After the Higher Education Institutions Exam, organized by the Measuring, Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM) and taken by millions of students every year, the preference stage is the most important step for candidates who wish to study at the schools of their choice.
The 2025 Higher Education Institutions Exam (2025-YKS) will be held on June 21-22, 2025. The Basic Proficiency Test (TYT) will be administered on June 21, 2025, the Field Proficiency Tests (AYT) in the morning session on June 22, 2025, and the Foreign Language Test (YDT) in the afternoon session. Applications for the exam will be accepted between February 6 and March 3, 2025.
YÖK Atlas, developed by the Council of Higher Education, plays an important role in helping candidates taking the university entrance exam make the right choices. Through YÖK Atlas, it is possible to access a wide range of data, such as universities' minimum scores, graduates' rankings in exams, and comprehensive information about universities. Students who want to make error-free choices and study at the university of their choice can learn the minimum scores of their programs from previous years with YÖK Atlas, YÖK's YKS robot. So how is the YÖK Atlas YKS robot used? How can you find out the minimum scores of university programs? How do you make your choices? We have prepared detailed answers to all these questions for you.
What Is YÖK Atlas?
YÖK Atlas is software developed by the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) to help candidates who take the university entrance exam and choose universities and programs make informed decisions; it is used very frequently by prospective students and preference counselors. With the YÖK Atlas preference wizard (the Associate Degree preference wizard or the Bachelor's Degree preference wizard), the YÖK Atlas YKS robot presents students with the bachelor's and associate degree minimum scores and quota information of previous years. During the 2025 Preference Period, YÖK Atlas supports prospective students with its Profession Atlas and Preference Atlas modules. With the Profession Atlas and Preference Atlas, prospective students can obtain information about the profession they intend to choose.
How Do You Use YÖK Atlas?
YÖK Atlas is a website by the Council of Higher Education that aims to inform candidates so they can decide on the university and program in which they will study. So, how is YÖK Atlas used? What should you do to obtain information on a topic you are looking for with the YÖK Atlas YKS robot? Below, we have tried to explain these step by step and show how you can benefit from the preference wizard.
YÖK Atlas is a website that contains many modules. These modules include sections offering detailed information, such as the Bachelor's Preference Wizard, Associate Degree Preference Wizard, Profession Atlas, Bachelor's Atlas, Associate Degree Atlas, Graduate Success Atlas, Net Wizard, and My Preference List. Every year, all modules are updated with new data when the YKS Guide to Higher Education Programs and Quotas is published.
How Can I Get Information About Universities?
Through the “Our Universities” module on YÖK Atlas, it is possible to obtain detailed information about the state and foundation universities providing education in Türkiye.
With the Our Universities Module, you can access information on each university in Türkiye, including the number of students and teaching staff, year of establishment, official website, social media links, contact information, sports facilities, sports teams, student clubs, dormitory capacity, number of laboratories, and campus area.
Using the “University,” “University Type,” and “City” options at the top of the page, you can also narrow your search criteria, for example to list only state universities or only foundation universities in Ankara.
What Is the YÖK Bachelor's Atlas?
The YÖK Bachelor's Atlas is the name of the module where you can obtain a wide range of information about students placed in bachelor's programs, such as the scores and rankings they achieved in previous years, their net scores in the YKS, which high schools they graduated from, which cities they came from, the faculty members teaching in the program, the number of international students, Erasmus traffic, and much more.
Detailed information on bachelor's programs (faculties and schools) that admitted students through Central Placement in the YKS in previous years is available here.
By entering a university name in the “Select University” box in the YÖK Bachelor's Atlas module, you can see the list of bachelor's programs at that university; simply click on a program to get detailed information. When you enter the program or profession you are interested in into the “Select Program” box, you can see the universities that offer these programs.
How Do You Use the YÖK Associate Degree Atlas?
