​ Number of Accredited Programs Increasing in Turkish Higher Education

December 25, 2024

Türkiye is an important country in the world in the field of higher education with 208 universities, 185 thousand academics and more than 7 million students, 350 thousand of whom are international students. The Council of Higher Education continues its efforts to maximize quality along with the increase in capacity.

While the number of accredited programs in Türkiye is increasing day by day, according to the 2024 University Monitoring and Evaluation General Report, the number of universities with at least one accredited undergraduate program in the 2023 YKS Guide was 116. The total number of accredited programs was 1209. 42 universities have 10 or more accredited undergraduate programs. Looking by years, while the average number of accredited undergraduate programs of universities was 6.89 percent in 2018, it reached 10.42 in 2023. This rate was 9.46 in 2022.

The university with the highest number of accredited undergraduate programs in Türkiye was Istanbul Gelisim University with 56 programs, followed by Sakarya University with 55 programs and Hacettepe University with 42 programs. Atatürk University ranked fourth with 41 programs, Ege University ranked fifth with 39 programs, Erciyes University ranked sixth with 35 programs, Istanbul Technical University ranked seventh with 34 programs, Başkent University ranked eighth with 33 programs, Yıldız Technical University ranked ninth with 31 programs and Istanbul Medipol University ranked 10th with 29 programs.

Erol Özvar, President of the Council of Higher Education, said that accreditation is now required for new doctoral programs and emphasized that the Council of Higher Education will continue its efforts to place its quality-oriented approach at the center of the higher education system while continuing to increase capacity in the coming period.

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