The BSc in Architecture program at Near East University is a four-year, full-time degree that blends design studios with technical and theoretical courses. Students progress from foundational studies in drawing, construction, and architectural history to advanced design studios, urban planning, and professional practice. The curriculum emphasizes sustainable design, building technology, and multidisciplinary teamwork, with compulsory internships to provide real-world experience. Graduates are prepared for careers in architectural offices, construction firms, public sector planning, or further postgraduate study.
The program's goal is to equip its graduates with both the fundamental scientific principles and the architectural skills that enable those principles to be applied in practice. The curriculum is planned with a multidisciplinary approach in mind. The Undergraduate Program consists of eight terms where theory of design, conceptual approaches, constructional knowledge and environmental control classes come together at the studio based architecture projects. The first two years students are armed with the knowledge on art education, technical drawing, history of art and architecture, human factors, introduction to architecture, aesthetics and construction of structures. The studio is seen as a melting pot of all these courses where the students are oriented to critical thinking on design and propose ideas for projects at different scales. Flipped learning teaching method has been adapted to all courses. At the senior years, courses are more for the realization of the projects like; furniture design and production, detailing, cost estimation, product detailing, ergonomics, refunctioning historical buildings, professional practice and computer aided design. The studio based projects at this level are mostly multi-functional spaces where system details are seen as must to do technical drawings.The students have to complete two internships during their four-year education where they have the chance to transform their theoretical knowledge to practice and bring the awareness or real-life projects to the studio Upon graduation, students should be equipped to pursue a career as architecture professionals or, if they so wish, to pursue further academic studies. The graduates will be professionals who can be flexible and integrate in a relatively short time into a wide-range of different sectors of the industry.