Admission requirements

See the general requirements for admission to graduate programs at Boğaziçi University.

Minimum Requirements for Admission to PhD in Economics:

a) A minimum GPA of 2.5/4.0 or 75/100 in a BA/BS program.

b) An (Equally Weighted) ALES score of 80 (ALES is the Turkish acronym for the Selection Examination for Academic Personnel and Graduate Studies).

Instead of the ALES score the candidates can also present proof of GRE scores (taken within the last two years) that satisfy the following minimum requirements:

- Quantitative: 157, 
- Analytical: 3, 
- Scores from quantitative and verbal sections should add up to a minimum of 288.

c) Proof of English Proficiency:

• BUEPT or
• TOEFL (IBT) 79, TWE 22 or
• IELTS Academic Score: 6.5, Academic Writing Score: 6.5