Our department's undergraduate program was founded in 1959. Our first students graduated in 1964. Up until now, we have maintained our undergraduate program uninterrupted. Our undergraduate program was accredited until 2021 by the Turkish Psychological Association. Our graduate programs were founded in 1982. In the 2018-2019 year of study, our department offered both M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs in the subareas of social, clinical, cognitive, developmental, industrial and organizational, and traffic and transportation psychology.

In a nutshell, psychology is the study of mind and behaviour. The discipline embraces all aspects of human experience, from functions of the brain to group behaviour, developmental issues from infancy to old age, from romantic relationships to relationships within the workplace, from drivers' and pilots' decision making processes to consumer choices. The knowledge of psychology is put into practice in a variety of contexts such as neuropsychology laboratories, mental health clinics, human resources departments, flight or driving simulators, nursing home and kindergartens.