IMPORTANT DATES

Transfer can be made according to "The Regulation for Student Transfer Between Associate Degree and Bachelor’s Degree Programs, Double Major and Minor Programs and Course Credit Transfers Between Institutions of Higher Education Council"  and "Middle East Technical University  Directive for Student Transfers  For Associate and Bachelor’s Degree Programs".

Transfers are made between the Associate and Bachelor’s degree programs at ODTÜ and other institutions of higher education whose equivalency is recognized by the Higher Education Council.  

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

Quota types, requirements for an application based on the quota types, conditions for OSYS, and equivalent examinations are defined in the Middle East Technical University Directive of Transfer in the below-mentioned link.

http://oidb.metu.edu.tr/en/middle-east-technical-university-directive-student-transfers-undergraduate

In addition to the application requirements of this regulation, the following criteria are used by faculties as a standard for evaluation ranking. 

For candidates who apply to the Faculty of Engineering Programs Transfer Quotas;

a) Candidates who are admitted to the university with LYS-MF4 between 2010 - 2017 and with YKS-SAY score in 2018 and afterward should not be more than 40 points between the score they received in the year they took the exam and the general quota base score of the department they applied for.

b) Candidates who are placed in the university with an exam other than the YKS exam and who want to transfer to a department other than the department they are placed in, the difference between the base score of the department they entered the university for that year and the base score of the program they are applying for must not be more than 40 points. The applications of candidates who do not meet this condition will not be evaluated.

For candidates who apply to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Economic  and Administrative Sciences, Faculty of Education and Faculty of Architecture Programs Programs Transfer Quotas;

The ratio of the LYS / YKS scores for the year that the candidate was admitted to the university to the general quota base score of that year should not be lower than 0.950.

For the candidates who apply to all faculties from the Within Institution Special Transfer Quotas;

The student must meet the condition that the LYS / YKS score of the year in which the student is admitted is equal to or higher than the general quota base score for that year. The applications of the candidates who do not meet the requirements are rejected by the related faculties due to their poor academic standing.

Important Note: The applications of the candidates who are not sufficient to meet the above-mentioned requirements are rejected by the relevant Faculties.

SUMMER SCHOOL

The courses which are taken in the summer school and their grades are not taken into consideration in the applications for the following Fall semester.

ENGLISH PROFICIENCY EXAM

Students applying from outside of the METU are required to submit their English Proficiency even if they are graduated from a program whose language of instruction is English.

Applicants can submit METU EPE or any of the exam results which are accepted by the University Senate. The equivalence table for English language exams recognized by METU Senate can be reached by visiting the address:

http://oidb.metu.edu.tr/en/equivalence-table-english-language-exams-recognized-metu-undergraduate-and-graduate-students

The applications of the candidates who do not submit English Proficiency documents are rejected at the preliminary evaluation stage.

Students who do not submit their English Proficiency Results are rejected at the preliminary evaluation stage.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Applications are made through the TRANSFER APPLICATIONS title given on the following web page: https://application.metu.edu.tr/. METU students log into the application system by using their username and password. 

Candidates should mark their preferences among the listed programs (order of the preferences should be considered). Maximum 3 programs can be selected.

Students applying from outside of the METU must deliver the required documents to the Registrar's Office Application Unit by hand or via cargo. The documents must be delivered to the Registrar's Office by the deadline in order for their electronic evaluations to be evaluated. The documents received after the deadline will not be considered.

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS

METU Students

• METU students do not submit any document (transcript etc.) to the Registrar’s Office. The application will be online.

Students from METU Northern Cyprus Campus and students from outside METU

• Transcript: Transcript indicating all the courses followed their grades and Cumulative Grade Point Average from the current institution of the student. A photocopy cannot be accepted.
• Student Certificate
• Document proof of not receiving any disciplinary action
• ÖSYS or equivalent exam result/high school diploma score: Exam results submitted to the current universities by the applicants while applying to that university like DGS, LYS, GCE, SAT, ABİTUR...(for TC/KKTC applicants who studied abroad, criteria written in the abovementioned Directive is valid). 

