UI GreenMetric World University Rankings
The results have been announced for 2024 UI GreenMetric World University Rankings, which was launched by the University of Indonesia in 2010 and has since become the leading green campus and environmental sustainability ranking worldwide. Istanbul Medeniyet University is ranked 736th among 1477 universities worldwide in the UI GreenMetric World University Rankings, to which it applied for the second time this year. Our University ranked 76th among 120 universities in Turkey’s general ranking, while among the 6 categories in which the environmental initiatives of universities are evaluated, it is ranked 243rd in the world and 21st among the universities in our country in the “Waste” category, and 412th in the world and 37th in Turkey in the “Education & Research” category.
In 2024 UI GreenMetric World University Rankings, where environmental commitments and initiatives of universities from all over the world have been assessed using a total of 51 indicators in 6 categories, our University has achieved remarkable success in the Waste and Education & Research categories. Scoring 1500 points out of 1800 in the Waste category, IMU ranks 21st among the 120 universities from Turkey in this category. In the Education and Research category, which is our second most successful category, our University scored 1475 points out of 1800 and ranked 37th in Turkey.
In the “Water” category, one of the main areas in which we have made significant progress compared to 2023, when we applied to the ranking for the first time, our University has managed to add 640 points out of 1000 to last year’s score and ranked 539th in the world and 44th in Turkey in this category.
You can access UI GreenMetric World University Rankings 2024 results here.
THE Asia University Rankings
As one of the most reputable institutions that evaluates higher education achievements globally, Times Higher Education (THE) has announced the results for its Asia University Rankings 2023. In the Citations category, Istanbul Medeniyet University has achieved great success by scoring 66.4 out of 100 and being ranked the 2nd among the public universities and 3rd among all universities listed from Turkey. IMU is ranked 251-300 in the global overall ranking, while it is ranked the 6th among all public universities and the 11th among all universities in Turkey, sharing the ranks with three other Turkish universities.
In THE Asia University Rankings 2023, a total of 926 universities have been assessed globally, of which 669 has been listed, while 61 of the 76 universities assessed from Turkey has been listed in the rankings. As a regional academic performance mapping for the universities in Asia, THE Asia University Rankings uses the same 13 performance indicators as THE World University Rankings, but they are recalibrated to reflect the attributes of Asia’s institutions. In THE Asia University Rankings 2023, universities have been assessed across a total of 13 performance indicators in five areas including Teaching (the learning environment); Research (volume, income, and reputation); Citations (research influence); International Outlook (staff, students, and research); and Industry Income (knowledge transfer). Although the number of listed universities has seen a dramatic increase this year, IMU has made significant progress in all the categories when compared to the last year’s ranking results.
Please click here for the results of THE Asia University Rankings 2023 and here for IMU’s profile in the rankings.
THE Young University Rankings
In the Times Higher Education Young University Rankings 2023, which lists the world’s top young universities that are aged 50 years and under, Istanbul Medeniyet University was ranked 301-350 globally, while it is the 3rd public university and the 9th among the 66 universities that are included in the list from Turkey.
THE Young University Rankings 2023 assessed universities across a total of 13 performance indicators in five areas: teaching (the learning environment); research (volume, income and reputation); citations (research influence); international outlook (staff, students and research); and industry income (knowledge transfer). The list includes 963 young universities globally and 66 universities from Turkey that fulfill the criteria.
The detailed results show that IMU achieved its highest score in the Citation area with 66.4 points and ranks the 3rd among the young universities in Turkey and the 2nd among the Turkish public universities listed in this category. In terms of IMU’s success in the ranking areas, the Citation category is followed by Industry Income, Teaching, International Outlook, and Research, respectively.
You can view the results of THE Young University Rankings 2023 here.
Times Higher Education (THE), the UK-based international higher education rating organization, has published the 2024 World University Rankings (WUR). Istanbul Medeniyet University ranks 1201-1500 globally in the ranking among the 2673 universities from all over the world that have been assessed, and ranks 19th among the 75 universities from Turkey. It is globally ranked 847th in Research Quality, its highest ranked pillar where it is ranked 9th among all Turkish universities and 5th among the public universities in Turkey.
