ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY SENATE PRINCIPLES REGARDING THE

ATTAINMENT, SUBMISSION AND EXAMINATION OF GRADUATION PROJECTS

Article 1 – The requirements regarding the attainment, distribution, submission, examination

and assessment of graduation projects which have to be completed by the students pursuant
to Article 15 of the Istanbul Technical University Undergraduate Academic Regulations, shall
be determined under these principles.

Graduation projects in the Faculty of Architecture shall be conducted by the heads of

departments under special principles that are determined by the faculty board.

Article 2 – In order to be enrolled onto the graduation project course, a student shall be
obliged to have completed at least 110 credit hours and to have enrolled for all of their
required courses.

Article 3 – The distribution of graduation project topics that are normally an eighth semester
course, may be made in previous semesters upon the decisions of faculty boards.

Having been allocated a graduation project topic shall not entitle the student the right to be
enrolled onto the graduation project course unless the requirements stated in Article 2 have
been fulfilled.

Students who are enrolled to the graduation project shall be given six class hours in the
weekly schedule for the graduation project.

Article 4 – The determination and distribution of graduation project topics shall be regulated
by the heads of departments.

Article 5 – The graduation project shall be submitted to the head of department at the
beginning of the examination period following the semester in which the project had been
taken as a course. In the case of the student failing to submit the graduation project within
the given time limits, he/she shall be deemed unsuccessful and shall be given FF grade; the
student shall then be enrolled for a new graduation project at the beginning of the next
semester.

However, upon the approval of the Faculty Administration Board and any positive opinions
stated by the lecturer or the instructor lecturing the project course, graduation projects
carried out during the spring semester may be submitted, at the latest, at the beginning of the
examination period of following summer school. In addition, graduation projects carried out
during the fall semester may be submitted at the beginning of the examination period of
following spring semester, at the latest. For the extension mentioned, the lecturer or
instructor has to notify his/her opinion to the Dean’s Office in writing a minimum of one week
prior to the beginning of the examination period. Regarding this matter, faculties may add
special provisions to any principles which they may establish.

Article 6 - The graduation project submitted shall be reviewed by the lecturer or the
instructor who had given the project topic. At the end of this review, the respective Dean’s
Office shall be notified about whether the graduation project is accepted or not, and whether
the student shall be allowed to take the graduation project final examination or not; this
notification to be given within the second week of the semester final examination period.

Article 7 – The graduation project final examination shall be held orally by a examination
committee composed of at least three lecturers or instructors including the lecturer or
instructor conducting the project on the date determined by the faculty administrative board
during the final examination periods at end of the semester or during the end of the summer
school or in the following week.

The achievement grade of any student whose graduation project is accepted and who has
successfully passed the graduation project final examination, shall be determined by
considering the project he/she had carried out and his/her success in the examination. In
order to be deemed successful, a graduation project has to be accomplished with at least a
(CC) achievement grade.

Article 8 – Students whose graduation project had been considered unsatisfactory or who
had failed the final examination even though their graduation project had been accepted shall
be given a new graduation project by the beginning of the following semester.

Article 9 – The guidance, scheduling, monitoring, supervising, submission, requirements and

format of a graduation project shall be governed by special provisions resolved by the faculty
board.

Article 10 – Upon request from the departments, a group graduation project may be
conducted if so approved by the Faculty Administrative Board.

Article 11 – Except for graduation projects that are granted extension periods by the end of
the spring semester, students shall not be allocated new graduation projects during summer
school.

Article 12 – “Istanbul Technical University Senate Principles Regarding Attainment,

Distribution, Submission and Examination of Graduation Projects” resolved in the University
Senate meeting dated 14 September 1995 and numbered 198 are hereby repealed.

Article 13 – These principles, that were resolved in the Istanbul Technical University Senate
meeting dated 20 July 2000 and numbered 303, shall be implemented from the beginning of
the fall semester of the 2000 – 2001 academic year.