Student review [#76347] for Computer Engineering
at Karabük University

Between the stupid choices during covid, the impossibility of getting something done, the evil and predatory nature of the university, and the negative & racially discriminatory treatment I’ve personally received, Karabuk university is a failure. I was forced to learn Turkish twice even though I did not require it since I was in a 100% English course. They require you to study a full year in their own Turkish language course (which was running face-to-face during the peak of covid, because TECHNICALLY they were doing their own course and didn’t follow the government’s instructions), and then require you to also study 2 mandatory Turkish language electives as part of your course, which should be taught in English legally but it was taught in Turkish.
This is not the only instance where material was taught in Turkish even though it was supposed to be taught in English, simply because professors didn’t care about foreign students (even though it has a very large population of them).
I’ve failed 2 modules because of bugs with the attendance program “E-yoklama” that they use. Normally using this wouldn’t be a problem since if there was a bug teachers could override the records. Except if teachers didn’t care about you! Which, of course, was the case. I spent an entire summer and a month following up on those problems with different levels of management only to be met with “sorry, only the professor could fix this” and said professor was never reachable. I even got another good professor to call him on his personal phone number on speaker in front of me, only for the professor to blame me as it’s my fault he couldn’t override the false records that only he has a permission to override. The issues got so bad I applied for Erasmus (EU exchange) just to take a break from Karabuk, and after going through the managerial hell to finally go there (By the Erasmus agreement, they are supposed to basically do everything for you, but I did everything for myself and was practically begging for their signatures) and coming back they demanded I pay them money because I succeeded in the exchange and finished my semester earlier than expected, otherwise they would not accept my results and would suspend my education. After spending another semester there, I took my transcripts and suspended my own degree and transferred to an actual university.