2020 - 2021 Fall Second Course Withdrawal Period

Dear Students,

At the extraordinary meeting held on December 29, 2020, our University Senate has decided to define a second course withdrawal period and give students additional time to withdraw from their courses for the 2020 – 2021 Fall semester where the instruction method is conducted online due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Second Course Withdrawal Period is going to start on December 30, 2020 at 16.30 pm and end on January 04, 2021 at 15.00 pm (including the weekend).

Rules Regarding Course Withdrawal:

1. Withdrawal from courses can be done from the "Course Registration" screen on the Student Information System (SIS).
2. Students can withdraw from at most two of the courses they are enrolled in the semester, but not all.
3. Students who withdrew from 2 courses during the first course withdrawal period cannot withdraw from another course. Students who withdrew from 1 course during the first course withdrawal period can withdraw from 1 course at most.
4. Withdrawn courses appear on students’ transcripts with a letter grade of “W”. These courses are not counted towards the completed credits and are not included in the semester and grade point average.
5. The withdrawn course is considered incomplete. In this context,
   a) If the withdrawn course has not been taken before and a passing grade is not obtained for this course, the course for which the withdrawn course is a pre-requisite cannot be taken.
   b) If the withdrawn course has not been taken before and a grade has not been obtained, it cannot be taken again with time overlap with other courses taken for the first time in the following semesters.
6. In order to be able to withdraw from a course with a co-requisite, the co-requisite course must also be withdrawn.
7. In the event that a student withdraws from a repeated course, the course will be considered “not repeated” and the last final grade the student obtained from the course will be reinstated.
8. No refunds are made for course withdrawals.
9. Students may make changes to or cancel their course withdrawals within the withdrawal period. Withdrawals are shown on the student’s transcript and course registration lists as soon as they are completed.

Since the withdrawn courses are not counted towards the completed credits, we recommend our students, who aim to become honor/high honor students at the end of the semester or who aim for academic merit scholarships, to make their planning by paying attention to the "completed credit" conditions determined for these processes.

In order to be deemed honor/high honor student at the end of the semester, the rules determined in the Article 34 of the Rules and Regulations for Undergraduate Programs are as follows. You can view the entire Rules and Regulations here.

(2) At the end of any given semester, among students with a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of at least 2.00 and have a clean disciplinary record, those with a semester grade point average (SGPA) between 3.00 and 3.49 are deemed ‘Honor’ students; and those with a semester point average (SGPA) of 3.50 and above are deemed ‘High Honor’ students, provided that they have completed at least 24 ECTS credits, excluding NI courses, and obtained at least a passing grade in all registered courses, including NI courses, in the respective semester.

The credit rules that must be completed in the semester in order to qualify for the academic merit scholarship are as follows. You can view all the academic merit scholarship eligibility rules here.

Must have completed at least 24 ECTS credits both in the Fall and Spring semesters,  Must have completed the following number of credits based on the number of semesters studied at OzU

Kind Regards,

Student Services