The Graduate Thesis and Course Performance Awards, aiming to reward the outstanding achievements of more than 7,000 graduate students, and to support their academic motivation at METU’s five institutes actively continuing their education life within the university, were presented. The award ceremony is to be held online on September 29, 2021, at 13.30.
The Thesis Awards, which are given based on the performance of the students in the 2019-2020 academic year, aim to encourage the graduate students to carry out qualified studies that will contribute to science culture, theory and application fields within the scope of their thesis studies, and thus increase the quality and strength of research in Turkey under the leadership of METU. Course Performance Awards aim to encourage the students to complete their education period with outstanding success and to increase their success level in the classes. The Graduate Publication Award, on the other hand, is given after the applications of the students to support the students who have published in international journals by meeting certain criteria during their graduate education.
Based on the academic performances in the 2019-2020 academic year, a total of 31 students, 22 of whom with their Ph.D. dissertation, 9 of them with their master’s thesis, received the Thesis Award. And a total of 106 students, 30 of them Ph.D. and 76 of them master’s students, became entitled to receive the Course Performance Award. You can find the Thesis and Publication Award winners here and the Course Performance Award winners here.
Award Ceremony Zoom Info:
Zoom Meeting ID: 956 8143 4044
Passcode: 561720
About Graduate Education at METU
The Graduate School of Marine Sciences, the first of the five graduate schools at METU, was founded in 1975. Later, the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Graduate School of Social Sciences, the Graduate School of Informatics and the Graduate School of Applied Mathematics began to provide graduate education and conduct academic research, respectively.
As of September 2021, a total of 176 graduate programs, 105 of which are master’s programs and 71 of which are Ph.D. programs, are being carried out by 77 departments in METU’s graduate schools. Since the day METU graduate programs were established, they have had more than 33 thousand alumni, including over 26 thousand postgraduates and over seven thousand Ph.D. graduates. Currently, more than seven thousand graduate students continue their education in these programs, and approximately 900 graduate students were graduated in 2021.
