OYP (in Turkish: Öğretim Üyesi Yetiştirme Programı) is a very reasonable system if you want to be a research assistant at a random university. You can choose these “random” universities while you are applying to OYP program based on your OYP score. The universities are random because nobody knows which universities will be on the application list until OYP application starts. Sometimes even the universities that are on the application list does not know that they are on the application list until you go there and meet the personnel in the directorate of personnel department. When we were accepted to a university and went there to hand in the application documents, the people there were shocked to see us there since they did not know that they have demanded two research assistants. These universities appearing on the application list also change from semester to semester. In other words, each and every university does not appear on OYP list every semester. Especially big and developed universities almost never appear in the list (it may be different for other departments such as engineering). OYP system is for the new, developing universities that are in need of a well trained personnel. The aim is to send you to bigger universities where you can develop yourself by making use of the available sources of that university.
After the announcement of the results, you can choose the universities that you want to pursue your MA and PhD degrees from the OYP list, again based on your OYP score. If you are already a graduate student at a university and you want to continue your education there, you can choose to stay there if your university (the one that will be your work place after you graduate from PhD program) allows you to do so. After two to four months of paperwork (including a contract that will return to your university after you complete your education), you can finally come to the university where you will continue your education as a graduate student.
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