Turkey Scholarships for International Students
There are several Turkey scholarships for international students from all over the world to study in the most prestigious universities in Turkey. This is aside the educational benefits of international standards coupled with the vast knowledge and experience to be gained from studying in Turkey.
Türkiye Scholarships is funded by the government and is a highly competitive scholarship program, offered based on merit to outstanding students and researchers to pursue full- time or part time program at the best universities in Turkey.
Türkiye Scholarships aims to make a network of tomorrow's leaders committed to strengthening cooperation among countries and collective understanding among societies
Timeline for application: 10th of January to 20th of February 2022
The scholarship is open to international students from all countries.
Why Türkiye Scholarships?
Why you should consider Türkiye Scholarships is that it does not only involve of financial aid, tuition fee, accommodation and health insurance but also provides university placement and academic, social and artistic exposure to its beneficiaries at all situations of advanced education
Programs and situations of Study
Application Programs available are: Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programs
The scholarship programs levels available for application are: bachelors, masters and doctoral degree levels.
Steps on how to Apply:
- Visit the Türkiye Scholarships Application System and create a profile
- Send all necessary documents. It will be a bonus to update your extracurricular activities and other awards
- Choose your university and programs of choice
- Write a letter of intent detailing the grounds for your choices, what you expect and hope to achieve
- Review and send in your application
Necessary documents
The following documents are required when you apply online through the Türkiye Scholarships Application System
- An eligible ID card or passport
- A passport photograph of the applicant taken within the last 12 months
- results of any national exams
- any certificate a degree or diploma
- Transcript
- transnational test results( GRE, GMAT, SAT,etc.) if needed by the chosen university or program
- transnational language test results similar as TOEFL, DELF if needed by the chosen university or program
- A research topic proposal and a written illustration of a previou research you have carried out( strictly for PhD applicants)
Important Information
Numerous programs in Turkish universities are tutored in Turkish language. However, some departments and universities may offer some programs in English and other languages. Applicants looking to study in similar programs must provide an internationally accepted language proficiency test documentation ( TOEFL or other test documents, if the university made it a necessity). A majority of the programs make these international tests ( GRE, GMAT, SAT,etc.) compulsory. Candidates should check the language of instruction while choosing programs in their application.
Undergraduates who have International qualifications like SAT or GCSE rather than national exams test scores, will need to give the minimum needed qualifications demanded for completing secondary education according to these international examinations.
All Türkiye scholarships winners who do not retain C1 Level Certificate for Turkish Proficiency( including those who are placed into English or other language medium programs) must attend at least a year of Turkish Language Course training and attain the C1 Level Certificate by the end of their academic scheduled program
Full time Scholarships
These are scholarships offered for bachelors, masters and PhD degree levels
Scholarship Coverage
- University and Department Placement
- Monthly allowance: Undergraduate 1000 TL, Masters 1400 TL, PhD 1800 TL
- Tuition payment
- Turkish Language Course( 1 year)
- Accommodation
- Health Insurance
- One way Flight Ticket ( At the start of the program and on graduation)
Scholarship Programs for Undergraduate
Nearly all undergraduate programs are available, except for associate degrees and vocational studies.
Applications are done within January to February yearly into engineering, social sciences, health sciences and basic sciences fields through the Turkish Scholarships Application System
Scholarship Programs for Graduates
Scholarship programs are offered for masters and PhD degree levels in the faculties of social sciences, humanities, natural sciences and engineering at prestigious universities in Türkiye.
Nearly all fields of study are offered except the health departments.
The universities and departments that applicants can choose may vary depending on the educational background of the applicant. Candidates can only choose from the universities and departments offered to them in the system.
Scholarship Programs for Arts
The Scholarship Program for Arts is for international students at undergraduate, masters and PhD graduate degree levels in the departments of musical sciences, fine arts and performing arts at Ankara Music and Fine Arts University.
The following departments are available for application within the Art Scholarship Program:
Performing Arts
- Instrument Training( Undergraduate)
- Voice Training( Undergraduate)
Music Sciences and Technologies
- Music Technologies( Undergraduate)
- Music Theory( Undergraduate)
Music and Fine Arts
- Instrument Training( Graduate)
- Music sciences( Graduate)
- Music Technologies( Graduate)
- Music Theory( Graduate)
- Musicology( Graduate)
- Voice Training( Graduate)
Merit Scholarship Program
Merit Scholarship Program is created to:
- Motivate intelligent students, who posses international academic and language proficiency documents to study in Türkiye,
- Design custom socio-artistic programs for specific requirements of intelligent students
- Inspire Türkiye scholarship beneficiary to be more devoted on their studies,
Merit Scholarship is equally for potential and already existing Türkiye scholarships candidates
Those who have qualifications pointed out below will be added in the Merit Scholarship Program:
- Türkiye Scholarship beneficiaries who have been placed in their programs with international language and government approved academic proficiency documents ( SAT, GRE, TOEFL, IELTS,etc.).
- Those who scored top points at national examinations in their home countries,
- Researchers within Scientific Research systems( BAP), TÜBİTAK or with government approval
- Those who publish scientific papers on journals scrutinized by Science Citation Index( SCI), Science Citation Index Expanded( SCI- EXP), Social Science Citation Index( SSCI), Art and Humanities Citation Index( AHCI),
- Those who acquired patent licensing
- Türkiye scholarships holders at the position of bachelors degree who have GPA above 3.50 out of 4.
Türkiye scholarships beneficiaries who participates in Merit Scholarship Program will be awarded with monthly allowance twice as high as the regular payment.