About

Girls' Arts Higher Teacher Training School was opened on 2 November 1976 by the General Directorate of Vocational and Technical Education, Ministry of National Education of the Republic of Turkey, to provide 2-year associate degree education. Y.Ö.K. No. 2547 In accordance with the provisional Article 28 of the law, the name of the Girls' Art Higher Teacher Training School was changed to Girls' Art Education College by the decree law numbered 41 dated 22.06.1982. The Girls' School of Art Education, which first provided a 2-year associate degree education, continued its activities as a 4-year education school with the same status in the 1990-1991 academic year. With the law no. 3837 dated July 3, 1992, it created its academic staff under the name of Vocational Education Faculty within Selçuk University and produced its first graduates at the end of the 1994-1995 academic year.
With the decision of the Council of Ministers dated 02.11.2009 and numbered 2009/15546, S.Ü. The Faculty of Vocational Education was closed and replaced by S.Ü. Faculty of Art and Design was established.
According to the additional article 30 of the President's Law on the Organization of Higher Education Institutions No. 2809, published in the Official Gazette No. 30908 dated 04 October 2019, the name of Selçuk University Faculty of Art and Design has been changed to "Faculty of Architecture and Design".

Vision

The vision of our faculty is to be an established educational institution, which uses all the facilities of the information age in the best way that is possible, which raises qualified artists and designers equipped with techniques, knowledge and skills and which is preferred at national and international levels.

Mission

Providing education, which supports critical thinking and is creative and sensitive to technological and social changes by giving importance to the cooperation with the industry in education and research activities, integrating our cultural knowledge with contemporary and universal dimensions without neglecting it, conducting researches by setting on new quests, presenting enriched designs resulting from the association of technology and art to the service of our nation and the world. By means of cooperating with national and international institutions and organizations, our faculty aims to train designers who can evaluate pioneering ideas, who has knowledge of materials and production techniques and who can produce creative and unique designs with syntheses appropriate to their personalities within the scope of form, color, material, structure and function relations required by the markets throughout the world. Besides employing designers who have visions and are raised with the knowledge and skills appropriate for the needs of the society and the sector, who are productive, participative, self-confident and self-reliant, who have leadership skills, who are inclined to teamwork and who take historical, cultural and artistic value into consideration by making students realize themselves and the unique creative powers they have, our faculty also aims to graduate our students as happy individuals with knowledge, skills and qualifications to be required if they choose to be teachers by getting pedagogical formation education.