TUITION PAYMENT
Office of Student Accounts
(Art and Science Dean's Building / 2nd floor)
Fax: 0 (312) 210 35 29
e-mail: register@metu.edu.tr, oidb@metu.edu.tr
BANK ACCOUNT NUMBERS
Students can find bank account numbers on http://www.oidb.metu.edu.tr/english/account.html.While paying the tuiton, they should say to bank officer their name and ID number to be written on the receipt.
Evening program students are required to either summit or fax their receipt to Office of Student Accounts.
RELATED OFFICE AT METU
Student Social Services Office of Student Accounts helps students with tuition fee payment problems. The office is situated at the Registrar’s Office 1st floor. Students who have overpaid their tuition fees or who have any other problems about tuition fee payments should apply to the same unit.
PAYMENT CONTROL IN THE REGISTRATION PROGRAM
Registration program will check the payment information of students. Students (except scholarship students), who did not pay all or some part of their tuition fee, will not be able to register.
It is recommended to students to check their payment information from the following page, before registration:
http://oibs.metu.edu.tr/Student_Semester_Details_61
REGULATIONS ABOUT TUITON FEE PAYMENTS
Student who do not pay their tuitions
According to the 11th item of university regulation about admission and registration, “Students are required to renew their registration at the beginning of every semester within the dates announced in the academic calendar by paying their tuition fees and making their course registration approved". Therefore, students who do not pay their tuition fees will be considered as unregistered. Those students can be readmitted next semester only thourough the decision of the administrative committee of their faculty/graduate school. However, the unregistered semester will be counted to their period of study.
Payment with fine
Students, who do not pay their tuition fee on time, should pay it with a fine of 3 % (for TL. Account) or 2 % (for $ account) within the stated period.
Reimbursement
All students other than new undergraduate students in their first semester can have a 80% reimbursement of their tuition fee if they withdraw their registration in the first four weeks of the semester.
Absent students due to suspension, leave of absence or student exchange
Students who are on leave for one semester are required to pay their tuition fee for the semester they are absent. However, students who are on leave for one year (two consecutive semesters) do not have to pay the tuition fee for the semesters they are absent. Students who are suspended from the university for disciplinary reasons for one or two semesters have to pay the tuition fees for the semesters they are absent.
Students who go to other universities through an exchange program have to pay their tuition fee to their own university (METU).
Students who exceed their normal period of study
Students in their 5th year in 4 year programs pay their tuition fees with 50% fine. Students in their 6th and consecutive years pay their tuition fees with 100% fine. (Not applicable to Vocational high school students in evening classes)
Students in double major / minor programs
Students, who have finished their major programs but could not finish their double major or minor programs, have to pay the tuition fee of their double major or minor programs. The total number of semesters they have finished in their major programs will be taken into account for their payment. In case those students are accepted to a graduate program, they will also pay the tuition fee of the graduate program.
Students who are registered to two separate graduate programs
Students, who are registered to two separate graduate programs, have to pay the tuition fee for both of the programs.
Students who have transferred
Students who transferred from the private universities or from the universities out of Turkey are required to pay their tuition fee as students of evening programs.
Students transferring from evening programs to normal programs pay their tuition fees like students of evening programs.
Previous semesters of a transfer student are counted towards their maximum period of study. Past semesters of a transfer student are taken into account when calculating tuition fee payments.
EXEMPTION FROM TUITION FEE
International PhD students, who are working 8 hours per week in their departments. The approval of the Department Chairmanship is required for those students.
Research asistants are exempted from the tuition.