METU is on the "Top Universities by Reputation" list
According to the Times Higher Education "World Reputation Rankings 2012" results published today, Middle East Technical University has been listed among the first 100 universities in the "Top Universities by Reputation" list.
METU is the first and only university in Turkey to enter the "Top Universities by Reputation" list.
"World Reputation Rankings 2012" is determined by academics from numerous universities all over the world. Universities which are defined as ‘excellent’ in terms of education and research are listed. It is stated that the organization in question has used academics from approximately 150 countries, who carried out over 17,000 evaluations of over 6,000 universities. The academics who take part in the evaluation of the universities are selected according to their experience (approximately 16 years) and their publications (approximately 50). There are questions, such as ‘Which university would you recommend to your most successful graduate for post graduate studies?’ among the questions asked.
Similar to the previous years, universities from developed countries such as the USA, Britain, Japan and Germany head the 2012 list. METU ranking in the first 100 universities in this year’s list is seen as a source of prestige not only for METU but for Turkey as well. This is because the number of countries whose universities are found in the 2012 list is only 19.
For detailed information please visit:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2011-2012/reputation-rankings.html
METU is in the worlds best 500 university according to the "Webometrics Ranking of World Universities January 2012"
The "Webometrics Ranking of World Universities" is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain.
Four indicators were obtained from the quantitative results provided by the main search engines as follows:
Size (S). Number of pages recovered from four engines: Google, Yahoo, Live Search and Exalead.
Visibility (V). The total number of unique external links received (inlinks) by a site can be only confidently obtained from Yahoo Search.
Rich Files (R). After evaluation of their relevance to academic and publication activities and considering the volume of the different file formats, the following were selected: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Adobe PostScript (.ps), Microsoft Word (.doc) and Microsoft Powerpoint (.ppt). These data were extracted using Google, Yahoo Search, Live Search and Exalead.
Scholar (Sc). Google Scholar provides the number of papers and citations for each academic domain. These results from the Scholar database represent papers, reports and other academic items.
METU is 136.among European universities, 47. among Asian universities.
For more information please visit
http://www.webometrics.info/about_rank.html
Times Higher Education and Thomson Reuters 2010 report
According to Times Higher Education and Thomson Reuters 2010 report, METU is 183rd among the best 200 top universities. The rankings of the top universities across the globe are done based on 13 separate performance indicators designed to capture the full range of university activities, from teaching to research to academic publications. These 13 elements are brought together into five headline categories, which are:
- Teaching — The teaching environment (worth 30% of the overall ranking score)
- Research — Volume, income, and reputation (worth 30%)
- Citations — Research citations (worth 32.5%)
- Industry income — Innovation (worth 2.5%)
For more information please visit http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/top-200.html |
