Abstract

The leading institutions that are responsible for education of scientists and researchers are universities in Turkiye. Universities carry out such services by means of gradute programmes that are clustered around the related institutes. In this study, It is aimed to reveal how GEE (Graduate Education Entrance Examination) scores and other related criteria are used’ and to which extent the weights of such scores are included in the final admission procedure by the universities. For this purpose, the required information was gathered, by means of inventory forms, from the corresponding institutes of totally 51 public and private universities. According to the findings of this study, mainly GEE – Quantitative scores are used by the graduate programs of Technological Science Institutes whereas, Health Science Institutes use GEE – Equal Weighted scores, and Institutes of Social Sciences use GEE – Verbal scores for admission. In terms of percent, the influence of GEE scores are taken as 20 %, by the above – mentioned institutions. Among the other criteria taken into account in admissions to graduate programs, foreign language competency is used in final evaluation process, only in 20 universities out of 51 that were surveyed. The findings of this study demonstrate that further researches are necessary in order for a better assessment upon this subject

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