Overview
About the program
The Geophysics department at Bogazici University, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute gives the highest priority to original research with the aim of promoting young researchers and scientists reflecting the mobility of the modern science and the fast progress in technology within their research, together with the essential human qualities such as environmental awareness and preservation of the nature, while identifying and providing solutions in the part of the world we are living.
The core elements of the PhD curriculum at our department provides necessary mathematics and physics background and aiming at educating young researchers in the field seismology with a wide range of topics, such as elastic wave propagation, earthquake source mechanisms, signal processing, strong ground motion and instrumentation.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Magnetotelluric Method
- Advanced Geomagnetism
- Array Seismology
- Physics of Earthquake Source
- Global Seismology
- Inversion Methods in Geophysics
- Numerical Methods in Seismology
- Wave Propagation
- Statistical Methods in Geo-Hazard Assessment
- Advanced Exploration Geophysics
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 48 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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Credits
Delivered
Disciplines
Physics Earth Sciences GeographyAcademic requirements
English requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Documentation of English proficiency
- For PhD applicants: foreign language proficiency exam scores (YDS/e-YDS/ YÖKDİL)
- Graduate exam scores (ALES/GRE/GMAT)
- Diploma or certificate of graduation or certificate of graduation obtained via e-government system
- Student disciplinary record (required for applicants holding a degree from a university in Türkiye)
- Official transcript
- Reference letter
- Statement of purpose
- Curriculum vitae
- Application fee
- Citizens of the Republic of Türkiye who received their undergraduate or graduate degree abroad must submit a document of equivalence in order to be registered to a graduate program.
- Foreign students who studied in a university abroad must submit a certificate of recognition from the Higher Education Council (YÖK).
Tuition Fee
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International
14256 TRY/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 7128 TRY per semester during 48 months. -
National
FreeTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 0 TRY per semester during 48 months.
- Domestic students in their expected period of study are exempt from fees (after that: 314,25 TL per semester)
Living costs for Istanbul
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