Higher education institutions must establish an equally applicable foreign language proficiency assessment criterion for all applicants. At the application stage, all students should be required to submit the same (or different but mutually recognized as equivalent) documents/exam results, and these documents/results must be taken into consideration in the evaluation.
The documents to be used and the method to be applied in determining foreign language proficiency are communicated to students during their application. If the higher education institution conducts its own exam to assess foreign language proficiency, this exam must be administered by professional institutions (the institution’s own foreign language teaching units, foreign language teaching units of other universities, or private institutions affiliated with the Ministry of National Education). The Erasmus institutional coordinator and Erasmus office staff cannot take part in any stage of the foreign language exam. In evaluating the exam results, the impact of the speaking proficiency test result, if applicable, on the total foreign language exam score cannot exceed 25%. If the higher education institution organizes the exam to determine foreign language proficiency, the results must be submitted to the Erasmus office by the relevant foreign language teaching unit that conducted the exam, attached to an official correspondence, with each page of the list signed/initialed and certified.
Higher education institutions cannot charge students a fee for participating in the foreign language proficiency exams they organize, as institutional support grants are provided by the Center to help cover expenses related to the student selection process. To determine the number of students who will take the exam and to prevent the waste of effort, time, and financial resources allocated for organizing the exam, students who apply for the exam but do not attend without a valid force majeure reason may have “-5 points” deducted from their weighted selection score if they apply again for any mobility activity within higher education. In cases of unexcused absence from the foreign language exam, the expenses incurred for the student may be charged to them. For the “-5 points” deduction to be applied in cases of unexcused absence from the foreign language exam, this condition must be explicitly stated in the exam announcement. If it is not stated in the announcement, the point deduction cannot be applied.
Foreign Language Barrier Application:
The higher education institution may, within the framework of its own priorities, determine a minimum foreign language level in student selection and may not send students who do not pass the minimum level (threshold).
Dam application can be implemented in the following ways:
Oral exams may be administered with a weight not exceeding 25%,
A minimum grade threshold may be set for the written exam in order to take the final exam.
In order to be selected, a minimum grade threshold may be set in terms of total foreign language exam results.
The level to be determined may be the same level throughout the institution, or it may be determined separately on a faculty/department basis.
The method chosen from the above must be clearly stated in the application announcement, and the method specified in the application announcement must not be changed after the applications are received.
