GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

Profile of the Programme
PhD program consists of courses, qualification exam, thesis proposal, thesis works and thesis defence. PhD program is formed of minimum 240 ECTS consisting of at least 10 courses, inclueded scientific research tecqniques and publication ethics, and a seminar, along with thesis preparation, lecture on specialized field, semester of qualification exam, thesis proposal and thesis works. Previously, students who took a course about scientific research tecqniques and publication ethics in their master degree are not obliged to take the same course again in their PhD. Those students can complete their courses term with 9 courses worth of 24 credit. Seminar and thesis are non-credited courses and evaluated only as successful or unseccessful. ECTS value of these courses is determined by the proposal of the department and the approval of the Institute. Students must take their courses successfully in maximum 4 semester. In this time, those who cannot be successful at their courses or who cannot get minimum 3.00/4.00 GPA are dismissed from the Institue. The normal time span of PhD program is 8 semesters and can be extended to 12 terms which starts in the semester in which the courses are begun to given, regardless of registered or not, and preparation year is not included in this duration.