The current statistics of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees indicates that since the opposition to the Bashar Al Assad regime spread across Syria in 2011, over 5.6 million Syrians have been forced to move to another country. Having an “open door policy,” Turkey hosts over 3.6 million Syrian refugees which is equivalent to 64 percent of the total around the world today (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR], 2019). Government officials state that Turkey has so far spent over 30 billion USD to provide the Syrian refugees with humanitarian assistance including food, shelter, medicine, clothing, education, etc.(Özlap, 2018). This study focuses on the academic and economic governmental reforms to help Syrian refugees access higher education in Turkey.