The YÖK Associate Degree Atlas is the name of the module where you can obtain a wide range of information about students placed in associate degree programs, such as the scores and rankings they achieved in previous years, their net scores in the YKS, which high schools they graduated from, which cities they came from, the faculty members teaching in the program, the number of international students, Erasmus, and much more.
By entering a university name in the “Select University” box, you can see the list of associate degree programs at that university. You can click on a program to see its details. When you enter the program (profession) you are interested in into the “Select Program” box, you can see the universities that offer programs with this name. You can click on the university for the program whose details you want to see.
What Is the YÖK Bachelor's Preference Wizard?
Among the YÖK Atlas modules, the YÖK Bachelor's Preference Wizard is the one YKS candidates will benefit from most. Quota information for bachelor's programs admitting students through the YKS can be accessed here.
This module allows you to search by the minimum rankings of the last 4 years, the minimum rankings under the former score type for programs whose score type has changed, city, university type, scholarship rate, and type of education. When you click on it, you first need to select a “Score Type” on the page that opens. After selecting one of the Quantitative, Verbal, Equal Weight, or Language score types, you will see a screen like the one below.
After selecting the Score Type, simply mark the lower and upper limits of your own ranking in the Ranking Range section at the top right of the Bachelor's Preference Wizard screen. At the bottom of the page, the Bachelor's Programs Admitting Students with the Score Type you selected will be listed from highest to lowest according to their minimum scores. In this list, you can see the University, Programs, City, University Type, Scholarship, Type of Education, Quotas, Occupancy Rates, and Minimum Scores, and compare different programs at different universities.
How Do You Use the YÖK Associate Degree Preference Wizard?
Among the YÖK Atlas modules, the YÖK Associate Degree Preference Wizard is one of those YKS candidates will benefit from most. All information on associate degree programs admitting students based on TYT results can be accessed here.
This module allows you to search by the minimum rankings of the last 4 years, city, university type, scholarship rate, and type of education. When you click on it, you first need to select a “Score Type” on the page that opens. After checking the TYT option, you will see a screen like the one below.
Simply mark the lower and upper limits of your own ranking in the Ranking Range section at the top right of the Associate Degree Preference Wizard screen. At the bottom of the page, the Associate Degree Programs Admitting Students with the Score Type you selected will be listed from highest to lowest according to their minimum scores. In this list, you can see the University, Programs, City, University Type, Scholarship, Type of Education, Quotas, Occupancy Rates, and Minimum Scores, and compare different programs at different universities.
How Does the YÖK Graduate Success Atlas Work?
The YÖK Graduate Success Atlas module allows you to see how graduates of the bachelor's programs listed in the 2021 Preference Guide performed in central specialization exams. With the YÖK Graduate Success Atlas module, you can review graduates' success in the KPSS-1, KPSS-2, TUS-TT1, TUS-TT2, TUS-KTP, DUS, and AB-AYB exams, see how graduates of the university you are considering performed in central specialization exams, and learn about its quality of education.
How Do You Use the TYT-AYT Net Wizard?
The TYT-AYT Net Wizard module is an application that lets you see the YKS performance of those placed last year in the profession and university you are aiming for. This module contains the net scores in the TYT-AYT tests of those placed in bachelor's and associate degree programs admitting students through Central Placement in the YKS, along with the results of the last person placed.
What Is My Preference List?
With the My Preference List module, you can create a personal preference list to guide you in your YKS choices. Candidates can create their preference lists by selecting universities and programs. They can rank and compare the programs on their lists and list their conditions and other information to make the evaluation that suits them best.
Why Is the YÖK Atlas Preference Wizard Important?
YÖK Atlas, first prepared by the Council of Higher Education to serve as a guide for candidates taking the 2016-ÖSYS, is updated every year before the university entrance exams. With this feature, YÖK Atlas is an up-to-date and accurate resource consulted by candidates during YKS preference periods.
