The students who successfully complete the program are awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science in Architecture.

This is a First Cycle (Bachelor’s Degree) program

In the framework of the regulations set by Higher Education Council of Turkey (YÖK), student admission for this undergraduate program is made through a university entrance examination called ÖSYS. Following the submission of students’ academic program preferences, Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM) places the students to the relevant program according to the score they get from ÖSYS.

International students are accepted to this undergraduate program according to the score of one of the international exams they take such as SAT, ACT and so on, or according to their high school diploma score.

Exchange student admission is made according to the requirements determined by bilateral agreements signed by NEU and the partner university.

Visiting students can enroll for the courses offered in this program upon the confirmation of the related academic unit. Additionally, they need to prove their English language level since the medium of instruction of the program is English.

The students studying in this undergraduate program are required to have a Cumulative Grade Points Average (Cum. GPA) of not less than 2.00/4.00 and have completed all the courses with at least a letter grade of DD/S in the program in order to graduate. The minimum number of ECTS credits required for graduation is 240. It is also mandatory for the students to complete their compulsory internship in a specified duration and quality.

At Near East University, full-time students can be exempted from some courses within the framework of the related bylaws. If the content of the course previously taken in another institution is equivalent to the course offered at NEU, then the student can be exempted from this course with the approval of the related faculty/graduate school after the evaluation of the course content.

The program's goal is to equip its graduates with both the fundamental scientific principles and the architectural skills that enable those principles to be applied in practice. The curriculum is planned with a multidisciplinary approach in mind. The Undergraduate Program consists of eight terms where theory of design, conceptual approaches, constructional knowledge and environmental control classes come together at the studio based architecture projects. The first two years students are armed with the knowledge on art education, technical drawing, history of art and architecture, human factors, introduction to architecture, aesthetics and construction of structures. The studio is seen as a melting pot of all these courses where the students are oriented to critical thinking on design and propose ideas for projects at different scales. Flipped learning teaching method has been adapted to all courses. At the senior years, courses are more for the realization of the projects like; furniture design and production, detailing, cost estimation, product detailing, ergonomics, refunctioning historical buildings, professional practice and computer aided design. The studio based projects at this level are mostly multi-functional spaces where system details are seen as must to do technical drawings.The students have to complete two internships during their four-year education where they have the chance to transform their theoretical knowledge to practice and bring the awareness or real-life projects to the studio

Upon graduation, students should be equipped to pursue a career as architecture professionals or, if they so wish, to pursue further academic studies. The graduates will be professionals who can be flexible and integrate in a relatively short time into a wide-range of different sectors of the industry.

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The graduates of Department of Architecture, the architects may work both at public and private sectors. They can work at architectural offices together with architects and civil engineers or they can join a design studio or can establish their own company and work independently. They can choose to become a designer, a specialist in marketing of related products or a controller in a manufacturing firm. Moreover, they may apply for graduate programs to become specialist in a related area and can work as instructors or research assistants at universities.

The students graduating from this program may apply to graduate programs.

The undergraduate program in Architecture consists of 53 courses with 240 ECTS credits in total.

There are at least 5 courses in each semester, including common compulsory courses and elective courses.

In each program, there are common compulsory courses identified by the Higher Education Council of Turkey (YÖK) and other common courses determined by the University Senate.

Elective courses begin from the second semester.

There are 12 elective courses in undergraduate program meaning, %23 of the courses are elective courses.

25% of the elective courses are taken from other faculties, %33.3 of them are taken from the faculty, and technical electives have to be %41.

• Ø Course Structure Diagram with Credits

To see the course details (such as objectives, learning outcomes, content, assessment and ECTS workload) click the relevant Course Code given in the table below.

Exam Regulations and, Assessment, and Grading

For each course taken at NEU, the student is given one of the letter grades below by the instructor as the semester course grade.  Each grade has also its ECTS grade equivalent
The table below provides the detailed information about the local letter grades, coefficients and ECTS grade equivalents.

*for these ones, the higher grade is applied

In order to be successful in a course, short cycle (associate degree) and first cycle (bachelor’s degree) students have to get a grade of at least DD, second cycle (master's degree) students have to get a grade of at least CC, and third cycle (Ph.D.) students have to get a grade of at least CB to pass a course. For courses which are not included in the cumulative GPA, students need to get a grade of S.

Apart from that, each local grade has it is equivalent ECTS grade which makes it easier to transfer the grades of mobility periods of students. The chart above shows the ECTS grading system at NEU.

Also, among the Letter Grades;

Grade of I (Incomplete), is given to students who are not able to meet all the course requirements at the end of the semester or summer school due to a valid justification accepted by the instructor. Students who receive a letter grade “I” must complete their missing course requirements and receive a letter grade within one week following the date the end of semester grades or summer school grades submitted. However, in the event of special cases, this period can be extended until two weeks before the beginning of registration for the next semester, upon the recommendation of the respective Graduate School department head and the decision of that academic unit’s administrative board. Otherwise, grade of “I” will automatically become grade of FF, or grade of U.

Grade of S (Satisfactory) is given to students who are successful in non-credited courses.

Grade of U (Unsatisfactory) is given to students who are unsuccessful in non-credited courses.

Grade of P (Successful Progress) is given to students, who continue to the courses that are not included in the GPA that has a period exceeding one semester, and regularly performs the academic studies for the respective semester.

Grade of NP (Not Successful Progress) is given to students, who do not regularly perform the academic studies for the respective semester for courses that are not included in the GPA and have a period exceeding one semester.

Grade of EX (Exempt), is given to students who are exempt from some of the courses in the curriculum.

Grade of NI (Not included) is issued to identify the courses taken by the student in the program or programs which are not included in the GPA of the student. This grade is reported in the students’ transcripts with the respective letter grade. Such courses are not counted as the courses in the program that the student is registered to.

Grade of W (Withdrawal) is used for the courses that the student withdraws from in the first ten weeks of the semester following the add/drop period, upon the recommendation of his/ her advisor and the permission of the instructor that teaches the course. A student is not allowed to withdraw from courses during the first two semesters of his/ her associate/undergraduate degree program and from those courses he/she has to repeat and received grade “W” before, which are not included in the grade average. A student is allowed to withdraw from two courses at the most during his/ her associate degree study, and four courses during his/her undergraduate study upon the recommendation of the advisor and the permission of the instructor that teaches the course. A student has to take the course that he/she withdrew from, the first semester in which it is offered.

Grade “NA” (Non-Attendance) is issued by the instructor for students who fail to fulfil the attendance and/or requirements of the course and/or who lose their right to take the end of semester exam because they failed to take any of the exams administered throughout the semester. Grade “NA” is not considered in the average calculations.

Both the ECTS grades and the local grades of the students are displayed on the official transcript of the students.

In order to graduate from this undergraduate program, the students are required;

to succeed in all of the courses listed in the curriculum of the program by getting the grade of at least DD/S with a minimum of 240 ECTS

to have a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 2.00 out of 4.00

to complete their compulsory internship in a specified duration and quality.

This is a full time program

Prof.Dr.A. Zeynep Onur, Head of Department, Faculty of Architecture, Near East University

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