Information on Fall 2024 Semester​

Dear Students,

Fall 2024 courses will start on October 7, 2024. Course enrollments will begin on September 30th, and the course add-drop period will continue through KUSIS until Friday, October 18th. The deadline for course withdrawals (with a W grade) is December 13, 2024, which is also available in the academic calendar. The deadline for audit requests is also at the end of the add-drop period, on Friday, October 18th. Students are expected to strictly comply with these deadlines. 

The primary method of teaching for Fall 2024 is face-to-face. However, there will be a limited number of courses to be offered online only. The method of teaching for each course is available in KUSIS under “Class Search” / “Instruction Mode”. Class attendance regulations will be applied as stated in the course syllabi.

Examinations (midterm(s) and final) for face-to-face and online courses are to be held face-to-face on campus. Faculty members may also consider using other assessments including take-home assignments, online quizzes, online assignments, online discussions, reports, presentations, etc. to assess student learning. If these evaluation tools are to be used, the syllabus should clearly state their weights in grading.

Aşağıda Güz 2024 dönemi ile uygulamaya başlanacak önemli değişiklikler hakkında bilgilendirme ve hatırlatmalar yer almaktadır:

1. Class Attendance Requirement: 

As class attendance is compulsory in formal education programs, students must meet the attendance requirement. In accordance with YÖK’s announcement titled The Fundamental Principles of Article 44/b of Law No. 2547 dated February 19, 2024, starting from the Fall 2024 semester, students who cannot meet the attendance requirements specified in the course syllabus will fail the course due to absenteeism. Students who fail due to absenteeism will not be able to participate in the end-of-semester evaluation, such as the final, if there is one. This rule will not apply to courses with no attendance requirements specified in the course syllabus. Attendance requirements, if available, must be included in the course syllabus at the beginning of the semester.

2. Finals and Remedial Exams:  

Students who would still fail the course (F/U), even with a full score obtained from the final exam, are not allowed to take the final exam.

In courses with a final, students who receive an F as their overall grade may participate in the remedial exam. Remedial exams replace the final grade in courses with a final. Remedial exams are not offered for courses that do not have a final.

Students who did not attend the final will not be eligible for the remedial exam even if the course offers one. In case of medical excuses, students should submit their official health reports to Koç University Health Center for evaluation. If the KU Health Center approves the report, the student must contact the relevant faculty member to arrange a make-up exam. In case of not being able to attend the final due to force majeure, a petition must be written to the relevant Faculty Executive Council before make-up exams.

The Registrar and Student Affairs Directorate will collect the list of students who did not participate in the final exam and who are not eligible to take a remedial exam from the Dean’s Offices.

3. Courses that Will Offer Remedial Exams:

Remedial exams will only be offered for courses that have a final exam, subject to the following conditions. Remedial exams will not be offered for summer term courses. Whether a remedial exam will be available or not will be stated in the Class Search section in KUSIS as well as the syllabus.

3.1. Remedial exams will not be offered for courses containing applied and laboratory content. These courses will be clearly stated in KUSIS.
3.2. For courses offered by the Schools of Nursing and Medicine, courses that will offer remedial exams within the framework of the course structures will be determined and announced by the relevant Dean’s Offices.
3.3. Mandatory courses outside the scope of the first two articles (3.1. and 3.2.) (courses such as TURK 100, HIST 300, required area courses, etc.):

a. Information on whether a remedial exam will be offered or not at the end of the relevant semester for courses with an F grade will be available in the course syllabus and KUSIS.

b. It is not mandatory to offer remedial exams in the below-listed conditions,

i. Courses that are offered both in the Fall and Spring semesters of a given academic year

ii. Courses offered both in a single semester and also in the Summer term.

c. For courses offered only in a single semester during the academic year but not offered in the summer term, a remedial exam must be offered at the end of the relevant semester.

d. For courses offering remedial exams, the student must submit a remedial exam application to the Registrar and Student Affairs Directorate within the specified dates announced in the academic calendar.

e. For courses that will not offer remedial exams, the student is expected to enroll in the course in the semester following the one in which the F grade was received. If the course is offered in the Summer term, the student may optionally retake the course in Summer School.

f. If a course that does not offer a remedial exam is not open for enrollment in the next semester or in the summer school following the semester in which an F grade was received, a remedial exam will be given. In such a case, the student must submit a remedial exam application to the Registrar and Student Affairs Directorate to take the remedial exam.

g. No make-up exam is available for remedial exams.

h. In addition, students are reminded that they can benefit from the University Additional Examination rights at the stage of graduation if they meet the relevant conditions for the courses for which they have received an F grade. 

3.4. Courses that are outside the scope of the first two articles (3.1. and 3.2.) and that are selected from a course list (core area courses, area elective and general elective courses, courses that can be selected from a course pool/list connected with “or”):

a. In case of a F/U grade, repeating the same course is not mandatory within the framework of our University course repeat rules. The relevant requirement can be completed by taking a different course from the same pool/list.

b. If the student wants to retake the course in which she/he received an F/U grade, the steps in Article 3.3 will be followed.

4. Student petitions will be evaluated by the following academic and administrative units:

4.1. University Executive Council: Requests for a leave of absence, late withdrawal from a course, overlapping course enrollment requests, tuition and scholarship requests, and objections to disciplinary action decisions

4.2. College based on the student’s major program: Course overload request (1 or 2 courses), evaluation of a course substitution that is not currently allowed in the curriculum

4.3. Registrar and Student Affairs Directorate: Requests for a change in GPA by replacing a passing course with a different coded passing course in common core, area and general elective course lists, requests for placing courses taken in the correct category within the program template, double major, minor, track and transfer applications made withing the application period announced in the academic calendar, requests for transfer course, credit and grade controls, template change requests, course and requests for credit checks towards graduation, University additional exam and amnesty exam applications for YÖK Article 44, maximum education duration period Control requests.

5. Course overload rules are available here.

6. Information about payments/refunds to be made according to the application time and reason for a leave of absence is available here. Starting from the Spring 2024 semester, students can take a LoA for a maximum of two semesters in a row and a maximum of four semesters during their education period, except for leave of absences due to health and force majeure reasons.

7. For undergraduate students, rules regarding the total number of courses that can be withdrawn (W: withdraw) which was determined as six courses and the minimum number of credits that students are expected to enroll per semester are available here.

If you have questions about course enrollments, you can send them to [email protected] or you can consult the respective Dean’s Office or email [email protected] for questions regarding other issues mentioned above.

With best wishes for a successful and a healthy semester,
Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs