Turkish University rankings of UK-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) by subject areas were released at Council of Higher Education (YOK) on January 16, 2018. According to this release based on 2017 results, it is declared once more that METU is ranked among the top 400 universities in the World in 15 subject areas, and represents our Country in the highest number of subjects. Based on the ratio of the number of subjects in which a university is among the top 400 to the number of subjects in which its publications are the most relevant, METU comes in second with 15 out of 32 subjects, following Istanbul Technical University with 11 out of 22 subjects. QS rankings were determined based on “Academic Reputation”, “University Reputation”, “Citation Ratios” and “H-Index”, a metric for the impact of academic studies.
