Our department was established in 1993 with 5 divisions (Geodesy, Surveying Techniques, Photogrammetry, Cartography, Land Administration) within the Faculty of Engineering. On 6 October 1995, the department became operational after Assoc. Dr. Sebahattin BEKTAŞ, a faculty member of the Geodesy Department, was appointed as the Head of the Department. Education started in the 1997-1998 academic year and the first undergraduate graduates were given in the 2000-2001 academic year. As of the 2006-2007 academic year, evening education started and in the 2009-2010 academic year, evening education had its first graduates. As of the end of the 2017-2018 academic year, no students are accepted to the evening education program.
1998-1999 MASTER'S EDUCATION, 2011-2012 Joint DOCTORATE EDUCATION with KTU and ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES MAPITA ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT DOCTORATE PROGRAMME was opened due to the adequacy of the number of faculty members with the decision of the Council of Higher Education dated 01.02.2017.
In 2020, the name of the Department of Public Surveying was changed to the Department of Land Management.
As of 23 December 2022, Prof. Dr. Faik Ahmet SESLİ was appointed as the Head of the Department.
From the moment it started to give its first graduates until the end of the 2022-2023 Academic Year, a total of 1574 UNDERGRADUATE students, 17 of whom are foreigners, 1 associate degree, 7 of whom are foreigners, 81 master's degree and 1 foreigner, 5 doctoral students have graduated.
Studies on Curriculum Change were carried out by holding External Stakeholder Meetings (Focus Group Work) in order to ensure that the department's undergraduate course plan is more up-to-date and includes courses that include technological developments. The new lesson plan approved by the Senate has been implemented as of the Fall semester of the 2018-2019 Academic Year. In this process, curriculum changes were made in accordance with both ISO9001-2015 Quality Management System, Bologna Process and Association for Evaluation and Accreditation of Engineering Programs (MÜDEK) Accreditation criteria.
Accreditation studies have been carried out in order to further improve the educational activities, to document compliance with national and international education standards. Geomatics Engineering Department has been accredited for 2 years as a result of the Association for Evaluation and Accreditation of Engineering Programs (MÜDEK) evaluation. Thus, our department has contributed to quality improvement activities. In addition, an important step was taken in order to attract students with higher quality and higher scores to the Department of Geomatics Engineering.