Educational systems differ from country to country. Variables including society's requirements and state policies may underlie these different systems. No matter what rationale those system differences have, the main purpose of the system is to raise "qualified individuals." Institutions of higher educations are structures in which the necessary information is produced and human resources are raised for countries to develop and advance. Therefore, universities have become one of the prominent institutions that define nations' future now. This study addresses the conditions of entering the institutions of higher education, which have an important place in educational systems, and provide a general description of the transition to higher education in the world and in Turkey. A model was proposed for the transition to higher education in accordance with that description.