According to the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR), one of the international higher education ranking organizations, 47 universities from Türkiye were included in this year’s list of the “world’s best universities.”
The CWUR ranking, which evaluated 21,291 universities from 95 countries this year and identified the top 2,000 institutions worldwide, was announced simultaneously around the world.
The ranking is grouped into four areas: “education,” “employability,” “faculty” and “research.” It is based on seven indicators within the “research” category, including “research output,” “high-quality publications,” “influence” and “citations.”
This year, 47 universities from Türkiye entered the ranking. Hacettepe University ranked 666th, becoming the highest-ranked Turkish higher education institution.
It was followed in the top 1,000 by Istanbul University (707th), Ankara University (733rd), Middle East Technical University (METU) (736th), Boğaziçi University (785th), Istanbul Technical University (813th), Marmara University (939th), and Koç University (989th).
