ITU is Among the Best Universities in Türkiye with Its Academic Performance

ITU has once again demonstrated that it is among the best universities in our country with its academic performance reflected in the URAP 2024-2025 Türkiye University Rankings, which are prepared based on indicators determining the number and quality of scientific productivity.

Istanbul Technical University (ITU) has been ranked among the top higher education institutions in Türkiye with the results of the URAP 2024-2025 Türkiye University Rankings, recently shared with the public by the University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) research laboratory under the Informatics Institute of METU. Our university ranked 2nd among universities without a medical faculty in the URAP 2024-2025 Türkiye University Rankings.

When examining ITU's scores over the past three years within the scope of the URAP 2024-2025 Türkiye University Rankings, the "Citation" and "International Collaboration" scores showed a continuous increase during the 2023-2025 period. Our university also improved in the "Doctorate Score" and "Faculty Member/Student" categories compared to last year.

In its report announcing the results to the public, URAP stated that Turkish universities need to increase the number of publications and citations much faster to be among the world's leading universities. ITU ranked 783rd in the URAP 2023-2024 World Rankings, placing 2nd in our country with this result and being one of the 8 Turkish universities in the 601-800 range.

ITU is conducting various studies with the aim of increasing the number of articles in high-impact journals (Q1 and Q2). Our university established Türkiye's first and only Office of the Dean of Research in 2021 to develop the research ecosystem. Additionally, our Ranking Coordinatorship is conducting awareness-raising activities for our academics regarding high-impact articles. Online training sessions are being organized to involve our undergraduate students more in studies, especially those including TÜBİTAK projects. It is also believed that the recently established Big Data Office, and the Science and Engineering Communication Office with Society at our university will contribute to the production of higher quality articles.

Ranking Methodology

The ranking summarizing the academic performance of Turkish universities is based on data published by Clarivate Analytics/InCites and CoHE. In the 2024-2025 URAP Türkiye Rankings, the combination of some indicators and the inclusion of "TÜBİTAK project numbers," "number of joint articles with other universities domestically and internationally," and "number of joint articles with universities in other countries" as new indicators stand out as innovations in the methodology.

The indicators within the scope of the 2024-2025 URAP Türkiye Rankings are as follows: "Number of Articles," "Number of Articles per Faculty Member," "Number of Citations," "Number of Citations per Faculty Member," "Total Number of Scientific Documents," "Total Number of Scientific Documents per Faculty Member," "Number of Doctoral Graduates," "Doctoral Student Ratio," "Number of Students per Faculty Member," "Number of International Joint Articles," "Number of International Joint Articles per Faculty Member," "Number of Domestic Joint Articles," "Number of Domestic Joint Articles per Faculty Member," "Number of Projects Received from TÜBİTAK," "Number of Projects Received from TÜBİTAK per Faculty Member." A university evaluated can obtain a maximum of 1,480 points from the total of these indicators.