• Your thesis advisor must be assigned before the end of the first semester if you are Master's student or before the end of the second semester if you are a PhD student. In order to be able to enter the registration program, your thesis title and thesis abstract (both in English and in Turkish) must be approved first by your thesis advisor, then by your department and then by your institute.


• In order to access to the registration program, your thesis title must have been approved by the Institute at least for once.


• In case you change/update your thesis abstract, you should clearly state who (advisor/co-advisor) has the responsibility of approving the changes made.


• After your thesis is approved by all the parts, you can change/update your thesis abstract anytime under the supervision of your thesis advisor.


• If you want to change/update the thesis title which was approved by the Institute, you must apply to your department to remove the approval by using this program.


• To change your thesis advisor, you must apply to your department to remove the departmental approval. Then, the new thesis advisor should be assigned to you and your former advisor must confirm this change via the program.


• In the program, if "CHANGE IN PROGRESS" statement is displayed under 'Approve Status' title, this means that you made some changes on your previously approved thesis. For these recent changes to take effect, the institution must approve the thesis again after these changes. Otherwise, the previously approved state of the thesis will be maintained as valid.

Please click here to use to thesis advisor assignment program.

• Thesis titles written by the students who are registered to graduate programs with thesis, must be approved first by the thesis advisor, then by the department and then by the institute.


• You can follow the approval process of the students of your department by using this program.


• A graduate student, whose thesis title is approved and has an advisor already assigned, can log on to the registration program.


• You can see the list of the students, to whom you are assigned to as an advisor/co-advisor. You can make changes on the students' thesis titles or their thesis abstract information or you can approve them as they are. For these operations you must select the student from the list and click on the "Thesis Protocol New or Modify" button below the list.


• After you log onto the program, by specifying the department of the student that you want to be an advisor to on the "program code" box, you can select any student from the combo-box to be his/her advisor. To do this, click on the "Show Students of the Program" button, select the student from the combo box on the second page and click on "Select Student" button.


• If you click on the "Update Title"(Define Title) button on the page where you specified/updated the thesis title, all the approvals will change the status to ("NOT APPROVED").


• If, "CHANGE IN PROGRESS" is being displayed under 'Approve Status' title on the Program pages, this means that the student and/or the advisor is making changes on the thesis which has been approved before. For these recent changes to take effect, the institution must approve the thesis again after these changes. Otherwise, the previously approved state of the thesis will be maintained as valid.

Please click here to use to thesis advisor assignment program.

• Thesis titles written by the students who are registered to graduate programs with thesis, must be approved first by the thesis advisor, then by the department and then by the institute.


• You can follow the approval process of the students of your department by using this program.


• A graduate student, whose thesis title is approved and has an advisor already assigned, can log on to the registration program.


• If, "CHANGE IN PROGRESS" is being displayed under 'Approve Status' title on the Program pages, this means that the student and/or the advisor is making changes on the thesis which has been approved before. For these recent changes to take effect, the institution must approve the thesis again after these changes. Otherwise, the previously approved state of the thesis will be maintained as valid.


• You can see the list of the students whose advisors/co-advisors are assigned. To change advisor and or thesis title, click on the "Thesis Protocol New or Modify" button below the list.


• You can assign an advisor/a co-advisor to the students of your department who has not been assigned an advisor. To do this, click on the "Define Advisor For a Student" button, select the student from the combo box on the second page and click on "Define Advisor" button.


• You can approve the students whose advisor/co-advisor is not a member of METU. Select the student concerned and click on the "Thesis Protocol New or Modify" button below the list.

Please click here to use to thesis advisor assignment program.

• If you need a copy, you can get the print-outs of the thesis information of the student, to whom you will approve by clicking the "print" button. (You can only get printouts before granting the approval. Otherwise, you will not be able to get any).


• You can approve the students who has obtained the approvals of student, advisor/co-advisor and the department.


• After selecting the student from the list, click on the "Thesis Protocol New or Modify" button below the list.

Please click here to use to thesis advisor assignment program.