Farabi Exchange Program

My name is Nazlı Çağıl Küçükgöksel. I work at Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University Foreign Relations Application and Research Center. The exchange program we call Farabi is a program that includes student and staff exchange between higher education institutions. It is based on the exchange between higher education programs within national borders. Associate, undergraduate, graduate and doctorate students and all faculty members, provided that they are not included in the administrative staff, can apply to this program. However, as of the 2011-2012 academic year, the application of faculty members to this program was suspended until an uncertain date. In short, students of associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in higher education institutions operating nationwide and providing formal education can apply to this program. Farabi was born in 870 in Farab city of Turkistan. He traveled in cities such as Bukhara, Baghdad, Damascus and Aleppo, which can be considered as important science centers of the period. He has works on music, philosophy, mathematics and political science. He has a reputation comparable to Aristotle, who is accepted as the first teacher in the field of philosophy in the Islamic world. From this point of view, the Farabi program aims to enable our students to experience science not only in their own universities, but also in other educational institutions. Among our students who want to participate in this program, those who study in associate and undergraduate programs must have a minimum GPA of 2, and those who study in master's and doctoral programs must have a minimum 2.50 GPA. Similarly, our associate and undergraduate students cannot benefit from the program in preparatory and first year. However, these students can apply to benefit from this program the following year in the spring semester. Likewise, graduate and doctoral students cannot benefit from this program in the first year of preparatory, scientific preparation and basic education. Students can benefit from this program for one semester or two semesters for one time only. There is no charge to benefit from this program. No tuition fee is required. If our students will go to a state university, a monthly scholarship of 650 TL, in total 2600 TL, is provided for 4 months, non-refundable. This scholarship is funded by YÖK (Higher Education Council) and the rates can be changed by YÖK every year. If our students receive these scholarships, there is no exception for the scholarship they will receive from another institution, and there is no obstacle for those scholarships. We wish success to all our students in their exams, and we are pleased to welcome students who want to apply and benefit from the Farabi program at our offices.