Mobility of higher education students, institutions and programmes Internationalization is one of the core features of the strategic plan of the Council of Higher Education (CoHE). The CoHE believes that internationalization in higher education is an investment for the future and requires a sustainable commitment to the students, academic staff

Types of Higher Education Institutions and academic units Faculty (College): A division conducting higher education, scholarly research and publication. Various departments and programmes may be connected to it. Students earn a Bachelor’s degree at the end of an programme that lasts for at least four years. Graduate School: An institution in universities

International Support Programmes Mevlana Exchange Programme Mevlana Exchange Programme presents an opportunity both for international and Turkish university students to study abroad. The aim of the programme is to enable the exchange of students and academic staff between the Turkish higher education institutions and higher education institutions of the other

The Study in Turkey website developed by the CoHE includes general information on the Turkish higher education system, and information on  scholarships, experiences of international students, living conditions, and culture, in the Turkish, English and Arabic languages. The CoHE puts a focus on  improving current relations with our partners and  establishing a

Quality assurance (QA) in higher education came into special focus in Turkey after the participation of the country in the Bologna Process in 2001. Efforts and activities related to the Bologna reforms gained momentum after 2005. Among these were activities to set up a national system of QA comparable to

Preservation of Academic Heritage in the Middle East In addition to increasing its efforts to reveal the important elements of the history of science, and science centres destroyed due to ongoing wars in the Middle East, and to preserve and sustain  academic life, the CoHE launched an initiative titled Preservation of

The National Information Centre (NIC) has operated under the Department of Recognition and Equivalence Services (DRES) at the Council of Higher Education (CoHE) since 1983. Services offered by DRES include ‘recognition’, which indicates that an overseas higher education institution is accepted as being authorized to give academic degrees, and ‘equivalence’,