The students who successfully complete the program are awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.

This is a First Cycle (Bachelor’s Degree) program.

In the framework of the regulations set by Higher Education Council of Turkey (YÖK), student admission for this undergraduate program is made through a university entrance examination called YKS. Following the submission of students’ academic program preferences, Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM) places the students to the relevant program according to the score they get from ÖSYS.

International students are accepted to this undergraduate program according to the score of one of the international exams they take such as SAT, ACT and so on, or according to their high school diploma score.

Exchange student admission is made according to the requirements determined by bilateral agreements signed by NEU and the partner university.

Visiting students can enroll for the courses offered in this program upon the confirmation of the related academic unit. Additionally, they need to prove their English language level since the medium of instruction of the program is English.

The students studying in this undergraduate program are required to have a Cumulative Grade Points Average (CGPA) of not less than 2.00/4.00 and have completed all the courses with at least a letter grade of DD/S in the program in order to graduate. The minimum number of ECTS credits required for graduation is 240. It is also mandatory for the students to complete their compulsory internship in a specified duration and quality.

At Near East University, full-time students can be exempted from some courses within the framework of the related bylaws. If the content of the course previously taken in another institution is equivalent to the course offered at NEU, then the student can be exempted from this course with the approval of the related faculty/graduate school after the evaluation of the course content.

The students receive their BSc. degrees after completing a total of 240 ECTS points throughout their four-year (8 semester) undergraduate studies. There is a total of five major and/or minor courses (modules) offered for each semester.

The classification system for courses that are involved in the Bachelor program are as the following:

• Fundamental science courses (i.e. mathematics, physics and chemistry) that are covered mainly in the first four semesters.
• Major courses on each branch of civil engineering; these are compulsory courses and usually linked each other by a “pre-requisite” system.
• Minor supplementary courses on some branches of civil engineering; that are compulsory but generally not involved in any “pre-requisite” system.
• Technical/restricted elective courses on each branch of study.
• Non-technical electives which can be taken at any semester along with the engineering courses taken at that semester.

Throughout the fundamental science courses, the student acquires general studies through the consecutive science courses which later form a background for the major and minor subject studies.

Throughout the major and minor civil engineering courses, the student explores various branches of studies in civil engineering and develops an understanding of concepts and theories related to these branches of studies in each given major and minor course.

Technical elective courses provide the students the chance for to further improve their engineering knowledge on the branches that they decide to select.

Non-Technical elective courses provide the students a wider vision and additional knowledge on topics other than civil engineering.

All courses are normally weighted with 2-7 ECTS credits. The total credit to be completed within four years sums up to 240 credits with the completion of 48 courses and 2 summer trainings. The credits points are correlated with the student’s workload.

The courses are composed of lectures in the class and online sessions, problem solving session, exercises assigned to students, laboratory /experimental works if required, field applications if needed and additional reading from various references.

The lectures present the scientific basis and knowledge of understanding the topics with particular pilot exercises. Some exercises are solved in the class but some others are assigned as homework to help students to acquire the necessary knowledge using the specific methods commonly used in the literature. The objective is to train them in methods of solving using the real-world data set.

Laboratory practices are designed according to specialized methods to instruct the students on how to carry out standard experiments and applications, in order to allow them to validate the theory and the concepts covered in courses. Field trips are also organized mainly to provide further insight especially for the third and fourth-year students on the specialized applications about dams, highways, steel-structures, general construction works, geological site visits, as well as visits organized to related industry and private sector companies.

The students are also allowed to take 2-3 courses during summer term either in the NEU University or outside from other universities, provided that the course descriptions in those universities match with the ones described in the NEU catalog.

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Graduates of the Civil Engineering BSc. Program are trained to be able to find job opportunities in all kind of state and industrial construction sectors which require planning, designing, constructing, controlling of constructions and infrastructures of industrial buildings and investments such as dams, airports, bridges, roads, harbors, sewerage and drainage systems and waterworks. The list of employment possibilities, either in the private or public sector, is presented as the following:

In private sector;

• Project design engineer
• Supervising engineer
• Project consultancy
• Nationwide academician

Public sector;

• Ministry of Public Works and Transportation
  • Department of construction and planning
  • Department of highways
• Ministry of Internal Affairs and Local Administration
  • Town Planning
  • Department of Habitation and Rehabilitation
• Ministry of Tourism and Environment
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • Department of Ancient Arts and Museums
• Ministry of Agriculture and Resources
  • Department of Water Works
  • Department of Geology and Mining
• Carrying out project design, supervising and vocational consultancy engineering within the local administrations. (Municipalities, district governorships, etc…)

In addition to the aforementioned positions above, the graduate students get the opportunity to participate in the following fields;

• Exhibitions carried out to promote and encourage vocational and technical collaboration.
• National/International Research-development projects.

