M.S. in Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering Master of Science Program
The Master of Science program at the Department of Computer Engineering consists of two stages:
Courses
Thesis Stage
Applications to the Graduate Studies in Bogazici University, Department of Computer Engineering (CMPE) are processed electronically and there is no other channel of application. All prospective candidates should apply through the Graduate Programs Application process.
The graduate education is exclusively in English and the applicants are expected to posses a high level of English speaking and writing skills. In only extraordinary circumstances, the Computer Engineering PhD program may admit candidates to the English preparatory class before the actual program. However, the quota for this option is severely limited.
The department wants the candidate to specify his/her possible research topics while applying to the MS program. Hence, in the Online Application, there is a survey which asks the candidate to select six professors.
All applicants are expected to submit all necessary documents during their application process. Note that incomplete applications may not be considered for evaluation. Beware that the workflow in University’s On-line Application System allows finalizing an application with eventually missing documents.
Some submissions require letters of reference written on candidate’s behalf. Such letters must be uploaded to an on-line reference system by the referees. Past experience has shown that referees too often forget or delay to upload these letters. It is in the candidate’s responsibility to remind the referees to ensure that letters are uploaded before the evaluation.
Graduates of Bogazici University Computer Engineering Department need not submit reference letters.
Pre-evaluation is applied by the professors who are selected by each applicant. This phase is carried out by studying the application documents. If necessary, professor(s) may contact the applicant before finalizing the pre-evaluation process. Only selected applicants will be invited to the scientific interview.
The result of the pre-filtering is sent to each applicant a few days before the interview date. If an applicant is invited to the interview, then a detailed interview schedule is also sent. For the selected candidates, at least two professors will conduct the scientific interview. These professors may be different than ones who appear in the survey.
Following the interview phase, the admission board evaluates each application based on several criteria, including the interview performance, evaluations of the faculty about the candidate, transcript(s) and reference letters to reach at a final decision.
The admission decisions are officially announced from the website of the Institute of Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering (Fen Bilimleri Enstitusu). Only accepted and conditionally accepted candidates are announced, where the latter is for cases when further documents are required. During this ‘conditionally accept’ period, any missing documents that are needed for the official registration must be completed.
A student with a non-CmpE BS degree may be required to take remedial courses before starting at the regular MSc program. Current remedial courses are three undergraduate courses:
Students, who cannot certify that they have taken and successfully passed these courses in their transcripts, need to register as a remedial student. If the student believes that he/she had already taken some of these courses but still observes them in the required course list in OBIKAS, then he/she should write directly to the Graduate Studies Coordinator.
The semester type on OBIKAS should be REMEDIAL. This means that the GPA of courses taken during this semester will have no effect on the GPA to be obtained for the registered program. Remedial courses have to be taken whenever they are open, i.e. prerequisite condition is not applied. Please note that most remedial courses are open only once in each academic year, although it is possible that some are open during the summer term.
Remedial courses have to be completed in two successive academic semesters. Note that the Summer term is not counted as an academic semester, but courses can be taken during summer to reduce the course load in academic semesters. If the student is not registered to the university at the time of the Summer term, then she/he should contact secretarial office so as to get registered to the Summer term at a discounted tuition rate. If the course grade is CB or higher, then the student need to contact the Graduate Studies Coordinator so that the courses can be dropped from his/her remedial course list.
The student must pass from the remedial courses with GPA >= 2.50. Failure from a course or GPA < 2.50 hinders the student from continuing further studies in CmpE. The GPA for remedial courses is calculated after the student passes all remedial courses. Graduate students cannot simultaneously register for normal program courses while taking the remedial courses.
For succesuful candidates, registration process and additional required documents can be found on the University Registration webpage.