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In Türkiye no fee policy is applied to full-time home students. International students and students with insufficient ECTS credits and/or extended length of studies pay fees. Fees for international students are determined separately by each university.
Part-time programmes are not available.
Differentiation policies depending on the field of study are applied to fees in first and short cycles. The type of programme has no impact on the amount of fees.
Waivers and reductions are not available.
Direct financial support is provided through grants and loans. Need and merit-based grants are available to home full and part-time students. Loans are available to home students. The award is subject to evaluation and ranking.
Indirect financial support is not available.
Age limits apply for access to direct financial support.

Minimum, maximum, and most common annual fee amounts (in EUR)

The majority of higher education institutions in Türkiye are public.
State universities do not charge fees to home full-time students for any of the education cycles.
Non-profit foundation universities can receive a limited amount of financial support from the Government. However, foundation universities do not fall within the category “public and government dependent private higher education institutions” and therefore are not included in this study.
Home full-time students in public universities following short, first and second cycle daytime education programmes do not pay fees.
International students, defined as non-Turkish students, pay higher fees, as set by the government. Fees for international students are determined separately by each university. Data on amounts is not available.
Students with poor performance and/or extended length of studies are required to pay fees. Data on amounts is not available.
There is no category of students enrolled on non-state subsidised places.
Programmes in foreign languages are not offered.
Data on share of fee-payers is not available.

Need and merit- based grants are available to home full-time and part-time students in all education cycles.
The eligibility criteria applied for need-based grants consider the student’s monthly income. However the allocation of need-based grants can be subject to evaluation of academic performance as well.
The amount of the most common need-based grant offered to full-time home students is EUR 559. Data on the amounts available for part-time home students is not available.
A monthly payment of EUR 46 is provided to higher education students who are studying at home or abroad, within the allowance allocated for the grants. Students who rank in the top 100 in the university placement exam (entry to higher education) are paid three times the monthly regular scholarship for a period of 12 months (EUR 1667). This non-refundable scholarship is suspended in case of insufficient academic achievement.
Merit-based grants are subject to academic performance evaluation. Data on maximum and most common amounts of merit-based grants is not available. The minimum amount is EUR 1678.
503.458 students have been awarded grants in the 2021/2022 academic year. The share of students receiving need-based grants is 8%.
The age limit for accessibility to grants is 30 years for undergraduate students and 35 for graduate students.

Loans are available to home full-time students only in all education cycles.
The amounts are fixed(no minimum and maximum amounts) but vary depending on the education cycle.
The amount for first cycle is EUR 559, while the amount for second cycle is EUR 1118.
The age limit for accessibility to loans is 30 years for undergraduate students and 35 for graduate students.
Data on share of loan borrowers is not available.

A combination of grants and loans is possible and subject to evaluation and ranking. The age limit is 35 years.