Bilkent University has been named by Times Higher Education as one of the top 200 universities in the world and the best university in Turkey. Bilkent ranks 112th worldwide and 32nd in Europe. In combined Europe and Asia rankings, Bilkent is 52nd over all. The only other Turkish university to be included in the top 200 is Middle East Technical University (METU) with a rank of 183.
Times Higher Education (THE) claims to be "the UK's most authoritative source of information about higher education." According to The New York Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education, THE's world ranking of universities has been one of the most influential factors in international education analysis and is routinely relied on by both private and governmental funding sources.
Using a system that assigns a score to 13 performance indicators under five subject categories: teaching, international mix, industry income, research, and citations, THE reaches an overall score. Bilkent scored 55.4, whereas the number one university, Harvard University, scored 96.1, and the number two, the California Institute of Technology, scored 96.0. METU scored 47.7.
This is the seventh year that THE has published its annual rankings, according to the THE website. But for 2010, THE has "completely overhauled the methodology" of building ranking in order to "represent the most accurate picture of global higher education [that they] have ever produced."
