🎓 Double Major Program (DMP)
📍 Program Description:
The Double Major Program allows students who are successful in their major to earn a second diploma by taking courses from another undergraduate program.
✅ Application Requirements:
- Must be enrolled in an associate or undergraduate program at the university.
- Must have successfully completed all credit-bearing courses in their first major associate/undergraduate program by the time of application.
- Must have a minimum GPA of 2.72/4.00 (70 out of 100).
- Must be in the top 20% of their major program class.
- Must meet the minimum score requirements for the double major program (if the 20% requirement is not met).
- Students may apply for a second major diploma program at the earliest at the beginning of the third semester for a major undergraduate diploma program, at the latest at the beginning of the fifth semester for a four-year program, at the beginning of the seventh semester for a five-year program, and at the beginning of the ninth semester for a six-year program. For a major associate degree diploma program, at the earliest at the beginning of the second semester, and at the latest at the beginning of the third semester.
📌Graduation Requirements:
- Double major students cannot receive their second major diploma without graduating from their first major program.
- To graduate with a second major, a GPA of 2.72/4.00 or higher is required.
- Courses taken in the double major program must be at least 240 ECTS credits, including required and elective courses.
🔗 For Details: Istanbul Ticaret University Double Major and Minor Program Regulations
🎓 Minor Program
📍 Program Description:
A minor program is a supplementary educational program that allows students to gain knowledge in a field related to other departments/programs within the same faculty, in addition to their undergraduate program. A minor program does not grant a second diploma, but students who successfully complete it are awarded a minor certificate.
✅ Application Requirements:
- Be enrolled in an undergraduate department/program at the university. Applications can be made starting from the beginning of the third semester.
- Have a minimum cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 2.60 out of 4 as of the beginning of the semester in which the minor program is intended to begin.
- Acceptance into the minor program may be approved by the Board of Directors of the Faculty to which the student is affiliated, subject to the approval of the department heads of the undergraduate departments/programs to which the student is registered and applying, or if there are no department heads, the Deans of the Faculty.
📌Graduation Requirements:
- Must have earned the right to graduate from the first major.
- Must have successfully completed a total of twenty-four ECTS credits in the minor program, which are not required courses for the first major.
- Must have a GPA of 2.30 out of 4 in the first major.
🔗For Details: Istanbul Ticaret University Double Major and Minor Program Regulations
🎓Lateral Transfer (Intra-Institutional and Inter-Institutional)
📍Program Description:
Lateral Transfer is a system that allows students to transfer to another higher education program without completing their current program. Lateral transfer can be made intra-institutionally (within the same university) or inter-institutionally (to different universities).
✅Application Requirements:
- Associate and undergraduate students can transfer. For inter-institutional lateral transfer, a student must have a cumulative GPA of at least 60 out of 100 for the semesters they have completed in their registered program.
- To apply for lateral transfer between university-based degree programs that accept students at the same level, the student’s central placement score, in the score type applicable to the desired degree program as of the year the student took the centralized exam, must not be lower than the lowest base score for the degree programs of other domestic universities equivalent to the desired degree program.
- Transfers are not permitted to the preparatory class of associate and undergraduate degree programs; to the first and last semesters of associate degree programs; or to the first and last two semesters of undergraduate degree programs.
- For students placed through the ÖSYM exam, ÖSYM exam results are taken into account for internal lateral transfers; national or international diploma grades or exam results are not used as a basis for placement.
📌 Application Process:
1️⃣ Applications are accepted on the dates specified in the academic calendar.
2️⃣ Applicants’ GPA and central placement score are evaluated.
3️⃣ Course orientation is conducted for accepted students, and missing courses are identified.
