Established in 1961, the Department of City and Regional Planning at METU is the oldest and one of the largest schools of planning in Turkey. With more than 2,000 graduates and about 400 undergraduate and graduate students today, the Department has played a key role not only in planning education but also in the development of urban research in Turkey.

PROGRAM
undergraduate
graduate

The Masters Programs are carried out by the Department:
Masters Program (MSc) in City Planning
Masters Program in Regional Planning
Masters Program in Urban Design

Interdisciplinary Masters Programs carries out jointly with other departments in METU:
Masters Program in Urban Policy Planning and Local Governments (run jointly with the Department of Political Sciences and Public Administration)
Masters Program in Geodetic and Geographic Information Technologies (run jointly with the Departments of Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Geological Engineering)
Masters Program in Settlement Archeology (run jointly with the Department of Architecture and Archeometry Graduate Program)

Ph.D. degree in City and Regional Planning

Erasmus Program:
In the past years, the Department of City and Regional Planning started to take place actively in ERASMUS student and staff exchange programs. Currently, the Department has an ERASMUS student and staff exchange agreement with

Faculty of Spatial Planning in University of Dortmund, Germany;
Town, Environment, and Technology in Technical University of Hamburg - Harburg, Germany;
Faculty of Architecture in Siegen University, Germany;
School of Environment and Development in University of Manchester, UK;
School of Architecture in Politecnico di Milano, Italy;
Department of Sociology in University of Milano-Bicocca (For post-graduate students only), Italy;
Department of Urban and Regional Planning in Technical University of Vienna (For post-graduate students only), Austria.

Intensive Programs (IP)
The Department of City and Regional Planning is the partner of the two Erasmus-Socrates intensive programs (IP), and a new IP program is being prepared:

Border-Lines in Urban Spaces and Planning
Brancabika
Spatial Development Planning

The Department of City and Regional Planning is also a full member of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) and Association of Turkish Schools of Planning (Türkiye Ulusal Planlama Okulları Birliği, TUPOB).