Sabancı University ranked 38th on the Times Higher Education (THE) Asian University Rankings. 11 Turkish universities were included in the rankings this year.
Sabancı University ranked 38th on the Times Higher Education (THE) Asian University Rankings. 11 Turkish universities were included in the rankings this year.
The Times Higher Education (THE) Asian University Rankings includes 200 universities. The Times Higher Education (THE) Asian University Rankings is an important benchmark that assesses research-focused universities in terms of education, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook. The rankings cover universities in the Asian continent as well as those in Turkey, Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and United Arab Emirates.
Other Turkish universities and their positions on the rankings are: Koç University 21st, Bilkent University 45th, Boğaziçi University 64th, ITU 91st, METU 94th, Istanbul University 99th, Anadolu University 131st to 140th, Hacettepe University 171st to 180th, and Erciyes and Yıldız Technical Universities 191st to 200th.
Times Higher Education made some changes to the THE World University Rankings 2015/2016 methodology used to evaluate 800 institutions worldwide. These changes had a direct impact on the results of THE Asian University Rankings. For scientific publications and citations, the Web of Science database was replaced with the Scopus database which covers publications in languages other than English.
The survey was extended to cover a wider geographic area and the number of languages was increased from 9 to 15.
About the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings
THE University Rankings are considered to be the globally most respected rankings that provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments. THE assesses successful universities based on 13 performance indicators in teaching, research, citations, industry income and international outlook. The THE rankings are the only global university performance tables to judge universities across all five of their core missions.
Although all performance indicators are balanced, number of citations and international reputation are the two most important indicators that are considered.