The information and program qualifications related to the Architecture Bachelor of Architecture Program, under the Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture, are summarized below.
Information About The Program
The Department of Architecture carries its tradition of education, dating back to 1944, to the contemporary education environment in the context of the possibilities of today’s architectural profession. It aims to educate architects with social and environmental awareness and ethical responsibility. ITU Architecture Department graduates are versatile and can filter scientific facts of architecture through artistic sensitivity and social awareness. Adopting an international education strategy, the program aims to educate competent architects who can discover ways to reach information in every environment, think flexibly, question, establish relationships, transform knowledge, and learn to learn.
EDUCATION: The Department of Architecture, with its competent and specialized teaching/research staff, provides its students with a rich content and opportunities to continue Double Major programs with other departments during the four-year undergraduate education/teaching. The results of the studies conducted by different groups of expertise at the intersection of humanities and social sciences such as philosophy, sociology, psychology, typology, morphology, history, management, and sciences such as building physics, technology, materials, and structure, are transferred to the education and support the architectural design studios. Various laboratories belonging to these areas of specialization allow for hands-on learning in courses. The total credits of the courses required to graduate from the department are the same in both English and Turkish programs, and it is 132 credits starting from the 2021-2022 Fall Semester.
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Registration Requirements
YKS Quotas, Student Success Ranking, Minimum and Maximum Scores for the Last Five Years
Architecture Bachelor of Architecture Program (%100 English)
Year | Point Type | Qoata | Min Point | Max Point |
2019 | SAY | 60 | 474,15344 | 522,86014 |
2020 | SAY | 70 | 488,76903 | 528,75088 |
2021 | SAY | 70 | 419,09909 | 465,88518 |
2022 | SAY | 60 | 485,78822 | 530,75769 |
2023 | SAY | 60 | 485,23127 | 528,67490 |
2024 | SAY | 50 | 462,62975 | 498,65072 |
Year | Lowest Success Ranking | Heighest Success Ranking | Average Success Ranking |
2019 | 16990 | 2022 | 11942 |
2020 | 23246 | 3142 | 16296 |
2021 | 29045 | 6747 | 21475 |
2022 | 27349 | 2928 | 20119 |
2023 | 28632 | 4573 | 20965 |
2024 | 29883 | 11037 | 22958 |
Architecture Bachelor of Architecture Program (%100 English) Graph of Minimum and Maximum Scores by Year
Architecture Bachelor of Architecture Program (%30 English)
Year | Point Type | Qoata | Min Point | Max Point |
2019 | SAY | 110 | 454,36221 | 507,63608 |
2020 | SAY | 110 | 472,15724 | 519,79270 |
2021 | SAY | 110 | 404,67468 | 491,80572 |
2022 | SAY | 100 | 469,75174 | 496,83173 |
2023 | SAY | 80 | 472,04742 | 510,59886 |
2024 | SAY | 70 | 448,09306 | 551,52934 |
Year | Lowest Success Ranking | Heighest Success Ranking | Average Success Ranking |
2019 | 27657 | 4949 | 22862 |
2020 | 35977 | 5795 | 30362 |
2021 | 39683 | 2162 | 33956 |
2022 | 39874 | 19602 | 34499 |
2023 | 38881 | 12412 | 34309 |
2024 | 39986 | 102 | 33527 |
Architecture Bachelor of Architecture Program (%30 English) Graph of Minimum and Maximum Scores by Year
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Accreditation

The Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture at ITU received a 6-year 'equivalency' for its undergraduate program and Non-Thesis Master's Program in Architecture from the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) in 2008. This equivalency was the first ever granted outside the United States to the Department of Architecture at ITU. Following a visit in 2021, the NAAB International Certification was renewed until 2027.
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Program Educational Objectives
The undergraduate program of the Department of Architecture aims to train architects who are sensitive to the environment, attentive to social and individual expectations, equipped with ethical and aesthetic values, absorbing innovations and technological developments in creating resourceful solutions for the contemporary needs of the 21st-century societies in both local and global scales. The program aims to cultivate students’ awareness of the cultural, ecological, ethical, historical and socio-political dimensions of built space and to enable them to make accountable decisions as well as innovative designs to address the needs of all and to increase the quality of life for all. The program prepares its graduates to take leadership roles across design-related areas and encourages them to utilize new ways of designing through the employment of advanced digital design and manufacturing tools and technologies.
Measurement and Evaluation
Student success is evaluated in consideration of Articles 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25 of the Istanbul Technical University Undergraduate Education and Training Regulation.
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Internship
This program 60 days contains mandatory intership.
Graduation Requirements
The Awarded Degree and Title
Degree : Bachelor of Architecture Title : Architecture
Program Employment Opportunities
The program graduates are able to work in the public sector and in the private sector in the field of architecture and construction. In both national and international private sectors, a program graduate may be involved in various roles of designing, producing project documents, detailing, implementing, assessing and supervising architecture of all types and scale, as well as management, planning, production and marketing. With the acquired proficiency in a professional secondary language (English), a program graduate may comfortably participate in research and education at national and international universities in an academic capacity.
