Info Package For Exchange Students

HOW TO GET TO NIGDE
Nigde Omer Halisdemir University is located between the city of Nigde and the town of Bor. There is no international airport but there is one in the city of Adana and one in the city of Kayseri. The easiest way to come to Nigde Omer Halisdemir University would be by plane to these cities since they are very close to Nigde. The travel just takes 1, 5 hour from Kayseri to Nigde by bus and 2 hours from Adana. In addition, there are buses from other cities of Turkey to Nigde. Exchange students and faculty members are welcomed from airport and bus station by our Erasmus office staff if they let us know their exact arrival time.

MONEY and BANK

Turkish currency is Turkish Lira (TL/ ¨ ) , 1 US $ is equivalent of around 28,000 TL ¨ and 1 £ is equivalent of around 30,000 TL ¨. Banknotes include 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 200 ¨, and coins 5, 10, 50 kuruş and 1 TL.
Within the campus, there are several bank ATMs, where all kinds of banking procedures are possible: Iş Bankası, Ziraat Bankası, Garanti Bankası, Akbank, etc.

PHONE CALLS
It is easy to find some telephone booths which are in blue and spread throughout the campus. They operate on credit-phone cards which can be bought from the post offices. To make an international call, one needs to dial 00 before dialing the international code of the country to be phoned to.
In Turkey there are 3 cell phone companies which operate mostly, Turkcell, Vodafone and Avea. All of these companies provide a variety of tariffs responding to the needs of customers. The students can buy a number from any of these companies and use it with their mobile phones. When the exchange students arrive in Turkey, their cell phones may not work, in this case we can offer mobile phones to our students in order to make their phone calls easily too.

ELECTRICAL and ELECTRONICS DEVICES
In Turkey, 220 V AC, 50 Hz, DIN norm plugs are used. Standard European plugs will fit into the sockets.

ORIENTATION PROGRAMMES
Orientation programmes are held at the beginning of each year for the new comers before the courses begin. The programmes aim at introducing the university, environments, the facilities to be taken, and helping them adapt to school. It is also organized for exchange students too in order to make them feel their own school. Therefore, all the exchange students are directed to a mentor student who is asked to help his/her mate on issues regarding life in the university as well as in the city.

RECOGNISITION of LEARNING
In order to give the transparency to the recognition procedures, ECTS system is used as a principle set out in the ECTS Users’ Guide. NOHU ensures the full implementation of ECTS (or a compatible system) as a common tool to guarantee the quality of mobility activities and transparency of recognition procedures. Recognition procedures are used to ensure the student’s mobile activities at partner institutions recognition which is used by recording the taken courses in a transparent way by indicating original course or subject titles at the host institutions in national language and English. The credits gained abroad are recognized as an integral part of the student’s degree programs. All the credits that the students earns during the mobility period and which were originally agreed in the Learning Agreement are recognized by the home institution. It is no need for the mobile students to take any further courses or exams to make the taken courses valued in home institution. If the host institution does not use ECTS, a compatible system is implemented to ensure transparent recognition of study period abroad. The system is based on the credits calculated according to the workload and learning outcomes based on the guide. After the mobility period is completed by the student, the courses are also shown on the transcript of records and Diploma Supplement with the original names and codes depended on the programmes such as; for Erasmus programmes codes are shown with ERA code or for Protocol agreements made with non-EU countries with PRO, for Farabi programmes with FRB, etc. NOHU has been awarded with the Diploma Supplement Label in 2012 and with ECTS Label in 2013.

Outgoing students
The students have to prepare a proposal of the courses s/he would like to follow during the Exchange by taking care of the departmental coordinator’s advice. The Learning Agreement is signed by the student and then departmental /faculty and institutional coordinator to ensure the recognition of credits. After approval, Nigde Omer Halisdemir University sends it to the host institution. When the student completes his/her program, the credits earned abroad are full recognized by faculty board members. The courses with their original names are shown on the transcript of records and on the Diploma Supplement upon graduation.

Incoming students
To ensure the recognition of credits, incoming students prepare a Learning Agreement which has been signed by student as well as the legal authorities from host and home institutions. After the completion of the program students receive a Transcript of Records. ECTS credit system is used to make the credits transfer easily to the partner universities. The partner university is responsible of making the full academic recognition for the courses taken at Nigde Omer Halisdemir University.