Course Selection
Students should read the undergraduate education regulations below:
https://bogazici.edu.tr/tr/pages/bogazici-universitesi-lisans-egitim-ve-ogreti/657
Rules Governing the Course Schedule Approval Process
Students are expected to enroll in courses in the semesters specified in the curriculum.
Students are required to repeat compulsory courses in which they have received an F grade at the first available offering.
Courses carried over from previous semesters due to participation in exchange programs or course withdrawal must be taken at the first available offering.
Courses with prerequisites may not be taken unless the prerequisite requirements have been fulfilled. However, in exceptional cases, such courses may be added through an e-petition, subject to the approval of the course instructor and the administrative board.
(With exception of first-year students) At the beginning of a semester, minimum credit limit is 15 and maximum is 26, subject to advisor approval.
Rules on Course Scheduling Conflicts
Course schedules may not be arranged in a manner that creates conflicts between AD courses or between an AD course and any other course.
A maximum overlap of one class hour is permitted between courses that are not AD courses.
Students are required to select AD, unrestricted, and HSS electives that fit their schedule. Deliberately creating conflicts in the schedule by enrolling in conflicting elective courses is not permitted.
Rules Regarding Elective Course Selection
As of the Fall Semester of the 2026–27 academic year, courses with 1 or 2 credits will not count toward graduation requirements; only courses with a minimum of 3 credits will count.
During the course of study, it is obligatory to take "Departmental Elective" and "Unrestricted Elective" courses at predefined amounts. However, departmental elective courses can be taken in placement of unrestricted elective courses.
A student who failed an unrestricted (or departmental) elective course, can repeat this F grade by taking another unrestricted (or departmental) elective course. Yet, at the time of enrolling to the new course, it is required to add "repeat F …course code…" clause to the relevant field next to the newly selected course in registration system.
Students can only take "AD" courses as "Departmental Elective" courses.
Students can only take 1 "AE" course (with exception of AE 100 courses) offered by School of Foreign Languages.
Rules applicible for students attending their first two semesters
Students are obliged to take each offered course, as soon as the courses become available, within their first two semester period. Those students cannot drop, procastinate to take (e.g., due to inability to obtain consent) and withdraw from these courses (including Unrestricted Electives and HSS electives); and cannot take extra credit courses with the exception of non-credit courses.
Students are required to take one HSS course in each of the first two semesters; otherwise, their course schedule will not be approved. Courses that may be taken as HSS are listed under the headings “HSS ders listesi” or “HSS course list” at the following links:
https://ogrenciler.bogazici.edu.tr/Home/SubPage/kayit
https://registration.bogazici.edu.tr/
If a student fails a course at the first semester of the first year, it is obligatory to retake the same course the very next time that the course becomes offered. If the course in question is not offered the next semester, the student is allowed to take the courses that are free of pre-requisites and offered for the next semester.
Students who have passed the English proficiency exam (i.e. June English Proficiency Exam) and would like to start their undergraduate education at summer term, can only take foreign language courses during summer school.
Other Rules Regarding Course Selection
Students can repeat the courses with DC or DD grades. Students can repeat a maximum of six of those courses, within four semesters following the date of last enrollment to the course and one per semester at most, with consent from their advisors.
Students are allowed to withdraw from a course a maximum of five times during their undergraduate studies: two in the summer semesters and three in the spring and fall semesters. This limit of five courses includes non-credit (NC) courses.
It is obligatory to complete a total of 112 credits for students to take courses with "4th year standing" pre-requisite.
Senior students with at least 3.00 GPA (with condition of consent of the instructor) can take two AD 500 courses as departmental elective.
Students participating in Erasmus or other exchange programs are strongly advised to take equivalent courses during their exchange period in place of compulsory courses they are unable to take in their home department.
Students in repeat status are obliged to repeat their F graded courses in the very next semester they are offered. They are allowed to repeat the courses graded with DC and DD. These students can take a maximum of 2 extra courses in addition to the courses they repeat. They are prohibited from having a course load more than 18 credits.
International students are required to take alternative HTR- and TK-coded courses offered specifically for international students in place of HTR 311/312 and TK 221/222.
