Our students take Aquaculture Engineering degree after their graduation.
First Cycle
High school diploma, placement through a centralized national university placement examination (Student Selection Exam, ÖSS). Please visit www.osym.gov.tr for more information.
Admission can be made from the institutions of which equivalency is recognized by Higher Education Council. Successful vocational school graduates to continue their educaiton to obtain Bachelor’s degrees if they are successful in vertical transfer examination are also admitted. The courses to be taken by these students are determined by the relevant department, on the basis of courses they have completed in the programs in vocational school from which they have graduated. Recognition of prior non-formal and in-formal learning is at the beginning stage in Turkish Higher Education Institutions. Ataturk University and thus the department is not an exception to this. However, exams of exemption are organised at the start of each year at the University for the courses of English Language. The students who achieve a passing grade from the exam are held exempt from the related course in the curriculum.
Students must be successfull and/or pass all courses on the programme including graduation thesis and internship that are explained education and exam regulation of Ataturk University.
Ataturk University Facultyof Fisheries provides technical supportand live materialto regional fish producers as well as goals to train aquaculture engineers whoequipped to meet the needs of the aquaculture sector. Daily needs of campus residents and cityinhabitants have been met by aquacultural products produced in the researchfacilities in where students gained their practical knowledge and skills. By this way, it is aimed to increase fish consumption per capita as well as to contribute to healthy nutrition of people.
The main vision of the faculty is to givefuture horizons by transferring contemporary knowledge to the young people whoprefferd fish sector by using its Freshwater research and application center,Aquarium fish research and application center and modern laboratories to meet multiway(multi face) research needs.
Fisheries engineers play a professionally role in both the public and private sectors. They receive task in like Directorate General for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Ministry of Food-Agriculture and Livestock or academia, as well as fishery products and aquaculture farming, aquatic product processing plants, fish market, public or private units.
The graduates holding Bachelor’s Degree are eligible to apply to Master’s Degree programmes at national level and /or international level both in the same and in related disciplines. Students who are high honor students are also eligible to apply to doctorate degree at Ataturk University.
They are specified in each course. Please see the Course Structure for details.
Students must take and pass all necessary courses totaling 170 credits and reach a minimum (grade point average) of 2,0 before him/her can graduate. Education duration is 4 years.
Full time