The students graduating from this program may apply to graduate programs.

To see the course details (such as objectives, learning outcomes, content, assessment and ECTS workload), click the relevant Course Code given in the table below.

Exam Regulations and, Assessment, and Grading

For each course taken at NEU, the student is given one of the letter grades below by the instructor as the semester course grade.  Each grade has also its ECTS grade equivalent

The table below provides the detailed information about the local letter grades, coefficients and ECTS grade equivalents.

*for these ones, the higher grade is applied

In order to be successful in a course, short cycle (associate degree) and first cycle (bachelor’s degree) students have to get a grade of at least DD, second cycle (master's degree) students have to get a grade of at least CC, and third cycle (Ph.D.) students have to get a grade of at least CB to pass a course. For courses which are not included in the cumulative GPA, students need to get a grade of S.

Apart from that, each local grade has it is equivalent ECTS grade which makes it easier to transfer the grades of mobility periods of students. The chart above shows the ECTS grading system at NEU.

Also, among the Letter Grades;

Grade of I (Incomplete), is given to students who are not able to meet all the course requirements at the end of the semester or summer school due to a valid justification accepted by the instructor. Students who receive a letter grade “I” must complete their missing course requirements and receive a letter grade within one week following the date the end of semester grades or summer school grades submitted. However, in the event of special cases, this period can be extended until two weeks before the beginning of registration for the next semester, upon the recommendation of the respective Graduate School department head and the decision of that academic unit’s administrative board. Otherwise, grade of “I” will automatically become grade of FF, or grade of U.

Grade of S (Satisfactory) is given to students who are successful in non-credited courses.

Grade of U (Unsatisfactory) is given to students who are unsuccessful in non-credited courses.

Grade of P (Successful Progress) is given to students, who continue to the courses that are not included in the GPA that has a period exceeding one semester, and regularly performs the academic studies for the respective semester.

Grade of NP (Not Successful Progress) is given to students, who do not regularly perform the academic studies for the respective semester for courses that are not included in the GPA and have a period exceeding one semester.

Grade of EX (Exempt), is given to students who are exempt from some of the courses in the curriculum.

Grade of NI (Not included) is issued to identify the courses taken by the student in the program or programs which are not included in the GPA of the student. This grade is reported in the students’ transcripts with the respective letter grade. Such courses are not counted as the courses in the program that the student is registered to.

Grade of W (Withdrawal) is used for the courses that the student withdraws from in the first ten weeks of the semester following the add/drop period, upon the recommendation of his/ her advisor and the permission of the instructor that teaches the course. A student is not allowed to withdraw from courses during the first two semesters of his/ her associate/undergraduate degree program and from those courses he/she has to repeat and received grade “W” before, which are not included in the grade average. A student is allowed to withdraw from two courses at the most during his/ her associate degree study, and four courses during his/her undergraduate study upon the recommendation of the advisor and the permission of the instructor that teaches the course. A student has to take the course that he/she withdrew from, the first semester in which it is offered.

Grade “NA” (Never Attended) is issued by the instructor for students who fail to fulfil the attendance and/or requirements of the course and/or who lose their right to take the end of semester exam because they failed to take any of the exams administered throughout the semester. Grade “NA” is not considered in the average calculations.

Both the ECTS grades and the local grades of the students are displayed on the official transcript of the students.

In order to graduate from this undergraduate program, the students are required;

to succeed in all of the courses listed in the curriculum of the program by getting the grade of at least DD/S with a minimum of 240 ECTS

to have a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 2.00 out of 4.00

to complete their compulsory internship in a specified duration and quality.

This is a full-time program.

Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Gökçekuş, Head of Department, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Near East University.

Email: huseyin.gokcekus@neu.edu.tr

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