Our faculty was established under the Rectorate of Kayseri University with the Law on the Amendment of the Higher Education Law and Some Decree Laws published in the Official Gazette dated 18 May 2018 and numbered 30425. It started education with 40 students in the 2019-2020 academic year. Our faculty building was built by philanthropist Mahmut Karaca. As of the end of the 2023-2024 Academic Year Autumn Semester, we have a total of 712 students, 618 undergraduate and 94 graduate students.As of the end of 2023, there are 12 (twelve) academic staff and 5 (five) administrative staff in our faculty.

As Develi Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, our goal is to educate leaders who are respectful to social and ethical values, who can compete in the international arena, who can produce original innovative and sustainable solutions to the problems they face, who have high application skills, who are open to development, who can work in multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams and who can assume key roles. The primary goal of our Faculty, which aims to be present in international environments and to assume effective roles, is to provide our students with an adequate and high quality education, taking into account the needs of our region and our country. As a faculty, we plan to carry out researches in accordance with international norms as well as researches to be carried out with the young, dynamic and productive faculty members we have on the way to achieve these goals.