Master Degree Graduation Requirements

Graduate conditions of MSc program is the same with ITU senate principles:

Article 53- Prior to completion of Master’s thesis, one should pay attention to the subjects below:

a) A thesis master’s program student writes his/her thesis in accordance with the format required by the senate, and orally defends it before a thesis jury.

b) The members of the jury convene to administer a thesis examination for the respective student within one month from the date of thesis submission. If thesis examination cannot be completed within one month, then with substitute jury members, a thesis examination is administered within two weeks.

c) The thesis examination is made up of the thesis presentation followed by a question and answer session between 60-120 min. The thesis examination is conducted in a public environment open to an audience including faculty, graduate students, and field experts. In deciding period, all audience should go outside.

d) In the event the student is asked to make revisions to the thesis, the student must complete the requested revisions, and defend the revised thesis again before the same jury within three months from the date of thesis examination. In case of a valid excuse approved by institute, time can extended for two more months. A new thesis examination is held by the same jury members. If thesis is rejected by jury or student did not submit his/her thesis after revisions, thesis advisor and thesis subject are subjected to change by receiving opinion from department and institute. Besides, student must enroll 24 ECTS courses second time and total GPA must not be lower 3.00.

e) In thesis defense, jury members and student must follow ‘Ethical guidelines for interviews and oral examinations”.

f) Graduate programs may change their application and admission requirements are determined by the ITU Senate, and are announced at the beginning of the fall and spring semesters.

g) Students whose theses are rejected may be awarded with a non-thesis master’s degree diploma provided that they submit a request form signed by student and thesis advisor to their graduate school at third semester earliest.

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