General Category

1. At least First-year Undergraduate student/First-year master’s student/First-year doctoral student. According to the year of study recorded in the Office of Academic Affairs system at the time of internal selection..
2. GPA should be higher than 3.30.
3. TOEFL iBT 79 (Do not accept Home Edition) or IELTS 6.0 or The General English Proficiency Test (High-Intermediate).

1. The language requirements listed are the minimum standards. Applicants are advised to look into specific departments and courses to ensure they meet all prerequisites and additional language criteria. The host institution reserves the right to deny admission if no suitable departments or courses are available.
   If any information provided in this table conflicts with the latest announcements from the exchange university, country, or region, applicants should follow the most recent official announcements from the respective university, country, or region. Exchange students who are selected and recommended by NTU are not allowed, after receiving admission approval from the host university, to request changes to the granted admission conditions, nor may they, if their exchange application is rejected by the host university, request to reapply under different conditions. Any such actions will result in immediate cancellation of their admission eligibility.
2. For exchange information, please refer to the website.
3. For course information, please refer to the website.
4. Courses Not Open for Selection by Exchange Students：Music and Fine Arts, Turkish Language and History, Media Studies
5. Academic Catalog
6. METU will accept graduate students for exchange ONLY if:a) They agree to take courses at our institution. Or,b) They find a Research Supervisor at METU (by themselves) who is ready to accept to study with the student. In this case, the student should submit an acceptance letter (which can be downloaded from the ICO website) signed by the agreed supervisor, department exchange coordinator, and department chair during the application period. Without this document, the student will not be able to conduct research at METU. Please note that it is not possible for ICO to assign academic supervisors to research students. Please also bear in mind that graduate students can study a part of their thesis, but they cannot submit the final version of the thesis and graduate from METU; those students are expected to present their thesis after their departure and graduate from their home institutions.
7. International Joint-Degree Programs are not open to exchange students.
8. We kindly expect exchange students to take around 4-5 courses, since one semester at METU corresponds to that amount of workload in general.
9. Estimated cost of living
10. Health Insurance: Students must have their own health insurance valid in Turkey.
11. For language courses information, please refer to the website. Exchange students can take elective language courses including Turkish.