Department of Architecture, PhD in Architecture
- Starting Year: 1995
- Student to Staff Ratio: 3.6
- Different Nationalities: 50
- Enrolled Students: 79
- Alumni: 63
Department of Architecture offers a learning environment with a contemporary approach to education for young people of diverse cultural backgrounds. The aim is to provide opportunities for future architects to be equipped with necessary knowledge and skills to cope with rapid global changes, to react rationally as well as creatively to contemporary issues in architecture, its problems and challenges, within an interdisciplinary approach to education through its distinguished academic infrastructure. The graduates are expected to contribute to the improvement of quality of life as dynamic individuals with a high sense of responsibility and leadership, capable of assuming central roles in teamwork -a global reality of our day.
With this vision, the Department of Architecture offers M.S., M.Arch. and PhD programs in Architecture to provide high quality service and research to the national and international community as being one of the leading candidate school of architecture within the region. The graduate programs in the Department of Architecture are accredited by Y.O.K (Higher Education Council in Turkey) and recognized by international academic associations such as European Association of Architectural Education (EAAE), European University Association and International Association of Universities.
The EMU Department of Architecture has added a new dimension to the mission of research with its post-graduate and doctoral programs since 1995. The Doctoral (Ph.D.) Program in Architecture is a research–based program designed to provide thorough training in the theory and practice of architecture and other related fields to it. Graduate students are required to take 8 (24 credit hours) courses and submit a Ph.D. Dissertation to complete the Ph.D. Program in Architecture. The Faculty of Architecture has two departments of Architecture and Interior Architecture, which both departments are giving service to the PhD program in Architecture.
