Graduate applications and admissions are handled by the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences together with the Registrar's Office. The official pages you will need, from before you apply through to registration, are listed below with a note on what each one covers.
Before applying and registering, you are strongly advised to contact faculty members working in the field you are interested in and to identify your thesis supervisor.
Please download (G1) and use this for a letter of recommendation while applying to the doctoral program in Mechanical Engineering.
International students can find detailed information on residence permits, foreign identity numbers, accommodation, health insurance and tuition fees on the International Students Office pages.
Admission requirements
| Mechanical Engineering admission criteria › | Minimum EPE, ALES and CGPA requirements for the MS and PhD programs, together with the department's annotations on reference letters, the letter of intent, transcripts and the evaluation stages. |
| Who can apply? › | Which degree you must hold, or be about to complete, in order to apply to a master's, integrated doctorate or doctoral program. |
| Application criteria for all departments › | The requirements of every department in the Graduate School, listed side by side. |
| ALES-GRE equivalence table › | The chart used to convert GRE scores into their ALES equivalents. |
| English proficiency equivalence table › | Accepted English exams, their METU EPE equivalents and how long each result stays valid. |
| METU English Proficiency Exam (EPE) › | Exam dates, how to register for the exam and how results are announced. |
Applying
| How to apply › | Step-by-step guidance on using the online application system. |
| Required documents › | The full list of documents that must be uploaded with an application. |
| Important dates › | The application, evaluation and result announcement calendar for each semester. |
| Online application system › | Where applications are submitted, and where admitted students later upload their registration documents. |
| Graduate applications for international candidates › | The International Students Office handout for graduate candidates, plus the graduate school contacts to address questions to. |
| Graduate School announcements › | Where the opening of each application period and any change in requirements is published. |
| Graduate applications: frequently asked questions › | Answers on missing documents, application fees, applying to more than one department and similar questions. |
After admission
| Registration for Turkish citizens › | Online document submission, registration dates and the documents requested by the Registrar's Office. Published in Turkish. |
| Registration for international students › | The registration guide covering additional documents such as the passport, diploma and residence permit. |
Requirements, dates and required documents may change from one semester to the next. The current announcements published by the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences and the Registrar's Office are the binding source.