Sabancı University ranked between 521st and 530th on the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings, one of the world's most prestigious university rankings, and advanced one position among the top Turkish universities in the rankings to become 2nd.
The London-based higher education ranking institution QS announced its “World University Rankings 2021”. Sabancı University maintained its rank between 521st and 530th on the QS World University Rankings, one of the world's most prestigious university rankings. The number of Turkish universities in the rankings remained at 9. Sabancı University advanced one position among the top Turkish universities in the rankings to become 2nd.
In 2021, QS evaluated 1,604 universities for the rankings and included 1,002 of them. 47 new universities were included this year. The rankings evaluates 1002 universities worldwide on six indicators based on four criteria determined to be relevant to prospective students, namely research, teaching quality, employability and international outlook.
Four of the indicators are based on “hard” data, and the remaining two on major global surveys – one of academics and another of employers. The weight of the indicators based on hard data are 20% for student-to-faculty ratio; 20% for citations per faculty; 5% for international faculty ratio and 5% for international student ratio. The weight of the survey indicators are 40% academic reputation and 10% for employer reputation.