Architectural Education Accreditation Association - MiAK
Thematic Analysis Report - 2023
March 8, 2024
Preface.
ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION ACCREDITATION ASSOCIATION, MiAK for short, was established on 10.09.2019. Having carried out its activities in cooperation with the TMMOB Chamber of Architects under the name of "Architecture Accreditation Board" between 2006 and 2019, it has established its independent structure under the roof of the Association as of 2019.
The main purpose of MiAK is to contribute to the improvement of the quality of architectural education by conducting accreditation, external quality assessment, and information studies for architectural education programs. Thus, it aims to improve social welfare and the quality of the natural and built environment by increasing the quality of architectural services.
MiAK aims to ensure the development of the architectural profession through education and to evaluate and improve architectural education through competency studies in cooperation with the official institutions related to education and through the recommendations it will form.
MiAK aims to ensure inclusiveness and participation by including a broad representation of components such as educators, academics, students, graduates, graduates, employers, and professional organizations in the formation of its members, management staff, all boards and teams, and/or in the realization of its activities.
MiAK aims to improve the quality of education by contributing to the accreditation of architecture undergraduate programs as well as architecture graduate programs and other design-related education programs (interior architecture, industrial product design, urban and regional planning, etc.) under its institutional structure.
MiAK's activities:
- To prepare, update, and publish documents such as
processes, conditions, institutional quality policy, visiting team guide, etc.
related to the accreditation of architectural education programs,
- To evaluate and accredit programs upon the application of
institutions providing architecture education,
- To carry out the selection and training of evaluators who
will take part in accreditation studies,
- To inform and train program directors and faculty members
on program evaluation,
- To continuously monitor the current and future needs of
the stakeholders of architecture programs, to determine the program evaluation
criteria, and to review and renew the evaluation criteria and processes when
necessary.
During the application period of the MiAK-MAK 2023 accreditation calendar, applications were received from 10 different institutions and 9 institutions submitted their self-assessment reports. There are 7 architecture programs that applied in 2022 and the accreditation decision was taken in 2023.
This report aims to examine the evaluations of the programs whose accreditation decision was finalized in MiAK-MAK in 2023 and announced on the MiAK website in thematic areas through tables and graphs, and to identify the strengths and areas open to improvement through the analysis.
(You can download and read the entire Activity Report as a PDF.)
