23/07/2012
According to the report prepared by METU Informatics Institute URAP (University Ranking by Academic Performance) Laboratories summarizing the status of world class Turkish universities as of June 2012, Sabancı University has been one of the Turkish Universities listed among top 500 universities in at least one of the 8 ranking systems.
10 universities from Turkey are listed in the top 500; and along with Sabancı University, the only foundation university from Istanbul, Universities of Istanbul, Ankara, METU, Hacettepe, Gazi, Ege, Bilkent, ITU and Boğaziçi are also enlisted. Ranking among these universities have been done according to their number of appearance in top 500.
University Ranking Systems
There are 8 ranking systems to rank the universities worldwide. These ranking systems are ARWU, TIMES, WEBOMETRICS, HEEACT, LEIDEN, SCIMAGO, QS and URAP. QC (Quacquarelli Symonds), where Sabancı University is listed among top 500 universities, is considered as one of the most reliable ranking systems. Established in 1990, QS continues its innovative approach in ranking and evaluation of higher education institutions worldwide as a reliable and independent ranking system since 2004.
QS identifies the top 700 universities worldwide through academic reputability obtained from surveys criteria (40%) and employer review criteria (10%), number of references per faculty criteria (20%), rate of faculty – student criteria (20%), rate of foreign students criteria (5%) and rate of foreign faculty criteria (5%). According to the evaluation made by QS with respect to Sabancı University, our university has been referred to as a young university with high research focus.
