Chemical Engineering is one of the relatively younger departments of Istanbul Technical University (ITU), which is the oldest engineering school, of 243 years of age, in the country. The chemical engineering education in ITU was initiated in the Maçka Technical School in 1958 as a four-year program issuing undergraduate degrees, and the first class of chemical engineers graduated in 1962. The Faculty of Chemistry was founded in 1963 and between the years of 1963-1969, a five-year program issuing graduate degrees (equivalent to an M.Sc. degree) in chemical engineering was pursued. A transition to separate undergraduate and graduate programs of four and two years, respectively, was realized in 1969. In 1982, the latter two divisions (Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Fundamentals) offering about 60% of the undergraduate courses at the time, were restructured to form the Department of Chemical Engineering in the Faculty of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, while the other four divisions were reorganized as the Chemistry Department in the Faculty of Science and Letters. The most significant organizational change that has taken place within the department during the last ten years, has been the transition in 2003, from an organization and management system dominated by the competition of the four distinct divisions to that guided by a cooperative departmental understanding and collective planning, as a result of the combination of the four divisions

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Year	Number of Graduates
2013	96
2014	86
2015	71
2016	85
2017	63
2018	81
2019	55
2020	79
2021	84
2022	54
2023	64
2024	103