Applications Are Now Open for the Design Studies Master’s Programme for the Spring Semester of the 2025–2026 Academic Year!

Would you like to explore design in depth through an interdisciplinary lens?

You may come from diverse fields such as Art, Social Sciences, Engineering, Architecture, Graphic Design, Industrial Design or Fashion Design — if you regard design as a way of thinking and wish to generate solutions to social, cultural or technological problems through design, this programme is for you. The Design Studies Master’s Programme is open to students from all disciplinary backgrounds who engage with design in intellectual, social and cultural contexts.

Our areas of focus include:

  • Design History and Theory

  • Critical and Speculative Design

  • Creative Processes

  • Design Culture and Social Context

  • Social Innovation

  • Design Thinking

  • Experience and Design

  • Image, Object, Space and System Design

  • Interdisciplinary Approaches

Applications for admission to graduate programmes for the Spring Semester of the 2025–2026 Academic Year opened on 21 November 2025 and will close on 24 December 2025 at 17:00. You can access the admission announcement via the link below:
https://lee.iyte.edu.tr/duyuru/2025-2026-egitim-ogretim-yili-bahar-yariyili-icin-lisansustu-programlara-ogrenci-alimi-ilani/