PhD Real Estate Development and Management

The Real Estate Development Department was founded on 2 February 2007 and following the institution of the necessary physical space and infrastructure facilities for graduate and postgraduate education and research, students were enrolled in the thesis and non-thesis graduate programs for the first time in September 2007. Opening of combined masters and doctoral programs and stand-alone PhD programs in the Department was accepted by the Higher Education Board on 31 March 2008 and the first intake of students to the doctoral program took place in the September 2008 period. Currently, The Department continues to be the only academic unit that provides research opportunities with its all graduate training and education programs and accepts students to all its graduate programs in the field of real estate development in Turkey. Opportunities of education, training, and research with an interdisciplinary approach are provided in the Department in a wide range of topics such as immovable property (real estate) and asset appraisal; business valuation; land development, project evaluation and management; construction costs and construction management; real estate investments and financing; housing finance and securitization; urban economics and management; housing economics and policies; urban regeneration, protection, revival and renewal practices; real estate taxation; real estate, development, construction, and contract laws; construction and real estate accounting; real estate economics and management; land economics, protection, and management; real estate marketing and marketing management; national and international real estate markets; information systems and real estate databases; production of value maps; expropriation; consolidation; and zoning practices.