Number of Graduates
Architecture Bachelor of Architecture Program (%100 English) Graduate Statistics
Year | Number of Graduates |
2014 | 3 |
2015 | 22 |
2016 | 46 |
2017 | 51 |
2018 | 51 |
2019 | 38 |
2020 | 83 |
2021 | 64 |
2022 | 57 |
2023 | 70 |
2024 | 83 |
Architecture Bachelor of Architecture Program (%30 English) Graduate Statistics
Year | Number of Graduates |
2013 | 159 |
2014 | 160 |
2015 | 145 |
2016 | 139 |
2017 | 135 |
2018 | 132 |
2019 | 165 |
2020 | 156 |
2021 | 138 |
2022 | 116 |
2023 | 114 |
2024 | 139 |
Program Outcomes
P.O.1 Professional Communication Skills: Ability to write and speak effectively and use appropriate representational media for both, within the profession and with the public.
P.O.2 Design Thinking Skills: Ability to raise clear and precise questions, use abstract ideas to interpret information, consider diverse points of view, reach well-reasoned conclusions, and test alternative outcomes against relevant criteria and standards.
P.O.3 Investigative Skills: Ability to gather, assess, record, and comparatively evaluate relevant information and performance in order to support conclusions related to a specific project or assignment.
P.O.4 Architectural Design Skills: Ability to effectively use basic formal, organizational and environmental principles and the capacity of each to inform two- and three-dimensional design.
P.O.5 Ordering Systems: Ability to apply the fundamentals of both natural and formal ordering systems and the capacity of each to inform two- and three- dimensional design.
P.O.6 Use of Precedents: Ability to examine and comprehend the fundamental principles present in relevant precedents and to make informed choices about the incorporation of such principles into architecture and urban design projects.
P.O.7 History and Global Culture: Understanding of the parallel and divergent histories of architecture and the cultural norms of a variety of indigenous, vernacular, local, and regional settings in terms of their political, economic, social, ecological, and technological factors.
P.O.8 Cultural Diversity and Social Equity: Understanding of the diverse needs, values, behavioral norms, physical abilities, and social and spatial patterns that characterize different cultures and individuals and the responsibility of the architect to ensure equity of access to sites, buildings, and structures.
P.O.9 Pre-Design: Ability to prepare a comprehensive program for an architecture project that includes an assessment of client and user needs; an inventory of spaces and their requirements; an analysis of site conditions (including existing buildings); a review of the relevant building codes and standards, including relevant sustainability requirements, and an assessment of their implications for the project; and a definition of site selection and design assessment criteria.
P.O.10 Site Design: Ability to respond to site characteristics, including urban context and developmental patterning, historical fabric, soil, topography, ecology, climate, and building orientation, in the development of a project design.
P.O.11 Codes and Regulations: Ability to design sites, facilities, and systems that are responsive to relevant codes and regulations, and include the principles of local life-safety and accessibility standards.
P.O.12 Technical Documentation: Ability to make technically clear drawings, prepare outline specifications, and construct models illustrating and identifying the assembly of materials, systems, and components appropriate for a building design.
P.O.13 Structural Systems: Ability to demonstrate the basic principles of structural systems and their ability to withstand gravitational, seismic, and lateral forces, as well as the selection and application of the appropriate structural system.
P.O.14 Environmental Systems: Ability to demonstrate the principles of environmental systems’ design, how design criteria can vary by geographic region, and the tools used for performance assessment. This demonstration must include active and passive heating and cooling, solar geometry, daylighting, natural ventilation, indoor air quality, solar systems, lighting systems, and acoustics.
P.O.15 Building Envelope Systems and Assemblies: Understanding of the basic principles involved in the appropriate selection and application of building envelope systems relative to fundamental performance, aesthetics, moisture transfer, durability, and energy and material resources.
P.O.16 Building Materials and Assemblies: Understanding of the basic principles used in the appropriate selection of interior and exterior construction materials, finishes, products, components, and assemblies based on their inherent performance, including environmental impact and reuse.
P.O.17 Building Service Systems: Understanding of the basic principles and appropriate application and performance of building service systems, including lighting, mechanical, plumbing, electrical, communication, vertical transportation, security, and fire protection systems.
P.O.18 Financial Considerations: Understanding of the fundamentals of building costs, which must include project financing methods and feasibility, construction cost estimating, construction scheduling, operational costs, and life-cycle costs.
P.O.19 Research: Understanding of the theoretical and applied research methodologies and practices used during the design process.
P.O.20 Integrated Evaluations and Decision-Making Design Process: Ability to demonstrate the skills associated with making integrated decisions across multiple systems and variables in the completion of a design project. This demonstration includes problem identification, setting evaluative criteria, analyzing solutions, and predicting the effectiveness of implementation.
P.O.21 Integrative Design: Ability to make design decisions within a complex architecture project while demonstrating broad integration and consideration of environmental stewardship, technical documentation, accessibility, site conditions, life safety, environmental systems, structural systems, and building envelope systems and assemblies.
P.O.22 Stakeholder Roles in Architecture: Understanding of the relationships among key stakeholders in the design process—client, contractor, architect, user groups, local community—and the architect’s role to reconcile stakeholder needs.
P.O.23 Project Management: Understanding of the methods for selecting consultants and assembling teams; identifying work plans, project schedules, and time requirements; and recommending project delivery methods.
P.O.24 Business Practices: Understanding of the basic principles of a firm’s business practices, including financial management and business planning, marketing, organization, and entrepreneurship.
P.O.25 Legal Responsibilities: Understanding of the architect’s responsibility to the public and the client as determined by local regulations and legal considerations involving the practice of architecture and professional service contracts.
P.O.26 Professional Conduct: Understanding of the ethical issues involved in the exercise of professional judgment in architectural design and practice and understanding the role of local rules of conduct and ethical practice.
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