Credit/hour load and ECTS workload of courses:

1- Couse load is described in two ways: credit/hour load, and ECTS workload. Credit/hour load is a value determined based on the weekly; theoretical, laboratory, and classroom hours of a course. ECTS workload is a value determined based on the load of that course requires at school and as individual/group study etc. outside school hours, and recommended as 30 ECTS equivalent workload per semester.

- One hour of weekly theoretical class is 1 credit, and one hour of practice of laboratory is 0.5 credit.

- 1 ECTS workload is assumed to be 30 hours of work in one semester.

- Credit load and ECTS workload of other education activities such as; workshop, studio, on site practice, and practical training are determined by the University Senate, with the recommendations of respective boards.

1- Credit/hour load of all activities, except for the theoretical part, may not be higher than 4.

2- loads of certificate-based courses, and similar not-in the undergraduate curriculum courses of a department; is not counted in students’ semester/academic year course load. Certificate courses, and courses taken from similar programs may not be transferred to undergraduate/associate degree minor and major programs.

3- Associate degree and undergraduate programs of each academic year are decided by the University Senate, after approvals of respective boards, until the end of May of the previous academic year.

4- Semester/academic year of a student is determined based on the semester/academic year to which the student is registered in the associate degree or the undergraduate program.

5- Maximum credit/hour course load of a student for each semester is the highest credit/hour load available for one semester in any program of such student’s faculty.

6- The course load that a student can take in one semester/academic year may be reduced with the student’s will, academic advisor’s recommendation, and approval of the head of the related department, if it is necessary due to the student’s weekly schedule or any valid and justified excuse.

7- Students can increase their semester/academic year course load by 3 credits or one course if their Grade Point Average is minimum 3.50; or by maximum 6 credits or two courses if their Grade Point Average is above 3.75.

8- Exempted courses may not be repeated for increasing the grades.

9- Students can take maximum three courses with maximum 10 credit/hour course load during the Summer-term. Courses taken outside the institution are also subject to this condition.

 

The Grading Tables to be used for each level of higher education, for every semester are as follows:

ASSOCIATE’S DEGREE AND BACHELOR’S DEGREE- GRADING TABLES:

Grading: from ARTICLE 42 of Regulations, Section 5 – (1) For every course students take, a final letter grade for each semester is given to the students; with respect to quantitative assessments during the semester and the quantitative results of a final exam at the end of the semester, applied by the respective teaching staff.

(2) The point score equivalents for each letter grade; according to ‘100’ based and ‘4’ based grading systems are as follows:

Level of Success	LETTER GRADE	Point score equivalent in ‘100’ based grading system:	Point score equivalent in ‘4’ based grading system:
Excellent	AA	90-100	4,00
Very Good	BA	85-89	3,50
Good	BB	80-84	3,00
Fair	CB	70-79	2,50
Pass	CC	60-69	2,00
Conditional Pass	DC	55-59	1,50
Conditional Pass	DD	50-54	1,00
Fail	FF	00-49	0,00
Not taken the Final Exam	FG	-	-
Fail due to absence	DZ	-	-

(3) The letter grades for the non-credit courses listed in the curriculum of Associate’s Degree and Bachelor’s Degree programs accepted by the University Senate; such as internship courses, and applied vocational courses; are shown below:

Level of Success	Letter Grade
Pass	S
Fail	F

Grade Averages: from ARTICLE 43 of Regulations, Section 5 – (1) At the end of each semester, GPA’s and CGPA’s of the students are calculated, to assess their levels of achievement.

(2) The total credits earned from a course is calculated by multiplying; the course’s credit value and the coefficient equivalent of the final letter grade of that course at the end of the semester that the student has achieved.

(3) GPA is calculated by; dividing the total credits a student has earned from all courses he/she has taken in one semester by the total value of credits of all these courses he/she has taken in one semester, for each semester.

(4) CGPA is calculated by; taking into account and adding up all the credits that the student has earned from all the courses he/she has taken since the beginning of his/her first semester, including the credits he/she has achieved the current semester; and dividing this value by the total value of all the credits of all the courses he/she has taken since the beginning of his/her first semester. CGPA is calculated at the end of each semester.

(5) The calculated averages from GPA and CGPA are both mathematically presented by rounding up the values after the comma as 2 digits. If the third digit after the comma is less than 5; the second digit does not change. If the third digit after the comma is equal to or more than 5; the second digit’s value is raised by one.

(6) As for repeated classes; the last earned final letter grade is taken into consideration when calculating CGPA.

 

MASTER’S DEGREE- GRADING METHODOLOGY ACCORDING TO REGULATIONS

Grading: from ARTICLE 21 of Regulations, Section 3 – (1) The semester final grades for each student, is evaluated and given by the respective teaching staff, at the end of each semester, with one of the letter grades at the below table. The issues with respect to; attendance, conditions of passing exams, repeating courses, objection to exam grades, and re-evaluation of exam grades are regulated by the principles set by the University Senate. The point score equivalents for each letter grade; according to ‘100’ based and ‘4’ based grading systems are as follows:

Level of Success	LETTER GRADE	Point score equivalent in ‘100’ based grading system:	Point score equivalent in ‘4’ based grading system:
Excellent	AA	90-100	4,00
Very Good	BA	80-89	3,50
Good	BB	70-79	3,00
Fair	CB	60-69	2,50
Pass	CC	50-59	2,00
Fail	FF	00-49	0,00
Not taken the Final Exam	FG	-	-
Not taken the Make-up exam	BG	-	-
Fail due to absence	DZ	-	-

(2) The final letter grades according to success or failure are shown at the below table for: the Seminar course and Thesis of the Master’s Degree Dissertation Programs; and the Project course of the Master’s Degree Project Programs.

Level of Success	Letter Grade
Pass	S
Fail	F

Grade Averages: from ARTICLE 22 of Regulations, Section3 – (1) GPA is calculated by; dividing the total credits a student has earned from all courses he/she has taken, by the total value of credits of all these courses he/she has taken.

(2) The calculated averages from GPA are mathematically presented by rounding up the values after the comma as 2 digits. If the third digit after the comma is less than 5; the second digit does not change. If the third digit after the comma is equal to or more than 5; the second digit’s value is raised by one.

(3) As for repeated classes; the last earned final letter grade is taken into consideration when calculating GPA.

(4) The Seminar course and Thesis, in Master’s Degree Dissertation Programs; and the Project course for the Master’s Degree Project Programs; are graded as Pass (S) or Fail (F), and they are non-credit courses, therefore they are not included in the calculation of GPA.

(5) For a student to be able to pass a course offered in the Dissertation and Project Master’s Degree programs; he/she has to achieve a minimum 2,00 (CC). If the GPA of a student enrolled in Dissertation Master’s Degree is less than 2,50 (CB); he/she can not continue to the Thesis Semester.