Distance education during wartime: checklist

Check your equivalence status

• 1. Check your enrollment dateIf you newly enrolled in Ukraine after 12 February 2022, take into account that YÖK does not grant equivalence.
• 2. Identify your type of educationVerify whether the program is formal education, distance instruction, open education, or external education.
• 3. Review the distance education requirementsCheck your program's field, the university's ranking, the credit requirements, and the language-of-instruction requirements.
• 4. Calculate your period of presence in the countryIf you are enrolled in a formal program, check whether you are present in the country where you study for at least 70% of each academic term.
• 5. Keep your documentsKeep your passports, entry-exit records, and required school documents for your equivalence application.
• 6. Write to the education counselling officeBefore opening a special-student file, ask at kiev@meb.gov.tr whether the documents vary depending on the university.