Bologna is an important process which aims to create a coherent and common higher education area among the higher education systems of the member states of the European Union. Within the scope of the process, guidelines were created by making a classification that brings together the professional fields that share common subjects and values in the field of higher education. The purpose of the classification is to establish a transparent, questionable and collaborative system for the recognition and intelligibility of relevant educational programs and diplomas in the international arena. The countries involved in the process have made arrangements in their higher education systems based on these guidelines and established their own national qualifications frameworks. Turkey is also included in this process, National Qualifications Framework for Higher Education in Turkey (NQF-HETR) was created. However, in the process of regulation, as in many education programs, interior architecture/design education programs are classified in different fields other than their board/narrow fields. This situation has brought many changes in the field of education and problems in vocational education have arisen by moving away from the board/narrow field features. The aim of this study is to determine in which fields interior architecture/design education programs are classificated at national/international level and to reveal the problems caused by two different board/narrow fields identified after NQF-HETR. For this purpose, all documents related to the classification of interior architecture/design education programs have been examined and the information obtained and related problems have been put forward in a systematic order with deductive approach. As a result of the study, it was concluded that the classification reports of education and training programs prepared for NQF-HETR should be revised within The Framework for Qualifications of the European Higher Education and that the interior architecture/design education programs should be classified in a single board/narrow field and that their qualifications should be defined in this field.

Bologna Process, ISCED, FOET, NQF-HETR, Interior Architecture/Design, The Board/Narrow Field, Proficiency