In this year’s WUR methodology, significant changes have been made in the number and relative weights of the performance indicators that form the basis of the ranking. For this reason, although there has been no significant difference in the data of our University in the categories dealing with education, research, internationalization and industry income, it is seen that our University, which steadily ranked 801-1000 for the last two years in the overall ranking, has fallen to the 1201-1500 rank this year, as the weight of Citation impact, which is our strong suit, has decreased by half after the changed methodology. On the other hand, it is noteworthy that our scores in the new main indicators of International Outlook and Research Environment have increased steadily in the last two years, increasing by approximately 5 and 2.5 points, respectively.
Click here for 2024 World University Rankings.
SCImago Institutions Rankings
IMU Ranks the 1st in Economics and Environmental Science in SCImago Institutions Ranking 2023
The 2023 Rankings has been announced for the SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR), which assesses academic and research-related institutions based on three different sets of indicators; i.e., research performance, innovation outputs and societal impact measured by their web visibility. Istanbul Medeniyet University (IMU) ranks 44th in this year’s list containing 134 institutions from Turkey. In the Ranking based on Scopus data, our University has risen 72 spots in Research compared to its last year’s rank.
In addition to the overall rankings, SCImago Institutions Rankings 2023 also assessed the scientific performance of universities in 19 different areas. In these rankings by subject areas, IMU has made impressive achievements and risen to a leading position in certain areas among global and national universities. To provide a few examples from the ranking list by subject areas, IMU is ranked the 1st in Economics, Econometrics and Finance in Turkey and the 322nd globally and the 1st in Environmental Science in Turkey and the 258th globally. It also rose from the last year’s 6th spot to the 3rd in Business, Management and Accounting in Turkey, while being ranked the 828th globally.
Some other significant positions that IMU has attained in Turkey in this year’s ranking include the 4th position in Psychiatry and Mental Health, the 16th in Social Science, the 26th in Mathematics, 33rd in Energy, and 39th in Medicine.
You can view IMU’s profile for SCImago Institutions Ranking here.
Webometrics Ranking Web of Universities
Webometrics Ranking Web of Universities, which assesses universities according to the volume, presence, and impact of their web content, listed 11,988 universities from all around the globe in its January 2021 edition. Istanbul Medeniyet University ranks the 2449th among all these 11,988 universities globally and the 63rd among a total of 212 universities listed from Turkey.
Of the three performance indicators used to assess the higher education institutions in the ranking, IMU is 8206th in Impact, 1251st in Openness, and 1976th in Excellence globally.
You can view IMU’s profile for this ranking here.
THE University Impact Rankings
Times Higher Education (THE), one of the world’s leading university ranking organizations, announced the 2025 results of the “Impact Rankings”, which assesses universities from all over the world in terms of their contribution to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Istanbul Medeniyet University scored 71.3 points out of 100 in THE 2025 Impact Rankings, where a total of 2318 universities from all over the world were ranked, rising in the global ranking from 601-800 to 401-600.
Our university made great progress by increasing its score in THE 2025 Impact Ranking from 66.1 to 71.3. There has been a 16% increase in the number of universities from Turkey included in the 2025 Impact Ranking, where the number of participating international institutions has increased by approximately 14% compared to 2024. Our university achieved a great success by ranking 14th among 108 universities from Turkey.
IMU applied to the Impact Ranking for the first time in 2021 by applying for only 4 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while it applied for 12 SDGs for 2025. According to the index’s methodology, the four categories in which our University achieved the highest success were SDG15-Life on Land, SDG12-Responsible Production and Consumption, SDG3-Good Health and Well Being and SDG17-Partnerships for the Goals.
Our University has increased its score not only in the overall ranking but also for individual SDGs and achieved a record-breaking success in the SDG15 – Life on Land category, which it applied for the first time this year. In this category, our University ranked 101-200 in the world with 70.3 points and ranked 5th in Türkiye. In addition to the research activities carried out at our University in this field, land ecosystem trainings and actions and land-sensitive waste disposal activities carried out by our institution played an important part in this remarkable success.
In the SDG12-Responsible Production and Consumption category, for which our university applied for the second time this year, IMU has increased its score from 70 to 78.4, rising from 201-300 to 101-200 and ranked 4th in our country in this category. In addition to our University’s research activities in this field, our corporate activities on waste recycling and the sustainability progress reports published by our Sustainability Office played an important role in this success.
Positioned in the 401-600 band in the SDG3-Good Health and Well Being category this year, our University ranked 15th among the universities in Turkey with 61.4 points with its research, education, services and collaborations in the field of health.
