ATTENTION! New Regulations in Acceptable “English Proficiency” Exams for Graduate Program Registrations
According to the updated YOK (Turkish Higher Education Council) Legislation;
a) Acceptable Exams
There has been an update in the list of exams which are considered as equivalent by YOK and acceptable for Graduate Program registrations by Sabancı University, please click to check updated acceptable exam list. Validty date of these exams as announced on our website, should be later than program registration dates.
Equivalency of IELTS, TOEFL-PBT and TOEFL-CBT exams is not accepted by YOK (Turkish Higher Education Council) any more; and these exams will not be valid for Graduate Program registrations.
b) Exam Centers
If the international exams, of which equivalency is accepted by YOK and which are accepted for Graduate Program registrations by Sabancı University as indicated in Article (a), are taken in Turkey; these exams have to be taken in a State University building.
Exams taken in a exam center rather than State University buildings before the announcement date of the updated regulation (26 February 2016); and exams taken in a exam center rather than State University buildings within 30 days following the announcement date of updated regulation, only if it was applied before 26 February 2016 will be considered as taken in accordance with the condition indicated in Article (b).