The graduate program of city and regional planning is based on a number of academic interest areas; planning, design and policy, socio-economic, cultural, physical/spatial, and institutional problems of both built and natural environments, protecting the assets of cultural and natural heritage, social justice, public interest, aesthetic values and functionality and also, analytical thinking.

As consistent with the European Higher Education Qualification Framework, our educational mission is to train creative and innovative students of spatial planning which can develop rational solutions for actual planning problems, which can utilize the scientific knowledge for implementation projects and which can take an active role in the interdisciplinary projects of spatial planning.