Undergraduate
studies

✔ They serve as the point of contact and the guiding force for informing students about academic activities, facilities, obligations, and rights dictated by the Undergraduate Program of Studies regulations.
✔ They inform students about their field of study, academic requirements, and future prospects related to their academic discipline.
✔ Particularly for incoming students, the majority of whom face difficulties adjusting to the higher education environment, this institution serves as a support node as well as a link to the University's other complementary services and infrastructure (e.g., Library, Student Welfare) and their utilization by students. The contribution of the Counseling Center is also distinctive for students facing serious psychosomatic or learning difficulties.

More specifically, academic advisors fulfill the following functions:
• jointly exploring and clarifying students' needs.
• prioritizing needs regarding their urgency and the level of difficulty they introduce to the student's academic progress.
• identifying alternative ways to overcome obstacles and providing information regarding the formal procedures followed according to the nature of each issue.
• providing discreet guidance and active listening to achieve the best possible adaptation to the changes and demands of academic life.

The institution contributes to and aims at:
✔ reducing intermittent attendance (minimizing student dropout rates).
✔ reducing the average time to graduation, thereby completing studies within the expected timeframe.
✔ facilitating student feedback to faculty members regarding the overall operation of the Department (educational, learning, administrative, etc.).
✔ promoting students' active participation in learning processes.
✔ improving student performance.

The Department's Assembly appoints academic advisors from among the faculty members.

At its meeting on May 8, 2020, the Department's Assembly appointed academic advisors for the second-year, third-year, and fourth-year students of the academic year 2020-2021 according to the attached table. For the incoming first-year students of the same academic year, it decided that they will be distributed equally among all faculty members of the Department, based on their student registration number. Students beyond their fourth year^, have the supervisor of their thesis as their academic advisor. Students beyond their fourth year^, who are not conducting a thesis, will have the current Head of the Department as their academic advisor.