IMPORTANT NOTE: For transfer applications, you need to provide an exam result or high school diploma score along with your university transcript. The exam result/high school diploma score you submit for transfer application will be evaluated by considering the year you have taken the result in question. Your exam result/high school diploma score will be evaluated by considering whether you could be accepted to METU in the year you have taken the score if you had applied to METU. You can see the exam scores and high school diplomas you can submit and accept by METU from the following link: http://iso.metu.edu.tr/en/application-requirements.

If the exam or diploma score you have applied to your current university does not satisfy the application criterion for transfer to METU (either because exam/diploma score does not satisfy the transfer criterion or because of expiration of validity date in the case of international exams (SAT, ACT)) you can still make a fresh application to undergraduate programs at METU as an international student. In this case, you can make an application to undergraduate programs by taking a new exam score of SAT or ACT, since in the transfer process you can only submit the exam/diploma score you used to apply to your current university and do not accept any other. If your freshmen application gets accepted, you can still make a credit transfer if your new department at METU accepts it. For all necessary information for a new application to undergraduate programs, please visit www.iso.metu.edu.tr

• Copy of the university catalog: Certified copies of the related pages of the university catalog including information about curriculum, course content, departmental information of the applicants’ program, and completed semesters.
• Copy of national Id card/ passport copy
• English Proficiency Certificate: Students applying from outside of the METU are required to submit their English Proficiency Certificate. Applicants can find the equivalence table for English Language Exams accepted by the University Senate here.
• Application Fee: Only International students will pay the application fee. The application fee will be paid for each program. Information about the application fees and bank accounts can found here.
  • https://oidb.metu.edu.tr/en/fees
  • http://oidb.metu.edu.tr/en/bank-account-numbers-other-services

Students who will apply for the Architecture department must submit the following documents.

• An official document showing the class size of the last semester and the student's position in the class size.
• Curriculum vitae including educational and non-educational activities.
• A letter of intent explaining the reasons to apply to the department
• Portfolio containing the works (paintings, photographic, graphics, music, etc.) indicating the student's design and interests. 

Candidates who will apply to the Department of City and Regional Planning must submit a Portfolio containing Planning Studies.

Students who will apply for the Industrial Design department must submit the following documents:

• An official document showing the class size of the last semester and the student's position in the class size.
• Portfolio covering design works of students who will apply from the Special Quota for Foreign Students. The portfolio should not exceed the maximum of 20 (A4) pages.

Note: Candidates who will apply to the Architecture Faculty must deliver their documents by hand to the Registrar's Office Application Unit.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF RESULTS OF PRE-EVALUATION AND EVALUATION

Phase I.: Pre-evaluation

Depending on the application procedures stated in the related regulation, the applicants are evaluated. Applications of the candidates, fulfilling the requirements, are submitted to the related academic units. Applications of the candidates, which do not fulfill the requirements, are “rejected” during the application process.

After the pre-evaluation, ODTÜ students who are not accepted due to not satisfying application requirements are informed via email. 

Students from outside METU can reach their pre-evaluation results from the address: https://application.metu.edu.tr/

Phase II.: Evaluation

Candidates who satisfied the application criteria and whose application was evaluated affirmative by the related academic units are announced on the following webpage:https://application.metu.edu.tr/

ADAPTATION PROCESS

Within ODTÜ transfers, the courses and their grades taken from previous programs are included in the Cumulative Grade Point Average (except for the courses irrelevant to the transferred program) and the transcript of the transferred program. The adaptation process is done for courses with different codes. 

MAXIMUM DURATION 

The duration spent in the previous program is also considered for the calculation of the maximum education time of the new program. 

ID CARD

Students accepted for transfer apply for an ID card by visiting the site http://cardinfo.metu.edu.tr/.

REGISTRATION

Announcements for accepted candidates should be followed at http://oidb.metu.edu.tr/en/how-will-you-register.