Turkey tuition and fees charged to doctoral students are very low (140 TRY ≈ €15 per semester). In addition, there are possibilities of low interest rate long-term education loans (1950 TRY ≈ €200 per month) and scholarships. In addition, TUBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) provides competitive research
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