In the research, it is aimed to describe the planning problems that arise in higher education based on the views of the lecturers working at Aydın Adnan Menderes University and to put forward suggestions for the solution to these problems. The study group of the research consists of 17 faculty members who worked at Adnan Menderes University, 10 faculties, and 4 vocational schools in the 2017-2018 Academic Year, completed their doctorate, and are administrators. Participants were chosen among Dr. Instructor Member, Assoc. Prof, and Prof. titled members, using criterion sampling (being an administrator) and maximum diversity (title-faculty-gender), which is one of the purposive sampling methods. This research was designed with phenomenology and the interview technique was used in the research. In the interviews, a semi-structured interview form developed by the researcher was used as a data collection tool by consulting the opinions of two experts. The obtained data were analysed with the content analysis technique. The findings of the research were discussed under four themes: "planning problems related to education supply", "planning problems related to education demand", "planning problems related to education financing" and "planning problems related to the structure and functioning of CoHE" and suggestions were presented.