Education in Turkey

ABSTRACT: Accreditation is a voluntary, generally non-governmental process of peer review. It requires an educational institution or program to meet certain, defined standards or criteria. There are some initiations for educational quality assessment and accreditation in Turkish universities in international and national level. This paper aims to give a systematic summary of accreditation and quality assessment for engineering and architectural education in Turkey. Some analyzing techniques were used to obtain the systematic summary of accreditation and assessment cases. The quantitative and descriptive factors and results were identified for each case. A table will be organized to see all results in a definite way for accredited or assessed departments of engineering and architecture. Aims and missions of the departments were evaluated under the title of philosophy of the department. Number of years, total credits and course types were evaluated under the composition of programs and its structure title. Students ’ performance criteria or program outcomes of each engineering department and architecture department are compared separately. The initiations on accreditation and quality assessment for architectural and engineering education in Turkey have a history about a decade. Engineering education in this period had some progressive approaches on the issues of international and national accreditation. Two different groups o