Graduate Admissions
Applications to the DSAI MS and PhD programs are managed through Boğaziçi University's central admissions portal, where you'll find the full application timeline, required documents, eligibility criteria, and the online application form in English and Turkish.
Please be advised that remedial courses will not be offered in the Fall 2026–2027 semester.
Applicants from outside Turkey may also consult the Office of International Relations page for further information.
Considering the courses you have completed the fields of programming, computer science, mathematics, statistics and probability, questions that measure how much to learn the basic concepts about these fields will be asked.
- Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, 9th edition, Ronald E. Walpole, Raymond H. Myers, Sharon L. Myers, Keying E. Ye.
- Linear Algebra and Basic Optimization: "Mathematics for Machine Learning" by Marc Peter Deisenroth, A. Aldo Faisal, and Cheng Soon Ong, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Introduction to Machine Learning, 4th edition, Ethem Alpaydın
- Deep Learning, Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courvill, 2016
- Programming: https://leetcode.com/problemset/
- Data Science, Doing Data Science_ Straight Talk from the Frontline-O'Reilly Media (2013) Rachel Schutt, Cathy O'Neil
If you have additional questions, start by reviewing our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section. If you still need assistance, contact us.