In the SDG17-Partnerships for Goals category, our University managed to increase its score from 68 in 2024 to 78.3 points with a significant increase this year, achieving a rapid rise from last year’s 401-600 ranking to 301-400. Ranked 7th in this category in Türkiye, our institutional collaborations to support the SDGs, the trainings we provide to our campus community and the public on the SDGs, and our SDG progress reports detailing our activities played an important part in this success.
Apart from these four SDGs, our university has achieved remarkable success in the other SDGs it applied for. In particular, it has been ranked 301-400 in SDG2 -Zero Hunger; 401-600 in SDG10-Reduced Inequalities and SDG11-Sustainable Cities and Communities and 601-800 in SDG 8-Decent Work and Economic Growth and SDG9-Industrial Innovation and Infrastructure.
You can access the results of THE 2025 Impact Ranking here and our University’s profile in the ranking here.
Istanbul Medeniyet University was ranked the 1639th globally and the 33rd among 118 Turkish universities in URAP World Ranking of Higher Education Institutions 2022-2023, which ranks the best 3000 universities in the world.
University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) Research Lab of METU has been issuing the “URAP World Ranking of Higher Education Institutions” since 2011 and the 2022-2023 version of the ranking has now been published. As one of the most comprehensive university rankings in the world, the URAP World Ranking assesses the academic performance of 3000 higher education institutions around the globe.
The URAP World Ranking uses the data from Web of Science and InCites databases to assess the performance of 3000 universities with the highest number of publications according to 6 indicators that measure scientific productivity, research quality, and international recognition: Article (21%), Total Document (10%), Citation (21%), Article Impact Total (18%), Citation Impact Total (15%), and International Collaboration (15%).
Istanbul Medeniyet University has clearly been on the rise in URAP World Rankings in the last three years both on a global and national scale. In the 2020-2021 ranking, it was ranked the 1880th among 3000 universities globally and the 42nd among a total of 111 universities listed from Turkey, while it rose 94 ranks up to being the 1786th globally and the 38th among 112 Turkish universities in the last year’s ranking. This year, our university has climbed 147 ranks up compared to its position last year to the 1639th rank globally and assumed the 33rd position among a total of 118 universities from Turkey. As for our rank among the public universities in URAP World Ranking 2022-2023, our university ranks the 28th among a total of 93 public universities listed in the ranking. Furthermore, it has obtained a total score of 212 from all the six academic performance indicators with a 14 percent increase compared to its last year’s score (185.17) and a 30 percent increase compared to its score in the previous year (162.42).
Click here for URAP World Ranking of Higher Education Institutions 2022-2023.
AD Scientific Index
The AD Scientific Index (Alper-Doger Scientific Index) is a ranking and analysis system based on the scientific performance and the added value of the scientific productivity of individual scientists. It also provides rankings of institutions based on the scientific characteristics of affiliated scientists. Using a total of nine parameters, the index ranks individual scientists by 12 subjects and shows the total and the last five-year productivity coefficients of scientists based on the h-index and i10 index scores and citations in Google Scholar. The index includes nearly 210 countries, more than 13,600 universities, and nearly a million academicians.
In AD Scientific Index 2021, Istanbul Medeniyet University ranked 53rd in Turkey, 630th regionally, and 1904th globally with 3 academic staff members ranking among the top 100,000 scientists in the world. Please see here for İstanbul Medeniyet University Scientist and University Rankings in AD Scientific Index 2021.
UK-based higher education rating agency QS has announced its “Emerging Europe & Central Asia (EECA) University Rankings” for 2022, which ranks Istanbul Medeniyet University for the first time, in the 251-300 band. In the “citations per paper” indicator as one of the ten indicators used to evaluate the performance of higher education institutions, IMU received 93.5 out of 100 pts, ranking the 18th in the EECA region.
Among all the countries in the region, Turkey and Russia have the greatest representation in this year’s list, which features a total of 66 higher education institutions from Turkey. In the country ranking, IMU shares its global position in the 251-300 band with seven other universities from Turkey.
Aiming to celebrate and track the performance of higher education institutions in the EECA countries, the ranking uses a methodology adapted from the overall QS World University Rankings. QS EECA 2022 rankings were constructed using 10 indicators, including academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty/student ratio, papers per faculty, international research network, web impact, staff with a PhD, citations per paper, international faculty and international students. Among these indicators, IMU has received the highest scores in citations per paper, web impact, and international research network, respectively. Particularly in the “citations per paper” indicator, IMU received 93.5 out of 100 pts, ranking the 18th in the EECA region.
For more info on the QS EECA University Rankings 2022, please visit here.