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 Information on the Institution
Information on the Institution
Name and Address
ISTANBUL KÜLTÜR UNIVERSITY
ATAKOY CAMPUS E-5 FREEWAY
Bakırköy 34156 / İstanbul
+ 90 212 4984141
www.iku.edu.tr
Istanbul Kultur University has two campuses; Ataköy Campus and Şirinevler Campus. Faculty of Education, Faculty of Science and Letters, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Faculty of Art and Design are in Ataköy Campus and Faculty of Law, Vocational Schools, School of Foreign Languages, dormitories for both male and female students are in Şirinevler Campus. The distance between the two campuses takes 15 minutes on foot and also there are mutual bus services in every 15 minutes.
To meet the needs of students, food and other facilities is provided in campuses. For students coming from Kadıköy and Bostancı, bus services are organized to Bakırköy sea bus terminal in the mornings and in the evenings.
Both campuses are within 5-minute walking distance to bus and subway stops and it is possible to reach all the districts of Istanbul easily.
Academic Authorities
Chairperson of the Board of Trustees
Dr. Bahar Akıngüç Günver
President
Prof. Erhan Güzel
Vice Presidents
Prof. Nihal Sarıer
Secretary General
Ender Rıza Ekici
Faculty Deans
Prof. Hacı Ömer Karpuz(Faculty of Science and Letters)
Prof. h.c Bahri Öztürk (Faculty of Law)
Prof. Ali Şen (Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences)
Prof. Tülin Aktin (Faculty of Engineering)
Prof. Neslihan Dostoğlu (Faculty of Architecture)
Prof. Mehmet Üstünipek (Faculty of Arts and Design)
Prof. Erhan Güzel (Faculty of Education)
Prof. Nazif Ekin Akalan (Faculty of Health Sciences)
Institute Directors
Prof. Tunç Mısırlıoğlu (Institute of Sciences)
Prof. Muharrem Kaya (Institute of Social Sciences)
Directors of Vocational Schools
Prof.Dr. Durmuş TEZCAN (Vocational School of Law)
Prof. Erhan Güzel ( Vocational School )
About University
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General Admission Requirements
Students are accepted to degree and associate degree departments with the Central Placement Exam conducted by OSYM. In the Central Placement, applicants are placed in the Degree Programs by OSYM with the consideration of their LYS scores, students’ university choices and the capacity and conditions of these programs. Registration of the students that are placed in the Program is done by the Student Affairs Department at a certain time decided by OSYM. Please click for detailed information
It is required to have a Bachelor degree and score higher than 55 quantitative points from Selection Examination for Academic Personnel and Graduate Studies (ALES) for application to Masters and Ph.D. Program. Science Exam, English Proficiency Test and Oral Interview are done before the admission to the program. For details on each program look at: the academic packet
Recognition of Prior Learning
b) Recognition of the International Exchange Programs
In order for the courses taken abroad by the students taking the advantage of the Erasmus Exchange Student Mobility and other exchange programs at the partner universities of Istanbul Kültür University (IKU) to be accredited and to be fully accredited at IKU and within this context, the grades to be shown at the transcripts and Diploma suffixes, the partner universities grade rubrics equivalences at IKU to be stated, a commission that consists the Faculty/ Department/ Vocational School Erasmus Coordinators is established and these commission decisions are approved by the University Senate
According to this following decisions are made:
- ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) Grade Equivelances must be predicated on and for the partner universities that do not use AKTS Grade Ststem. An equivalence chart for the AKTS grade system to be asked for,
- Students going abroad for study to take the Table 1 as reference in course tranfers,
- Table 2 to be taken as reference while giving the grades for the coming students
- For the IKU partner universities that do not use AKTS grade system and do not supply a AKTS conversion table, the related department and European and International Relations Center to prepare a common decree proposal and present this to the approval of the Senate
Table 1. Outgoing Studnts |
ECTS GRADE @ PARTNER UNIVERSITY |
ECTS GRADE @ IKU |
A |
A |
B |
A- |
C |
B+ |
D |
C+ |
E |
D+ |
FX |
FD |
F |
F |
Table 2. Incoming Students |
ECTS GRADE @ IKU |
ECTS GRADE @ PARTNER UNIVERSITY |
A / A- |
A |
B- / B / B+ |
B |
C- / C / C+ |
C |
D / D+ |
D |
D- |
E |
FD |
FX |
FF |
F |
 General Registration Procedures
- The student is required to apply in person for the registration and to present in full the documents mentioned at the website
- You may perform the financial transactions required during the registration at the Branch of Turkiye Is Bank offering service at Ataköy Campus.
ECTS Credits Allocation
By the 2011-2012 Academic year ECTS credits are used in all of the programs at the Istanbul Kültür University. Within this context, ECTS credits of all the courses at the university are stated by taking the ‘work load’ of the students into consideration. In Programs prepared with 30 ECTS for semester and 60 ECTS for the whole year; credits are given by taking the theory course hours, laboratory studies, project preparation, practices, clinic studies in internships, seminars, problem hours, individual work, exams and other evaluation activities into consideration.
Before the ECTS Credits are determined, the common field courses at the faculties were determined, and after that, ECTS credits for the single courses of every department were determined via the department academic staff and at the last step their results were cross checked with those of the student surveys applied for each course at the University.
Academic Counseling
Istanbul Kültür University has a powerful and a specialist staff and the academic /student ratio is almost 1/10. One other distinguishing aspect is that the most of the academic staff is full-time at the university.
Psychological Counseling and Guidance
Center for Guidance, Psychological Consulting and Applied Research (RPDMER)
The Center is an academic research platform which primarily aims to help students and their relatives cope with various educational and social-psychological problems, they may encounter in life.
The center established in 2009 is connected with the Istanbul Kültür University and has a wide facility network such as supporting the individual development of the students, coping with the problems, coordinating with the related institiuriıions and establishments when needed, giving seminars supporting the common education and doing researches and publishes in the psychology field. In short, these studies can be summarısed in the titles such as publishing, certified test education researches, seminars ans counselling. Please click for detailed information
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