The Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition was established on 20 July 1982 as part of the Faculty of Agriculture at Trakya University. It was active as Department of Soil Science between 1982 and 1985, and since then, as Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition. It began admitting students in 1991. The Department became a unit of the Faculty of Agriculture at Namık Kemal University in 2006.