The YÖK Atlas program, which includes modules such as the Bachelor's and Associate Degree YKS Robots, Profession Atlas, Our Universities, Bachelor's / Associate Degree Atlas, Graduate Success Atlas, Net Wizard, and My Preference List, is of course not intended only for university candidates. Candidates' families, secondary school educators, education administrators, and academics, researchers, and administrators in higher education can also benefit from the software.
Changes Made to YÖK Atlas in 2021
Thanks to the integration between YÖK Akademik and YÖK Atlas in 2021, detailed information about the academics in programs can be accessed.
What Is YÖK Atlas Used For?
Thanks to the YÖK Atlas preference program developed by the Council of Higher Education to help university candidates make more informed choices, information on the quotas, number of placed students, and minimum scores and minimum rankings in previous years of universities' 4-year and 2-year faculties and programs can be accessed easily.
Searches by the minimum rankings of the last 4 years, the minimum rankings under the former score type for programs whose score type has changed, city, university type, scholarship rate, and type of education can be easily viewed after filling in the “Select Score Type” field on the YÖK Atlas page.
Through the YÖK Atlas application, prospective students can also learn the following information about the faculty and program of the university they will choose:
– Numbers of quota, placed, registered, additionally placed, and additionally registered students
– Gender distribution of placed students
– Geographical regions placed students come from
– Provinces placed students come from
– Educational status of placed students
– High school graduation years of placed students
– High school fields from which placed students graduated
– High school groups / high school types from which placed students graduated
– High schools from which placed students graduated
– Placed students who ranked first in their schools
– Minimum score and ranking statistics
– Profile of the last person placed
– Average YKS net scores of placed students
– YKS scores of placed students
– YKS rankings of placed students
– Nationwide preference statistics
– Average preference order at which students were placed
– Preference tendencies of placed students (University types)
– Preference tendencies of placed students (Universities)
– Preference tendencies of placed students (Provinces)
– Preference tendencies of placed students (Same/Different programs)
– Preference tendencies of placed students (Programs - Professions)
– Placement conditions
YÖK Atlas 2024 Minimum Scores and Rankings
The YÖK Atlas Net Wizard is based on real data and is therefore the system university candidates will benefit from most. All information in the YÖK Atlas system is generated by processing data provided by ÖSYM.
The YÖK Atlas Minimum Scores and Rankings, obtained by calculating the net score from the correct and incorrect answers of the last person placed with the lowest score in each of all bachelor's and associate degree programs of every university, are actual values, not estimates.
When Will YÖK Atlas Be Updated?
The Higher Education Program Atlas (YÖK Atlas) system is updated every February based on Higher Education Institutions Exam (YKS) data and made available to candidates choosing universities, parents, and specialists providing guidance services.
Every year, after the publication of the YKS Guide to Higher Education Programs and Quotas, YÖK updates YÖK ATLAS and the YÖK ATLAS NET WIZARD, with all their modules and content, according to the new data and makes them available.
YÖK Atlas Score Calculation
The answers given to the tests by candidates applying to bachelor's and associate degree programs admitting students through Central Placement in the YKS will be evaluated separately for each test. A standard score will be calculated for each test for every candidate. The following method will be used to calculate the standard scores of the tests:
The correct and incorrect answers given by candidates to the tests in the exams will be determined. The candidate's raw score on the relevant test will be found by subtracting one quarter of the number of incorrect answers from the number of correct answers.
Using the raw scores of all candidates in their final year of high school on the test being scored, the mean and standard deviation of that test will be found. Using this mean and standard deviation, standard scores with a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10 will be calculated for all candidates.
Candidates' weighted scores (A-TYT) will be calculated using the standard scores calculated in the TYT and the coefficients announced by ÖSYM. In order for the A-TYT score to be calculated, candidates must obtain a raw score of at least 0.5 in the Basic Mathematics Test or the Turkish Test. The A-TYT score will be calculated only for candidates who meet these conditions.
What Does TBS Mean on YÖK Atlas?