Frequently Asked Questions
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Farabi Exchange Program
An opportunity to get to know other universities Farabi Exchange Program offers students an opportunity to be acquainted with a university and make new friends.
Farabi Exchange Program enables university students to continue their education at an institution of higher education other than their own during a period of one or two semesters. With this program, students from different universities exchange their knowledge and take advantage of facilities offered at such institutions. During their graduation, students are given a Certificate of Participation, indicating that the student participated in the Farabi Exchange Program.
GENERAL QUESTIONS
Who can participate in the Farabi Exchange Program?
This program is open to the students who are enrolled in higher education institutions.
However, students who are in preparatory class and in first year of associate degree programs and undergraduate programs are not able to participate in. Graduate and postgraduate students cannot enroll in this program in their preparatory year, academic preparatory year and first semester of actual education. Another condition is to have grade point average of 2.00 and above 2.00 out of 4. Postgraduate students must have grade point average of 2.50.
How students can apply for that program?
In order for students to apply for that program, there must be an exchange protocol signed between the actual university of a student and the university he or she is willing to go under that program, and if such protocol exists, the department to which the student is to apply must have vacancy. If such vacancy is available, that student may fill in required application forms and apply to Farabi Program offices. Students may obtain such information and forms from both the website of Farabi Exchange Program and Farabi coordination offices of their own universities. Evaluation is made based on students’ grade point average. The points are listed in descending order and students are placed invacancies. For instance, if there are 5 vacancies, 5 students with highest grade point average are entitled to participate in the Farabi Program. If the university to be enrolled under that program is offering education in foreign language, 50% of grade point average and 50% of foreign language grade pointare taken as basis.
Where and when to apply for the program?
Students who are willing to participate in the program apply to the Farabi Exchange Program Coordination Office at the high education institution they are enrolled in.
Higher education institutions announce their Farabi Exchange Program Protocols on their websites and call for applications within the vacancy limit specified under such protocols. These announcements contain information on terms of application, education mobility of Farabi Exchange Program, and application process.
Higher education institutions release an application notice for each semester. It is made before March 15 for the fall semester, and before October 15 for the spring semester. Transactions related to the exchange for the next semester are completed before the semester ends in which the notice was announced.
Each faculty has a unit coordinator, who is in contact with the Farabi Exchange Program Coordination Office. Unit coordinators assist in issues such as identifying equivalent courses.
Are students getting any financial support under that program?
Students who are entitled to become Farabi Exchange Student with Scholarship are granted one and a half of monthly scholarship given under the Law No. 5102 on Granting Scholarships and Loans to Higher Education Students. This year, students under this program are granted 360 TL per month. 70% of scholarshipis paid to the student in monthly payments. The rest is given based on the period specified in Certificate of Participation, and on student’s rate of success. Students who apply to a university in the same city receive educationas a non-scholarship student.