Turkish higher education system has been internationalized rapidly in recent years. As the grant program of European Union (EU) in the fields of education, youth and sports, Erasmus+ Program which began in Turkey in 2003 provides many students and academic staff with overseas training. According to European Commission statistics, Turkey is the fifth country having the most outbound students after Spain, Germany, France and Italy and the third country having the most outbound academic staff within Erasmus Program. During recent years, 14 thousand students have attended Erasmus+ Program in Turkey. Furthermore, Turkey hosts 6 thousand students on average per year mostly from Germany, Poland, France, The Netherlands and Italy. The students are provided with non-refundable grant varying between 300€ -600 €.
Being aware of the that internationalization is the key reality in the 21st century, our university has enabled 243 students to get Education and traineeship in European universities through Erasmus agreements including 64 departments and signed with 28 higher education institutions from 14 different countries.
The application process of the program in our university is conducted as follows:
Hitit University publishes ‘Application Guide’ including application requirements and evaluation criteria and ‘Quota List’ on its web page at least 15 days. All students submitting required application documents and having minimum requirements have the right to attend Erasmus Foreign Language Exam.
The basic minimum requirement for the students is to have 2.20 general academic average out of 4.00 for bachelor programs and 2.50 general academic average for postgraduate programs.
Moreover, the students attend foreign language exam consisting of 75% (multiple choice 75 questions) written and 25% oral (speaking) part. The students are required to get minimum 50 points in the foreign language exam (written + oral exam). After all, the students are placed in the announced quotas according to their total Erasmus grades consisting of 50% general academic average and 50% foreign language exam result.
Erasmus+ Program agreements and quotas of our university are available on the link and please visit our web page www.erasmus.hitit.edu.tr for detailed information.
